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 …
Great TED talk yesterday by Jessica Green who is one of the folks in charge of the BioBE Center, another project funded by the Sloan Foundation Indoor Air Program. Here she talks about the relationship between outdoor air and mechanically vented air in hospitals.
When people hear “microbiology of the built environment” they tend to think first of buildings. But the built environment includes so much more, ranging from transportation (cars/planes/space shuttles) to swimming pools to highway bridges. The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has a test facility where they study biofuels. They recently presented some results …
The association between moisture/dampness and negative health indicators (e.g. asthma) is quite well documented. This is usually pinned on an unspecified “mold” although in reality the causative agent(s) is unknown. For an excellent and detailed review of this topic see here. A new study came out this week that looked in particular at 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.
In response to our request for people to upload their presentations from Indoor Air 2011 we’ve received several presentations. These can be found here. If you were a speaker at Indoor Air 2011 and have already uploaded your presentation to Slideshare, please let us know and we’ll add you to the page.
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 …