microBEnet: the microbiology of the Built Environment network

Wanted: Workers for the COVID19 Mass Testing Operations for UC Davis and Healthy Davis Together

Open Postdoc Position at University of Oregon BioBE

Compilation of guidance (from a few sources) on School Reopening

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Mar 24, 2021

Compiling Information about COVID19 transmission, masks, filtration, schools, etc.

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Coronavirus
Feb 06, 2021

Wanted – science driven guidelines for deciding if and how to keep open / reopen schools re: #COVID19

Metagenomic Binning / Assembly

Posted a request to Twitter about Metagenomic dinners and assemblers and got a lot of useful responses so collected them together into a Wakelet. See below:

Wanted: Workers for the COVID19 Mass Testing Operations for UC Davis and Healthy Davis Together

Open Postdoc Position in Finland

Open Postdoc Position at University of Oregon BioBE

Dust may be an efficient matrix for environmental monitoring of SARS-CoV-2

Metagenomic Binning / Assembly

Open Postdoc Position at University of Oregon BioBE

Open Postdoc Position in Finland

The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) are seeking highly motivated applicants for postdoctoral position in epidemiological analyses of microbial exposures and respiratory health. https://www.valtiolle.fi/en-US/Vacancy?id=33-290-2021 The position will focus in characterizing early-life indoor microbial exposures affecting asthma risk. The work comprises two lines of projects where one ...

Open Postdoc Position at University of Oregon BioBE

#COVID19 Job Opportunity: 6 month gig in Genomic Epidemiology

Job Post: Senior Chemist – Healthy Home at Bissell Corporation

Microbial genome bioinformatics postdoc at UC Berkeley – IGI and Banfield Lab

Job Post: Senior Chemist – Healthy Home at Bissell Corporation

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “How can airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors be minimised?”

Space Station conditions are selective but do not alter microbial characteristics relevant to human health

The report from Kaunas: ISES-ISIAQ 2019

#COVID19 Journal club “Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs, and other domesticated animals to SARS–coronavirus 2”

Job posting: Postdoc in Microbiology at the USDA in Davis, CA

Citizen Science Project on the Tomato Seed Microbiome

Tweets from Participatory Science session at #ASMicrobe

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Wastewater Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 as a Predictive Metric of Positivity Rate for a Major Metropolis”

#COVID-19 Journal Club: “The wastewater microbiome: A novel insight for COVID-19 surveillance”

Dust may be an efficient matrix for environmental monitoring of SARS-CoV-2

A new viral disease surveillance tool: Indoor dust as a matrix for surveillance of COVID-19, published in mSystems. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, large scale monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 has helped to prevent spread and inform public health decisions. This has largely been done through individual sampling (ie nasal and saliva sample collection) and through environmental surveillance ...

We can model microbial growth in carpet dust after short bursts of elevated moisture