As we’ve posted in the past, Mendeley is a great community resource and one that we’re using to create a reference collection of papers relating to the microbiology of the built environment. One of the really useful things about a reference manager like Mendeley is the ability to have tags associated with articles such as …
This post is about Microbiology of the Built Environment Mendeley group … Social networking and bibliographies may not seem like they go together well. But actually, they do. In the last few years there has been a movement to “socialize” bibliographies and reference collections. There are many many many systems for doing this, some better than …
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.
One of the goals of the microBEnet project is to help get more people who work on a topic related to microbiology of the Built Environment to share more. And one aspect of this our hope that more people will share slides (and audio or video) from presentations they have made. So – to help …
I updated my slides from my talk at Indoor Air 2011 with audio. Here they are: Eisen.indoor air2011 http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=eisen-indoorair2011-110613124957-phpapp02&stripped_title=eisenindoor-air2011&userName=phylogenomics View more webinars from Jonathan Eisen We are working on getting some other presentations up here but are dealing with some sharing/copyright issues first.
Data collection and annotation are critical parts of all aspects of science. However, it’s not always clear what data to collect. For example, say you go out in the field and harvest a plant for an experiment. You might note the time of day, the weather conditions, other nearby plants, the soil temperature, the presence …
Much of the work on microbiology of the built environment focuses attention on issues relating to humans. But all those other animals that spend time in built environments are important parts of the bigger picture. Animals certainly influence what microbes are found in the built environment. And they are important customers of knowledge about the …
Just a quick one here. The Google News archive has all sorts of interesting stuff in there. Much of it is not fully free / in the open but it is still interesting. For example, – check out this article reporting the first association of a bacterial association with “Legion disease”: St. Petersburg Times – Google …
Working on the microBEnet project has been a big learning experience for me because I really know next to nothing about the “Built Environment.” Part of my job as PI of the microBEnet is to start to help build interactions between microbiologists and building scientists. Fortunately, I have a building scientist as a collaborator on …
I had forgotten how great MicrobeWorld was until very recently. It is a great source of news and other information about microbes. It collects recommended links from a broad community of registered users. It posts links to a series of podcasts and other resources. Plus it has links to a collection of background information articles …