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Arrowhead and Microbial Genomes: Update on the Tree of Life

September 18, 2016 Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomes

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Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis

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TWO KEY THINGS TO REMEMBER




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@phylogenomics






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The Tree of Life

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THREE KEY THINGS TO REMEMBER




Origin of the Meeting

• Who knows how the meeting started?




• How could you find out?




• How could you find out?

• The Google …


Using the Google


Possible Source of Confusion


Jeffrey van Leeuwenhoek Miller

History of the Meeting

• See http://www.lamg.info/history


Jeffrey van Leeuwenhoek Miller

http://www.lamg.info/history

History of the Meeting

• And see http://microbe.net/lake-arrowhead-microbial-genomes-history/ for 1998-2016 notes

• http://tinyurl.com/LAMG16


http://microbe.net/lake-arrowhead-microbial-genomes-history/

http://tinyurl.com/LAMG16

Sampling from 1998-2014


Sampling from 1998


The Real Story of 1998?


1998 - Doodles Reveal All


Real History of Arrowhead

QUOTES, QUOTES, QUOTES


2014 …


2014 …

• I am spending bioinformatic time up the wazoo


2014 …

• I am spending bioinformatic time up the wazoo

• It may be sh*t to you but it's my bread and butter


2002


2002

• Leave it to Jeff Miller to take a shot at the Gordon Conferences in his intro


2002


• It looks like someone with a bad cold sneezed against the wall


2002



• Wild mistakes - brilliant guesses


2002



• Wild mistakes - brilliant guesses• He lied about the size of anthrax


2002



• Wild mistakes - brilliant guesses• He lied about the size of anthrax• If it grows you win, if it doesn’t you have

to give me your soul for all eternity


2002



• Wild mistakes - brilliant guesses• He lied about the size of anthrax• If it grows you win, if it doesn’t you have

to give me your soul for all eternity• That’s because she has the arrogance of

the aristocrats#LAMG16 @phylogenomics

2004


2004

• He wanted to keep his finger in the Chlamydia stuff


2004


• Engineering other systems that don’t suck


2004



• It’s like a tootsie pop


2004



• It’s like a tootsie pop• Space time continuum of genes and

genomes


2004



• It’s like a tootsie pop• Space time continuum of genes and

genomes• The wormhole that allows us to tunnel

into today’s world


Other years

• Space-time continuum of genes and genomes


Quotes


• Microbes not only have a lot of sex, they have a lot of weird sex


Quotes



• Gene sequences are the wormhole that allows one to tunnel into the past


Quotes




• This is how you do metagenomics on 50 dollars, and that’s Canadian dollars


Quotes





• The human guts are a real milieu of stuff


Quotes





• The human guts are a real milieu of stuff • Antibiotics do not kill things, they corrupt

them #LAMG16 @phylogenomics

Quotes

• There comes a point in life when you have to bring chemists into the picture


Quotes


• The rectal swabs are here in tan color


Quotes


• The rectal swabs are here in tan color • If I have time I will tell you about a dream


Quotes


• The rectal swabs are here in tan color • If I have time I will tell you about a dream • Another thing you need to know" pause

"Actually you don't NEED to know any of this


Quotes




• I have been influenced by Fisher Price throughout my life


Quotes




• I have been influenced by Fisher Price throughout my life

• This is going to be ironic coming from someone who studies circumcision#LAMG16 @phylogenomics

Quotes

• And we will bring out the unused cheese from yesterday


Quotes


• A paper came out next year


Quotes


• A paper came out next year • It takes 1000 nanobiologists to make one

microbiologist


Quotes



microbiologist • In an engineering sense, the vagina is a

simple plug flow reactor


Quotes




simple plug flow reactor • The human mind can conceive of things

with no basis in physical reality


Quotes




simple plug flow reactor • The human mind can conceive of things

with no basis in physical reality • Thoughts can go faster than the speed of

light #LAMG16 @phylogenomics

Quotes

• We are the environment. We live the phenotype.


Quotes


• We have been using this word for many years without actually realizing it was correct


Quotes



• A little bit about time, but I am going to spend a lot less time on time than on space


Quotes



• A little bit about time, but I am going to spend a lot less time on time than on space

• I am going to wrap up as I hear the crickets chirping


2004


Sampling from 2004


Trends in Topics


Topics Over Time

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1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016

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