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The level of curiosity children have is incredible and it seems like kids have a natural love of science and nature. Also, young people can have extremely creativity and "out of the box" problem-so...
From my experience, there seems to be a huge disconnect with the research-community and the non-scientific community. This is one aspect of science that I hope will change in the near future, for t...
One of the aspects we want to investigate with this project is what is happening at the fence which separates the Mnisi community with Kruger National Park. I've included two photos of the Kruger f...
Our previous research and this project utilizes PacBio SMRT sequencing (http://www.pacb.com) and it's quite amazing! If you are interested in doing microbiome research yourself, please look into th...
In many villages all over the world there are semi-domestic dogs, called community dogs, which don't necessarily belong to one individual. These dogs can play a major role in many diseases, such as...
The latest news - a manuscript from this project was just accepted at The ISME Journal (International Society of Microbial Ecology, impact factor 9.4). The manuscript will be published any day and ...
I wanted to provide a list of talks, posters, and manuscripts that came from this project and the crowdsourcing fund. I appreciate everyone that was interested in this research and supported the pr...
Side noteSide note: Yes itdoes! The ecosystems are different, the animals the ticks feed on are different, and the bacteria within the ticks areunique as well. We analyzed threesites (Idaho, Oregon...
Hello everyone,Since the project was funded I’ve been working extremelyhard! I have some exciting results on the project so far and some new futuredirections:1. I’ve characterized the microbiomes o...