Waste released from pharmaceutical plants in India and China is contributing to the spread of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. So this is certainly interesting. There is an opinion piece in STAT by Henry Waxman and Bill Corr from Waxman Strategies: Waste from pharmaceutical plants promotes antibiotic-resistant superbugs. It is of interest both because we are almost certainly in …
This is definitely worth checking out. Titus Brown and Harriet Alexander taught a two day metagenomics workshop at UCSD and they have written up some details about it and posted videos. Wrap up blog: titus-blog/2016-metagenom ics-workshop-at-sio.rst at public · ctb/titus-blog · GitHub All the docs here: http://2016-metagenomics-sio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Videos
Microbes indoors Review: Microorganisms in Confined Habitats: Microbial Monitoring and Control of Intensive Care Units, Operating Rooms, Cleanrooms and the International Space Station – Maximilian Mora – Frontiers in Microbiology (OA) Indoor environments, where people spend most of their time, are characterized by a specific microbial community, the indoor microbiome. Most indoor environments are connected to …
This is the 1500th blog post at microBEnet! I figured I’d take this chance to reflect a bit and look up some stats for anyone who might be interested. First the easy stuff: Since opening shop in April 2011, we’ve had 831,000 pageviews, by some 473,000 users. Around 75% of our site traffic is new …
First of all, a big thanks to Jonathan Eisen for reaching out to us. We are grateful for the invitation to introduce our project to the microBEnet community. And we’d love to talk if you are doing citizen science work using metagenomic tools. Citizen science comes in many different shapes and sizes. It can be …
In January 2014 I wrote this post about “microbiome” sequencing services. I have gotten many outside requests for the following information — what places (companies, Universities, government agencies, etc) provide contract services for rRNA PCR and sequencing? Source: Request — Information on Places that do rRNA sequencing as a service — microBEnet: the microbiology of the …
(Webinar series of possible interest, text below from e-mail) U.S. EPA Indoor Environments Division and the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals present Tribal Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Healthy Homes Webinar Series, Fall 2016 Preparing for FY17 Tribal Housing Funding Opportunities Learn about innovative green and sustainable building design and projects from tribal building experts. Learn …
I know – I know – it is all the rage right now to lament how we are not getting exposed to enough microbes and how that is damaging our immune system and such. And certainly, that is partly true. And we are definitely overusing antimicrobials in all sorts of situations (e.g., see my posts …
Received this by e-mail, of potential interest to many at microBEnet: Healthy Buildings 2017- Europe July 2-5, 2017, Lublin, Poland Call for Abstracts Deadline: October 31, 2016 Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to Healthy Buildings 2017 – Europe — one of ISIAQ’s flagship conferences, which in 2017 will be held in Lublin, …
Got an email from the developers of IRIS AI the other day: And decided to play around with it. So I went to our Zotero collection on microbiology of the built environment: From there I got a paper and found it’s URL: Meadow, J. F., Altrichter, A. E., Kembel, S. W., Kline, J., Mhuireach, G., Moriyama, M., Northcutt, …