citizen microbiology: opportunities for engagement and data visualization, lake arrowhead, 2014
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I was invited to speak about "Citizen Microbiology" at the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics meeting on (my birthday!) September 16th, 2014. I decided to focus on two of the challenges associated with Citizen Microbiology: 1) the fact that microbes are invisible, and 2) the fact that the current tools for visualization of complex microbial community data are not ideal. I present Winogradsky columns as a way to engage the public with microbial communities, particularly in a classroom setting. I also present the human face as a visualization tool for complex microbial community data.TRANSCRIPT
- 1. Citizen MicrobiologyJenna LangUC Davis@jennomics
2. DonateInteract OnlineSample / Collect DataSynthesize / Analyze DataENGAGEMENTEASE 3. photo: ncwildlife.org 4. 403020100"Citizen Science" in PubMed2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 5. Fear?Loathing? 6. Fear?Loathing? 7. How can we engage citizenscientists with organisms theycannot see, represented by graphsthey cannot relate to? 8. The Invisibility Opportunity 9. HHMIMillimeter-scale patterns ofphylogenetic and traitdiversity in a salt marshmicrobial mat.Stahl et al, 2012 10. Projects Protocols 2014 Grant ProposalHannah Holland-Moritz Cassie Ettinger 11. The Pie Chart Opportunity 12. DAVID A. COIL 13. @hollybik 14. MakeHumanPython, free, open source 15. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%Water 3Water 2Water 1W SedimentG SedimentY SedimentThaumarchaeotaGammaproteobacteriaAlphaproteobacteriaFlavobacteriiaDeltaproteobacteriaBacteroidiaPlanctomycetiaAnaerolineae 16. Eyebrows AlphaproteobacteriaLeft Eye AnaerolineaRight Eye PlanctomycetiaNose FlavobacteriaLeft Ear DeltaproteobacteriaRight Ear ThaumarchaeotaMouth BacteroidiaJawbone Gammaproteobacteria 17. Eyebrows AlphaproteobacteriaLeft Eye AnaerolineaRight Eye PlanctomycetiaNose FlavobacteriaLeft Ear DeltaproteobacteriaRight Ear ThaumarchaeotaMouth BacteroidiaJawbone Gammaproteobacteria 18. mattiasgustavsson.com 19. DAVID A. COIL 20. said no one, ever.Now, THATS a good looking pie chart!OMG, I know Ive seen that pie chart somewhere before.Your pie chart looks exactly like a pie chart I knew in undergrad.I can definitely see your dads pie chart in your pie chart.When your pie chart was younger, it looked like your moms pie chart but now,its looking more and more like your dads every day.Wait a minute your pie chart looks different.Did you have something removed from it? 21. Project MERCCURIMarineMicrobiologyInitiative@hhollandmoritz@cassetron@davidacoil 22. Jonathan Eisen