This seems like an incredibly worthy cause: Source: FlintWaterStudy Research Fundraiser by Siddhartha Roy – GoFundMe In addition it is directly connected to the mission of microBEnet in that this is a fundraiser for the work of Marc Edwards, He is a professor at Virginia Tech and one of the heroes of the Flint Water …
An oversight of the new papers that I found covering the intersection of humans, buildings, and microbes. Microbes in buildings Diversity of Bacterial Communities on Four Frequently Used Surfaces in a Large Brazilian Teaching Hospital – Tairacan Augusto Pereira da Fonseca – MDPI Int J Environ Res Public Health (OA) In this study, we aimed …
One of the most commonly quoted bits of information about the microbiome is that bacteria outnumber human cells 10 to 1. That figure has been widespread in media and promotional posters. It’s even on a a poster I got at ASM visualizing the basics of the human microbiome. But I have had a number of …
The planned Sloan Early Career Workshop in Costa Rica (for which abstracts are due January 30th) has been cancelled due to concerns over Zika virus. The Workshop will be rescheduled… possibly in Chicago or New Orleans. We will post details once everything has been worked out.
The White House OSTP is looking for input on microbiome work – plans, funding, resources, databases, fellowships, hires, and more. They are collecting this information, I assume, to help guide their new microbiome related initiative(s). I hope many many people comment including lots of people thinking about the Built Environment and its connection to microbiomes. …
For those of you who have an ear tuned to the media’s noise about germ this, bacteria that, this blog post may resonate with you. I was just reading this article recently published in Nature about B. pseudomallei, a bacteria that causes meliodosis. The authors found that the bacteria is more globally distributed than previously …
There is a new Youtube Video out from Science Friday today featuring the BioBE Center at the University of Oregon.
There is a new open access paper of possible interest to those working on water systems, green buildings, and/or microbial ecology: Survey of green building water systems reveals elevated water age and water quality concerns – Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C5EW00221D By William J. Rhoads, Amy Pruden and Marc A. Edwards in Environmental …
I’ve been seeing a lot of media articles recently on applications of gut microbiome research in health in terms of pills and probiotics. One article talks about a start-up that is trying to create various pills filled with bacteria associated with different positive health effects. Of course, there is the question if such probiotics will thrive in …
See attached a flyer for the undergraduate course “Evolution in Human-Altered Environments” (ETX 198-003; CRN 43875). This course will be taught Spring quarter 2016, MWF 9-9:50 AM, instructor Dr. Andrew Whitehead ETX198-Flyer2.pdf