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#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Mechanistic Transmission Modeling of COVID-19 on the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Demonstrates the Importance of Aerosol Transmission”

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Coronavirus
Jul 17, 2020

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club “SARS-CoV-2 in environmental samples of quarantined households”

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Coronavirus
Jul 16, 2020

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in commercial passenger aircraft and cruise ship wastewater: a surveillance tool for assessing the presence of COVID-19 infected travelers”

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Implementing a Negative Pressure Isolation Space within a Skilled Nursing Facility to Control SARS-CoV-2 Transmission”

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Coronavirus
Jul 08, 2020

Story Behind the Paper: Draft genomes from JPL spacecraft… assembled by undergraduates

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Space
Jul 01, 2020

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Mechanistic Transmission Modeling of COVID-19 on the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Demonstrates the Importance of Aerosol Transmission”

Another chapter in the Diamond Princess story… you can read our last couple of journal club blog posts about the ship here and here. The latest article “Mechanistic Transmission Modeling of COVID-19 on the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Demonstrates the Importance of Aerosol Transmission” expands this story by modeling the possible routes of transmission of ...

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club “SARS-CoV-2 in environmental samples of quarantined households”

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in commercial passenger aircraft and cruise ship wastewater: a surveillance tool for assessing the presence of COVID-19 infected travelers”

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Implementing a Negative Pressure Isolation Space within a Skilled Nursing Facility to Control SARS-CoV-2 Transmission”

Story Behind the Paper: Draft genomes from JPL spacecraft… assembled by undergraduates

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 Preprint Journal Club: “Detection and Survival of SARS-coronavirus in Human Stool, Urine, Wastewater and Sludge”

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 ...