microBEnet: the microbiology of the Built Environment network

#COVID19 Journal Club: “Collection of SARS-CoV-2 Virus from the Air of a Clinic within a University Student Health Care Center and Analyses of the Viral Genomic Sequence”

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

#COVID19 Journal Club: “SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in primary municipal sewage sludge as a leading indicator of COVID-19 outbreak dynamics”

Lives & Livelihoods: the UnSeen Hope to Reopen

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#COVID19 Journal Club: COVID-19: “The environmental implications of shedding SARS-CoV-2 in human faeces”

#COVID19 Journal Club: “Collection of SARS-CoV-2 Virus from the Air of a Clinic within a University Student Health Care Center and Analyses of the Viral Genomic Sequence”

This article (“Collection of SARS-CoV-2 Virus from the Air of a Clinic within a University Student Health Care Center and Analyses of the Viral Genomic Sequence”) caught my attention initially because of the air sampling aspect, but upon reading the Abstract I was struck by something else. Here they did air sampling in a ...

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

#COVID19 Journal Club: “SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in primary municipal sewage sludge as a leading indicator of COVID-19 outbreak dynamics”

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

Lives & Livelihoods: the UnSeen Hope to Reopen

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

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

Coronavirus Environmental Testing Service #COVID19

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 Journal Club: “SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in primary municipal sewage sludge as a leading indicator of COVID-19 outbreak dynamics”

#COVID19 Journal Club: COVID-19: “The environmental implications of shedding SARS-CoV-2 in human faeces”

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 ...