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Short study suggesting aerosol transmission of #COVID19 via air-conditioning

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Apr 04, 2020

Resources on Novel Coronavirus from the American Society for Microbiology #COVID19

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Apr 04, 2020

#COVID19 Journal club at #microBEnet. SARS-CoV-2 in Hospital Rooms of Infected Patients

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Apr 02, 2020

Preprint / news story of interest – new #coronavirus found in sewage, possible surveillance method

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Apr 01, 2020

A #COVID19 in the Built Environment preprint: shedding in a hospital

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Mar 27, 2020

Short study suggesting aerosol transmission of #COVID19 via air-conditioning

Just saw this pre-print “COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with Air Conditioning in Restaurant, Guangzhou, China, 2020“. Very short, very to the point. Evidence that droplet transmission happened in this particular outbreak via the ventilation within a building. Abstract below: During January 26–February 10, 2020, an outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus disease in an air-conditioned restaurant ...

Resources on Novel Coronavirus from the American Society for Microbiology #COVID19

#COVID19 Journal club at #microBEnet. SARS-CoV-2 in Hospital Rooms of Infected Patients

Preprint / news story of interest – new #coronavirus found in sewage, possible surveillance method

Good article about masks: Everyone Thinks They’re Right About Masks

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

Staying alive in the built environment

Job Posting: Postdoc in extremophile community eco-evolution (NASA-funded project)

Got the following job posting over e-mail that might be of interest to folks: Postdoc in extremophile community eco-evolution A postdoctoral research position in microbial eco-evolution is available in Dr. Mark Urban’s laboratory at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. The postdoc will join a NASA-funded astrobiology project to explore how immigration, rapid ...

Job posting: Metagenomics analysis of spacecraft at JPL (Postdoctoral Fellow)

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

Job Posting: Microbial Ecology and Evolution at University of Toronto Mississauga

Postdoc at UC Davis in metagenomics bioinformatics

Staying alive in the built environment

Journal Club: “Home chemical and microbial transitions across urbanization”

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

The report from Kaunas: ISES-ISIAQ 2019

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

The report from Kaunas: ISES-ISIAQ 2019

Citizen Science Project on the Tomato Seed Microbiome

Tweets from Participatory Science session at #ASMicrobe

Story behind the paper: RtxA type 1 secretion system and other virulence factors in Legionella

Legionella sequencing in tap water and clinical isolates from Flint, MI

Story behind the paper: RtxA type 1 secretion system and other virulence factors in Legionella

So this work is a spinoff of a big project that we were involved in (but almost all of the work was done by Amy Pruden’s lab at Virginia Tech). In the larger project, they examined the genomes of over 100 clinical isolates of Legionella pneumophila, as well as 10 clinical isolates from patients during ...