Microbes in the house and office A survey of xerophilic Aspergillus from indoor environment, including descriptions of two new section Aspergillus species producing eurotium-like sexual states – Cobus M. Visagie – MycoKeys (OA) Xerophilic fungi grow at low water activity or low equilibrium relative humidity and are an important part of the indoor fungal …
Another new Sloan-funded project in the microbiology of the built environment called “To analyze and model the establishment of microbial communities over time on different office surface materials in different climates”. This project is being undertaken by Greg Caporaso at Northern Arizona University. Full description below: The goal of this project is to understand successional patterns …
Just a quick post here. There is a detailed blog post of interest from Caitlin Knight of Anthrophysis discussing a recent PLoS One paper on bacteria in office spaces: Unseen Coworkers: Office Space Bacteria. We have written about this paper a bit here before: The hidden diversity of offices — what microbes are lurking there? …