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**PLEASE NOTE:** New grant proposals are no longer being accepted in this program. 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. ## 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.
[](https://sloan. org/programs/completed-programs/microbiology-of-the-built-environment) * 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. [](https://sloan.
org/programs/completed-programs/microbiology-of-the-built-environment) * The New York Times ### Subway Swabbers Find a Microbe Jungle and Thousands of New Species * Bloomberg ### To Make a Building Healthier, Stop Sanitizing Everything * Colorado State University ### Global summit on science and innovation for reopening workplaces safely starts this week * Good Morning America ### Testing buildings may become added weapon in coronavirus reopenings * Washington Post ### ‘Superspreading’ events, triggered by people who may not even know they are infected, propel coronavirus pandemic * University of California, Davis ### National Survey Shows Different Bacteria on Cellphones and Shoes [](https://sloan.
org/programs/completed-programs/microbiology-of-the-built-environment) * $50,000 To support Community of Microbes, a dynamic, augmented reality-enabled interactive experience that introduces audiences to microorganism ecosystems Learn More * $30,000 To support a workshop on Viruses in the Built Environment Learn More * $67,000 To support a Banbury meeting on the Microbiology of the Built Environment Learn More * $101,430 To develop a business plan to sustain the activities of the Microbiology of the Built Environment Network Learn More * $125,000 To provide renewed support to examine how disinfectants may promote antibiotic resistance through horizontal gene transfer Learn More * $30,000 To extend comparative data analysis for studies of water damaged homes in NY and CA Learn More [](https://sloan.
org/programs/completed-programs/microbiology-of-the-built-environment) * University of Oregon Visit Site * An online resource for all things related to indoor microbiology. Visit Site * A leading platform for visualizing microbial population structures. Visit Site * An open source microbial study management platform Visit Site * An open source bioinformatic pipeline for performing microbiome analysis from raw DNA sequencing data.
Visit Site * A National Academies consensus study on the state of the field, where it needs to go, and how to get there. Visit Site * A National Academies consensus study Visit Site * Hicks, Coil, Stahmer, and Eisen study the effects of Sloan funding on the formation of a new research community. Visit Site [](https://sloan.
org/programs/completed-programs/microbiology-of-the-built-environment) Microbiology of the Built Environment /programs/completed-programs/microbiology-of-the-built-environment
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