WIRED whisky fungus story wins prestigious Kavli Science Journalism Award
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), […]
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. Scott on AIHA’s Safe and Sound
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 […]
Microorganisms in home & indoor work environments, 2nd edition
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 […]
Landmark global study on indoor mold
Dr. Scott was recently interviewed in Scientific American to comment on a landmark study that revolutionizes our understanding of the complexity of indoor mold ecology. Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the Sloan Foundation-funded study collected dust samples from a range of building types worldwide and evaluated fungal communities using […]
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 […]