Henk Aarts and Abelardo Margolles* 1 Department of Foodborne Infections, Centre for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands 2 Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry of Dairy Products, Dairy Research Institute, Spanish National Research Council, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain *Correspondence: [email protected]...

The microbiology of the Built Environment network (microBEnet: http://www. microbe.net/) was formed as an experiment in interdisciplinary community building, with an overarching goal to facilitate and nurture the development of a new research field: the microbiology of the built environment (MBE). The field of MBE research was conceived based on the reasoning that modern humans spend most of th...

Architects are enthusiastic about "bioinformed design" as occupant well-being is a primary measure of architectural success. However, architects are also under mounting pressure to create more sustainable buildings. Scientists have a critical opportunity to make the emerging field of microbiology of the built environment more relevant and applicable to real-world design problems by addressing h...

, © Bik This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. Several new papers about microbes and the built environment came out or came up in my searches this weekend, so time for another installment. S...

OBJECTIVE To investigate if a virtual laboratory simulation (vLAB) could be used to replace a face to face tutorial (demonstration) to prepare students for a laboratory exercise in microbiology. METHODS A total of 189 students who were participating in an undergraduate biology course were randomly selected into a vLAB or demonstration condition. In the vLAB condition students could use a vLAB...

It has been just over three centuries since Antonie van Leewenhoek first conclusively documented the biological nature of the elements of air and dust in the built environment [1]. During the 20th century, advancements in sampling instrumentation and analysis techniques yielded a large literature on the microbiology of air and dust, mainly using culture and microscopy [2, 3]. In the past few de...

At the end of June, over 120 microbiologists from 18 countries gathered in Dundee, Scotland for the fourth edition of the Young Microbiologists Symposium on 'Microbe Signalling, Organisation and Pathogenesis'. The aim of the symposium was to give early career microbiologists the opportunity to present their work in a convivial environment and to interact with senior world-renowned scientists in...

The Primary Casualty Receiving Facility (PCRF) Pathology Department was deployed on Operation GRITROCK from October 2014 to April 2015 to support the medical treatment facility on RFA ARGUS. The department deployed with enhanced microbiology capability and effectively became the microbiology reference laboratory for the Joint Operations Area (JOA). A platelet apheresis capability was delivered ...