A call for science to guide the proper use of pesticides worldwide
Pesticides have long supported increased food production, allowing intensive cultivation of larger areas previously considered unsuitable...
MEB Lab (UFLA) and IRR (FIOCRUZ) have signed a scientific cooperation agreement
MEB Lab. (UFLA) and the René Rachou Institute (IRR - FIOCRUZ MINAS), with the support of the ThermoFisher company, have just signed a...
Data sharing is farther than we thought
Nature recently published two Letters from The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) that evaluated thousands...
MEB Lab has just approved a project proposal at the CNPq Universal Call 2018
MEB Lab has just approved a project proposal at the CNPq Universal Call 2018. This proposal aims to apply comparative genomics as a tool...
Why it is not a ‘failure’ to leave academia (Nature)
This week on Nature, Philipp Kruger, a PhD student in immunology at the University of Oxford/UK, discuss how PhD students can prepare for...
BTW—Bioinformatics Through Windows: an easy-to-install package to analyze marker gene data (PeerJ)
MEB's Lab. and its collaborators have developed a fully automated and easy-to-install package as well as a complete, easy to follow...
MEB's Lab. is applying "ultra-long reads" technology for sequencing microbial genomes
The MinION™ device has proved to be a very accessible, cost-effective and user-friendly nucleic acids sequencing platform, which makes it...
How to fit in when you join a lab abroad
Cultural differences can be both stimulating and challenging for researchers working or studying in a foreign country. Researchers who...
BOOK: The Brazilian Microbiome: Current status and perspectives
Brazilian Microbiome: Current status and perspectives unite a set of distinguished investigators conducting microbiome research and build...
A step forward to empower global microbiome research through local leadership (Trends in Microbiolog
Obtaining the full microbial potential to benefit local communities and citizens, as well as ongoing conservation efforts, is a major...
