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: Aetiology. Author: Tara C. Smith Tagline: Discussing causes, origins, evolution, and implications of disease and other phenomena Recent …
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. So todays blog is Avian Flu Diary. Author: Michael Coston Tagline: Covering Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza, H5N1 `Bird Flu, Emerging Infectious Diseases, public health, community & …
Interesting article via Mashable (from the Atlantic) in September bu How NASA Keeps Earth’s Germs Out of Space. It discusses how to keep the sites where space equipment is built clean and the general issue of planetary protection. Stay tuned for more posts about space as we are involved in a project to sample microbes on …
We recently wrote about moldy documents in French archives and a higher incidence of asthma among workers who handled documents than others working in the same spaces but not handling them. See our previous post: “Hands off the moldy docs (for your own good?)” Now we find researchers reported that bacteria can also be transferred …
Not long ago we posted about the effect of copper on microorganisms in the built environment. This topic seems to come up more and more often with information ranging from belief that copper is a miracle cure to strong skepticism. A recent study from the UK adds an interesting piece to this puzzle by showing …
The 15th Workshop of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC15) April 22-24, 2013, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Registration and EasyChair abstract submission website now open. Theme: Standards-enabled Research in Genomics URL: http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_15 The 15th Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC15) meeting will be held at NIH (Bethesda, Maryland) from April 22-24th. This meeting will highlight the utilization of genome …
One the one hand this story represents an important set of findings: Hospital Rooms Can Be Bacteria Reservoirs : Personal Liberty Digestâ„¢. Main point: Hospital rooms are not getting to be germ free after cleaning. And in this case they focused on rooms where the recently discharged patient had a history of infection with multidrug resistant …
Next in our “People Behind the Science” video series is Amy Pruden from Virginia Tech. Dr. Pruden has recently received a Sloan grant to work on the “Effect of Pipe Materials, Water Flow, and Chemistry on the Building Plumbing Microbiome”. In this video she talks about this project and her arrival in the field of …
Personally I think the holiday season starts way too early… but given the fact that Christmas trees are already on sale (at least here in CA) I figured I could post about this article I came across today: Wyse DM & Malloch D. 1970. Christmas tree allergy: mould and pollen studies. CMA Journal 103: 1272-1276. …
Occasionally I come across a news story related to the microbiology of the built environment that I really want to blog about… but don’t know what to say. Here is such a story about a ski resort in Arizona using 100% treated sewage water for snow making and the concerns associated with that. Blog post …