A Tale of Two Cohorts

Sequence data contamination from biological or digital sources can obscure true results and falsely raise one’s hopes.  Contamination is a persist issue in microbial ecology, and each experiment faces unique challenges from a myriad of sources, which I...

Lightbox project video in production

Following our recent publication on the effect of light on house dust; Fahimipour et al. 2018. “Daylight exposure modulates bacterial communities associated with household dust”, some of our undergraduate students have been developing a short video that...

New publication on daylight and dust communities!

We are pleased to announce that our latest publication is now available! Daylight exposure modulates bacterial communities associated with household dust Ashkaan K. Fahimipour , Erica M. Hartmann, Andrew Siemens, Jeff Kline, David A. Levin, Hannah Wilson, Clarisse M....