Just a mini note – seems like this conference could be of interest. 6th International Scientific Conference on Bioaerosols, Fungi, Bacteria, Mycotoxins in Indoor and Outdoor Environments and Human Health.
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.
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 …
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
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.
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):
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 …
Note – after writing this post I found out this project is no longer active, though it still has some useful information.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 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 …
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