Announcement: Sloan Microbiology of the Built Environment Data Analysis Workshop (secrets of QIIME, VAMPS and QIITA) January 6-7, 2015 Application Deadline — October 30, 2014 Progress on the microbiology of the built environment, especially through amplicon studies, has been extremely rapid. However, analyzing and combining datasets has been increasingly challenging, especially as investigators use …
Back in May, I had the pleasure of attending a talk at ASM 2014 by Didier Raoult on the the importance of culturomics. At one point in the talk he mentioned that they just came out with a paper that showed that they could get anaerobes to grow in the presence of oxygen if you …
We are organizing a workshop to catalyze the study of the microbiology of built environments where animals live. The workshop is scheduled for October 7th and 8th at UC Davis. Our aim is to bring together experts in animal health, building science and microbiology to discuss why these systems are worthy of study and how research in this …
While recent studies of the microbiology of the built environment (MoBE) have greatly increased our understanding of microbial community structure and composition on surfaces and in air within the spaces in which we live and work, most have been driven and led primarily by microbiologists with the building science community playing a supporting role. Perhaps as …
The American Institute of Architects are looking for “Educational Proposals” for their 2015 Convention: See Abstract Scorecard. I just put in a simple proposal to have a 60 minute panel discussion on “Architecture and Microbiology”. But maybe someone else out there would want to put together a more comprehensive proposal on Microbiomes and Architecture and Design and, well, lots of other …
Just a quick note that the late-breaking poster deadline for the annual American Associattion for Aerosol Research (AAAR) conference is Monday, July 21st. This conference will run from October 20-24, in Orlando Florida. Here’s the description of the conference from the website: On behalf of the AAAR 33rd Annual Conference organizers, I am excited to …
I wasn’t able to make it to the Indoor Air meeting this year but I followed the action on Twitter. Here’s a Storify of the tweets using the #microbenet hashtag which was primarily used at the Sloan-funded microbiology of the built environment session. [View the story “Indoor Air 2014 #microbenet hashtag” on Storify]
Quick post here about an upcoming architect conference in Atlanta, GA hosted by the American Institute of Architects (AIA)… May 14-16th 2015. Here’s a bit of information from the organizer (they noted that they’d like to do more with connecting microbiome research and design): Submit a proposal of your own. Let this be your big …
A group of us from Jonathan Eisen’s lab attended the General Meeting for the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) last month in Boston. A major highlight of the conference was “We Are Not Alone: Microbial Revelations of the Built Environment,” a symposium that was organized by the Junior Advisory Group that is made up of postdocs and …
The Microbiology of the Built Environment Network (http://microBE.net – this website) has made it into the community page at PLoS Biology! Our article has been in the works for some time, and we’re now pleased to announce its official publication: Bik HM, Coil DA, Eisen JA (2014) microBEnet: Lessons Learned from Building an Interdisciplinary Scientific Community …