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Sloan Foundation funds an Indoor Microbiome Workshop in Finland

By Tiina Reponen   Posted in Built Environment Topics Meetings and Talks Scholarly Communication Sloan MoBE Program Training and Courses Urban Microbiomes
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The Alfred P. Sloan foundation has approved a grant to organize a workshop on indoor microbiome in Finland in Fall 2015.  The workshop is designed for a scientific exchange including a workshop and researcher exchanges that will bridge the Sloan grantees in US and Canada with the research groups in Finland and neighboring countries.  The workshop organizing committee, …

Water Pipe Funk

By Alex Alexiev   Posted in Buildings
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Every time you bend over the public water fountain to take a drink and see the gunk at the bottom, do you wonder what’s living in it? Microbiologists do… This 2013 study from Finland collaborated on a study examining biofilms on the drinking water distribution system in office buildings. They started sampling right as the …