Really short post here, digging back through old bookmarked stories that I had wanted to share on microBEnet. Jessica Green gives yet another great interview about microbes in the built environment, this time for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. See the interview here.
Just a quick note to save the date for the 5th Annual Microbiology of the Built Environment Conference to be hosted at CU Boulder from June 1st to June 3rd, 2016. I missed the 4th meeting but the first three were a great opportunity to hear a mix of talks from the various disciples in …
So our first attempt at entering the world of bacterial taxonomy and the description of a new species came out today with the thrilling title of “Porphyrobacter mercurialis sp. nov., isolated from a stadium seat and emended description of the genus Porphyrobacter“. The story leading to this paper took us into a lot of new …
Regular visitors to the microBEnet website maybe have noticed some big changes in the last few months to the site layout. More interesting than the visual changes, are the things going on behind the scenes. microBEnet has partnered with Press Forward which is a free and open-source project that aims to “enable teams of researchers …
(This is a guest post by Jordan Peccia at Yale University) After a six-month period of home recruitment, surface and aerosol sampling campaigns have begun in an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation indoor microbiome sponsored project awarded to Tulsa and Yale Universities. The goal of this proposed research is to explore how two central and modifiable …
(Author’s note, this article is a bit out of date but I just found this draft and am posting it because I think it’s still an interesting study) Trying to get outside my microbiology comfort zone and post some more about building science. A recent study finding that more fresh air in classrooms correlated with …
(thanks to Paula Olsiewski for the reminder, text below from ISIAQ) INDOOR AIR 2016 July 3-8th 2016, Ghent, Belgium Important dates: abstract submission closes: October 15th 2015 submission page abstracts acceptance notification: December 1st 2015 extended abstract / full paper submission opens: December 1st 2015 extended abstract / full paper submission closes: February …
Going through some old draft microBEnet posts and came across this one, “Taking Aim at Microbes on Farm Good Strategy for Food Safety | Food Safety News”. This is a nice article about microbiological control at food production facilities… but that doesn’t just focus on the (justifiably) scary antibotic resistance breeding ground angle. This article …
I recently came across this detailed review “Metanalysis: Cleaning Hospital Room Surfaces to Prevent Health Care—Associated Infections” from the Annals of Internal Medicine. I think this is a fascinating topic because hospitals have to walk such a fine line with regards to microbes. On the one hand they want to avoid the probably counter-productive “kill …
Sadly I was unable to make the MoBE 2015 meeting… it’s the first one I’ve missed since they started in 2012. From following the tweets, it sounded like a great and productive meeting as usual! Here’s the Storify for anyone else who wants to see what happened… hopefully we’ll get out some blog posts from …