Saw an interesting talk yesterday from Karen Guillemin of the University of Oregon. I made a storification of the Twitter posts from the talk. See it at the end of this post. I note – I think there are some important lessons in the work on germ free animals that could be applied to studies …
Nice editorial in Indoor Air from Brent Stephen, Rachel Adams, Seema Bhangar, Kyle Bibby and Michael Waring: From commensalism to mutualism: integrating the microbial ecology, building science, and indoor air communities to advance research on the indoor microbiome. In it they present what they view as key findings from recent studies of microbiology of the buiolt …
Greetings from the Healthy Buildings Conference Committee! We are excited to be hosting Healthy Buildings 2015 America in Boulder, Colorado, at the University of Colorado Boulder. Healthy Buildings is a unique forum for built environment researchers and professionals to engage with innovative projects, products, and services and to meet and collaborate with colleagues working on …
Just a quick reminder that the Abstract Deadline for Healthy Buildings America is January 15th. This conference will take place July 19-22 in Boulder CO… just following the Sloan Microbiology of The Built Environment Conference, also in Boulder from July 15-18. Here’s a description of the Healthy Buildings Conference: Healthy Buildings is a unique forum …
I probably do not have to remind readers of this blog of the widespread impact of microbial life on our world, but what I would like to propose (and reinforce in some cases) is the idea of leveraging the ubiquity of microbiology across academic fields to unite seemingly disparate departments within a university. Here, at …
(Note: This post is by Hal Levin) The Alfred P. Sloan foundation has approved a grant to ISIAQ, the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate, to organize a symposium at the Healthy Buildings 2015-Europe conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands, May 18- 20, 2015. The Symposium organization project will be led by Hal Levin of …
This meeting seems like it may be of interest to many in the microBEnet community: Building Health Initiative. It is not clear if there will be much there specifically about microbes but there are many topics that clearly could be connected to microbes in various ways. So this might be worth checking out.
On October 7th and 8th 2014, we held a workshop at the University of California, Davis entitled Animals in the Built Environment. The aim of this workshop was to catalyze the study of the microbiology of built environments where animals live by bringing together experts in animal health, building science and microbiology to discuss why these systems are …
Just a quick note to save the date for the 4th annual Microbiology of the Built Environment conference in Boulder. This year it will be held on July 15-18, so as to be right before Healthy Building America 2015, being held also in Boulder (July 19-22). Further details will be found on the conference website, …
Last week, Holly Ganz from microBEnet organized a workshop on “Animals in the Built Environment”, focusing on the intersections between animal care, building design, and microbial ecology. Participants included zoo staff, shelter architects, engineers, microbial ecologists, etc. More detailed meeting reports will follow, but as a teaser here is the Storify from the meeting: