Category Archives: biotech

Q&A at Porecamp TAMU, June 2017: From the Ebola Outbreak to Sequencing on Mars

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Lisa Johnson

"Even bioinformaticians can run MinION" inspiration from @BioMickWatson #porecampusa — Dr. Lisa K. Johnson (@monsterbashseq) June 5, 2017 As part of my PhD project at UC Davis with Dr. C. Titus Brown and Dr. Andrew Whitehead, I am assessing the … Continue reading →

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Adventures with ONT MinION at MBL’s Microbial Diversity Course

Posted on August 13, 2016 by Lisa Johnson

My time here at the Microbial Diversity Course at MBL has come to an end after visiting for the past 2 weeks with our lab’s MinION to sequence genomes from bacterial isolates that students collected from the Trunk River in Woods Hole, MA. (Photo … Continue reading →

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Genetically-engineered chestnut tree, MCB263 scicomm assignment 2

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Lisa Johnson

My tweet post for this week’s MCB263 sci comm assignment is on the genetically-engineered chestnut tree. This is the first transgenic plant to ever be considered for use in species and ecological restoration. It is currently under review by the US … Continue reading →

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MCB263 Science Communication via Social Media assignment

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Lisa Johnson

This winter quarter at UC Davis I’m taking a course called ‘Biotechnology Fundamentals and Applications’ by Dr. Denneal Jamison-McClung, which is required for my degree with a designated emphasis in biotechnology (DEB). (This is like a doctoral minor. It will … Continue reading →

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