Kudos to Tedmed for the gender ratio of speakers for this year's event

Well done Tedmed.

Here are the speaker pages below.  Notice anything?

The gender ratio of speakers is actually well balanced.  Well done Tedmed.  Well done.

My "human associated microbes" talk now available on TED site (w/ transcripts too).

My TedMed talk is now on Ted.Com. See below. Some interesting comments too - have been trying to respond to most -- even the unusual ones.






Plus there is now a transcript available in English and German. And the transcripts are hot linked to the portions of the video ...

Thanks to Tedmed for allowing this and to TED to posting the talk.  Plus the folks at TED re-edited the talk and added some more camera angles for the part where I tossed giant stuffed microbes into the crowd ...

Visit to Capitol Public Radio HQ & appearance on "Insight" w/ @CapRadioRuyak

Just got back from a brief visit to Sacramento (which is 15 minutes or so my where I live in Davis, CA). I had a mini 10 minute or so appearance on "Insight" a radio show on Capitol Public Radio.

My visit all started maybe a few weeks ago when I bumped into Lin Weaver in Davis.  Lin was showing some friends of hers around Davis and we chatted for a while on the sidewalk.  One of the topics was my recent fun giving a Tedmed talk.

Anyway - we chatted for 15-20 minutes or so and then I headed home.  And a few days later I got an email from Lin inviting me to be a guest on Insight.  Cool.  I love the show - and listen to it whenever I can.  So I said I had to check some details and then got back to her later and said "yes."

Lin and the folks at Capitol Public Radio then sent me some additional details and asked for some links to use for their website.

And this AM I headed on in to town.  I was asked to get to their studio at 9:45 AM.  Their studio is on the campus of Sacramento State and I headed on in early and got their at about 9:30.  Of course - I took some pics and posted some stuff to twitter ...

About to go on Capitol Public Radio's Insight program 10am ... twitter.com/phylogenomics/…
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) July 9, 2012

Alphachimp Studio animated drawings on TEDMED session I was in

Storification of my talk (and responses to it) at #TEDMED

I made a "storification" of my talk at TEDMED.

Some pics from the Kennedy Center ore #tedmed

Am hoping #tedmed security at the Kennedy Center lets me in w/ my friends

Am hoping #tedmed security at the Kennedy Center lets me in w/ my friends

Amazing - Renaissance Hotel in DC has decorated lobby w/ giant microbes #tedmed

Crowdsourcing some facts for my upcoming #Tedmed talk on #microbes on #humans

OK all I am looking for some help here is finding out some latest pieces of information about the microbes that live in and on people for my Tedmed talk next week Some things I could use

• 1. What is the number of species of microbes found on one person across their entire body (gut, skin, mouth, etc)? 

•  2. What is the number of species of known human pathogens (that are microbes) 

•  3. What human ailments are now thought to be possibly caused by disturbances in the microbiome? 

•  4. How many viruses (kinds and numbers) are found in the human microbiome? 




•  5. What is a good source of open (e.g., creative commons) images of the microbes found in / on people? 

 I am going to post these each as a comment below so people can respond to each one ... Thanks
UPDATE 6/4/2012 - Embedding the talk I gave for TEDMED

More fun w/ WordClouds: Cloud of Talk Titles for #TedMed

Well, getting more and more excited about speaking at TedMed next week.  The list of speakers and talk titles is quite impressive and unusual.  So - rather than list the details I thought I would make a word cloud using Wordle.  I think it captures the spectrum of talks pretty well. Here is one from just the talk titles (link to Wordle version here).