Well, kudos I suppose to the headline writer for this one: Your faeces, my furry friend, are blowin’ in the wind – health – 12 August 2011 – New Scientist. The article is about recent work by Noah Fierer and colleagues on bacteria in outdoor air in cities. Not exactly microbiology of the built environment …
Wow. Jessica Green is certainly helping spread the word about microbes in buildings. There is an article in smartplanet from Aug 6 about her work: Ecologists, designers explore new ‘architecture-biology interface’ | SmartPlanet. The article discusses her recent Ted talk and some of her work at the BioBE Center.
Interesting blog post from the BioBE Center worth checking out regarding Unsavory sources of bacteria in urban air referencing a new paper from Noah Fierer and others. Alas the paper is not OpenAccess and even I can’t get a copy of it right now. But it seems interesting …
Just a quick one here. There is an interesting article in “The New Mexican” featuring Jessica Green from the Biology and the Built Environment Center: Researcher: Microbes in buildings not all bad – The Santa Fe New Mexican. The article not only discusses how many microbes are NOT bad for you, but also discusses Jessica …
OK my headline is a bit over the top. But it is reactionary to some over the top claims by a doctor from Arizona worried about germs in play areas. The Sacramento Bee has an article about a crusade by a woman named Erin Carr-Jordan who is apparently trying to rally the troops around the …
As many out there now, I am a bit fascinated by the possibility of studying microbes in space ships. And I guess I got to get my act together because it turns out there are multiple projects out there in this arena. There is a story on Space.Com about a new push in this area: Scientists …
Have this on my book shelf and was showing it to people today. And low and behold, there it is on Google Books: Bacteria in relation to country life – Google Books. Download the PDF. Learn about microbes in milk products, manure, wells, air, sewage, food, and more. Gotta love Google Books. And microbes.
Just got a nice description of the IM-BOL “Indoor Mycota Barcode of Life” project from the PI Keith Seifert. This is one of the newly funded projects that are part of the Sloan Foundation’s Indoor Environment program. I am posting the description on microBEnet here: https://www.microbe.net/im-bol-the-indoor-mycota-barcode-of-life/. We are working on having pages for each of the …
I am fascinated by citizen science projects like this: The Bioweathermap Sees The Germs Around Us – Bruce Upbin – Tradigital – Forbes. Years ago it was all the rage to track where your money had been using systems like “Where’s George“. Well, movement is not all that happens to money. Money picks up all sorts …
OK I am going to have to confess something here. Though I am a bit of an obsessed microbiologist who looks for the connection of just about everything to microbiology I never thought about this -what are the potential health effects of microbes in tobacco products? That is the question addresses in a new paper …