We are in the process of developing a diversity of other resources for microBEnet. We welcome suggestions for what would be useful to people. Among the items we are currently looking to develop:
More about the Sloan IE Program
Different projectsScope and goalsHistory
Additional general resources
- Funding opportunities (US and International)
- Lists of journals of interest
Culture collections- More information about researchers and institutes working on related topics
Expanding current topics/resources
- Reference collections
- Latest from reference collections
- Paper of the day
- Most read/cited
- Keyword tags
- Expanded calendar
Blog topics
News roundupMeeting reports- Story behind the story of new Sloan Funded publications
Journal club with discussion of new papers- Blogs of interest
Teaching resources
- Slides
- Exercises and activities
- Open access materials and papers that can be used freely
Guides and tutorials on:
Methods used in molecular studies of microbial diversity- How to use microBEnet resources
- How to more broadly share ones own resources (e.g., data, papers, slides, recording talks, etc)
- Bioinformatics for microbial diversity
- Why study microbiology of the built environment
Other ideas
- Better linking with Wikipedia (and maybe more curation there)
- Open textbook development
Citizen science efforts- Open wet ware site
- Amazon store
- Talks of interest (for Calendar)
- Social media sites/pages for people working on microbiology of the built environment
- Open science resources
- Connection between built environment and health: hospitals, buildings, biodefense
