Tag: ventilation

Jeffrey Marlow in the Extremo Files blog @Wired discusses Kembel et al. air flow microbes study

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in Social Media
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In the “Extremo File” blog, Jeffrey Marlow discussed recent work from the BioBE Center: Is Your Office Building Trying to Kill You? | Wired Science | Wired.com.  The post discusses how studies of microbial ecology are moving from the outdoors to the indoors and that is a useful message to get across. I presume the post …

“Architectural design influences the diversity and structure of the built environment microbiome” – paper by the BioBE Center group

By David Coil   Posted in News Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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We’ve posted in the past (here, here, here, and here) about some of the interesting work taking place at the BioBE Center regarding microbial community structure in health-care facilities.  Today a paper on this topic came out in the ISME Journal. This paper is certainly worth a read for anyone interested in the microbiology of …