There is an interesting and important paper out in Microbiology: Hand Bacterial Communities Vary Across Two Different Human Populations by Denina Hospodsky, Amy J. Pickering, Timothy R. Julian , Dana Miller, Sisira Gorthala, Alexandria B. Boehm, and Jordan Peccia. This paper is important for many reasons including the following: They found significant variation in the communities found on …
Quick post to make available the brochure from the AAAS Microbiomes of the Built Environment meeting that was in DC recently AAAS MoBE Symposium Brochure 2014-2.
OK so I know nothing about this journal Medical Science | Journal. But the cover of their May issue is a figure from a a paper on hospital microbial ecology. The article is Deepa S, Abishek MU, Venkatesha D. The air as harbinger of infections in critical care units. Medical Science, 2014, 8(28), 8-13). Here …
Quick post – just saw this Tweet from the Airmid Healthgroup Your home’s odor may be making you sick; microbial volatile organic compounds http://t.co/8M7U84L5Oi via @USATODAY – Airmid Healthgroup (@AirmidHealth) May 13, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js It points to a story in USA Today by Melissa Pandika that may be of interest – Your home’s odor may be …
This is a very very important paper for all people who culture strains of microbes as part of their work: SpringerPlus | Abstract | Deposit of microbial strains in public service collections as part of the publication process to underpin good practice in science. Abstract: Despite recommendations to release microbial resources to the community post-publication, the …
Will be headed to this meeting organized by IBM next week: Almaden Institute 2014: Sequence the City -Metagenomics in the Era of Big Data. Not 100% sure where the whole thing is going but IBM has become interested in the informatics and big data aspects of the microbial ecology of urban & built environments. And …
So – was playing around with Impact Story – a site where one can get the “total impact” in terms of Alt Metrics for one’s work. And I decided to hack the system a little bit and instead of making a page for me I made one for the microBEnet project. I have not populated it …
Definitely worth checking this out: Illumination, lighting technologies, and indoor environmental quality – Nazaroff – 2014 – Indoor Air – Wiley Online Library. It is an editorial for Indoor Air and has many interesting bits. Of particilar interest to me and microBEnet is the part about how lighting affects the microbiology of indoor spaces and also …
Quick post here. This seems like a potentially useful tools for labs to keep track of their culture collections. We definitely need something like this in my lab. LIIS: A web-based system for culture collections and sample annotation | Forster | Journal of Open Research Software.
Well this is interesting. Holly Bik pointed me to the fact that the Clinton Global Initiative has a track on the Built Environment:About Us: The Built Environment | Clinton Global Initiative. Not sure exactly what they do in this track but seems like a good way to get exposure for the field of microbiology of …