Several new papers about microbes and the built environment came out or came up in my searches this weekend, so time for another installment. Since one of the papers is about prison workers, you could play Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues while reading this post. Open Access: Coccidioides Exposure and Coccidioidomycosis among Prison Employees, California, United States – …
Just in time for the long weekend (where we all will be catching up with the literature – ahem), here is another collection of recent papers about microbiology of the built environment. The first paper is about the mattress microbiome, so the video song Jump from Glee came to mind (“Here at Mattress Land we believe that …
Welcome to microBEnet News May 2013 MicroBEnet Blogs A brief summary of the recent topics posted on microBE.net A few guest posts this month which is great! We started off with Walking in the footsteps of van Leeuwenhoek by Keith Seifert. Other guest posts included a software carpentry workshop summary by Jenna Lang and …
Welcome to microBEnet News Summer 2013 MicroBEnet Blogs A brief summary of the recent topics posted on microBE.net Each issue we give a brief summary of the topics discussed in our blog over the last month (3 months this time!). Be sure to check it out here. We started off the month with a …
Welcome to microBEnet News MicroBEnet Blogs A brief summary of the recent topics posted on microBE.net Blog posts covered a wide range of topics: Moving public perception from abiotic to probiotic by Kyle Bibby Fungi on residential surfaces: sinks are sources, other surfaces are sinks by Rachel Adams Building science measurements in the Hospital …
MicroBEnet Blogs A summary of the recent topics posted on microBE.net As usual, our blog posts spanned a wide range of topics relevant to the microbiology of the built environment, ranging from kitchens to space stations. Featured overview: Project MERCCURI Project MERCCURI (#spacemicrobes) set to launch this Sunday morning Educator Guide for Project MERCCURI (#spacemicrobes) …
MicroBEnet Blogs A summary of the recent topics posted on microBE.net As usual, our blog posts this summer spanned a wide range of topics relevant to the microbiology of the built environment, ranging from concrete to germophobia. Announcements: Abstract Submission open for Healthy Buildings Europe 2015 Sloan Microbiology of the Built Environment Data Analysis Workshop …
reposted from jennomics.com http://www.nasa.gov/ames/events/ppw2015workshop/#.VRMLLJPF8mU I’m at a NASA Ames workshop this week. The goal is to have a discussion about planetary protection with respect to human spaceflight, in particular to Mars, mostly during a “sample and return” mission and a little bit about human habitation on Mars. I’m tweeting with #planetaryprotection. There’s also live streaming here: …
Laura Williams recently posted a great writeup of some of the materials she covered with her microbiology class – specifically focused on microbes in the built environment. It turns out they were reading one of the papers we recently published (!) about how humans can influence the microbes indoors by the way we interact with …
This semester, I’m teaching a microbiology course for non-majors. The course was originally designed to focus on microbial diseases and public health, but as I crafted my version of the course, I wanted to broaden our view of microbiology and include the fascinating field of microbiome research. In our first few weeks (relentless winter weather …