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I'm going to Kamchatka!

Posted by Russell on July 19, 2010 at 5:47 p.m.
I just got the reservations for my flight to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky for the International Workshop on Biodiversity, Molecular Biology and Biogeochemistry of Thermophiles, hosted by Moscow State University and Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology.

I've been working on the analysis of environmental samples from two sites at Uzon Caldera (about 10,000 Sanger reads from each sequenced at the JGI), and I'm hoping that I'll be able to reprocess the DNA here at the UC Davis Genome Center using some of our high-throughput machines. Licensing and customs restrictions will probably make it impossible to bring my own samples back, but I may be able to entrust them to a colleague with fancier credentials than my own.

Insofar as it will be possible, I will be blogging from Kamchatka and uploading photographs and data, so please ask questions in the comments!

I'll be arriving in Petropavlovsk on the 30th of July, with the help of a generous grant from the Carnegie Institution for Science Deep Carbon Observatory.

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Insofar as it will be possible, I will be blogging from Kamchatka and uploading photographs and data, so please ask questions in the comments.
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