Sloan Foundation’s Indoor Environment Symposium at Indoor Air 2014

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 …

Another genome from an uncultured microbe from a hospital sink biofilm #JCVI #Porphyromonas

Just wrote a post a few minutes ago about the sequencing and analysis of the genome(s) of representatives of the TM6 phylum of bacteria that were found in a hospital sink biofilm: First genome of TM6 — a novel phylum of bacteria — determined from a hospital sink sample. And lo and behold just realized there …

microBEnet Microbiology blog of the day: Curiosidades de la Microbiología from Mánuel Sanchez

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: Curiosidades de la Microbiología  (Curiosities of Microbiology: English translation) Author:  Manuel Sánchez Tagline/Summary: Los seres vivos son a las leyes de la …

Microbiology Blog of the Day: All Creatures Great AND Small: Preaching Microbial Supremacy!

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 …