Award

Today I had the honor to receive the Microbiome Pioneer Award from Ami Bhatt, Assistant Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine. I was scheduled to get the award at the Stanford Bioinformatics for the Microbiome Symposium in May, but I had to suddenly fly to Europe for a funeral, so I missed the ceremony. But today Ami and I were finally able to meet, and I got this beautiful award. Thank you Ami, for this wonderful present. And thank you, David Relman, without whose support I would not be able to run Microbiome Digest. It’s a privilege to work with these fantastic people at the Stanford School of Medicine.

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Microbiome Paper Collection pages

This might be a good moment to point out the pages that I created with links to microbiome papers, sorted per field. I call these my “Microbiome Collection” pages. These are pages, not posts, so they are more static. They can be found in the grey bar under the Micropia photo in the header.

I have grouped these collection papers by topic, under Human Microbiome Paper Collection, and Non-Human Microbiome Paper Collection. The collection pages contain links to papers that I liked or that are important, but they are by no means perfect lists. So if you feel that some papers are missing, please feel free to contact me with suggestions, and I will include them.

The most recent collection that I added today is called Archaeological Microbiology, so feel free to take a look if you like.

Some followers will need to sign up again

Last week I migrated the blog from an independent server to a WordPress server, and it seems that a subset of my followers were not transferred during the migration. In other words, if you had signed up to get an email whenever I posted something new, you might not have received anything in the last week. I am so sorry about that! I actually lost a large number of followers (the list had ~700 followers, and now only has 150).

I tried to figure out how to fix this but could not find an easy solution. For now, it’s probably the best to sign up again. Since I am now on a different server, the “Follow” box is now at the bottom right.

It looks like this: Screen Shot 2016-04-06 at 05.42PM, Apr 06

Click on it and enter your email, and you should get a confirmation email.

If you don’t see it, that means you are already logged in. Sometimes, signing in in Incognito mode might help to sign up again.

Again, my apologies! Let me know if you still are having troubles.

Elies