March | 2015 | #Microjc

This website serves as the homepage for #microjc, a summer science book club. Each summer, we select a theme and read three books on that theme: one in June, one in July, and one in August. See the menu for archive pages of past book clubs. Our online discussions bring together scientists of different fields from across the globe. All are welcome to join us. Please contact Laura Williams via Twitter (@MicroWavesSci) or email (lwillia7 at providence dot edu) with any questions.

Below is the archive for a monthly journal club that ran from 2015 to 2018 (until my professoring duties made it too difficult to keep up!). All of our past book club and journal club discussions are available on our YouTube channel.

March 19th, 2015 at 2 pm ET
Last year in Cell, the Dutton lab published a study examining microbial communities from an unusual source: cheese rinds. In the paper, the researchers analyze existing cheese rind communities and reconstruct them in the lab. Armed with the ability to manipulate lab rinds, they search for answers to questions that have long plagued microbial ecology: How are microbial communities really formed? How do microbes in community interact with each other?

Join us on Thursday, March 19th, at 2 pm ET as we discuss this ‘cheesy’ paper and its exciting findings! Link to join our Hangout on Air: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/stream/grlps7m6lobtfilk5if462tojqa?authuser=0&eid=107327156529099686134&hl=en.

Watch the journal club live on YouTube: