On September 22-23, the Alfred P Sloan Foundation sponsored a workshop at UC Berkeley entitled: Workshop to advance fungi in the built environment. It was the second workshop the Foundation sponsored to strengthen specific areas within their Microbiology of the Built Environment, the first workshop being on Building Science that Brent Stephens wrote about previously. The workshop …
Just got pointed to this by Sharon Strauss, the chair of the Evolution and Ecology department here at UC Davis: The Science of Science Communication II Sackler Colloquium. This is a collection of papers from a colloquium held in Septment 2013. Slides and videos of the talks are available online. The papers and links (copied from the …
Just a quick conference announcement here for “Human Connection: the Roles of Materials, Human Performance, and Research Translation in Health-Centered Buildings” sponsored by the US Green Building council to be held in Bethesda MD on November 10th. Information from the website below: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health in Buildings Roundtable (HiBR), U.S. Green …
Well, the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomes meting ended one week ago. And it was a great meeting. I am writing up some reflections of the meeting which I will post in a few days. But for now I thought I would post a little note that I am experimenting with a new (for me) approach …
Just a quick post to highlight the upcoming Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in New Orleans, Oct 22-24. Here’s the slightly over the top pitch from the organizers: Greenbuild is the premier event for sustainable building. Featuring three exhilarating days of uplifting speakers, unmatched networking opportunities, showcases, LEED workshops and tours of green buildings in New …
The last full day of the Lake Arrowhead meeting was as awesome as the first two. It must have been incredible to watch microbial genomics evolve over the last 20 years that the meeting has existed… a time span that just covers the first ever bacterial genome to the 100’s or 1000’s of genomes that …
Another great day at the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics meeting. The session titles today were “Metagenomics/Pathogens/Antibiotics/Evolution” and “Antibiotic Resistance”. As always, the best summary of the talks can be found in the Storify below. My random notes are here… these are just the things that struck me. Thanks to Surya Saha for the …
Day 1 at the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Meeting was as always full of great talks relating to a variety of topics. Officially the session topics were “Microbial Communities I: Microbiomes; Biodiversity” and “Microbial Communities II: Metagenomics/Biodiversity/Natural Products”. Rather than summarize all the talks, I thought I’d embed the Storify of tweets here (thanks to …
Abstracts are now being accepted for Healthy Buildings Europe 2015. The call for abstracts for Healthy Buildings America will come out in October. Note that there will be a Sloan-funded symposium on the microbiology of the built environment at both conferences. Details on abstract submission below, from the conference website. Please find hereby an invitation …
I recently had the opportunity to attend the Explorations in Data Analyses for Metagenomic Advances in Microbial Ecology (EDAMAME) Workshop held at the Kellogg Biological Station in Michigan by Ashley Shade, Tracy Teal and Josh Herr. I wrote a post on the Seagrass Microbiome website about what I found to be my favorite and/or most …