Roundup of microBEnet posts of (possible) interest

I spend a decent amount of my blogging time these days writing posts for microBEnet (the microbiology of the built environment network) which is part of a project funded in my lab by the Sloan Foundation.

Some recent posts that may be of interest are listed below:

• 2015-09-11Another blast from the past: Simple fools guide to PCR v1
• 2015-09-10Gates Foundation seeking proposals on Characterizing and Tracking Antimicrobial Resistance
• 2015-09-09“A diversity of gifts”: article about the MBL Microbial Diversity course
• The White House Webcast on Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing 9/30
• 2015-09-08Another important paper: microbiome studies “strongly influenced by sample processing & PCR primers”
• 2015-09-06Important paper on how biases in DNA extraction can shape inferences from metagenomics (re spore formers)
• 2015-09-05Retroblogging seminar by Norm Pace on Invisible Diversity from 1990
• Retroblogging seminars: notes from talk by Charlie Yanofsky in 1991
• 2015-09-03Empiricist League #16 meeting at Union Hall on The Hidden DNA of NYC
• Stanford Bioengineering, Jr. Faculty Search Announcement
• 2015-09-03Podcast on Antimicrobials and Resistance in the Environment
• 2015-09-02microBEnet journal club: MetaBAT for reconstructing single genomes from complex microbial communities
• 2015-08-31Jed Fuhrman comments on rRNA primers
• 2015-08-30Microbiome informed design – air quality, avoiding filtering, and lichens
• 2015-08-29Interesting and important new paper: Microbial composition of purified waters 
• 2015-08-27Clothes May Be A Vector for RSV in NICUs
• Is your spacecraft contaminating the universe?
• 2015-08-26Simple & elegant solution to a big problem in DNA based microbial diversity studies
• From NC State: Citizen Science Effort Highlights How Little We Know About Invisible Life in Our Own Homes 
• 2015-08-25Rob Dunn on “The First National Inventory of All Household Life (on a swab)”
• 2015-08-25Thousands of microbes found in house dust – BBC News
• Bacteria in Household Dust Reflect Who Lives There : Discovery News
• Sarah Zhang updates “What I Learned From Sequencing the Bacteria in My Apartment”
• 2015-08-18Don’t diss microbial eukaryotes in human gut by calling them all parasites 
• 2015-08-15Call for Abstracts: Indoor Air 2016 @IA2016 in Ghent 
• 2015-08-04Ways to do cheap DNA extractions from 1000s of samples?
• 2015-08-03Times-Picayune asks – Did a moldy building kill 4 New Orleans Professors
• 2015-07-31Talk Videos from Healthy Buildings 2015 Europe Session on Microbiology of the Built Environment 
• 2015-07-13More on the history of uninformed, risky microbiology of the built environment experiments  by US Military
• 2015-07-07Report of Interest on Home Dampness & Mold from Mark Mendell
• 2015-07-02Sensationalist headline from Time on Air Conditioning health risks, but OK story
• Inside Philanthropy covers the BioBE Center and Sloan MoBE Program 
• 2015-06-14Yeast Culture Collection Post Doc Fellowship Possibility
• 2015-06-05Round up of Tweets from #ASM2015, no thanks to Storify
• How to choose a metagenomic sequencing strategy – input wanted
• 2015-05-21The White House wants input on the future of microbiome research (by June 15)
• 2015-05-16The kittybiome Project – background and some plans
• 2015-05-15Talk by Michael Fischbach on “Small molecules from the human microbiota”
• 2015-05-13Challenges and Opportunities of Airborne Metagenomics
• 2015-05-09Time Magazine on “Should I Use Antibacterial Soap”