Developing a class to show the usefulness of phylogeny in taxonomy
Danny
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@Anthony came to our last scheduled community meeting and brought up the possibility of doing a crowd-funding campaign to raise capital to run the lab. In talking about that idea I pitched that a workshop for the communities he knows best would be something worthwhile to deveop. Ellen mentioned the taxonomy issues in mycology.
Today I saw this video and it reminded me of the types of theoretical lessons we could teach at this workshop (for fungi instead of animals) and couple with the process of sample prep, PCR, sequencing and tree making
Starting this thread to get a sense of what would make this interesting to the most amount of people and who would like to help with such an endeavour.
Danny Sat 3 Jul 2021 1:18PM
WGS would need supplies we don't typically have. So I'm thinking 18S, but choosing other marker genes is an important theoretical consideration in phylogeny.
Dogs are a good idea if you know the right community for it. It makes me think about something like 23andMe but for dogs and DIY.
Yuriy Fazylov Sat 3 Jul 2021 5:36AM
so you'll do a primer led class? or WGS? I tossed Genspace an idea once. Dan did nothing with it. "people have all kinds of muts" I said. "Do dog barcoding." I think some other lab is doing that now but there is space for more than one lab doing it, I believe.
Yuriy Fazylov 路 Mon 5 Jul 2021 4:37PM
People like tangible subjects. One that is near and dear to a lot them is their pet. I'd do it to mycology if it was compost, maybe wall molds, and sickly soil sample related,
Yeah, 39andmyMutt.
There is only a ton of dog lovers in tristate area (if you are doing an in person class), who'd love to find out where their dog is coming from or if pedigree of a dog holds true to the name. Another thing is that when you walk your dog and never even notice who the puppy daddy is 馃槅. In the dog owner world, the owner blinks and that's that.