A reminder from the conference organizers that the meeting in May is fast approaching and that everyone should have their travel arrangements in order. The preliminary program is online and more information will be coming soon. (This conference is by invitation only)
Worth checking out this workshop summary entitled “The Science and Applications of Microbial Genomics” A couple of chapters in there from Sloan-funded projects in the microbiology of the built environment. $79 for the book but the PDF is free.
We have two new papers out from our lab as part of our microBEnet supported undergraduate genome sequencing project: Lo JR, Lang JM, Darling AE, Eisen JA, Coil DA. 2013. Draft Genome Sequence of an Actinobacterium, Brachybacterium muris Strain UCD-AY4.. Genome Announc. 1(2):e00086-13. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00086-13. Bendiks ZA, Lang JM, Darling AE, Eisen JA, Coil DA. 2013. Draft Genome …
We had a site visit from Paula Olsiewski last week. Paula is the Program Officer for the Sloan Foundation program in microbiology of the built environment (and thus our Program Officer for microBEnet). The visit went very well (I think). In addition to discussing many things associated with microBEnet past, present and future we also …
Next in our “People Behind the Science” video series we have an interview with Greg Caporaso from Northern Arizona University. Here he’s talking about his new Sloan-funded project on “Office Surface Microbiomes Across Climates”. Transcript:
Cross posting this from my Tree of Life blog: Well I am very excited about this article in the Boston Globe today: Ecosystem, sweet ecosystem – The Boston Globe. By Courtney Humphries the article discusses the Sloan Foundation program in the “Indoor Environment” that is focusing on microbial ecology of the built environment. I am, well, really into …