Robot for surveying 10,000 toxins
Just a quick post about a press release from NIH about a new toxin sniffing robot they have. It could have potential uses in Indoor Microbial surveys. For more information see here.
Author: Jonathan Eisen
I am a Professor at U. C. Davis. My lab is in the UC Davis Genome Center and I hold appointments in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Medicine and the Department of Evolution and Ecology in the College of Biological Sciences.
My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis (see my lab site here which has more information on lab activities). In addition to research, I am heavily involved in the Open Access publishing and Open Science movements.
Upcoming conference: DOE-JGI User Meeting: Energy, Genomes, Environment, Microbes, Trees and more …
Just got this email I thought would be useful to share (with a few edits) Still time to register for JGI “Genomics of Energy & Environment” 6th Annual User Meeting The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) hosts the “Genomics of Energy & Environment” 6th Annual User Meeting (March 22-24, 2011): Here Explore the agenda of …
Interesting take (though not completely convincing) take on NEJM farm microbe story
There is an interesting take in Forbes on a recent study NEJM on microbes and people growing up on farms. Not totally convinced of the opinion of the writer, but worth a look. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Health probe at Playboy Mansion for Legionnaires disease
Well, I guess this is getting a bit of extra press because it occurred at the Playboy Mansion:Health probe at Playboy Mansion. But it is of relevance here since it relates to Legionnaires’ disease. Seems like there may have been a contaminated water supply.
Potential interesting new (alas not freely available) paper on microbial exposure and asthma/allergy
There is a new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine that looks to be of relevance to those interested in built environment microbiology. Unfortunately the paper is not freely available and I do not have access to it right now. But there is a summary available (from the authors/journal):
Upcoming workshop of potential interest on “Building Design & Engineering Approaches to Airborne Infection Control 8/1-12 Boston. MA
Just a quick post on a workshop of possible interest: Building Design and Engineering Approaches to Airborne Infection Control. The workshop is August 1-12 in Boston, MA. It is organized by the Harvard School of Public Health. The overview from the website says: “A significant bottleneck in the implementation of precautions against airborne transmission of …
The Microbe Project “A portal to US Federal efforts in microbial research”
Note – after writing this post I found out this project is no longer active, though it still has some useful information. For those interested in what the US Government is doing in areas relating to microbiology, there is a useful site to check out called “The Microbe Project“. The goal of this project is …
Norman Pace visits UC Davis
Norman R. Pace, from UC Boulder, gave a talk at UC Davis yesterday about microbial diversity. In his talk he discussed some of his recent Sloan Foundation funded work on “microbiology of the built environment” including studies of shower heads, indoor swimming pools, water supplies, and hospitals. Pace is one of the pioneers of DNA …
Indoor Air 2011; Austin, Tx; June 5-10 #microBEnet
Just thought I would give people the heads up – I am helping plan a session on “Microbiology of the Indoor Environment” that will happen at the “Indoor Air 2011” meeting in Austin, TX June 5-10 2011. The conference itself covers an enormous amount of ground about, well, Indoor Air. And I am helping the …
What You Need to Know About Infectious Disease
Possibly of use: What You Need to Know About Infectious Disease (Note – this was imported from a beta version of the microBEnet blog that was on Blogger. This was published original on 1/23/2011)