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  • Jumping in WordPress Ouch

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    If you are visiting this website for the first time or after a long absence, mea culpa. It will get better, I promise. Months ago I decided to drop my previous hosting system and transition to WordPress. I spent some hours with a friend who knows much more about this, and kept commenting on how…

    Jumping in WordPress Ouch

  • New Everything Back to the Past?

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    Every business has a unique potential waiting to be tapped. Recognizing the keys to unlock this growth can set an enterprise on the path to unprecedented success.

    New Everything Back to the Past?

  • Interview by Accuweather channel

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    Jillian Angeline https://twitter.com/JLAngeline from Accuweather Channel interviewed me about our ASM poster. It was a well-done clip, and I appreciated her thoroughness regarding details. Here is the direct link (embed does not work) https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/Nf2uj9KY

  • Reporting from ASM Microbe 2022

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    First in-person conference in a long time! The American Society of Microbiology yearly meeting (ASM Microbe 2022) took place in Washington DC June 9-12. Our small group (Andrea, Allison, and myself- the 3 As!) headed to the nation’s capital to attend. It was great to be able to meet people in real life versus through…

  • Andrea Price wins 2021 SCASM Student Poster prize!

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    The Southern California chapter of the American Society of Microbiology (SCASM) holds every year in their Fall conference a Student Collegiate Poster competition. We are ecstatic that our own undergraduate researcher Andrea Price (IG @andreaevolves, Twitter @andreaevolves) won this prestigious and competitive award. In her poster, Andrea presented a panel of antibiotic producing bacteria she…

  • We are all movie stars!

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    The short video above was recorded in November 2020, when we did a typical plastic sample collection and deployment at the Scripps pier . That was the month when we ran the first iteration of the online version of the project, for which we developed a bunch of video material. National University’s video team, Saul…

  • The wonders of the microbial world, SEM edition

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    Every time we collect the plastic from the ocean deployments, we marvel at the thickness of the biofilm attached to it, laugh at the little crabs running around, and just ooh and awe at life using any surface to grow and expand. We can see it, and we can feel it- especially when the cages…

    The wonders of the microbial world, SEM edition

  • 2020: A challenging but strangely rewarding year

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    Since we started collecting the CURE data, there was always a recurring issue: getting enough students to answer the surveys and sign up for focus groups. When 2020 started, we had plans for expansion and dissemination, and we we were starting to outline how to broaden the reach of the CURE to other classes. Woody…

  • Ben’s microcosm paper is out!

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    The email came this morning, and although expected, it brought a great sense of satisfaction and joy. CURE Plastics alumnus Ben Stenson’s paper is officially out now, published in the excellent undergraduate research paper Fine Focus: https://openjournals.bsu.edu/finefocus/article/view/3322 Ben was my student in a microbiology class and he was interested in doing research, so he was…

  • We are back in the lab!

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    After 7 months, we have made it back into the lab! A few weeks ago, our team was able to visit the pier and deploy a new set of samples into the water. We all were outfitted with masks and were able to social distance, both important in these uncertain times. The deployment itself was…