There will be a session entitled “The Great Indoors: Recent Advances In the Ecology of Built Environments”, at ESA 2012. This session is organized by Tom Bruns (BIMERC) and Brendan Bohannen (BioBE Center).
One of the difficulties working within the microbiology of the built environment is making sure that the relevant information crosses over the boundaries between building science and microbial ecology since those two groups tend to attend different meeting and read different journals. That’s one of the reasons that we’ve worked to hard to sponsor microbiology …
(Announcement for the 2013 Genomic Standards Consortium, you can also check out their wiki) The GSC 15 Workshop The 15th Workshop of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) Date: April 22-24, 2013 Location: National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA GSC 15, ‘Science enabled by Standards’, will be held on April 22-24, 2013 at the National …
“If I could do it all over again, and relive my vision in the twenty-first century, I would be a microbial ecologist. Ten billion bacteria live in a gram of ordinary soil, a mere pinch held between thumb and forefinger. They represent thousands of species, almost none of which are known to science. Into that …
(This is a guest post by David Thaler, who is one of the Sloan-funded investigators working on the microbiology of the built environment. The goal is to spark substantive discussion, so please comment below!) A few thoughts after the Inaugural meeting of Microbiology of the Built Environment Boulder My own opinions on these points are …
Heads up for what should be an excellent conference: Gordon Research Conferences – 2011 Program – Microbial Population Biology. Topics include a somewhat unusual mix of human microbiome, emerging infectious diseases, and the ecology of algae used as biofuels as well as a variety of other population biology topics.
Last year, iEVOBIO was a fun, interesting meeting for many reasons (not the least of which is that I was the keynote speaker). If you want to learn more about last years meeting check out my blog post: Summary of #iEVOBIO Day 1 #evolution #phylogenetics #informatics #opensource But I note, that meeting was so, well, last …
Quick post about a meeting that may be of interest to those wanting to learn a bit more about next generation sequencing methods and their uses: Next-Generation Sequencing & Genomic Medicine – Concrete Applications for Research, Drug/Diagnostic Development and Patient Care.