A new paper from Scott Kelley is out: PLoS ONE: Office Space Bacterial Abundance and Diversity in Three Metropolitan Areas. This work was supported in part by the Sloan Foundation’s program in Micr...
Read ItWell, I have been digging around a lot into Nanopore sequencing recently. This started as preparation for a lecture I gave at the Bodega Applied Phylogenetics course a few weeks ago on “The Evoluti...
Read ItA new paper “Evolution of the Indoor Biome” is out and should be of interest to many who think about microbes in the built environment and related topics. The paper has quite an incredible collec...
Read ItA little update here. Last week a group of us launched a new participatory science project on the microbiome of cats. It is called “kittybiome” and we have launched a Kickstarter fundraiser for th...
Read ItSource: The microbiome of the built environment and mental health | Microbiome | Full Text Andrew J. Hoisington, Lisa A. Brenner, Kerry A. Kinney, Teodor T. Postolache and Christopher A. Lowry When...
Read ItI made a Storify summary of the Tweets from a workshop at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing that I attended on Tuesday on Computational Microbiology (with a big focus on microbiomes). [<a h...
Read ItJust got done reading this article from the Guardian and it is distressing Guardian analysis reveals millions of customers were asked to used testing method condemned by the EPA which may flush out...
Read ItThere was a very interesting artilce in the New York Times on August 21 bu Michael Kimmelman: In Redesigned Room, Hospital Patients May Feel Better Already. The article focuses on a move by the Un...
Read ItThere are a bunch of stories starting to come out based on some press and paper releases from the CDC yesterday. One that seems well done is this from CIDRAP: CDC notes progress, threat regarding h...
Read ItPhylogenomics is a field in which genome analysis and evolutionary reconstructions are integrated. This integration is important because genome data is of great value in evolutionary reconstruct...
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