microBEnet: the microbiology of the Built Environment network

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

#COVID19 Journal Club “Evidence of Long-Distance Droplet Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by Direct Air Flow in a Restaurant in Korea”

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Coronavirus
Dec 14, 2020

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

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Signal in a Home with COVID-19 Positive Occupants”

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Coronavirus
Dec 08, 2020

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

Trying to collect some of the various information about COVID19 transmission and related topics including masks, schools, CO2, variants, etc. Mostly from Twitter threads and News articles Masks Wall Street Journal: Double Face Masks? N95? Protect Yourself Against New Covid-19 Variants With These Mask Upgrades Some important lines Double masking is wearing one mask over ...

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

#COVID19 Journal Club “Evidence of Long-Distance Droplet Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by Direct Air Flow in a Restaurant in Korea”

#COVID19 Journal Club: “Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA contamination of inanimate surfaces and virus viability in a health care emergency unit”

#COVID19 Journal Club: “Lack of SARS-CoV-2 RNA environmental contamination in a tertiary referral hospital for infectious diseases in Northern Italy”

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

Report on 2020 Spacecraft-Associated Genome Analysis (SAGAn) workshop at NASA JPL

#COVID19 Job Opportunity: 6 month gig in Genomic Epidemiology

Got pointed to this today… I can’t seem to copy and paste any of the text but is for a bioinformatics position working on their COVIDTracker. Detailed information is here.

Job Post: Senior Chemist – Healthy Home at Bissell Corporation

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

Job Posting: Postdoc at Virginia Tech “Microbial Biodiversity in Trans-Atlantic Dust Plumes”

Job posting: Senior Scientist in Microbiome Sciences at PNNL

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”

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

We are pleased to announce the publication of our manuscript titled “Modeling microbial growth in carpet dust exposed to diurnal variations in relative humidity using the “Time-of-Wetness” framework” in the journal Indoor Air. This work is a culmination of research investigating how changes in relative humidity impact microbial growth in carpet dust. Our related study ...