Rob Knight

TL;DR: The findings, taken together with previous studies and feasibility considerations, indicated that FOBT/FTA cards, FIT tubes, 95% ethanol, and RNAlater are excellent choices for fecal sample collection methods in future microbiome studies, and establishing standard collection methods across studies is highly desirable.

TL;DR: This predictive model provides a general framework for focusing future sampling and experimental design to relate biogeochemical turnover to microbial ecology and could possibly be explained by the co-occurrence of anaerobic and aerobic metabolisms associated with localized plankton blooms or sediment resuspension, which facilitate the presence of an aerobic micro-niches.

TL;DR: This paper identifies and analyzes a more serious threat for users of BCI devices and shows that it is feasible for an attacker to learn relevant private information about the user, such as whether the user knows the identity of the person for which the attacker is probing.

TL;DR: The conference was arranged as a formal launch for the Earth Microbiome Project, to highlight some of the exciting research projects, results of the preliminary pilot studies, and to provide a discussion forum for the types of technology and experimental approaches that will come to define the standard operating procedures of this project.