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Tweets for the microBEnet project (microbe.net) - communication relating to microbiology of the Built Environment

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microBEnet@microBEnet
28 Mar 2022
New post by Kyle Bibby: 2022 Microbiology of the Built Environment Gordon Research Meeting ift.tt/4L3nHOy ift.tt/w0PyuAa

2022 Microbiology of the Built Environment Gordon Research Meeting

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 cover…

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New post by wymelenberg: BioBE Preprint: Controlled Chamber COVID Study ift.tt/3FlF1Av ift.tt/eA8V8J
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21 Sep 2021
New post by David Coil: Job posting: Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Environmental Microbiology at Virginia Tech ift.tt/39sKeaZ ift.tt/eA8V8J

Job posting: Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Environmental Microbiology at Virginia Tech

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 engine…

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15 Sep 2021
New post by Jonathan Eisen: Metagenomic Binning / Assembly ift.tt/3AhAhZJ ift.tt/eA8V8J

Metagenomic Binning / Assembly

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:

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15 Sep 2021
New post by Jonathan Eisen: Wanted: Workers for the COVID19 Mass Testing Operations for UC Davis and Healthy Davis Together  ift.tt/3hBDiNb ift.tt/eA8V8J
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25 May 2021
New post by Rachel Adams: Open Postdoc Position in Finland ift.tt/2Ssoo2k ift.tt/eA8V8J

Open Postdoc Position in Finland

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 micro…

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22 Apr 2021
New post by wymelenberg: Open Postdoc Position at University of Oregon BioBE ift.tt/3sEGcnk ift.tt/eA8V8J
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13 Apr 2021
New post by Sarah Haines: Dust may be an efficient matrix for environmental monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 ift.tt/3scVKyd ift.tt/eA8V8J

Dust may be an efficient matrix for environmental monitoring of SARS-CoV-2

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 helped…

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24 Mar 2021
New post by Jonathan Eisen: Compilation of guidance (from a few sources) on School Reopening ift.tt/3rguRco ift.tt/eA8V8J

Compilation of guidance (from a few sources) on School Reopening

About a month ago I posted a request for information about guidance for school reopening. See the post here: I spent a while looking at the responses and also soliciting some more and ended up with…

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New post by Jonathan Eisen: Compiling Information about COVID19 transmission, masks, filtration, schools, etc. ift.tt/3jt1t0i ift.tt/eA8V8J

Compiling Information about COVID19 transmission, masks, filtration, schools, etc.

UPDATE March 24, 2021. Wrote a summary post here:   Trying to collect some of the various information about COVID19 transmission and related topics including masks, schools, CO2, variants, etc…

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21 Dec 2020
New post by Jonathan Eisen: Wanted – science driven guidelines for deciding if and how to keep open / reopen schools re: #COVID19 ift.tt/37FYLjL ift.tt/eA8V8J

Wanted – science driven guidelines for deciding if and how to keep open / reopen schools re:...

I am compiling some materials on science driven guidelines for how to decide if and how to keep open and/or reopen schools in the face of COVID19. Here are some I have compiled that I seem to be us…

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14 Dec 2020
New post by David Coil: #COVID19 Journal Club “Evidence of Long-Distance Droplet Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by Direct Air Flow in a Restaurant in Korea” ift.tt/2WfkDMf ift.tt/eA8V8J
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microBEnet@microBEnet
11 Dec 2020
New post by David Coil: #COVID19 Journal Club: “Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA contamination of inanimate surfaces and virus viability in a health care emergency unit” ift.tt/2KlMcRu ift.tt/eA8V8J
New post by David Coil: #COVID19 Journal Club: “Lack of SARS-CoV-2 RNA environmental contamination in a tertiary referral hospital for infectious diseases in Northern Italy” ift.tt/3gxfcS5 ift.tt/eA8V8J

#COVID19 Journal Club: “Lack of SARS-CoV-2 RNA environmental contamination in a tertiary referral...

Just a quick one here… a study looking for viral RNA in an intensively cleaned healthcare study showing very little detectable RNA in shared spaces in the hospital (in contrast to patient are…

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New post by David Coil: #COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Wastewater Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 as a Predictive Metric of Positivity Rate for a Major Metropolis” ift.tt/33Sz5he ift.tt/eA8V8J

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Wastewater Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 as a Predictive Metric of...

More wastewater sampling work, “Wastewater Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 as a Predictive Metric of Positivity Rate for a Major Metropolis”.  This one is a larger-scale study in a big city that…

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New post by David Coil: #COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Signal in a Home with COVID-19 Positive Occupants” ift.tt/2K6awGx ift.tt/eA8V8J

#COVID19 Preprint Journal Club: “Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Signal in a Home with COVID-19...

A nice article by several of our colleagues from the MoBE project days.   “Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Signal in a Home with COVID-19 Positive Occupants” does just what it says in th…

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New post by David Coil: #COVID19 Job Opportunity: 6 month gig in Genomic Epidemiology ift.tt/3oj2yc0 ift.tt/eA8V8J

#COVID19 Job Opportunity: 6 month gig in Genomic Epidemiology

Got pointed to this today… I can’t seem to copy and paste any of the text but is for a bioinformatics position working on their COVIDTracker.  Detailed information is here.    &nbs…

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20 Nov 2020
New post by David Coil: #COVID-19 Journal Club: “The wastewater microbiome: A novel insight for COVID-19 surveillance” ift.tt/3lQHmtf ift.tt/eA8V8J

#COVID-19 Journal Club: “The wastewater microbiome: A novel insight for COVID-19 surveillance”

This is a bit more up our alley!  “The wastewater microbiome: A novel insight for COVID-19 surveillance” doesn’t look directly at the virus but at the changes in the wastewater mi…

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17 Nov 2020
New post by David Coil: #COVID-19 Preprint Journal Club: “Longitudinal monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on high-touch surfaces in a community setting” ift.tt/35FQESY ift.tt/eA8V8J

#COVID-19 Preprint Journal Club: “Longitudinal monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on high-touch surfaces...

A break from wastewater articles!  “Longitudinal monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on high-touch surfaces in a community setting”. There’s not actually been a ton of articles about fom…

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17 Nov 2020
New post by David Coil: #COVID-19 Preprint Journal Club: “Tracking SARS-CoV-2 RNA through the wastewater treatment process” ift.tt/3lGKcRp ift.tt/eA8V8J

#COVID-19 Preprint Journal Club: “Tracking SARS-CoV-2 RNA through the wastewater treatment process”

Getting harder to keep up with all the wastewater articles related to SARS-CoV-2.  It’s becoming more and more common as a method of environmental surveillance for the virus.  And yes, this a…

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