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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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One reason it’s so hard to be a woman in academia: we have personalities
Did you disagree with a male colleague at a faculty meeting? Did you ask a question during a seminar? Did you laugh out loud at a joke in the hall? Are you an extrovert? If you are female, be careful! … Continue reading
Why is only one of fifteen speakers a woman when the environmental biologists of St. Louis meet?
For example, it took a meeting in Scotland for us to meet our wonderful Dictyostelium collaborators, Adam Kuspa and Gadi Shaulsky , who are a ten minute walk away (or were before we left Houston ). … 
The lovely Tyson Research Center forest. 
The carbon neutral Living Learning Center. 
Our wonderful directors, Barbara Schaal, and Kevin Smith. 
Talking over lunch. 
Doug Berg, who has been wonderful at making microbial connections for us. 
Sitting or standing, the students meet each other. 
Our Keynote speaker, Jonathan Losos, home from Harvard, and Bruce Carlson who gave a great talk on weakly electric fish. Continue reading
What goes on in faculty meetings?
This morning I went to the first faculty meeting of the Biology Department at my new university. I was late. Apparently the convention that everything starts at 7 minutes after the hour does not apply to faculty meetings. And I … Continue reading
We’re in St. Louis and we love it!
Here we’ll tell you about setting up a new lab in a new city. Nope, we’re not youngsters, we were at Rice University for three decades, some of us anyway. We brought with us six brilliant, opinionated lab members, so … Continue reading
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