Wrap up of recent posts of relevance on microBEnet

I have been doing a lot of blogging at microBEnet and don't always do a good job of cross posting or even posting here to let people know of the cross talk / related posts.

So I am trying to do that briefly now.  Here are some posts from the last few months on microBEnet that may be of interest, These are posts from March through today.

• Great article by Maryn McKenna on the hunt for new antibiotics w/ crowdsourcing help
• Worth a look: Are Pets the New Probiotic? in the NY Times
• Alleged mishandling of Flint Legionnaire’s outbreak leads to manslaughter charges for MI health chief
• Report: Guests leave Las Vegas’ Rio hotel with Legionnaires’ disease
• A hairy pacman approach to “microbial dark matter” in drinking water
• Pre-microbiology – Ancient Imaginations of the Microbial World
• New paper of interest on antibiotic resistance genes in 4 CA cities but dangerous PR from UCLA
• Compiling a list of Microbiology of the Built Environment related presentations at ASMicrobe17
• Love the #AgarArt contest from ASM …
• Dirty money: interesting data but unclear what implications are
• Who are the microbes in your neighborhood? In your neighborhood? In your neighborhood?
• A fascinating side story to brain-defect microbiome study – major role of the built environment
• Kristen DeAngelis slides for “Microbial Diversity” Course
• Why use Bracken instead of Kraken?
• This is calling out for a large microbiome study: Salt from icy roads is contaminating North America’s lakes
• Your help is wanted in this #CitizenMicrobiology project: “BashTheBug – Help us fight antibiotic resistance!”
• Dr. Director & Duflo: Dogs Dropping Doody Do Digestive DNA Data Duty 
• Day 2 of #NeLLi17: From New Lineages of Life To New Functions
• Interesting discussion of data vs. metadata started at #NeLLi17 & continuing
• Day 1 of #NeLLi17 – From New Lineages of Life To New Functions 
• Journal of Bacteriology minireview collection on host-microbe interactions
• Paper of interest comparing taxonomies of SILVA, RDP, Greengenes, NCBI and OTT 
• Are ‘germ-zapping’ robots useful in fighting hospital acquired infections?
• Wanted – help compiling a list of academic #microbiome centers
• Quick post – this looks potentially very useful – ATLAS – comprehensive infrastructure for assembly, annotation, & genomic binning of metagenomic data 
• Reasonably cautious but optimistic editorial on “The human microbiome: an emerging tool in forensics” 
• The microbiomes of built environments when the builder is not human
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