Hi all! I’d like to share some exciting developments of the project!
First off, we found a new collaborator, Dr. Jeff Bowman at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, to assist us in bioinformatics analyses! You can find his website here: http://www.polarmicrobes.org.
Secondly, we’re ready to pilot portions of this project in undergraduate classrooms! Starting this June, we will have undergraduate classes learn science by actually participating in it via sample collection, culturing, and describing diversity by counting colony types. More to come soon!
