This is the 1500th blog post at microBEnet! I figured I’d take this chance to reflect a bit and look up some stats for anyone who might be interested. First the easy stuff: Since opening shop in April 2011, we’ve had 831,000 pageviews, by some 473,000 users. Around 75% of our site traffic is new …
I got an email the other day about a new feature at Figshare. It was about a new feature they have called “Collections“. But before I describe that I should probably describe Figshare. Figshare is a repository for depositing and sharing various digital objects including not just Figures (which they name kind of implies … …
One of the main goals of microBEnet has been to improve cross-talk between disciplines with the field of the microbiology of the built environment. One way we’ve attempted to accomplish that is through a manually curated collection of all publications relevant to the field. At the time we began, Mendeley seemed the obvious choice for …
Quick post here. Just got alerted to this paper by automated searches from Pubchase: Construction of a dairy microbial genome catalog opens new perspect… – PubMed – NCBI. This paper provides a really good example of how researchers interested in microbial ecology of a particular system (in this case, dairies and cheese) can use culturing and …
As people have probably noticed, we have an increasing number of guests posts here on microBEnet, which is awesome. This is intended to be a community resource, and we’ve been actively reaching out and recruiting people to post about their work here. To that end, I’ve just made a tutorial video that walks you through …
We publish a newsletter every month here at microBEnet. And I thought it would be good to also publish to the blog the various summaries and roundups from the newsletter. Past newsletters are archived here. Here are some of the highlights from this latest newsletter. MicroBEnet Blogs A summary of the recent topics posted on microBE.net …
On October 7th and 8th 2014, we held a workshop at the University of California, Davis entitled Animals in the Built Environment. The aim of this workshop was to catalyze the study of the microbiology of built environments where animals live by bringing together experts in animal health, building science and microbiology to discuss why these systems are …
Just a quick post here. Some may have noticed that more of the posts here at microBEnet than say, a year ago, are not focused explicitly about “microbiology of the Built Environment” (MoBE). They are instead sometimes focused on microbiology, history of microbiology, architecture, methods in microbial ecology, bioinformatics tools, and more. There is a reason …
Quick post here. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has a podcast on “Pioneering Ideas” and it covers microbiomes of the built environment this week:1 RWJF Pioneering Ideas Podcast: Episode 5 | Conspiracy Theories, Microbiomes & More – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They also give a nice plug for microBEnet. From their site: Microbiomes and Design (26:25) — …
The Microbiology of the Built Environment Network (http://microBE.net – this website) has made it into the community page at PLoS Biology! Our article has been in the works for some time, and we’re now pleased to announce its official publication: Bik HM, Coil DA, Eisen JA (2014) microBEnet: Lessons Learned from Building an Interdisciplinary Scientific Community …