The details of the session are below:
Session Title: The Great Indoors: Recent Advances in the Ecology of Built Environments
Session Date/Time: Sunday Jun 17, 2012 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Session Room: Esplanade Ballroom 300
Description: Although humans in industrialized countries spend nearly 90% of their time in enclosed buildings, we know very little about the biology of the indoor environment. However, this is starting to change. Over the past few years, the field of indoor ecology has grown dramatically. Ecologists are beginning to apply ecological theory and concepts to understanding buildings as ecosystems. A new understanding of the biodiversity of built environments is emerging, as well as a new appreciation of the importance of interactions between humans and non-human life indoors. The proposed symposium will showcase this emerging understanding. We will feature presentations that demonstrate the utility of ecological theory for understanding built environments, that describe the dynamics of biodiversity indoors and that illustrate the interactions of humans with indoor ecology. Our focus will be on the ecology of the dominant forms of non-human life indoors - microorganisms - and their interactions with humans.
Talks
- Jonathan Eisen microBEnet: the microbiology of the built environment network
- Nicholas Be: Examination of the environmental air microbiome using deep sequencing
- Katie Kirsch: A microbial analysis of environmental surfaces in hotel rooms
- Mark Hernandez: Stability of airborne microbes to master environmental variables
- John Senko: Microbial communities associated with flue gas desulfurization systems
- Kimberly Ross: Drinking water delivery networks as microbial ecosystems
- Jordan Peccia: The effect of environmental conditions on the allergenic potency of Aspergillus fumigatus spores
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