Reminder – Indoor Air 2011 coming up June 5-10 Austin TX #microBEnet #gonnarock

Just a quick reminder.  The 12th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate will take place June 5-10 in Austin, TX.  It looks to be very good.  MicroBEnet is working with the organizers to plan a few sessions on “Microbiology of the Built Environment”.  Stay tuned for more details.  Until then, check out the …

Meeting preview: Bioaerosols Sept. 6-9, Saratoga, NY #microBEnet

A future meeting worth checking out for those interesting in microbiology of the built environment: Bioaerosol.org.  Help September 6-9 2011 in Saratoga Springs NY.   It is the “6th International Scientific Conference on Bioaerosols, Fungi, Bacteria, Mycotoxins in Indoor and Outdoor Environments and Human Health.” Among the areas of focus will be Natural disaster, flooding, water …

Upcoming conference: DOE-JGI User Meeting: Energy, Genomes, Environment, Microbes, Trees and more …

Just got this email I thought would be useful to share (with a few edits) Still time to register for JGI “Genomics of Energy & Environment” 6th Annual User Meeting The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) hosts the “Genomics of Energy & Environment” 6th Annual User Meeting (March 22-24, 2011): Here Explore the agenda of …

Upcoming workshop of potential interest on “Building Design & Engineering Approaches to Airborne Infection Control 8/1-12 Boston. MA

Just a quick post on a workshop of possible interest: Building Design and Engineering Approaches to Airborne Infection Control. The workshop is August 1-12 in Boston, MA.   It is organized by the Harvard School of Public Health.  The overview from the website says: “A significant bottleneck in the implementation of precautions against airborne transmission of …

Norman Pace visits UC Davis

Norman R. Pace, from UC Boulder, gave a talk at UC Davis yesterday about microbial diversity.  In his talk he discussed some of his recent Sloan Foundation funded work on “microbiology of the built environment” including studies of shower heads, indoor swimming pools, water supplies, and hospitals. Pace is one of the pioneers of DNA …