Microbiology of the built environment project meets art: moldy city of bread
I just love this. Saw a post on twitter from Glyn Moody Mouldering city built of bread is a metaphor for Earth without humans – bit.ly/19vEkjT striking — Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) June 1, 2013 So I...
View ArticleWe had nothing to do with this: ISS Supply Ship Opens Hatch After ‘Bacteria’...
As we have ben writing about here, we are planning to do some microbial sampling of the International Space Station as part of our Project MERCURRI. Thus I read with great interest the following...
View ArticleFlooding and Indoor Air Quality
In the United States, floods are the most common natural disaster (NFIP, 2013). Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of precipitation extremes in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to...
View ArticleEPA funding opportunity: Indoor Air and Climate Change
Indoor Air and Climate Change URL: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2014/2014_star_indoor_air.html Open Date: 10/23/2013 – Close Date: 01/23/2014 Here are some of the important details: Summary: EPA...
View ArticleMicrobial VOCs and Health – report from Basel conference Indoor Microbiome...
Many indoor environmental investigators have attempted to use volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by microbes as an indicator of the presence or potential health relevance of the indoor...
View ArticleFound: “most toxic” metabolite from a very common indoor fungus
A just-published article by Desroches et al, “Extrolites of Wallemia sebi, a very common fungus in the built environment,”in the journal Indoor Air describes a previously unidentified metabolite of...
View ArticleDatabase of indoor environment-indoor microbiome literature available
You can download the database of over 360 publications that report characteristics of the indoor environment along with the microbes found in the studies. Each publication is entered as a record and...
View ArticleAAAS Microbiomes of the Built Environment Symposium videos available on-line
Registrants for the March AAAS Symposium are recipients today of the following message from Anette Olsen at AAAS. “I’d like to let you know that the videos of each panel is now online, but they...
View ArticleSusceptibility of green and conventional building materials to microbial growth
“Susceptibility of green and conventional building materials to microbial growth” Indoor Air journal, accepted for publication Abstract Green building materials are becoming more popular. However,...
View Article“Modifiable factors governing indoor fungal diversity and risk of asthma”
Just came across this review from Sharpe et al. at the University of Exeter, UK; “Modifiable factors governing indoor fungal diversity and risk of asthma”. I’ve just skimmed it so far, but it seems...
View ArticleNicholas Obsborne and Richard Sharpe on Moldy homes, ventilation,...
This is a guest post from Nicholas Osborne from the University of Exeter Medical School. I saw a paper of his that seemed very relevant to microBE.net “Indoor fungal diversity and asthma: A...
View ArticleWater damaged child care building closed for mold abatement
A UC Riverside child development center building will be closed for several months in order to clean up mold contamination. Air and surface testing will be performed to certify the building as safe...
View ArticleStudies in Mycology 78: Species diversity in Aspergillus, Penicillium and...
A new volume of Studies in Mycology was published recently and is dedicated to the diversity in the fungal genera Aspergillus, Penicillium and Talaromyces, all of which play a significant role indoors....
View Article“Ghosts” and the indoor microbiome
Now for something lighter. The website Science Daily reported on a study at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, to look at mold in houses reported to be haunted. The news announcement reports,...
View ArticleReport of Interest on Home Dampness & Mold from Mark Mendell
An automated Google Scholar search for “Indoor Microbiology” alerted me to this report from Mark Mendell: A Research Agenda on Assessing and Remediating Home Dampness and Mold to Reduce...
View ArticleTimes-Picayune asks – Did a moldy building kill 4 New Orleans Professors
Well this is certainly very interesting and filled with all sorts of topics of relevance to microbiology of the built environment: Source: Did a moldy building kill 4 New Orleans college professors?...
View ArticleNew Papers, November 20, 2015
Lots of cool new papers to share. Unfortunately, many are behind paywalls. Humans in hospitals Towards an antimicrobial ‘microglove’ – Ewoud Reilman – Scientific Reports (OA) Healthcare workers...
View ArticleNew papers on Microbiology of the Built Environment, October 1, 2016
Microbes in subways Bioaerosols in the Barcelona subway system – X. Triadó-Margarit – Indoor Air ($6 to rent, $38 to own) (…) We examined the microbiological composition and abundance in space and...
View ArticleNew papers on Microbiology of the Built Environment, October 15, 2016
Microbes indoors Review: Microorganisms in Confined Habitats: Microbial Monitoring and Control of Intensive Care Units, Operating Rooms, Cleanrooms and the International Space Station – Maximilian Mora...
View ArticleNew papers on Microbiology of the Built Environment, January 7, 2017
Microbes around the house Editorial: An emerging paradox: Toward a better understanding of the potential benefits and adversity of microbe exposures in the indoor environment – J. Mensah-Attipoe –...
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