1. #LAMG16 @phylogenomics
Arrowhead and Microbial Genomes:
Update on the Tree of Life
September 18, 2016
Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomes
#LAMG16
Jonathan A. Eisen
University of California, Davis
@phylogenomics
2. TWO KEY THINGS TO REMEMBER
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Arrowhead and Microbial Genomes:
Update on the Tree of Life
September 18, 2016
Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomes
#LAMG16
Jonathan A. Eisen
University of California, Davis
@phylogenomics
3. TWO KEY THINGS TO REMEMBER
#LAMG16 @phylogenomics
Arrowhead and Microbial Genomes:
Update on the Tree of Life
September 18, 2016
Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomes
#LAMG16
Jonathan A. Eisen
University of California, Davis
@phylogenomics
4. #LAMG16 @phylogenomics
Arrowhead and Microbial Genomes:
Update on the Tree of Life
September 18, 2016
Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomes
#LAMG16
Jonathan A. Eisen
University of California, Davis
@phylogenomics
5. #LAMG16 @phylogenomics
Arrowhead and Microbial Genomes:
Update on the Tree of Life
September 18, 2016
Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomes
#LAMG16
Jonathan A. Eisen
University of California, Davis
@phylogenomics
7. #LAMG16 @phylogenomics
Arrowhead and Microbial Genomes:
Update on the Tree of Life
September 18, 2016
Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomes
#LAMG16
Jonathan A. Eisen
University of California, Davis
@phylogenomics
8. Arrowhead and Microbial Genomes:
Update on the Tree of Life
September 18, 2016
Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomes
#LAMG16
Jonathan A. Eisen
University of California, Davis
@phylogenomics
THREE KEY THINGS TO REMEMBER
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9. Origin of the Meeting
• Who knows how the meeting started?
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10. Origin of the Meeting
• Who knows how the meeting started?
• How could you find out?
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11. Origin of the Meeting
• Who knows how the meeting started?
• How could you find out?
• The Google …
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15. Possible Source of Confusion
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Jeffrey van Leeuwenhoek Miller
16. History of the Meeting
• See http://
www.lamg.info/
history
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Jeffrey van Leeuwenhoek Miller
17. History of the Meeting
• And see http://microbe.net/lake-arrowhead-
microbial-genomes-history/ for 1998-2016 notes
• http://tinyurl.com/LAMG16
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51. 2002
• Leave it to Jeff Miller to take a shot at the
Gordon Conferences in his intro
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52. 2002
• Leave it to Jeff Miller to take a shot at the
Gordon Conferences in his intro
• It looks like someone with a bad cold
sneezed against the wall
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53. 2002
• Leave it to Jeff Miller to take a shot at the
Gordon Conferences in his intro
• It looks like someone with a bad cold
sneezed against the wall
• Wild mistakes - brilliant guesses
#LAMG16 @phylogenomics
54. 2002
• Leave it to Jeff Miller to take a shot at the
Gordon Conferences in his intro
• It looks like someone with a bad cold
sneezed against the wall
• Wild mistakes - brilliant guesses
• He lied about the size of anthrax
#LAMG16 @phylogenomics
55. 2002
• Leave it to Jeff Miller to take a shot at the
Gordon Conferences in his intro
• It looks like someone with a bad cold
sneezed against the wall
• 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
#LAMG16 @phylogenomics
56. 2002
• Leave it to Jeff Miller to take a shot at the
Gordon Conferences in his intro
• It looks like someone with a bad cold
sneezed against the wall
• 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
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58. 2004
• He wanted to keep his finger in the
Chlamydia stuff
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59. 2004
• He wanted to keep his finger in the
Chlamydia stuff
• Engineering other systems that don’t
suck
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60. 2004
• He wanted to keep his finger in the
Chlamydia stuff
• Engineering other systems that don’t
suck
• It’s like a tootsie pop
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61. 2004
• He wanted to keep his finger in the
Chlamydia stuff
• Engineering other systems that don’t
suck
• It’s like a tootsie pop
• Space time continuum of genes and
genomes
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62. 2004
• He wanted to keep his finger in the
Chlamydia stuff
• Engineering other systems that don’t
suck
• It’s like a tootsie pop
• Space time continuum of genes and
genomes
• The wormhole that allows us to tunnel
into today’s world
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64. Quotes
