DoD Microbiome Symposium – 6-7 April, 2017

We are welcoming anyone who would like to join us online for the DoD microbiome symposium to be held at the United States Air Force from 5-7 April (see schedule below).  The symposium will explore current and future research directions in the human and built environment microbiome that may benefit the DoD, Veterans, and their …

My thoughts as a relatively junior researcher working with established peers

A little over two years ago, I wrote a short piece in a military engineering magazine about the potential importance of the microbiome in the Department of Defense (DoD). Two months later, the head of the VA Rocky Mountain Mental Health Research Center, Dr. Lisa Brenner, contacted me and said she would like to start …

Sloan funds MoBE project at US Air Force Academy

The Alfred P. Sloan foundation recently announced the funding of a microbiome of the built environment study (MoBE) titled “Longitudinal assessment of the influence of lifestyle homogenization on the MoBE in a cohort of United States Air Force Cadets”. This research program is a collaborative effort between Dr. Christopher Lowry (University of Colorado at Boulder), …