In response to our request for people to upload their presentations from Indoor Air 2011 we’ve received several presentations. These can be found here. If you were a speaker at Indoor Air 2011 and have already uploaded your presentation to Slideshare, please let us know and we’ll add you to the page.
I am fascinated by citizen science projects like this: The Bioweathermap Sees The Germs Around Us – Bruce Upbin – Tradigital – Forbes. Years ago it was all the rage to track where your money had been using systems like “Where’s George“. Well, movement is not all that happens to money. Money picks up all sorts …
OK I am going to have to confess something here. Though I am a bit of an obsessed microbiologist who looks for the connection of just about everything to microbiology I never thought about this -what are the potential health effects of microbes in tobacco products? That is the question addresses in a new paper …
Well, the winners of the first Google sponsored science fair have been announced” Lauren Hodge in the 13-14 year old group, Naomi Shah in the 15-16 year old group and Shree Bose, in the 17-18 age group. Time Magazine pointed out (see Sorry, Guys: Girls Sweep Googles First Ever Science Fair – Techland – TIME.com.) that …
The last flight of the Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled for early July and there’ll be some cool microbes aboard. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus are both biofilm-forming bacteria with serious health consequences, particularly in hospitals. The researchers involved in this project are interested in the effects of microgravity on biofilm formation, and have some preliminary …
“How your pillow is the perfect breeding ground for gruesome array of pests and diseases”. This headline from the Daily Mail in the UK was one of many yesterday relating to a study presented at the Healthcare Associated Infections 2011 conference in London on Tuesday. As usual, the study didn’t make any actual associations between …
Just got this from Rich Corsi, the organizer of Indoor Air 2011. Rosie Flores performing at Indoor Air party. http://www.youtube.com/v/KQvioz3VENE?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0
A new paper coming out in the journal Fungal Biology is getting a lot of press. The paper is: Dishwashers — A man-made ecological niche accommodating human opportunistic fungal pathogens Normally, I try to avoid writing up blog posts relating to papers that are not at least freely available online so that anyone out there can …
Here are some quick notes from my trip to Austin Texas for the Indoor Air 2011 meeting. About the meeting: I got involved in helping organize a session at this conference as part of my microBEnet project. More on the planning and the meeting later but here are some quick notes just to get them …
Lots of pictures form Indoor Air 2011 – Austin, Texas are up on the website. Quite an collection and the quality of some of the pics is excellent.