Just a follow up on an earlier post about microbes on hospital workers clothing. There is an interesting editorial responding to the news from the recent study that may be of interest: Second Opinion: Bacteria hitchhikes on hospital apparel – Milford, MA – The Milford Daily News. Clearly, we need to think about clothing as …
Just another cross posting here of some links to posts on my “Tree of Life” blog that may be of interest to microBEnet: C-DEBI Research Support > Request for Research Proposals Great paper showing the potential power of comparative and evolutionary genomics in #PLoS Genetics Sharing what I have been learning about sharing audio synched …
The International Society of Exposure Science, ISES, will hold its annual conference October 23-27 in Baltimore. The Society has invited all participants to bring dust samples for its Metals in Dust Samples Study. “A special ISES Metals in House Dust Study will analyze house dust samples supplied by the meeting attendees and report results at …
Year 2030 1: Construct a building 2: Spray bacteria and fungi all around the building 3: Wait a few weeks and then open for business Sound crazy? Not necessarily. This scenario, or something like it, is the kind of application that could theoretically come out of current studies on the microbiology of the built environment. …
Our reference collection of papers on the microbiology of the built environment has a few papers on microbes and art. Microbes have both destructive potential and restorative applications, mostly in regard to frescoes and paintings. However we haven’t talked much about using microbes as art, within the built environment. I had to post this story …
When most people think of the microbiology of the built environment they think of pathogens that hang out in buildings. Here’s a neat story about a helpful bacteria that lives in a very different kind of “built environment”… a uranium mill tailings site. These tailings facilities are where all the waste and excess rock from …
Just a quick one here. I have written some recent posts on my “Tree of Life” blog that may be of interest to some of the readers here. Here are the links: More on ‘phylogenomics’ – as in functional prediction w/ phylogeny Playing around with CloVR – cloud computing bioinformatics system I think …
Apparently September is “National Indoor Toxic Mold Awareness Month”. I’m not really sure what this means because virtually every link I found was some variant on “It’s Mold Awareness Month so please buy our product/service”. Which is fine of course but all that I could dig up was that this was started by a group …
Another article about Jessica Green and the work at the Sloan-funded BioBE Center in Oregon. Bonus points for the picture of plush microbes.
When I walk around UC Davis campus or visit areas near hospitals I am always dismayed by the number of people wearing their scrubs when they go out to lunch, seminars, or just walk around. I have always wondered whether those scrubs harbor anything nasty. Well, a new study in the American Journal of Infection Control …