A cross – posting here. On my “Tree of Life” blog I have just written about the “Earth Microbiome Project” and its call for samples. This may be of interest to those working on the Microbiology of the Built Environment. For more information see: The Tree of Life: Wanted: Sample collections for the Earth Microbiome Project …
Interesting blog post and paper from Tara Smith. Her lab did some characterization of samples from kids and workers in childcare settings. As part of their work they found some interesting varieties of Staphylococcus aureus. For more detail see her post here: New paper: Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in a childcare worker : Aetiology. If you have …
Quick link to blog post from JCVI on metagenomics of indoor environment Genomics of the Indoor Air Environment JCVI Blog (Note – this was imported from a beta version of the microBEnet blog that was on Blogger. This was published original on 7/27/2010)
Quick link here to a short blog post on Fungi in the Indoor Environment: MicrobiologyBytes Blog Archive: The Great Indoors (Note – this was imported from a beta version of the microBEnet blog that was on Blogger. This was published original on 7/27/2010)