The second ever
JAMS (Joint Academic Microbial Seminars) Annual Dinner was held yesterday at the Australiam Museum in Sydney. JAMS is normally a monthly seminar series at the museum, but once a year we have an annual dinner and invite 4-5 international/interstate guest speakers. We had extremely entertaining talks from all five speakers. The highlights for me were the talks from
Phil Hugenholtz (UQ) who gave us a rapid but exciting trip through what we've learnt from the genomes of unculturable bacteria and
Victoria Orphan from CalTech who looked at the function of bacterial communities from deep sea methane vents.
After the talks were dinner and drinks in the Dinosaur Room. The food was pretty good, one of the curiosities of my dinner was the unidentifiable vegetable on my plate that turned out to be a purple carrot. Who knew carrots could be purple? Apparently they are chockful of anthocyanins. I should probably eat alot more purple carrots!
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| Who knew carrots came in this colour |
Many thanks again to JAMS organizer Federico Lauro for a great meeting!
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