Source: Disneyland shuts down 2 cooling towers after Legionnaires’ cases – Las Vegas Review-Journal Maybe Disney needs a full time person working on microbiology of the built environment.
Dr. Van Den Wymelenberg, Biology and the Built Environment Center PI and Co-Director, is excited to announce that the Center has secured another two years of funding from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and their Microbiology of the Built Environment (MoBE) program. Van Den Wymelenberg stated, “we are honored to have been awarded a final …
So just yesterday I was looking for the original paper describing the isolation of Thermus aquaticus (which is by the way the name I have given my hiking thermos, but that is another story). I wanted to see from which hot springs Brock and Freeze (yup, his real name) had isolated this important (e.g., the …
Determining if life exists or ever existed beyond Earth is one of the most interesting scientific questions. Reports on numerous habitable planets have increased the speculations about potential extra-terrestrial life. However, these theoretically life-supporting planets are far beyond human’s reach – except Mars. In order to explore if there ever was life on Mars, the …
On December 12-13, the National Academies’ Forum on Microbial Threats, in collaboration with the Board on Life Sciences, will host a 1.5-day workshop examining “Urbanization and Slums: New Transmission Pathways of Infectious Diseases in the Built Environment.” This workshop was developed with input from the experts and staff that produced the National Academy of Sciences …
Check out the MoBE talks (slides & videos) and photos taken throughout the symposium. Videos of MoBE Symposium presentations and panel discussion are now available on the microBEnet YouTube channel. MoBE YouTube videos: MoBE talks and panel discussions. MoBE Slides – figshare #MOBE2017 MoBE photos on Flickr (MOBE2017 group)
The Ohio State University Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering is excited to announce tenure track hires in the following three areas: Resilient Infrastructure (Assistant/Associate), Environmental Microbiology (Assistant/Associate), and Hydrology (Assistant/Associate). Complete announcements and instructions for application can be found at our departmental website: https://ceg.osu.edu/about-us/faculty-position In each case, the successful candidate is expected to develop …
This may be of interest: Fungal Communities Including Plant Pathogens in Near Surface Air Are Similar across Northwestern Europe Nicolaisen M, West JS, Sapkota R, Canning GGM, Schoen C and Justesen AF (2017) Fungal Communities Including Plant Pathogens in Near Surface Air Are Similar across Northwestern Europe. Front. Microbiol. 8:1729. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01729 Information on the …
At the recent NAS MOBE meeting there was some discussion of some potential ethical concerns associated with one of the projects discussed (work of Eric Alm where he was collecting samples from urban water systems and trying to infer information about communities and residents). OK #MOBE17 and others out there – I am getting …
Job Description: Two postdoctoral positions focused on 1. systems biology- and 2. molecular-based studies of the human microbiome are available in the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology at the University of California San Francisco in the laboratory of Dr. Susan Lynch. Minimum Requirements: Candidates must have received a PhD in microbiology or a closely …