Sloan Meeting on microbiology of the built environment #microBEnet

More detail on the Sloan Meeting on “Microbiology of the Built Environment,” via storify: ———————– UPDATE February 2019 Storify is no longer in existence. Fortunately we were able to convert the Storify summary to one via Wakelet. Wakelet details: Link to Wakelet Site: Sloan Meeting on microbiology of the built environment #microBEnet PDF of Wakelet …

Thoughts on “The Inaugural Conference on the Microbiology of the Built Environment” just finished

Well we’ve just wrapped of the first (of three) annual conferences on the Microbiology of the Built Environment here in Boulder.   I thought the meeting went really well, a big thanks again to the organizers Mark Hernandez and Alina Handorean. There were a lot of tweets during the meeting which we’ll collect using Storify and …

Upcoming symposium on the Indoor Microbiome at the American Association for Aerosol Research meeting, October 8-12 2012 (Minneapolis)

Here’s a really interesting sounding upcoming symposium on the indoor microbiome, chaired by Jordan Peccia and Tiina Reponen.   This will take place on October 9th, 2012 at the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) meeting in Minneapolis. The description is below: Continually evolving molecular biology and computational methods are catalyzing the further integration of the …

GSC13: From Genomes to Interactions to Communities to Models

The Genomic Standards Consortium recently held its 13th Workshop from March 5-7 in Shenzhen, China, where advances in genomics research were discussed in close proximity to the massive sequencing power of BGI. As a workshop participant, I found the meeting presentations to be both informative and exciting; the data spoke for itself, and many projects …

Report of 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting including microbiology of the built environment session

A meeting report from the 13th GSC meeting has been published. Report of the 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting, Shenzhen, China, March 4—7, 2012. | Gilbert | Standards in Genomic Sciences. A PDF is available here. The meeting including a session we at microBEnet sponsored on microbiology of the built environment.  More detail on the meeting will be …

Guest Post: Metadata for the Built Environment – MIxS-BE package

Built_environment-metadata-terms-v51-2_May_2014 This is a Guest Post from Lynn Schriml. The MIxS-BE metadata package was presented on March 7, 2012, as part of the Microbiology of the Built Environment session sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at GSC13 in Shenzhen, China. The Sloan Foundation has established the Microbiology of the Built Environment (BE) to uncover …

“An evolving architecture” – nice talk by James Scott from IAQA meeting #microBEnet

James Scott, from U. Toronto and Sporometrics was kind enough to share a paper version of the keynote talk he gave recently at the IAQA meeting in Las Vegas.  Entitled “An Evolving Architecture” it covers a lot of topics related to indoor microbiology and the use of molecular methods to study microbes.  Here is a …

Microbiology of the Built Environment Conference in Boulder reminder (invite only)

(Text below from the conference organizers.  -David) The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the University of Colorado are pleased to announce the inaugural conference on the Microbiology of the Built Environment, taking place May 31 and June 1, 2012.   This is the first event of a conference series that will convene thought leaders across fields …