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The META Center for Systems Biology will host its first annual symposium in Eugene, Oregon on August 8-10 2014. The Symposium on Host-Microbe Systems Biology will focus on the theme of “Modeling our Microbial Selvesâ€. (more…)
April 16, 2015
Imaging Gut Microbes and Their Surroundings
Observing gut microbes in zebrafish, a model organism, provides insights into how microbial communities nucleate, develop, and interact with each other and with their host. To achieve high-resolution, three-dimensional live imaging in vivo, (more…)
January 27, 2015
Glimpses of Gut Microbes
The idea that directly observing gut microbes can give us insights into their behavior is an important part of the META center’s approach to microbiome research.This week, graduate student Matthew Jemielita with colleagues in the labs (more…)
December 17, 2014
ASM Beneficial Microbes Conference
META Center PIs Karen Guillemin and Judith Eisen and postdoctoral fellows Tiffani Jones and Kat Milligan-Myhre attended the ASM Conference of Beneficial Microbes in Washington D.C. September 27-30. Jones presented a talk on her work (more…)
October 3, 2014
Conference: The Complex Intersection of Biology and Physics
META PI Raghuveer Parthasarathy spent the past week at a fascinating conference on science and teaching at the interface of physics and biology (Gordon Research Conferences). (more…)
June 17, 2014
META Center Symposium
Details about the META Center Symposium on Host-Microbe Systems Biology are now available! The Symposium will focus on the theme of “Modeling our Microbial Selvesâ€. We will explore how studies of host-microbe systems biology (more…)
April 1, 2014
2013 Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy Workshop
On Sept. 15-17, META Center PI Raghu Parthasarathy participated in this year’s Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy meeting. Light sheet imaging is a central part of the META center’s investigations, (more…)
October 3, 2013
National Centers for Systems Biology Annual Meeting
On July 11-12, META Center PIs Karen Guillemin, Brendan Bohannan, Bill Cresko, and Raghuveer Parthasarathy participated in the National Centers for Systems Biology Annual Meeting (more…)
July 30, 2013
Better ways to estimate the diversity of unseen life on and in our bodies
Ecologists often rely on the twin standards of the variety and numbers of species to describe a given region’s diversity. (more…)
May 7, 2013