Paper of interest: Fungal Communities in Near Surface Air Are Similar across Northwestern Europe

This may be of interest: Fungal Communities Including Plant Pathogens in Near Surface Air Are Similar across Northwestern Europe Nicolaisen M, West JS, Sapkota R, Canning GGM, Schoen C and Justesen AF (2017) Fungal Communities Including Plant Pathogens in Near Surface Air Are Similar across Northwestern Europe. Front. Microbiol. 8:1729. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01729 Information on the …

Tracking Superbug Infections

I just read an interesting article where superbug infections were tracked across Europe. Isolates had their whole genome sequenced and then the resulting visualizations were put online for people to see (you can also upload your own data to the site). Not only is this a really useful tool in terms of observing the spread of superbugs, …

Talk Videos from Healthy Buildings 2015 Europe Session on Microbiology of the Built Environment 

Just got pointed to this collection of videos from a Sloan Foundation supported symposium on microbiology of the built environment that was held at Healthy Buildings 2015: HB2015 Europe Sloan Symposium Videos – Building Ecology The videos are all avaiable on Vimeo.  I have embedded them below: Healthy Buildings Europe 2015 Keynote dr. Miia Pitkaranta from …