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This year three of our staff joined the international ranks of Mo Bros and Mo Sistas to raise money and awareness for men’s health. Our Spor-Mo-Metrics team consisting of A ”mean stache” Maharaj; Mike “the handle-bar” Saleh, and “Yor-de-cutest Mo Sista” Guardiola raised over $1000 for Prostate Canada. Congratulations to all the Movember participants and […]

We congratulate Adam Rogers, senior science editor at WIRED magazine, for receiving the 2011 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for best magazine article for “The Angel’s Share”, in which he recounted Dr. Scott’s work on the whisky fungus, Baudoinia compniacensis. The Kavli awards are administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), […]

The US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) today released the full, annotated genome sequence of Baudoinia compniacensis, a fungus we discovered that was featured in the June 2011 issue of WIRED MAGAZINE. This extremophilic sooty mold is the prominent pioneering species in the primary successional community known as “warehouse staining”, where darkly pigmented […]

On the July 8, 2011 edition of AIHA’s Safe and Sound podcast hosted by Craig Sorrell and Katherine Grandstaff, they speak with Dr. James Scott about a mystery fungus that grows around whiskey distilleries. Dr. Scott’s discoveries were recently highlighted in the June 2011 issue of Wired Magazine. You can access the podcast either via […]

We are delighted to announce the release of the second edition of Microorganisms in Home & Indoor Work Environments: Diversity, Health Impacts, Investigation and Control, Brian Flannigan, Rob Samson & J David Miller (editors), CRC Press. Like its forerunner, this volume provides a comprehensive review of airborne microorganisms and the indoor environments in which they […]