New papers, November 8, 2015
Here are the papers on the built environment microbiology that I found in the past weeks. For more microbiology papers, please check out my daily blog MicrobiomeDigest. Copper surfaces are associated...
View ArticleA cloud of cloud things for detecting clouds
For the past couple of years, there has been a storm gathering on the horizon of indoor air quality monitoring. Nucleating around crowd-funding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, these devices...
View ArticleNew papers, February 14, 2016
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here is a new post expressing my love for everything microbial and built. Based on real science and yes, there is chocolate. The great indoors Indoor microbial communities:...
View ArticleMicrobial Effects on Asthma
Two reviews came out recently by Mutius et al and Smits et al discussing the link between microbes and asthma. Sadly, they are not open access. Both reviews suggest that exposure to microbially rich...
View ArticleMicrobiology of the Built Environment Meeting: Day 1
Here’s the report from Day 1 of the 5th annual Microbiology of the Built Environment meeting in Boulder, CO. Following my summary of the talks is a Storify of all the tweets from the day. The first...
View ArticlePaper of interest: Pediatric Asthma and the Indoor Microbial Environment
There is a recent review paper that may be of interest: Pediatric Asthma and the Indoor Microbial Environment | SpringerLink Abstract The global increase in the prevalence of asthma has been related to...
View ArticleInteresting paper on Innate Immunity, Asthma Risk and Amish vs Hutterite...
So there is this new paper out in the New England Journal of Medicine: Innate Immunity and Asthma Risk in Amish and Hutterite Farm Children — NEJM It is quite interesting and is getting a bunch of...
View ArticleNew papers on Microbiology of the Built Environment, August 14, 2016
Microbes on shoes Review: Shoe soles as a potential vector for pathogen transmission: A systematic review – Tasnuva Rashid – Journal of Applied Microbiology (OA) Shoe soles are possible vectors for...
View ArticleKaren Dannemiller-MoBE 2017
This is Karen Dannemiller’s talk on the nexus of housing characteristics, indoor microbial communities, and asthma severity. This was recorded at the MoBE 2017 symposium in Washington D.C. If you’re...
View ArticlePodcast-Sarah Elizabeth Kwan, PhM, EIT – Peccia Env Biotechnology Lab at Yale...
Episode 445 interviews Sarah Kwan, who is a Ph.D. candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Peccia Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory at Yale University. She also received her M.S and Ph.M....
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