Ideas

Here are some ideas that I, perhaps with some overconfidence, think would be useful to share.

  • Thoughts on Untargeted, Scaleable Isolation of Small Epibiotic Bacteria and Archaea

    Thoughts on Untargeted, Scaleable Isolation of Small Epibiotic Bacteria and Archaea

    In late 2016, I was excited. I had observed (Barnum et. al 2018) that a set of simple communities enriched from bay mud contained abundant bacteria from the Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) and an abundant archaeum from the DPANN superphylum. CPR and DPANN organisms may form large portions of the tree of life and share……