The American Society for Microbiology meeting is starting tomorrow and there are multiple things related to microbiology of the built environment there. These include a session that was organized by Brendan Bohannan which I am chairing. The detail of the session are below: Session Title: The Great Indoors: Recent Advances in the Ecology of Built Environments …
Just a quick one here. Though people should not focus ONLY on pathogens in buildings it certainly seems that outbreaks of Legionella such as this one: Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak, Scotland: Man Dies In Edinburgh | UK News | Sky News. could be used to call attention to the need to better understand microbiology of the …
More detail on the Sloan Meeting on “Microbiology of the Built Environment,” via storify: ———————– UPDATE February 2019 Storify is no longer in existence. Fortunately we were able to convert the Storify summary to one via Wakelet. Wakelet details: Link to Wakelet Site: Sloan Meeting on microbiology of the built environment #microBEnet PDF of Wakelet …
I made a “Storification” of the various Social Media posts I could find about the recent Microbiology of the Built Environment meeting in Boulder, CO. You can browse the full storify story below. UPDATE – Added Wakelet
Quick post here New post from 80beats on the office microbes study from Scott Kelley that I wrote about a few days ago: What Microbes Are Growing In Your Office? Science Wants to Know | 80beats | Discover Magazine Plus some new news stories about the study Men’s Offices Have More Bacteria, Study Finds The higher …
Of potential interest to microBEnet readers: Tutorials at the AAAR 31st Annual Conference — October 8-12, 2012 · Hyatt Regency Minneapolis · Minneapolis, Minnesota. includes the following: Molecular Biology-Based Bioaerosol Analyses Jordan Peccia, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT Abstract: This tutorial covers molecular biology concepts and tools …
Quick post. We are starting to build a glossary on terms and their definitions to help people read/understand papers and stories about microbiology of the built environment. If you have any ideas for terms to include, let us know. Among those on our list PCR rRNA diversity phylogenetics metagenomics transcriptomics annotation culturing UNIFRAC Illumina DNA …
A new paper from Scott Kelley is out: PLoS ONE: Office Space Bacterial Abundance and Diversity in Three Metropolitan Areas. This work was supported in part by the Sloan Foundation’s program in Microbiology of the Built Environment (which is the same program that funds microBEnet). Lots of interesting stuff in the paper. Certainly the most visually …
Crossposting this from my “Tree of Life” blog. First I saw of this story was here: Study: Bacteria fills office break rooms – Local News – Houston, TX – msnbc.com Something sounded off with this. I think it was the fact that it involved “Cleaning products company Kimberly-Clark” that raised some alarm bells. The involvement of …
Good to see this summary come out: Microbiomes of built environments: 2011 symposium highlights and workgroup recommendations – Corsi – 2012 – Indoor Air – Wiley Online Library. Even better that it freely available, though I am a bit dubious of the Wiley Open Access Option as applied by this journal since on the PDF there …