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A common component of house dust, Aspergillus glaucus thrives in low-moisture environments, making it ideally suited to the dry indoor spaces build by humans.
Program Goal
To grow a new multidisciplinary field of scientific inquiry focused on understanding the microbial ecology of the built environments where people work, live, and play.
Strategy
- Generate new knowledge by directly supporting original, high-quality research on the microbial ecology of the built environment.
- Build a thriving, multidisciplinary network and research community of biologists, engineers, architects, and technologists that will endure beyond the program’s timeline.
- Train the next generation of scholars and practitioners. An important component of this program is introducing new voices into the field and training the next generation of researchers.
- Develop community-wide research and data collection protocols, and norms.
- Advance capacity for discovery through development of new tools and resources for data collection, sampling, analysis, and visualization.
- Attract dedicated funding from federal agencies by demonstrating the existence of important gaps in our scientific knowledge and the potential for federal intervention to fill them.
News
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The New York Times
Subway Swabbers Find a Microbe Jungle and Thousands of New Species
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Bloomberg
To Make a Building Healthier, Stop Sanitizing Everything
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Colorado State University
Global summit on science and innovation for reopening workplaces safely starts this week
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Good Morning America
Testing buildings may become added weapon in coronavirus reopenings
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Washington Post
‘Superspreading’ events, triggered by people who may not even know they are infected, propel coronavirus pandemic
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University of California, Davis
National Survey Shows Different Bacteria on Cellphones and Shoes
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Microbiology of the Built Environment
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Photo Credit: K. Seifert © Her Majesty the Queen in the Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
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A common component of house dust, Aspergillus glaucus thrives in low-moisture environments, making it ideally suited to the dry indoor spaces build by humans.
Program Goal
To grow a new multidisciplinary field of scientific inquiry…