Moore Notes 7 7 10

Group Call

• Audio files from Eugene, OR

• Progress Report
  • Eisen lab wrapping up their parts

• Funding
  • Josh summary of discussion at Eugene Meeting
  • Foreign people (not OK for fellowships, OK for co-PI)
  • Tom:
    • NSF fellowship fiasco
    • New fellowship applications to NIH, private sources
  • Josh:
    • NIH/NSF Joint Math Bio application

• Papers in prep
  • Steve is wrapping up resubmission
  • Tom - PHYLOTU paper
    • time frame
      • final draft by the end of the week
      • pretty quick comments, if any (by Weds)
      • marking up changes in document
      • submit to PLoS Comp Bio next Thurs
    • BioPerl bug
      • led to errors in GOS data analysis
      • general results similar
      • Steve is re-doing rarefaction curves
  • Josh - Range estimation paper
    • call for co-authors
    • JG: what about data analysis? Good for grants and jobs.
      • GOS limited since a transect
      • Saliva data - niche information
      • 16S data (vs. metagenomic) - Guillaume
    • James' mechanistic diffusion models and area/perimeter (August)

• Upcoming calls
  • Morgan - clustering families/samples (July 21)
  • Josh - saliva microbiome and ranges (July 28)