Fungi, Bacteria, and ArcheaArchaea on “clean” hardware destined for Mars

Posted on August 28, 2012August 30, 2012

Here’s a case where just the title of an article is awesome: “Pyrosequencing-Derived Bacterial, Archaeal, and Fungal Diversity of Spacecraft Hardware Destined for Mars”. Sadly it’s not open access but the abstract is worth a read at a minimum. The authors conducted environmental surveys in cleanrooms and of equipment destined for Mars. Basically they found that …

Talks of interest from the upcoming AAAR meeting in October (Minneapolis) – Karen Dannemiller, Denina Hospodsky

By David Coil Posted in Meetings and Talks

Posted on August 17, 2012February 7, 2018

More talks of interest from the AAAR meeting coming up in a couple of months. Previous posts about this meeting can be found here, here, and here. Phylogenetic-based Fungal Population Comparisons of Dust Collected from Water-damaged and Nonwater-Damaged Homes KAREN DANNEMILLER, Jordan Peccia, Yale University Abstract Number: 327 Working Group: The Indoor Microbiome In the 5MB.2 …

Put a microbe on it: “The Great Indoors” session at the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting

By Rachel Adams Posted in Meetings and Talks

Posted on August 16, 2012February 7, 2018

“Indoors” appeared as a session title for the first time at the annual meeting of the Ecology Society of America after Brendan Bohannan of the BioBE Center at the University of Oregon and Tom Bruns of BIMERC at the University of California organized a session entitled “The Great Indoors: Recent Advances in the Ecology of …

Summary: Healthy Buildings 2012

By Mary Jo Seminoff Posted in Meetings and Talks

Posted on July 24, 2012February 7, 2018

Sloan Symposium II — Healthy Buildings 2012, Brisbane, Australia, July 9, 2012 written by Hal Levin – Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s microBEnet project under the Microbiology of the Built Environment program. Following up on the Symposium held at indoor Air 2011 in Austin, Texas, microBEnet organized another symposium to take place at …

Probiotics for buildings in action? Interesting but can’t verify

By David Coil Posted in News

Posted on June 27, 2012June 28, 2012

I just have to post about this, even though I can find no verification whatsoever for this story. I think the concept of probiotics for buildings is a useful thought exercise, and have posted about it in the past. I’m also aware that since we don’t have anything close to a reasonable understanding of microbial …

Quick summary of session at #ASM2012 on “The Great Indoors”

By Jonathan Eisen Posted in Meetings and Talks

Posted on June 19, 2012February 9, 2019

The session at the ASM 2012 meeting on “The Great Indoors” seems to have gone well. I will be writing up a more detailed report but here is a quick summary done via “Storify”. ———————– UPDATE February 2019 Storify is no longer in existence. Fortunately we were able to convert the Storify summary …

80beats at Discover story on office microbes #microBEnet #PLoSOne

By Jonathan Eisen Posted in News Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)

Posted on June 1, 2012April 8, 2015

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 …

The hidden diversity of offices – what microbes are lurking there? #PLoSOne

By Jonathan Eisen Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)

Posted on May 31, 2012April 2, 2016

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 …