ISME16 started yesterday afternoon with the keynote address and today it was in full swing. It is my first time and so far I have been impressed with the scheduling (there seems to be plenty of time to attend the presentations, and look at the posters, and talk to other people). I attended a number of interesting lectures, but learned the most by talking to people, especially today during the poster session. Found a researcher from Belgium, Caroline De Tender, who had done a similar study on immersed polyethylene. So we chatted and compared notes of our methodologies and ideas. Interestingly enough, there seemed to be nobody else doing the same kind of research at the meeting, although I did get some ideas from people doing biofilm and biofouling research. American Gut’s Rob Knight came by, which was quite flattering, and I was very happy to see the SDSU crew from the metagenomics workshop, including Liz Dinsdale herself, Matt Haggerty, Mike Doano, and others. Unfortunately I have to return early as I am teaching a class, so if you arrived to this page from scanning the barcode in my poster, please check it out and contact us! This other barcode is the one leading to the bigger pdf image of the poster.
