Episode 478 is about what air quality humans are exposed to in their sleep. Two fresh members of the science of indoor air quality field, Brandon Boor and Jelle Laverge, discuss what they found after a literature review on the topic.
IAQ (Indoor Air Quality) Radio is hosted by Joe “Radio Joe” Hughes and Cliff “Z-Man” Zlotnik. Every Friday at noon ET the show is live. Joe Hughes is the President of IAQ Training Institute and Cliff Zlotnik is the President of IDEAZ, LLC. Every week they interview experts from the indoor air quality, building sciences and …
Ed Yong from The Atlantic gives a science writer’s view of the MoBE field. This was recorded at the MoBE 2017 symposium in Washington D.C. If you’re interested, check out all of the other speakers from MoBE 2017 on our YouTube channel!
I am hoping to find a system for everyone in my lab to use which would serve as lab notebooks for everyone and allow both written materials to be uploaded and also allow a mixture of different electronic materials such as bioinformatics workflows, pictures, videos, data files, etc. I have dug around a bit and …
I gave a talk last week for the NAS Microbiomes of the Built Environment 2017 (aka #MOBE17) meeting. I posted the slides I used to SlideShare and I am embedding them below. I spent a bunch of time thinking about what I would say at this meeting. I did not want to talk about what …
Federico Lauro, Chris Mason and I (and a few others by now) are looking for editors for a Frontiers Special Topic on Citizen Science in Microbiology. It is important to us that we assemble a diverse panel of editors before we start inviting submissions! We are especially interested in making sure that women and people …
This may be of interest to some here. I made a Storify of the Tweets from the “Future Proofing Law” symposium that was at UC Davis yesterday and the day before. There were multiple biotech. themed sessions and presentations as well as discussions of many topics connected to microBEnet in various ways such as open …
We received the announcement today that the MoBE 2017 Symposium, chaired by Lynn Schriml at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute for Genome Sciences, has been funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s program in the Microbiology of the Built Environment. MoBE 2017 will be co-sponsored by and held at the National Academy …
We are always looking to recruit more people to contribute to microBEnet on topics related to microbiology of the built environment. And if you have something to say about this topic, by all means, we want you to blog here. Tell us your stories about your work about your projects about your outreach and papers and …
The Biology & Built Environment Center hosted a Microbiome Science Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on May 27th, 2016 at the University of Oregon. You can view the MeetUp page for this event here. The objective of this event was to facilitate the contribution of microbiome science edits & topics to a globally-used, public knowledge resource (Wikipedia). We …