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O.oAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-90591954826642590402008-12-05T11:45:00.000-05:002008-12-05T11:45:00.000-05:00This is an awesome meme. My picksThis is an awesome meme. <A HREF="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2008/12/top_ten_bacteria.php" REL="nofollow">My picks</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-85917698006649444302008-12-03T11:12:00.000-05:002008-12-03T11:12:00.000-05:00Listeria monocytogenes and H. pylori are both defi...<I>Listeria monocytogenes</I> and <I>H. pylori</I> are both definitely cool bugs. They're probably in my top twenty. I'd also list the bugs my lab is currently in the process of characterizing (and naming) but I'm not sure I want to give up my pseudonymity (if it truly exists) just yet.<BR/><BR/>Thanksgiving went well. My sister is a great cook (even better than me), and all the wife and I had to do is drive there (I brought Jell-o though!).<BR/><BR/>BTW: You ARE going to put a list of your Top 10 bugs together, no?Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14211618861743447072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-68054018314267508772008-12-01T16:17:00.000-05:002008-12-01T16:17:00.000-05:00From a research PoV it makes sense that you have 8...From a research PoV it makes sense that you have 8/10 gram (-) sited as rocking bugs...we know waaaay more about them. ( why is that? are gram (+) really that hard to study??) <BR/><BR/>ALSO...i met Charlie Calisher at the CDC a bit ago...he's been finding himself in VIRUS taxonomy lately. ew. So prop's to you two for being interested in such things...and he might have some interesting things to say about it if you have time to look him up.<BR/><BR/>I like your list...tho it is missing <I>Listeria monocytogenes</I> and <I>H pylori</I>. :P Good call on <I>P. aeruginosa</I>...fascinating booger with an arsenal of virulence factors. (Besides i'm doing my graduate work on it.)<BR/><BR/>Hope you are recovering from too much turkey!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-29019164582030299972008-11-28T10:53:00.000-05:002008-11-28T10:53:00.000-05:00I couched my comment by saying they form "these" m...I couched my comment by saying they form "these" monophyletic clades ... implying multiple. ;) <BR/><BR/>From a Clinical Microbiology point of view however, this initial test is actually very helpful in a majority of cases. The Gram stain, most often coupled with site of isolation information, sets up your additional tests. Of course, this does merge with your ...<BR/><BR/>Point #2. I am faced with this issue daily as well. Now, I grew up in a medical microbiology environment, but I now have a much deeper appreciation for applied microbiological organisms and processes. Actually, this is a good idea for another blog post, however since most funding is driven by tax dollars, and people need to be alive to pay taxes ... you can see where the problem arises.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14211618861743447072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-69173098041474335392008-11-27T00:17:00.000-05:002008-11-27T00:17:00.000-05:00I'm not sure you can properly use the term "monoph...I'm not sure you can properly use the term "monophyletic" for "Gram Negative". That's "Every phylum Besides the <I>Firmicutes</I> and <I>Actinobacteria</I>", right? (and not even <I>Actinobacteria</I> or the family (order?) of <I>mollicutes</I> in some contexts - most of the time I've run into people using "stain-based" taxonomy, they call the actinobacteria "acid-fast" rather than "High G+C Gram Positive"). I actually tend to think of the Gram Stain as merely a presumptive test for the phylum <I>Firmicutes</I>. All the Gram Stain really tells you is whether your subject organism has a cell wall that is unusually impermeable to your decolorizing solvent or not.<BR/><BR/>Bear in mind that this really is a "Hobby" crusade of mine and not intended to be taken too seriously. <BR/>*(Oh, and I am realizing it may not be obvious that I wasn't suggesting that you needed to be lectured at, either - especially not by the likes of me. I've just been doing some audio recordings for mental exercise recently and I think bacterial taxonomy would be an interesting subject for one...)