The hot new 10 questions concerning the microbiomes of buildings will surprise you

Ok so I made this into Clickbait.  But you really should read this and that has nothing to do with me being a co-author.

The paper is “Ten questions concerning the microbiomes of buildings” and it is in “Building and Environment” a journal that I am becoming more and more appreciative of every month.  The paper is to be #openaccess but still in the processing at the journal for that.  So until then, here is a PDF of the paper.

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In the paper, this group of authors basically asked and then answered a series of questions about microbiomes of the built environment.

The questions are:

• Q1) What does the microbiome of a typical indoor environment look like?
• Q2) How do building characteristics, including occupants and their behaviors, influence the indoor microbiome?
• Q3) How do moisture problems alter typical indoor microbiomes?
• Q4) How does the microbiome affect indoor chemistry, and how do chemical processes and the composition of building materials influence the indoor microbiome?
• Q5) What do DNA sequencing and modern analytical techniques tell us about the indoor environment?
• Q6) What are appropriate sampling methods and constraints for studies of the microbiology of the built environment?
• Q7) What technological developments will enhance our understanding of the microbiology of the built environment?
• Q8) What are the connections between indoor microbiomes and occupant health?
• Q9) What are the implications of recent work for building design and maintenance?
• Q10) What do all these recent studies NOT tell us?

Lots and lots of information in here for people who want to learn about this field and related topics.

Maybe some people can even use it to edit the relatively new Wikipedia page on “Microbiomes of the Built Environment”