Great TED talk yesterday by Jessica Green who is one of the folks in charge of the BioBE Center, another project funded by the Sloan Foundation Indoor Air Program. Here she talks about the relationship between outdoor air and mechanically vented air in hospitals.
Just got a nice description of the IM-BOL “Indoor Mycota Barcode of Life” project from the PI Keith Seifert. This is one of the newly funded projects that are part of the Sloan Foundation’s Indoor Environment program. I am posting the description on microBEnet here: https://www.microbe.net/im-bol-the-indoor-mycota-barcode-of-life/. We are working on having pages for each of the …
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN FUNGAL TAXONOMY AND GENOMICS. Keith Seifert is looking for two post-docs, one interested in the identification of microfungi, and the other interested in participating in a genome project, for two-year positions in Ottawa, Canada. The first position is funded by the A.P. Sloan Foundation. A large and diverse collection of 6000-7000 strains isolated by …
I spend most of my time working on biology. I like to think I cover lots of breadth within biology and I probably do – microbes, evolution, ecology, human health, pathogens, symbioses, forensics, genomics, bioinformatics, and more. But nothing like really looking at other fields to realize how narrowly focused one is. And that is …
When people hear “microbiology of the built environment” they tend to focus on buildings. But the built environment also includes things like trains, cars, planes, even the space station where some cool microbiology work has taken place. When looking for work on the microbiology of these environments I came across a small, non-peer reviewed study …
So I’m going to stick with a theme here and try to talk about beneficial uses of microbes in the built environment (like stabilizing the ground underneath buildings to mitigate the effects of earthquakes). Today I came across the research from a group of students at Newcastle University who designed a strain of Bacillus that …
When reading about the microbiology of the built environment there are far far more examples of the negative impacts of microbes on human health and building integrity than the reverse. Therefore, the occasional report of beneficial applications (however theoretical) deserves mention. Today I came across this old report (behind a pay wall) from the 2005 …
A job of potential interest: Fungi Data Loader & Database Programmer: Browse Jobs. This is in Jason Stajich’s group at UC Riverside (he is working on some aspects of fungi in the built environment, although this job is more general). For more about Jason and his lab see: The Hyphal Tip (his blog) Jason Stajich « Fungal …
Two post doc positions are available to work with the Biology and the Built Environment (BioBE) Center at the University of Oregon: Postdoctoral Position in Phylogenetic Ecology and Computational Genomics Postdoctoral Position in Theoretical Ecology and Evolution Both are to work with Jessica Green and Brendan Bohannan as part of the BioBE Center: The BioBE …
Just found this video from the USGS. It is about microbes associated with African dust storms so not exactly about the Built Environment but it still has some connections so thought I would post it. The narration is a bit, well, monotonic, but still … it has some OK stuff in it. YouTube – African …