*<BR/><BR/>Aside from the amusement I derive from pretending to be horribly offended by the Gram Stain, the only real points behind it are:<BR/><BR/>#1) "Gram Negative", really, is only slightly more taxonomically useful in my opinion than saying "non-pathogenic" (i.e. they both mean "everything but a small minority of types of bacteria")<BR/><BR/>#2) I think the importance of "Gram Positivity" (whether that includes "acid-fast" or not) has been grossly inflated by the fact that microbiology even today gets treated too much as a subdiscipline of medicine, where for the most part nearly all of the "relevant" bacteria (the ones that cause diseases in humans and occasionally other food or pet species) really <I>do</I> fit in only three phyla: "Gram Positive" Firmicutes (anthrax, botulism, MRSA...), "Gram Negative" Proteobacteria (<I>E.coli</I>, gonorrhea, salmonella, cholera...), and occasionally the "Gram-biguous" actinobacteria (tuberculosis, "leprosy"...). Syphilis and chlamydia (very small populations within their respective phyla) are exceptions of course. Still, this view makes it easy to forget about all of the OTHER phyla, all of which are also technically "Gram negative". <BR/><BR/>I suppose it's not going to help my argument, though, when my "10 favorite microbes" list will have 2-4 "Gram Positive" <I>firmicutes</I> and 2 "Gram Negative" <I>γ-proteobacteria</I> disproportionately represented in it.Ivan Privacihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14876109105618900667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-71469965976827099542008-11-26T08:56:00.000-05:002008-11-26T08:56:00.000-05:00I'm not sure what you mean by Gram-stain-based tax...I'm not sure what you mean by Gram-stain-based taxonomic schemes. We're doing some taxonomy on some new strains here in my lab and the "golden standards" for identifying novel species are DNA:DNA hybridization, FAME analysis, and respiratory isoprenoid quinone analysis.<BR/><BR/>It just so happens that when you do 16S rRNA gene sequencing, Gram negative and Gram positive organisms form these nice monophyletic clades. Well, within their own phyla that is.<BR/><BR/>Or have I missed something? I am always the last to know ...Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14211618861743447072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-62840731274966105342008-11-26T08:49:00.000-05:002008-11-26T08:49:00.000-05:00My next "microbiology microlecture" may have to be...My next "microbiology microlecture" may have to be on the subject of prokaryotic taxonomy (where I can continue my hobby-crusade against virtually-useless Gram-stain-based taxonomic schemes..."Microbiology needs to grow up and move out of Medicine's basement.")<BR/><BR/>Speaking of which, your list was also entirely prokaryotes - not that I disapprove of this, being the self-proclaimed Glorious Leader of the Prokaryote Anti-Defamation League.<BR/><BR/>Still, my own list will have a few of those freakish eukaryotes on it, too. I get away with this by telling myself that a eukaryotic cell is just a well-established prokaryote commune.Ivan Privacihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14876109105618900667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-41814707079168946042008-11-26T08:24:00.000-05:002008-11-26T08:24:00.000-05:00Heh. I did notice that I was a bit biased towards ...Heh. I did notice that I was a bit biased towards Gram negatives in my list (8 out of 10).Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14211618861743447072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-17224484680398135252008-11-25T23:51:00.000-05:002008-11-25T23:51:00.000-05:00"Come on, Who doesn't like E. coli?"ME. I've said...<I>"Come on, Who doesn't like E. coli?"</I><BR/>ME. I've said it before and I'll say it again - <I>Escherichia coli</I> is <A HREF="http://www.bigroom.org/wordpress/?p=47" REL="nofollow">The "Microsoft" of the biotech world</A> (and that's not meant to be a compliment, if that's not obvious...) It's only gotten where it is because of the underhanded efforts of γ-proteobacterial supremacists. Bunch of anti-<I>firmicutes</I>ites!Ivan Privacihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14876109105618900667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-63783411065062350822008-11-25T23:43:00.000-05:002008-11-25T23:43:00.000-05:00You better put a list together!You better put a list together!Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14211618861743447072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-66869661940457629232008-11-25T22:40:00.000-05:002008-11-25T22:40:00.000-05:00Yes! Deinococcus radiodurans IS freaking cool. It ...Yes! Deinococcus radiodurans IS freaking cool. It would be on my list for sure, along with some spore-formers.microbiologist xxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07578078880223116616noreply@blogger.com