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  Last week I met with the super micro biome group for the first time. I am very passionate about the topic, so I was very excited to meet others with similar interests. The group had a wide variety of backgrounds, with each being equally interesting. We discussed how to organize our new projects. It was decided to work in small groups. Each group would do one research paper and one review article. Two of the veteran students volunteered to write the first papers to demonstrate for the rest of us how it as to be done. They will be assigning groups for the remaining members when we meet next week.




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