Some fun science today, sequencing a clinical legionella sample directly (no culturing step). Here is the gridion selectively spitting out host reads so we get more bacteria in our data

Submit an abstract to talk or present a poster - deadline is 1 July!

Still lots of travel grants and chance at speaker slots for this conference, abstract deadline fast approaching!

On leave. First school holidays for us to wrangle

Back one day and have so far resisted reinstalling...

Permanent position available at the University of Otago in Microbiology - please spread the word! otago.taleo.net/careersection/…

- In the tea room at lunch time, notice my watch has stopped running. - Wind it, carefully set it to the time on microwave: 17:30 - Don't think twice about it until I get a calendar notification for a meeting at 2pm Might not be a day for work needing attention to detail...