Fwd: Citizen science - Microbiology of the Built Environment

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From: Patrik <patrikd@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:43 AM
Subject: Citizen science - Microbiology of the Built Environment
To: DIYbio <diybio@googlegroups.com>


Jonathan Eisen at UC Davis is heading a new project called the
"Microbiology of the Built Environment Network". Jonathan is a big
proponent of Open Access and citizen science, and he has been posting
some ideas for projects that would lend themselves very well to a
DIYBio approach, including sampling microbes from water heaters,
aquariums, etc. Check 'em out:

http://www.microbe.net/2011/04/09/thermophiles-lurking-in-your-basement/

http://www.microbe.net/2011/08/18/more-on-citizen-microbiology-project-from-penn_state-nasa-on-thermophiles-in-water-heaters-via-scicheer-sci4cits/

http://www.microbe.net/2011/08/20/what-microbes-are-lurking-in-your-fish-tank-good-candidate-for-some-citizen-microbiology-i-think/

I'm trying to play matchmaker between Jonathan and our new BioCurious
lab in the Bay Area - it'd be great to do something together.

(for the water heater project, see also:
http://scienceforcitizens.net/blog/2011/08/whats-in-your-water-heater-nasa-wants-to-know/
http://www.scienceforcitizens.net/project/462/ )

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