The next of the new Sloan foundation funded projects in the field is being undertaken by Jordan Peccia at Yale University and is entitled “Qualitative Building Moisture Characteristics and Microbial Diversity” Project description below: There exists a significant gap in our understanding of how the building environment mediates human exposure to bacterial and fungal diversity. …
The Department of Defense, Defense Medical Research and Development Program (DMRDP), Military Infectious Diseases Research Program (MIDRP) and Joint Program Committee 2 (JPC-2) has recently announced a funding opportunity: Military Infectious Diseases Clinical Trial Award (MID-CTA). Detailed descriptions of the funding opportunity, evaluation criteria, and submission requirements can be found in the Program Announcement. The …
At microBEnet we aim to promote both the microbiology of the built environment as well as openness in all forms of research. Quick post here to highlight the Open Science Trailing Initiative (OSTI) which aims to actually instruct graduate students and postdocs in conducting and disseminating open science. …an educational scheme which aims to drive …
The Sloan Program in the Microbiology of the Built Environment awarded a few new grants this spring. The first of these was to Kyle Bibby at the University of Pittsburgh called “Microbial Ecology Dynamics of Hospital Premise Plumbing Following the Introduction of an On-Site Monochloramine Disinfection System”. The project is being conducted in collaboration with …
We had an interesting workshop on “Social Media for STEM Research” at UC Davis yesterday that may be of interest to some people. This was sponsored by the UC Davis Advance project and involved some mini presentations and then Q & A with me, Holly Bik (a post doc in my lab at UC Davis …
———————– 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: #UCDavis Social Media for STEM Discussion PDF of Wakelet ———————– Old Storify links: //storify.com/phylogenomics/ucdavis-social-media-for-stem-discussion.js?border=false&header=false&more=false Storify by Jonathan Eisen Sat, Jun 01 2013 08:31:54 #UCDavis Social Media …
I just love this. Saw a post on twitter from Glyn Moody Mouldering city built of bread is a metaphor for Earth without humans – bit.ly/19vEkjT striking – Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) June 1, 2013 So I followed the lead to this: Mouldering city built of bread is a metaphor for Earth without humans – Boing Boing. …
The Sloan Foundation recently convened grantees for the 2nd Conference on the Microbiology of the Built Environment, and the opening talk focused on the benefits of collaboration. Carlos Rodriguez reminded us (I’m paraphrasing), “When you look at problems in silos, you find solutions in silos. But when you look at problems across disciplines, you find …
Next in our “People Behind the Science” video series we have an interview with Scott Kelley from San Diego State. Here he’s talking about his Sloan-funded work on viruses in the built environment… an understudied and under-appreciated topic for sure. Transcript:
This new paper might fall under the category of “things you don’t want to think about.” After reading this study by Buse et al., I now ponder what’s in my drinking water every time I fill up a glass from the tap: Buse HY, Lu J, Struewing IT, Ashbolt NJ. (2013) Eukaryotic diversity in premise …