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No, those microbes are not cooperating
One of the things I love about watching marked wasps on a nest is that I can see what is happening. What drew me into social wasps at the very beginning was this ability to watch behavior, then figure out … Continue reading
Posted in behavioral ecology, Microbes
Tagged behavioral ecology, biofilm, community, conflict, cooperation, fuzzy thinking, Microorganism, sociobiology
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A favorite meeting, small but open, posters, a single talk session
If someone invited me, back in the days I was working on wasps to a meeting that focused entirely on one species, perhaps my much-loved Polistes exclamans, I would have gone readily. That meeting might have covered behavior, ecology, phylogeny, … Continue reading
Posted in Microbes, Presentations and seminars, Scientific meetings
Tagged cell biology, collegial, Dictyostelium, Education, evolution, international, Madrid, plenary
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The language of sociomicrobiology: report from a meeting for the Forum on Microbial Threats
Last night I got back from an excellent small meeting at the Institute of Medicine‘s Forum on Microbial Threats. You may wonder what on earth I was doing there, but the actual topic of this workshop was The Social Biology … Continue reading
Posted in Microbes, Scientific meetings, Social interactions
Tagged altruism, bacteriocin, colicin, community, forum on microbial threats, inclusive fitness, institute of medicine, kin selection, Microorganism, mutualism, national academy of sciences, population, social biology, sociobiology
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Oh, no! Contaminated Petri plates!
In our case, we ruled out person (showed up on some of everyone’s plates), type of experiment (we aren’t doing that much yet), and even autoclave run. … This doesn’t mean this is the answer, but it does mean we can change this one variable, and hope the problem goes away. Continue reading
