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The Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE) is currently seeking a post-doc to investigate fundamental questions surrounding the role of microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi archaea,...

https://microbe.net/2021/04/21/open-postdoc-position-at-university-of-oregon-biobe/

There is a new paper out of possible interest. Source: Stagaman K, Cepon-Robins TJ, Liebert MA, Gildner TE, Urlacher SS, Madimenos FC, Guillemin K, Snodgrass JJ, Sugiyama LS, Bohannan BJM. 2018....

https://microbe.net/2018/03/05/new-paper-of-potential-interest-on-economic-development-and-the-human-microbiome/

Early-life microbial exposure has been recognized to have a crucial role in immune development. Exposure in the actual infant breathing zone (BZ), influenced by the resuspension of floor dust, ho...

https://microbe.net/2018/02/08/two-new-papers-exploring-the-characteristics-of-infant-microbial-exposures/

The report (and the data) from our Sloan-funded taxonomic annotation workshop on fungi in the built environment was just published in MycoKeys: https://mycokeys.pensoft.net/article/20887/list/4/...

https://microbe.net/2018/01/08/new-paper-taxonomic-annotation-of-public-fungal-its-sequences-from-the-built-environment-a-report-from-an-april-10-11-2017-workshop-aberdeen-uk/

Legionella is a bacterium found in drinking water distributions systems, as well as premise plumbing, hot tubs, hot water heaters, cooling towers, and other building water systems. At high enough...

https://microbe.net/2017/12/27/provisional-legionella-committee/

An update on this story Managing Legionella in Water Systems Nominate Experts for an Upcoming Consensus Project The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will undertake a pr...

https://microbe.net/2017/10/18/nominate-and-expert-managing-legionella-in-water-systems/

Collections of microbial cultures are critical tools in studying the microbial world around us. I have learned this from personal experience.  The DSMZ for example, was absolutely essential to t...

https://microbe.net/2017/10/17/want-to-become-a-guardian-of-microbial-diversity-support-microbe-collections/

Yup.  Microbes can be beautiful.  Check out these pics and more in the WBUR article about “Life at the Edge of Sight” a phenomenal new book from Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter. WBUR ar...

https://microbe.net/2017/10/16/life-is-beautiful-especially-microbial-life/

Well, I am in DC for #MoBE17 and was secretly hoping to get in a Washington Nationals playoff game on Thursday. Heading to DC for #mobe17 and since the #RedSox are out I got out hat for another f...

https://microbe.net/2017/10/10/the-washington-nationals-need-a-traveling-microbiology-of-the-built-environment-expert-mobe17/

Highlighting MoBE Research !!   I am putting together a slide deck to highlight MoBE research at the Microbiology of the Built Environment Symposium October (10th-12th) at the National Academy o...

https://microbe.net/2017/09/11/call-for-mobe-photos-and-videos/