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Baliga Lab: ‘The Universe Under a Microscope’

This is an excerpt from Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2015, authored by Arjun Raman, a postdoc in the Baliga Lab here at Institute for Systems Biology. The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over four billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An…

Seattle Times: Cool Jobs Featuring ISB Scientist Karlyn Beer

Karlyn Beer, one of our grad students who works in Nitin Baliga's Lab, was featured in the Seattle Times' "Cool Jobs" section. An excerpt is below. See the full story here. What do you do? I'm a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, and I work at Institute for Systems Biology, studying how microbes navigate their way through complicated and ever-changing environments I work with a single-celled organism native to hypersaline habitats like the…