A gross and lovely story all rolled into one – post Christmas dinner in the UK the pipes tend to clog up around towns from the grease and fat. What to do about this? Well, if you can’t get people to dumpy less fat and grease down the drain, how about adding some grease eating …
I am enjoying the posts to the Scientific American Blogs by Rob Dunn on his and other Citizen Science project(s) and I thought I would share here. Scientist Spots Missing Link in his Basement, but is too Sleepy to Catch it | Compound Eye, Scientific American Blog Network. The top 10 life-forms living on Lady …
Just became aware of a conference that may be of interest to those who care about microbiology of the built environment: The Second International Conference on Building Energy and Environment (COBEE). From their website: Energy and environment concerns have been ranked among the top problems facing society for the next 50 years, of which buildings …
Quick post here. Check out the story from ABC news (Australia, that is): Indoor ecology – RN Future Tense – 24 November 2011. Their summary: We’re used to hearing about threats to our outdoor environment. But we rarely think about some of the challenges that we face in our indoor environment. A growing number of …
Introduction to Food- and Air-Borne Fungi. 18-22 June 2012, Ottawa, Canada. We are pleased to offer our five day course for mycologists interested in food spoilage, indoor air quality, industrial hygiene, mycotoxins, pharmaceuticals, biodeterioration, etc.. More than 100 mould and yeast species common in indoor air and on food will be examined, including important species of Penicillium, Aspergillus, Fusarium …
Got this email from Jordan Peccia at Yale who is working on a report regarding sampling microbes in air. If you are working on sampling biological material from air please consider filling out the template and sending it to Jordan. Thanks Based on the Sloan Sponsored Indoor Microbiome Sampling Workshop held last spring, Jayne Morrow …
New video from Institute of Medicine on “What you need to know about infectious disease” which is useful and fortunately includes some information about things other than infectious diseases. It is based on this booklet. I note – it is heavy on those with apparent XY chromosome status, but maybe next time they will include …
Not microbiology here per se but good to see that on the building side of things there is continuous effort to improve the sharing of information and that “openness” is considered important. See Common BIM Files Now Available to Help Verify Exchange of Building Information | Whole Building Design Guide for more information.
Jessica Green (http://biology.uoregon.edu/people/green/) and Brendan Bohannan(http://biology.uoregon.edu/ceeb/faculty_pages/Bohannan/) are currently seeking a bioinformatics postdoctoral researcher to explore fundamental questions in microbial ecology and evolution. Applicants should have a PhD with extensive training using bioinformatics to understand the ecology and/or evolution of complex biological communities, and strong writing skills. The ideal candidate will have experience developing and applying quantitative community and population ecological …
Just had a quick glance at this: Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Workshop. Hal Levin sent me the link and it certainly seems interesting. I am going to have to peruse it a bit more but it seems of relevance to the microBEnet community so I thought I would post about it. …