(update 10:00am, 6-12-14; added a 13th video from UT Austin) (update 10:15am, 6-16-14; new link for the Oregon video since previous version was cropped) Part of the requirement for attendees of the 2014 Microbiology of the Built Environment Conference in Boulder, CO was that each lab submit a 2-minute video describing their research. Amazingly, 12 …
Last month a group of us attended the General Meeting for the American Society for Microbiology that was held in Boston. I am finally writing up some highlights of ASM 2014, starting with how much I enjoyed having a fabric poster. As usual for ASM, all posters were presented in a very large hall in the convention …
Just wrapped up the 3rd Annual Sloan Conference in the Microbiology of the Built Environment. We saw 20 presentations, a number of posters, and had some time to set up new collaborations, argue methods, and eat good food. I’m going to take a different approach to my conference report here, I’m only going to talk …
Right now, in Boulder, CO, the Annual Meeting for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Microbiology of the Built Environment program is happening. More about the program can be found here and here. Alas, I cannot be there this year. But I will be following as much as possible via Twitter. To follow Tweets from the meeting look …
One of the unmet challenges to the Sloan Foundation’s Microbiology of the Built Environment (MoBE) program is the sharing of the results of the Foundation-funded studies as well as other studies of the indoor and built environment microbiome. At the American Society for Microbiology’s annual conference in Boston last week, I was impressed by Pieter …
This year’s ASM meeting in Boston provided a chance for many of the Sloan-funded grantees working on the microbiology of the built environment to get together for a dinner for a good mix of socialization and collaboration. Here’s a few pictures, courtesy of Paula Olsiewski.
The following is the Executive Summary of a report on the AAAS “Microbiomes of the Built Environment Symposium”, March 27th, 2014, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The full report can be found here. The research field of Microbiomes of the Built Environment (MoBE) is relatively new, evolving about ten years ago from …
Quick post to make available the brochure from the AAAS Microbiomes of the Built Environment meeting that was in DC recently AAAS MoBE Symposium Brochure 2014-2.
Will be headed to this meeting organized by IBM next week: Almaden Institute 2014: Sequence the City -Metagenomics in the Era of Big Data. Not 100% sure where the whole thing is going but IBM has become interested in the informatics and big data aspects of the microbial ecology of urban & built environments. And …
Registrants for the March AAAS Symposium are recipients today of the following message from Anette Olsen at AAAS. “I’d like to let you know that the videos of each panel is now online, but they currently remain unedited. We anticipate another two weeks before the edited versions are placed online. In the meantime, here is …