Talk by Jonathan Eisen about the "microbiology of the built environment network" for the meeting "Microbiomes of the Built Environment" in Washington, DC on March 27, 2014.
2. 2010
• The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced
calls for proposals for a new “Indoor
Environment Program”
• One project would be to 



“… establish an interdisciplinary network
of researchers and practitioners that will
build the community, operate community
web resources, and organize specialized
workshops …”
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BE Reference Genomes
• 7 students
• Cultured organisms isolated from a variety
of built environments
• Identify, sequence, assemble, annotate,
publish a genome each
• 5 papers published so far in Genome
Announcements
• All Data released
• Student blog
• Brachybacterium muris (Jonathon Lo):
• Microbacterium sp (Zach Bendiks):
• Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens
(Jennifer Flanagan)
• Dietzia sp (Amanda Diep):
• Kocuria rosea (Jessica Doctor):
• Leucobacter sp (Dakota Bevans,
Hannah Holland-Moritz):
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Aquarium Biogeography
• Biogeography and succession
• Extensive chemical “metadata”
collected
• 16S surveys and metagenomics
• Using MBE tools
• Coordinated by Jenna Lang,
David Coil, Matt Haggerty
• Advice from Josh Neufeld &
Laura Sauder
• Papers in progress
Undergraduates:
•Sabreen Aulakh
•Alex Alexiev
•Akshay Sethi
•Andrew Shaver
•Jennifer Flanagan
•Lakshmi Bharadwaj
High School:
•Kevin Yang
•In collaboration with Kenneth
Kubo at American River
College
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Teaching and Spreading Openness
• Open Access publishing
• Repositories and preprints
• Open Data release
• Data and Metadata
publishing
• Open Source Software
• CC licenses on digital
products
• Recording and posting talks,
slides
• Post publication peer review