Note added by Jonathan Eisen: This is a guest post from UC Davis graduate student Srijak Bhatnagar. So sometime this year I was at ASM 2012. The big’ol conference where who’s who of Microbiology descended on San Francisco. Amidst the rush of hoards of people moving from session to session, lining up along the hallway …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs we have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of them every day or so. And just going to do this in semi-alphabetic order. Today’s blog: BacterioFiles (which is a podcast series with a blog with details about each post, but I view podcasts as simply audio-enhanced blogs). Author: …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs we have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of them every day or so. And just going to do this in semi-alphabetic order. Today’s blog: BacPathGenomics Author: Kat Holt Tagline/Summary: Genomics and evolution of bacterial pathogens Recent Posts: Metagenomics analysis special issue in Briefings in Bioinformatics Phage annotation …
Crossposting this from my Tree of Life blog. Just finally got around to doing the sampling of my house for the Wild Life of Our Homes microbial sampling project. I signed up online, got a kit, got a registration code, and did the sampling today. I swabbed the exterior door frame, an interior door frame, the kitchen …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs we have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of them every day or so. And just going to do this in semi-alphabetic order. Today’s blog: The Aspergillus WebSite Blog Author: Graham Atherton Tagline/Summary: The Aspergillus Website is dedicated to providing information on aspergillus, aspergillosis, aspergilloma and other …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs I have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of them every day or so. And just going to do this alphabetically. Today’s blog: Antibiotics-The Perfect Storm Author: David Shlaes Tagline/Summary: We need new antibiotics to fight infections caused by resistant bacteria. But the marketplace, the structure of the …
OK, this is one of the more interesting “microbiology of the built environment” stories I have seen in a while: Cliff the beagle sniffs out dangerous infections in hospitals | SmartPlanet. A new paper in BMJ reports on training and testing of dogs to detect Clostridium difficile infections in hospitals. There is even a video included …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs I have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of the every day or so. And just going to do this alphabetically. Today’s blog: All Creatures Great AND Small: Preaching Microbial Supremacy!. Author: Mark Martin from the University of Puget Sound Tagline: Ruminations on the teaching of and research in …
Going through the list of Microbiology Blogs I have curated at microBEnet and going to try to feature one of the every day or so with a mini description. And just going to do this alphabetically. So todays blog is: blog.aids.gov – HIV Policy & Programs. Research. New Media.. Authors: many including these from recent posts: Gail …
Wow – this is disturbing: VA under scrutiny after Legionnaires’ cases in Pittsburgh – CNN.com. Seems that there has been an outbreak of Legionnaires’ at the VA hospital in Pittsburgh and apparently the hospital officials new knew about problems for a year but did not reveal this. For more on this see Doyle, Casey seek investigations …