When we think of the built environment, we usually only include the indoor surfaces and air. A new study (preprint) posted last week on BioRxiv went through the roof, and looked at the microbes living on solar panels. A highly diverse, desert-like microbial biocenosis on solar panels in a Mediterranean city – Pedro Dorado-Morales, Cristina Vilanova, Juli …
I thought this might be of interest to some of the “microbiology of the Built Environment” crowd. I gave a talk at the UC Davis Bodega Bay Marine Lab as part of the Workshop on Applied Phylogenetics on the “Evolution of DNA Sequencing”. I posted the slides to Slideshare and am embedding them here. I …
DNA sequencing technology, a key tool in characterizing microbes in the environment, just keeps getting cheaper and easier. Right now there are some really nice technologies out there in machines from Illumina/Solexa, Roche/454 and ABI. And coming on the horizon are some new systems that possibly will be either “better” in some way or allow …