mSphere, ASM’s new open access journal, published a paper recently called Antibiotic Resistance in Animal and Environmental Samples Associated with Small-Scale Poultry Farming in Northwestern Ecuador, written by Braykov et al. The abstract is as follows: The effects of animal agriculture on the spread of antibiotic resistance (AR) are cross-cutting and thus require a multidisciplinary perspective. …
Got notified of this paper by some automated Google Scholar searchers I have set up (this one for papers on microbial forensics) and I thought it would be of interest to some.: Source: Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology – Considerations for estimating microbial environmental data concentrations collected from a field setting By Erin E …
There has some coverage of new work from Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello et al. about microbes in homes (across the world). See for example CBS News: What bacteria may reveal about your home This is basically a reprinting of an Associated Press article by Lauran Neergaard: Urbanization leads to change in type of bacteria in the home Also see this …
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 …
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. …
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 …
Just out in Nature Microbiology – this “Consensus Statement” is a very useful review / compendium on the status of microbiome research in the US. An assessment of US microbiome research Source: An assessment of US microbiome research : Nature Microbiology
This month the QIIME development group is starting the transition from prototyping to developing QIIME 2. To mark this transition and to follow up on my recent blog post, Toward QIIME 2, I put together a demo video that illustrates the end point of one of our QIIME 2 prototypes, q2d2, which you can find …
I made a Storify summary of the Tweets from a workshop at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing that I attended on Tuesday on Computational Microbiology (with a big focus on microbiomes). [<a href="//storify.com/phylogenomics/psb16-session-on-microbiomes” target=”_blank”>View the story “#PSB16 session on computational microbiome #microbiomes ” on Storify]