Short post here about an upcoming study by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University (in collaboration with Delta Airlines). They are going to examine microbes in the air on commercial aviation flights, as well as sample a number of surfaces on the plane. They’re going to correlate this microbial diversity data …
Just a quick one here. Though people should not focus ONLY on pathogens in buildings it certainly seems that outbreaks of Legionella such as this one: Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak, Scotland: Man Dies In Edinburgh | UK News | Sky News. could be used to call attention to the need to better understand microbiology of the …
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 …
I made a “Storification” of the various Social Media posts I could find about the recent Microbiology of the Built Environment meeting in Boulder, CO. You can browse the full storify story below. UPDATE – Added Wakelet
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 …
Quick post here New post from 80beats on the office microbes study from Scott Kelley that I wrote about a few days ago: What Microbes Are Growing In Your Office? Science Wants to Know | 80beats | Discover Magazine Plus some new news stories about the study Men’s Offices Have More Bacteria, Study Finds The higher …
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 …
Of potential interest to microBEnet readers: Tutorials at the AAAR 31st Annual Conference — October 8-12, 2012 · Hyatt Regency Minneapolis · Minneapolis, Minnesota. includes the following: Molecular Biology-Based Bioaerosol Analyses Jordan Peccia, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT Abstract: This tutorial covers molecular biology concepts and tools …
Quick post. We are starting to build a glossary on terms and their definitions to help people read/understand papers and stories about microbiology of the built environment. If you have any ideas for terms to include, let us know. Among those on our list PCR rRNA diversity phylogenetics metagenomics transcriptomics annotation culturing UNIFRAC Illumina DNA …
A new paper from Scott Kelley is out: PLoS ONE: Office Space Bacterial Abundance and Diversity in Three Metropolitan Areas. This work was supported in part by the Sloan Foundation’s program in Microbiology of the Built Environment (which is the same program that funds microBEnet). Lots of interesting stuff in the paper. Certainly the most visually …