One of the difficulties working within the microbiology of the built environment is making sure that the relevant information crosses over the boundaries between building science and microbial ecology since those two groups tend to attend different meeting and read different journals. That’s one of the reasons that we’ve worked to hard to sponsor microbiology of the built environments workshops at conferences from both fields.
We’ve also encouraged people to let us know whenever they’re giving a talk related to the microbiology of the built environment so that we can promote it here. I’ve gotten several such contacts recently, these will also be added to our “Events” calendar. Feel free to add more in the comments!
Dr. Wan Yang will be giving a talk
Presentation IWG17-A001
The Effect of Relative Humidity on the Transmission of Influenza A Virus
Wan YANG, Elankumaran SUBBIAH, Linsey MARR
on 15 August at the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Meeting in Singapore
http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012/public.asp?page=home.htm
Rachel Adams from BIMERC will be giving a talk on the microbiology of the built environment at the ESA meeting in Portland on August 8th.
Seema Bhangar from BIMERC will be giving a talk on indoor bioaerosol dynamics at the American Association of Aerosol Research conference in Minneapolis, Oct 8-12. The talk is titled: Indoor bioaerosol dynamics: fluorescent particles in a college classroom”, and it is scheduled for Wed October 10.