Toilet Ecology

Today, humans spend ~90% of their lives roaming the ‘great indoors’, which is very different from the outdoor environments where we co-evolved with our commensal microbiota (Kelley and Gilbert, 2013). We are just beginning to understand how the design of built environments (BEs) influences our microbiome, and how these interactions, in turn, might affect human …

Progress Report on Undergraduate Aquarium Biogeography Project

Starting in the fall of 2012 we began a second project to involve undergraduates (and a high school student) in real research that relates to the microbiology of the built environment.  This time we looked at biogeography and succession in microbial communities found in aquariums.  A description of the project can be found here and …