Projects

10/25/11: Mark and Alina are awarded a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to host three annual conferences addressing the microbiology of the built environment.

10/1/11: Mark and Alina head to the American Association for Aerosol Reserach conference in Orlando, FL to present biopolymers data from the gulf project.

9/1/11: Kevin leaves the lab for a position in the Pace Lab in MCDB here at CU.

8/16/11: Mark is awarded a CBET grant from NSF to compare biopolymers between flooded and unflooded indoor environments. This award will fund Jane Turners PhD thesis research!

6/28/11: Kevin and Jane head to Dillard University in New Orleans to help train students in air sampling techniques.

6/4/11: Alina presents phylogeny data for samples collected from a flood-impacted indoor environment at Indoor Air in Austin, TX.

5/24/11: Ali presents preliminary microbially-induced concrete corrosion data at American Society for Microbiology general meeting in New Orleans.

5/24/11: The Gulf sampling crew returns from third and final trip.

2/21/11: Kevin, Ben, Jane, and Ali return from the second gulf sampling trip. There is still a lot of oil beneath the sand at the Louisiana beach. See article for a description.

2/15/11: The paper "Biopolymer Association with Hydrocarbon Weathering on Oil-Spill Impacted Shorelines" by Alina M. Handorean, Kevin M. McCabe, Jane Turner, Alison Ling, Benjamin J. Miller and Mark T. Hernandez was accepted for a presentation at the 10th International Conference on Carbonaceous Particles in the Atmosphere that will take place in Vienna, Austria, June 26-29, 2011.

10/16/10: Mark, Alina, Kevin, and Jane attend AAAR Annual Meeting in Portland, OR

4/21/10: Kevin and Alina are awarded an NSF RAPID grant for a multi-seasonal study of the biochemistry and toxicology of aerosols generated as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. See article for a description.

4/5/10: Graduate student Ali Ling is awarded the DOE Office of Science three-year Graduate Student Fellowship.

People

1/17/12: Ben Miller transitions to a Masters student in our lab. Ben has been working in the lab as an undergrad since Spring 2010.

1/16/12: Postdoc Bharath Prithiviraj joins the lab after spending a year in the Knight lab in MCDB, bringing expertise in high-throughput sequencing technologies and bioinformatics.

6/6/11: Summer REU student Wilmarie joins the lab. She will be working on assaying biopolymers from Boulder air samples.