microBEnet: the microbiology of the Built Environment network.

(posting on behalf of Dr. Karen Dannemiller)   The Indoor Air 2024 conference from the International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISAIQ) will take place in beautiful Honolulu, HI....

https://microbe.net/2023/07/09/join-indoor-air-2024s-conference-countdown-challenge/

Registration is now open for the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Microbiology of the Built Environment, to be held June 19 – 24, 2022 at Waterville Valley, NH (USA). Talks and posters will c...

https://microbe.net/2022/03/28/2022-microbiology-of-the-built-environment-gordon-research-meeting/

New COVID Preprint out from BioBE: Preprint Link: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-940891/v1 We recruited 11 participants that were diagnosed with COVID-19 and studied each for 3 days i...

https://microbe.net/2021/10/04/biobe-preprint-controlled-chamber-covid-study/

Job Posting:   The Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Virginia Tech invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in environmental engineer...

https://microbe.net/2021/09/21/job-posting-tenure-track-faculty-position-in-environmental-microbiology-at-virginia-tech/

Posted a request to Twitter about Metagenomic dinners and assemblers and got a lot of useful responses so collected them together into a Wakelet. See below:

https://microbe.net/2021/09/15/metagenomic-binning-assembly/

Wanted: Workers for the COVID19 Mass Testing Operations for UC Davis and Healthy Davis Together  Looking for a temporary job in the Davis/Sacramento area and want to help with COVID19 testing? S...

https://microbe.net/2021/09/15/wanted-workers-for-the-covid19-mass-testing-operations-for-uc-davis-and-healthy-davis-together/

The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) are seeking highly motivated applicants for postdoctoral position in epidemiological analyses of mic...

https://microbe.net/2021/05/25/open-postdoc-position-in-finland/

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/

A new viral disease surveillance tool: Indoor dust as a matrix for surveillance of COVID-19, published in mSystems. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, large scale monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 has help...

https://microbe.net/2021/04/13/dust-may-be-an-efficient-matrix-for-environmental-monitoring-of-sars-cov-2/

About a month ago I posted a request for information about guidance for school reopening. See the post here: https://microbe.net/2021/02/06/compiling-information-about-covid19-transmission-masks-...

https://microbe.net/2021/03/24/compilation-of-guidance-from-a-few-sources-on-school-reopening/