Second in our series of “People Behind the Science” is Jack Gilbert from the University of Chicago, a new (and previous) Sloan grantee in the microbiology of the built environment program. Here Dr. Gilbert talks about his interest in the field and his new study looking at hospitals. Transcript below:
Another one of the Sloan-funded projects from the RFP held this year is being managed by James Scott from the University of Toronto. It’s entitled “To design improved testing methods for common building materials”. The Co-PIs on the project are Eric Savory (University of Western Ontario), Richard Summerbell (Sporometrics Inc.), and John Pogacar (Anderson Building …
The dates of May 22-24th were set today at the end of the VAMPS/QIIME workshop in Boulder (more about that later). The dates have been choose to coordinate with ASM 2013, which is in Denver from May 18-21st. Anyone attending ASM should just be able to take a shuttle up to Boulder for the Sloan …
The second new project to receive funding from the Sloan foundation is a project entitled “Analysis of the ICU room environment as a source of microorganisms colonizing the GI tract of premature infants”. This project is being managed by Jill Banfield at UC Berkeley, along with her Co-PIs; Michael Morowitz (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) …
The Sloan Foundation has just announced funding for another two projects, we’ll be posting details here. The first project is called the “Hospital Microbiome Study” and will be managed by Jack Gilbert (University of Chicago) and Captain Benjamin Kirkup at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Check out the project website here.
Here at microBEnet we’ve started a new video series called “People Behind the Science”. Our first video is an interview with Jason Stajich, who is a Sloan Grantee as part of the MoBEDAC project.
I was thinking about the fungi on our skin and how much of that we shed. Also, I was curious about how drastic the difference between culturing and PCR-based pyrosequencing would be in showing what fungi are even on our skins. I had a bunch of sequenced skin samples from a study we were doing, …
Another good indoor microbiology video from the BioBE Center
Love this, from Ashley Bateman and the BioBE Center.
Another new Sloan-funded project in the microbiology of the built environment called “To analyze and model the establishment of microbial communities over time on different office surface materials in different climates”. This project is being undertaken by Greg Caporaso at Northern Arizona University. Full description below: The goal of this project is to understand successional patterns …