This week’s Paris-Microbe science fiction graphic novel workshop, which just ended today, was a smashing success! Thanks to Anita Doron, Adam Huggins & Steve Green. Cities Unseen now has a scientific scaffold, creative narrative, and 2013-2014 Strategic Plan. November 7 is our deadline (Steve & Anita lead) on the cast of characters (story + imagery). My job is to continue to develop and articulate the scientific scaffold, which in brief entails the colonization of the most common tree species in Paris by a beneficial bacteria, which then disperses to human hosts & fundamentally changes their sense of identity and what it means to be human.
The BioBE Center annual progress report was submitted to the Sloan Foundation this week, thanks to everyone on the team for making the report such a pleasure to write.
The Lillis surface manuscript revision is much stronger with the new human microbiome analyses - super job James and Brendan