Hi everybody!

The summer is finishing (in Ireland somehow neither starts nor finishes), the children go back to school and stop messing around, the leaves fall, bla, bla, bla… and many good posts are around the bloggosphere:

We start with Ruth Schaffer from The Biotech Blog with a post about hydrogen production of Thermatoga neapolitana and the advantages of this facultative anaerobe.

Andreas Baumer posts about the experience he had when he realized of the ubiquitousness of our beloved bugs, particularly focusing on the omnipresence of biofilms in the surrounding world. By the way Andreas, did you trip with the black fungi on the wall? read the post and you’ll understand…

Tara posts about the emergence and outbreak of Antibiotic Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains.

Endosymbionts is the topic on syaffolee. Are aphid endosymbionts only transmitted vertically (mother to descendants? or there are other ways of transmitting this microorganism? Check out the post.

Sandra Porter has a four part series where she gives useful examples of how we can use AIDS virus to prove evolution. Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. Not to be missed.

Mike talks about an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7, emphasizing that most of E. coli strains are harmless inhabitant of our gut.

In my post I give an example of how misleading can be the anthropocentric view of the world focusing on a “well-known pathogen”: Vibrio cholerae.

Hope you all had a nice summer cause I didn’t!

Salu y liberta and
Viva la Evolucion!