Harvard University

I-CAMP 2010 Australia CIMOPV Friday July 2 Johannes Hachmann The Harvard clean energy project Parnell Building Rm 222, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 10:30am Friday July 2, 2010

Michael Ashburner (1942-) is Professor of Biology at the University of Cambridge and is the former Joint-Head of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe and the University of Cambridge, where he received his undergraduate degree (1964) and Ph.D. (1968), both in genetics. He then went to the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow with Hershell Mitchell. In 1979, he returned to the Department of Genetics in...

Part III presents research showing that B. subtilis uses a bet hedging strategy for coping with uncertainty.

Part II presents research on the capacity of B. subtilis cells to form architecturally complex communities.

The human oral cavity is a diverse habitat that contains approximately bacterial 600 predominant species. The oral microbiome is comprised of 44% named species, 12% isolates representing unnamed species, and 44% phylotypes known only from 16S rRNA based cloning studies. Species from 11 phyla have been identified: Firmicutes (211), Bacteroidetes (106), Proteobacteria (99), Actinobacteria (64), Spirochaetes (49), Fusobacteria (29), TM7 (12), Synergistetes (10), Chlamydiae (1), Chloroflexi (1)...

Eric Jensen talks about the importance of scientist-educator conventions and of studies regarding the correlation of socialization to learning.