Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello gives a wonderful talk about the “Microbial Biogeography of Homes across urbanization gradients.” This was recorded at the MoBE 2017 symposium in Washington D.C. If you’re interested, check out all of the other speakers from MoBE 2017 on our YouTube channel!
Saw this paper by Ashley Rose and Josh Neufeld, “Microbial biogeography of a university campus” and just had to check it out. Basically the authors conduced a survey of door handles across 65 buildings and three time points on the Waterloo campus. What I think it most interesting about their results is the finding that …
Well, this is very very interesting: Request for Information (RFI): Ecology Meets Genomics – Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities. IARPA – the equivalent of DARPA for the intelligence agencies – is getting into microbial biogeography (for forensic purposes). They are seeking comments on the general topic. From the call: We hypothesize that by correlating the genetic information …