Episode 425 focuses on the microbiology of the normal and water damaged built environment. With respect to environmental investigations, Hernandez’s aerobiology characterization work has focused on large scale disasters including bioaerosols generated by major metropolitan floods.
Back in May we posted about a Gizmodo article entitled “Concrete-Dissolving Bacteria Are Destroying Our Nation’s Sewers”. This article highlighted Sloan-funded work by Mark Hernandez and others that describes some of the biochemistry and microbiology behind concrete corrosion in sewers. A (fee-required) paper describing that work has just come out, with a press release focused …
A quick post here describing a Gizmodo article highlighting some of the Sloan-funded MBE research presented at the recent AAAS Symposium on Microbiomes of the Built Environment. It talks about work by both Mark Hernandez and Amy Pruden on different aspect of plumbing microbiomes.