Press Release
US Joint Genome Institute releases Baudoinia sequence
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 […]
Dr. Summerbell’s new book
There is always joy in the laboratory when a brand new mold identification book appears. When the book has hundreds of colour photos to help with fungal identification, it is especially celebrated. Eyes widened around here when we brought in the first copies of Identifying Fungi, by Guy St.-Germain and our own Research Director, Richard […]
AIHA Accreditation ISO:IEC 17025 awarded to Sporometrics
We are delighted to announce that Sporometrics has recently become fully accredited to the ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard by the American Industrial Hygiene Association Laboratory Accreditation Programs (AIHA LAP, LLC). Accreditation represents the single most comprehensive and widely recognized international credential in the performance of environmental microbiological laboratory analyses of a range of matrices from the […]