Nice. Curious re this statement about lack of AMR to it
“under conditions that typically lead to resistance against vancomycin”

as I don’t see why subsequent resistance wouldn’t evolve under pressure

Source?

Source: New York Times
Conclusion: WAG -- their credibility has tanked over the past 10 years.

Looks great — can’t wait to read it!

This comment comes from significantly outside my expertise ... but curious re: how it branches vs. other Halococcus using a Halobacterium sequence as an outgroup vis a vis novel genus

Looks to me like packets of 8?
Is there support for this as novel genus?
Halosarcina

“Latin word "sarcina," meaning pack or bundle, after the cuboidal (2x2x2) cellular associations they form during division along three plane”

Hope you don’t mind suggestion from old-school microbiologist. RE streak plate. I don’t think you are doing enough streaks in quadrants. I would do 3 quadrants with >12 streaks per quadrant to get isolated colonies

I started reading bits of your Wordpress. Rock on!

Oooof …. Sulfolobus acidocaldarius?
Better shot at being monophyletic as a consequence of strong purifying selection?

Dashun Wang has done a lot of interesting stuff in this area
www.dashunwang.com/book/the-sci...

NB this is 🏈 only. The ‘profit’ goes to support other parts of Athletics Dept

Greg Chick posted this a few days ago

I'll confess to knee-jerk response when admin costs are 50% (eg charities)
Do ADs (anyone?) understand NIL -- not supposed to be pay for play but everyone knows it is pay for play. Are the NIL firms just laundering the $?
Will the system totally change again in 2 years to reconcile the hypocrisy?