So – just was reading this paper: Healthcare Workers’ Hand Microbiome May Mediate Carriage of Hospital Pathogens. Basically, they showed that the microbiome on health care worker’s hands was correlated with estimates of pathogen carriage. And, it seems to be of potential interest to the microBEnet community. I confess, I am skeptical of the validity of some …
Just a quick post here. Meg Pirrung from University of Colorado is conducting an online survey about data visualizations in microbial ecology as part of her PhD thesis work. From a post of her’s on Google Plus: The survey has 3 parts and then an optional demographic survey, and should take somewhere around 15 to …
I am starting to think a lot about the connections between architecture and microbiology – in part in preparation for the American Institute for Architects Annual Meeting in Atlanta May 14-16 where I will be participating in sessions on “microbes in the built environment” The tentative details for the sessions are Session: Microbes in the Built Environment: Perspectives …