The Sloan Foundation has just announced their 2013 Microbiology of the Built Environment Postdoctoral Fellows. The awards, along with the titles of the projects are below. Congrats all! Aaron J. Prussin at Virginia Tech, co-advisors Linsey Marr and Kyle Bibby (Pittsburg) “Bacterial and viral microbiomes of daycare centers” Anne. A. Madden at University of Colorado, …
Completely fascinated by these pictures of abandoned farm houses: Photographer Niki Feijen's eerie images of the abandoned farm houses | Mail Online. . And that got me wondering – what happens to the microbial ecology of a building once it is abandoned. I am not familiar with any studies of this and a few quick …
Very interesting article by Peter Andrey Smith: A Quest for Even Safer Drinking Water – NYTimes.com. It tells the tale of Norm Pace and his lab’s field work to study the microbial diversity of municipal drinking water systems. The work is part of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s program on Microbiology of the Built Environment and …
Sloan Symposium at Indoor Air 2014 The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program on Microbiology of the Built Environment has awarded a grant to Indoor Air 2014, the 13th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, to be held in Hong Kong from July 7-12, 2014. Paraphrasing a quote on the conference web site from …
We’ve recently received an award from the Sloan Foundation to examine the mycobiota from paired house dust and infant fecal samples collected in the first year of life. The main purpose of the study is to examine how the immediate environment (house dust) may shape the gut mycobiota of infants and affect immune activation and …
Next in our “People Behind the Science” series is Kyle Bibby from the University of Pittsburgh. In this interview he talks about his future work on premise plumbing and the hospital microbiome project. Transcript of interview:
Just a quick reminder that the Sloan Foundation is offering a postdoctoral fellowship in the microbiology of the built environment and applications are due September 1st. Read our previous post about the position here, see the official RFP here, check out the new FAQ here, and see the selection committee here.
The most recent Sloan-funded project began work in the lab of Roberto Kolter in early July. The name of the project is “The Effects of Surface pH on Microbial Community Composition and Susceptibility to Invasion”. Unlike many of the previous projects funded by the microbiology of the built environment program, this is an experimental lab …
As a yoga devotee and general fitness fanatic, I often use communal exercise equipment when I’m traveling or unexpectedly drop into a class after work. I’ve been wondering lately about scientific studies specifically looking at surfaces such as yoga mats, but after a quick literature search it seems that knowledge is thin in this area. …
Just found out about this really cool project: Pathomap | Mapping New York’s Unseen Residents. From the project page “Pathomap is a research project by Weill Cornell Medical College to study the microbiotic population and genetic dynamics in urban areas in order to detect and respond to escalated microbial dangers.” Basically, Chris Mason, along with collaborators, …