Taxonomy

We’re navigating the twisted world of bacterial taxonomy. We have some excellent guides to help us! Our guests today are:

Dr. Leighton Pritchard: Who is a Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow at Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences in the University of Strathclyde

Dr. Conor Meehan: Dr. Conor Meehan is an assistant professor in molecular microbiology at the University of Bradford.

67 Bacterial Taxonomy: what is a species, what is a strain?

68  Bacterial Taxonomy: what is a species, what is a strain? part 2

There has been a lot of discussion about bacterial taxonomy recently announced regarding phyla, and this revealed a lot of misconceptions around taxonomy in general. Today we discuss the background to bacterial taxonomy with: Professor Phil Hugenholtz, Professor Iain Sutcliffe and Professor Mark Pallen.

Selective bibliography: https://github.com/MicroBinfie/MicroBinfie.github.io/raw/45db8eb57d732176449073065dbdacc88a288fe9/assets/Taxonomy_Selective_bibliography.pdf

69 Background to bacterial taxonomy

We continue our discussion on bacterial taxonomy, this time looking at how genomics has changed taxonomy with: Professor Phil Hugenholtz, Professor Iain Sutcliffe and Professor Mark Pallen.

Selective bibliography: 
https://github.com/MicroBinfie/MicroBinfie.github.io/blob/45db8eb57d732176449073065dbdacc88a288fe9/assets/Taxonomy_Selective_bibliography.pdf

70 Bacterial Taxonomy:  the grand vista is ahead of us

We finish our discussion on bacterial taxonomy, this time looking at new approaches of naming the multitudes of unnamed uncultured organisms and the controversial renaming of phyla. With guests Professor Phil Hugenholtz, Professor Iain Sutcliffe and Professor Mark Pallen.

Selective bibliography: 
https://github.com/MicroBinfie/MicroBinfie.github.io/blob/45db8eb57d732176449073065dbdacc88a288fe9/assets/Taxonomy_Selective_bibliography.pdf

71 Bacterial taxonomy: Into the unknown, SeqCode, naming uncultured multitudes and renaming of phyla

Microbial Bioinformatics is a rapidly changing field marrying computer science and microbiology. Join us as we share some tips and tricks we’ve learnt over the years. If you’re student just getting to grips to the field, or someone who just wants to keep tabs on the latest and greatest - this podcast is for you. 

The hosts are Dr. Lee Katz from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (US), Dr. Nabil-Fareed Alikhan from the University of Oxford (UK), and Prof. Andrew Page from Theiagen Genomics (UK) and bring together years of experience in microbial bioinformatics.

The opinions expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, University of Oxford or Theiagen Genomics.

Intro music : Werq - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Outro music : Scheming Weasel (faster version) - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Taxonomy

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