James Meadow is recently back from Hong Kong, where he was presenting new BioBE research at the 2014 Indoor Air meeting. Indoor microbiology research was very well represented in a series of packed sessions sponsored by the Sloan Foundation. Discussions throughout the meeting seemed to reflect the shift in the changing MoBE field — toward focused experimental approaches to test some of the outstanding questions raised by recent studies, and toward integrating public health into ecological studies. The folks at microbe.net put together a Storify collection of #microbenet tweets during the meeting (link here).