Brochure from microbiology of the built environment #AAASMoBe meeting
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.
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Hopistal microbial ecology makes cover of “Medical Science” journal though figure from another paper
OK so I know nothing about this journal Medical Science | Journal. But the cover of their May issue is a figure from a a paper on hospital microbial ecology. The article is Deepa S, Abishek MU, Venkatesha D. The air as harbinger of infections in critical care units. Medical Science, 2014, 8(28), 8-13). Here …
House dust exposure: GI microbiome Lactobacillus enrichment and increased airway immune defense
Hypoallergenic pets no more! In a recent article (2013) from PNAS, researchers have found that mice exposed to dust collected from households that had dogs compared to dust collected from households with no pets had significantly lower lung Th2 cytokine mRNA expression levels (IL-4 and IL-13) compared with those treated with dust from no pet houses. …
Article in @usatoday by @mmpandika on “your home’s odor may be making you sick”
Quick post – just saw this Tweet from the Airmid Healthgroup Your home’s odor may be making you sick; microbial volatile organic compounds http://t.co/8M7U84L5Oi via @USATODAY – Airmid Healthgroup (@AirmidHealth) May 13, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js It points to a story in USA Today by Melissa Pandika that may be of interest – Your home’s odor may be …
Only in America…..
UPDATE 1 by Jonathan Eisen on May 18, 2014. I have flagged this post as being offensive (see comments for more detail). The author has now lost his permission to post directly without screening and am considering deleting this post (due to the tone of this post and other posts). I am for now leaving it up …
Paper says: To all microbiologists everywhere – deposit your strains in public collections – I agree
This is a very very important paper for all people who culture strains of microbes as part of their work: SpringerPlus | Abstract | Deposit of microbial strains in public service collections as part of the publication process to underpin good practice in science. Abstract: Despite recommendations to release microbial resources to the community post-publication, the …
IRB approval to collect samples from buildings, people, and yes, kittens!
Happy spring! It’s time for flowers and kittens. We are starting a study to explore the development of the microbiome in neonatal kittens. Because what’s cuter than kittens? This project is partially an outreach project to get people who already love kittens excited about microbes and how the microbiome can be shaped by the environment. Here’s our …
Coming up May 6-7 – Sequence the City -Metagenomics in the Era of Big Data
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 …
Teaching bioinformatics using IPython Notebooks
I’ve been teaching undergraduate and graduate bioinformatics for three years at Northern Arizona University. This semester I tried an experiment in my undergraduate course: I decided to ditch slides and instead use IPython Notebooks to present my course materials. This turned out to be hugely successful, and resulted in an early version of an online …
Made a project page (hack?) for microBEnet on ImpactStory
So – was playing around with Impact Story – a site where one can get the “total impact” in terms of Alt Metrics for one’s work. And I decided to hack the system a little bit and instead of making a page for me I made one for the microBEnet project. I have not populated it …