Here are the slides I plan to use for my talk in a little bit at Indoor Air 2011 Eisen #microBEnet #IndoorAir2011http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=eisen-indoorair2011-110609092812-phpapp02&stripped_title=eisen-microbenet-indoorair2011&userName=phylogenomics View more presentations from Jonathan Eisen.
Things that jumped out at me from the afternoon session today. For the morning session see here. Norm Pace (CU Boulder) made the point during questions that when we talk about “pathogens” in metagenomic environmental sequences, what we really mean is “sequences related to pathogens” and that probably most of those sequences don’t come from …
I’m currently at Indoor Air 2011 sitting in on the Sloan Foundation-sponsored sessions on microbiology of the built environment. There are a number of great talks taking place and we hope to post some more information in the form of slides later. We’ll probably also post a more formal write-up about some of the discussions …
Data collection and annotation are critical parts of all aspects of science. However, it’s not always clear what data to collect. For example, say you go out in the field and harvest a plant for an experiment. You might note the time of day, the weather conditions, other nearby plants, the soil temperature, the presence …
For those interested in microbial diversity and/or metagenomics there are two volumes that are coming out soon that are of interest: Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology I: Metagenomics and Complementary Approaches. Handbook of Molecular Microbial Ecology II: Metagenomics in Different Habitats Edited by Frans J. de Bruijn these two volumes are the most comprehensive coverage …
Just got sent a link to this interview of Rich Corsi on a Fox TV station about the Upcoming Indoor Air 2011 meeting: UT: Indoor Air Conference. There is still time to sign up for the meeting. I note – there will be sessions Wednesday and Thursday focusing on microbiology of the built environment. We (i.e., …
Just a quick post here. I have been reading this paper: Toward molecular trait-based ecology through integration of biogeochemical, geographical and metagenomic data by Jeroen Raes et al. in Molecular Systems Biology. This integration they try to pull off in the paper is to me where we need to move as a field (i.e., microbial …
Another cool example of using beneficial microbes in the indoor environment… in this case using Bacillus strains to reduced odors in pub urinals. The company (CBIO) that markets this device called the “Clearinator” also has other neat sounding microbial-based devices such as the “Bactaerator” and the “Baccelerator”. Pretty simple really, they find bacterial strains that …
Well, this is a disappointing story. In 2006 and 2008 California passed some legislation with the ultimate goal of limiting hospital acquired infections. Unfortunately, enforcement and use of the legislation has faltered, according to an article in the Sacramento Bee by Deborah Schoch: Deadly bacteria lurk inside hospital wards Not much positive to report here though …
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is really doing a great job of moving into new forms of science communication. For example, ASM has a relatively new journal mBIO that is sort of akin to PLoS One – it is an open access and relatively rapid publication journal. And mBIO is starting to take off. …