microBEnet Fieldwork: Wastewater Treatment Plant

By David Coil Posted in .Featured Water Systems

Posted on May 22, 2018May 23, 2018

So yesterday morning, Jonathan Eisen and myself headed down to Antioch, CA to sample a pilot wastewater treatment facility. In a couple of hours I went from knowing literally nothing about the process to having some handle on at least the latter stages. Pretty cool microbiology. As I understand the problem at hand, conventional wastewater …

New papers on microbiology of the built environment, May 13, 2016

By Elisabeth Bik Posted in Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)

Posted on May 13, 2016March 14, 2017

Today was an exciting day in the microbiology world with the launch of the White House OSTP National Microbiome Initiative in Washington, where the Who Is Who of microbiome research was gathered. Too bad I was not there! But I’ve compiled another set of nice papers and news articles on the microbiology of the built environment. Microbes in the City …