• Space-time continuum of genes and
genomes
• Microbes not only have a lot of sex, they
have a lot of weird sex
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65. Quotes
• Space-time continuum of genes and
genomes
• Microbes not only have a lot of sex, they
have a lot of weird sex
• Gene sequences are the wormhole that
allows one to tunnel into the past
#LAMG16 @phylogenomics
66. Quotes
• Space-time continuum of genes and
genomes
• Microbes not only have a lot of sex, they
have a lot of weird sex
• Gene sequences are the wormhole that
allows one to tunnel into the past
• This is how you do metagenomics on 50
dollars, and that’s Canadian dollars
#LAMG16 @phylogenomics
67. Quotes
• Space-time continuum of genes and
genomes
• Microbes not only have a lot of sex, they
have a lot of weird sex
• Gene sequences are the wormhole that
allows one to tunnel into the past
• This is how you do metagenomics on 50
dollars, and that’s Canadian dollars
• The human guts are a real milieu of stuff
#LAMG16 @phylogenomics
68. Quotes
• Space-time continuum of genes and
genomes
• Microbes not only have a lot of sex, they
have a lot of weird sex
• Gene sequences are the wormhole that
allows one to tunnel into the past
• This is how you do metagenomics on 50
dollars, and that’s Canadian dollars
• The human guts are a real milieu of stuff
• Antibiotics do not kill things, they corrupt
them #LAMG16 @phylogenomics
69. Quotes
• There comes a point in life when you have
to bring chemists into the picture
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70. Quotes
• There comes a point in life when you have
to bring chemists into the picture
• The rectal swabs are here in tan color
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71. Quotes
• There comes a point in life when you have
to bring chemists into the picture
• The rectal swabs are here in tan color
• If I have time I will tell you about a dream
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72. Quotes
• There comes a point in life when you have
to bring chemists into the picture
• 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
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73. Quotes
• There comes a point in life when you have
to bring chemists into the picture
• 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
• I have been influenced by Fisher Price
throughout my life
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74. Quotes
• There comes a point in life when you have
to bring chemists into the picture
• 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
• I have been influenced by Fisher Price
throughout my life
• This is going to be ironic coming from
someone who studies circumcision#LAMG16 @phylogenomics
75. Quotes
• And we will bring out the unused cheese
from yesterday
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76. Quotes
• And we will bring out the unused cheese
from yesterday
• A paper came out next year
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77. Quotes
• And we will bring out the unused cheese
from yesterday
• A paper came out next year
• It takes 1000 nanobiologists to make one
microbiologist
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78. Quotes
• And we will bring out the unused cheese
from yesterday
• A paper came out next year
• It takes 1000 nanobiologists to make one
microbiologist
• In an engineering sense, the vagina is a
simple plug flow reactor
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79. Quotes
• And we will bring out the unused cheese
from yesterday
• A paper came out next year
• It takes 1000 nanobiologists to make one
microbiologist
• In an engineering sense, the vagina is a
simple plug flow reactor
• The human mind can conceive of things
with no basis in physical reality
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80. Quotes
• And we will bring out the unused cheese
from yesterday
• A paper came out next year
• It takes 1000 nanobiologists to make one
microbiologist
• In an engineering sense, the vagina is a
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
81. Quotes
• We are the environment. We live the
phenotype.
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82. Quotes
• We are the environment. We live the
phenotype.
• We have been using this word for many
years without actually realizing it was
correct
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83. Quotes
• We are the environment. We live the
phenotype.
• We have been using this word for many
years without actually realizing it was
correct
• A little bit about time, but I am going to
spend a lot less time on time than on
space
#LAMG16 @phylogenomics
84. Quotes
• We are the environment. We live the
phenotype.
• We have been using this word for many
years without actually realizing it was
correct
• 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
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