#microBEnet News: @kylejbibby receives @NSF CAREER award to study viruses in water

Just found out via Twitter about a cool new grant that was awarded: Congrats to Kyle Bibby @kylejbibby on this NSF grant!#microbenet @SloanFoundation https://t.co/x1slHgygdT — Paula Olsiewski (@polsiewski) March 1, 2017   Through a five-year, $500,000 CAREEER Award from the National Science Foundation, a civil and environmental engineering research group at the University of Pittsburgh’s …

Invasion of the Built Environment by a Microbiologist

So – I thought some people here would be interested in this.  As someone who has been involved in the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s program in “Microbiology of the Built Environment” for many years, I have been trying to get more involved with the built environment crowd.  And I have not always been exceptionally successful …

SAMSI Ideas Lab Call for Proposals: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biomedical Data Science Challenges

Just got this from NSF and thought it would be of interest: Dear Colleagues, Applications are invited for an Ideas Lab on “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biomedical Data Science Challenges” taking place at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) located in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biomedical Data Science Challenges …

Does microbiology of the built environment have any Big Data issues? If so …. $$$$

Just was sent this by our grants office: nsf.gov – Funding – Critical Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Science & Engineering – US National Science Foundation (NSF). Seems like this may be of interest to folks working on microbiology of the built environment as there are some serious Big Data …

NSF Funding Opportunity: Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships

Just got this from Amy Pruden, via Paula Olseiwski.   Seems like a potential opportunity to get some funding for the microbiology of the built environment from NSF.   The “Concept” of the program is described below: The Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships – Concept The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships program supports innovative …

#microBEnet education and training notes: IGERT on Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering

We are starting a new thread here on the blog focusing on education and training in microBEnet related topics (metagenomics, microbiology, the built environment, etc).  And I discovered a very interesting program at the University of Texas.  There they have what is called an “IGERT.”  The IGERT program is ” the National Science Foundation’s flagship interdisciplinary …