The motivation behind developing a new tool for taxonomic classification of metagenomic high-throughput sequencing data.

Access to a wealth of environments and the ability to reconstruct genomes for previously unknown and uncultured lineages has lead to a huge expansion in our understanding of the diversity of life on earth. We wanted to explore that diversity with a Tree of Life for the genomic era.

The story behind understanding the influence that antibiotics have on conjugation

For those dealing with microbiology teaching challenges, I share a Thematic Issue on Microbiology Education.

Mtb has been residing in human lungs for forever – probably since humans have been a thing - (don’t cite me on this, but it seems like mummies are always being found to have TB) and yet this bacterium is still widespread.