I’ve finished my tenure at McMaster and am now at McGill University working as a postdoc with Boz Wing (Earth and Planetary Sciences) and Lyle Whyte (Natural Resource Sciences). I’ll be doing genomics of sulfate reducing bacteria with Boz and styding permafrost bacteria genomes with Lyle. Adieu!

I’ve migrated Dakster, my fragment binning program, to this webserver. You can now access Dakster here. Happy binning!

I just finished going over the galley proofs for our newest manuscript, using my good old ‘proofer‘ program. This time I found mostly minor errors on the publisher’s part, including some misplaced thousands separators, misplaced column headings, and missing bold emphases where they should have been. The copyeditors also made a bunch of stylistic and […]

I’ve returned from my first Goldschmidt conference in Montréal, which was excellent. There are so many connections between biology and geochemistry that await research, it is a very exciting time to be working at the interface. However, one thing I noticed that was strikingly different from other recent conferences I’ve attended was the complete absence […]

Good (if somewhat old) news: my JGI Quarterly Community Sequencing Project proposal with Boz Wing was successful, so we will be getting complete genome sequences, plus transcriptomes, for 3 members of the Order Desulfobacterales that exhibit exceptionally large sulfur isotope fractionation effects (ε). Desulfobacula phenolica (ε = 37) Desulfospira joergensenii (ε = 26) Desulfotignum balticum […]