Wow this “story” (which is really an ad) is just so incredibly bad I do not know what to say: Dangerous Bacteria Isolated in Healthcare HVAC Evaporator Coils. I do not even know where to begin with criticism so I will just go step by step through some of the advertisement. 1. Title: Dangerous Bacteria Isolated …
Just a follow up on an earlier post about microbes on hospital workers clothing. There is an interesting editorial responding to the news from the recent study that may be of interest: Second Opinion: Bacteria hitchhikes on hospital apparel – Milford, MA – The Milford Daily News. Clearly, we need to think about clothing as …
Just another cross posting here of some links to posts on my “Tree of Life” blog that may be of interest to microBEnet: C-DEBI Research Support > Request for Research Proposals Great paper showing the potential power of comparative and evolutionary genomics in #PLoS Genetics Sharing what I have been learning about sharing audio synched …
Just a quick one here. I have written some recent posts on my “Tree of Life” blog that may be of interest to some of the readers here. Here are the links: More on ‘phylogenomics’ – as in functional prediction w/ phylogeny Playing around with CloVR – cloud computing bioinformatics system I think …
When I walk around UC Davis campus or visit areas near hospitals I am always dismayed by the number of people wearing their scrubs when they go out to lunch, seminars, or just walk around. I have always wondered whether those scrubs harbor anything nasty. Well, a new study in the American Journal of Infection Control …
Cross posting this from my Tree of Life blog: Well I am very excited about this article in the Boston Globe today: Ecosystem, sweet ecosystem – The Boston Globe. By Courtney Humphries the article discusses the Sloan Foundation program in the “Indoor Environment” that is focusing on microbial ecology of the built environment. I am, well, really into …
This post is about Microbiology of the Built Environment Mendeley group … Social networking and bibliographies may not seem like they go together well. But actually, they do. In the last few years there has been a movement to “socialize” bibliographies and reference collections. There are many many many systems for doing this, some better than …
For those interested in microbiology of the built environment you might want to consider going to Healthy Buildings 2012 July 8 – 12, 2012 in Brisbane. There will be a few sessions there with a microbial focus including, for example, “Infection spread: will breathing kill you?”
Recently I wrote here about a new report on a citizen microbiology effort focusing on microbes in water heaters: More on citizen microbiology project from @Penn_State & @NASA on thermophiles in water heaters via @scicheer @Sci4Cits Well, a new paper in PLoS One (PLoS ONE: Aquarium Nitrification Revisited: Thaumarchaeota Are the Dominant Ammonia Oxidizers in Freshwater …
I love citizen science. And I dream of doing citizen microbiology. Thus I love the project going on at Penn. St. on getting people to sample microbes in hot water heaters (posted a mini note about it a while ago). There is a good article about this project on the Science For Citizens blog here: …