Latest Publications Added to Mendeley Collection- A survey of airborne algae and cyanobacteria within the indoor environment of an office building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Assessment of microbiological indoor air quality in public buildings: A case study (Timisoara, Romania)
- Bacterial contamination in kitchens of rural and urban areas in Meerut district of Utter Pradesh (India)
- Assessment of microbiological indoor air quality in public buildings: A case study (Timisoara, Romania).
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Daily Archives: September 19, 2012
Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Meeting 2012: Microbiology of the Built Environment Session
Last night was the Microbiology of the Built Environment session at the bi-annual Lake Arrowhead meeting. This session was organized and sponsored by microBEnet. I recorded some of the talks and will post those videos here after some editing. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Meetings and Conference Reports
Tagged aquariums, archaea, BioBE center, fungi, hospitals, houses, microBEnet, Pseudomonas, restrooms
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Will you wear an N-95 respirator on your next flight? or in the airport?
Lots of attention to disease transmission and illness related to air travel lately. A new paper in the journal Indoor Air suggests that if passengers would wear N-95 respirators when they fly, they could significantly reduce their risk of infection. … Continue reading
Posted in Journal club, News
Tagged aircraft cabin, airports, busses, infection, influenza, passengers, planes, risk, trains
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Ecology of Disease – Are they ignoring the great indoors?
An article in the Sunday NYT on the Ecology of Disease — paints with a very broad brush that ignores the role of the microbiology of the built (and especially the indoor) environment, where we spend most of our time … Continue reading
Posted in Journal club, News
Tagged biodiversity, disease, ecology, indoor environment, infection, nature, viruses
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