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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
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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
