Dr. Anne’s Book of Common Microbes and their Wonders
In the Dunn lab we have worked for the last decade to study the life in homes. We have swabbed belly buttons, searched under beds, [...]
The Most Common Bacteria in New York City Soils are Unnamed, Can’t be Grown, and Aren’t Being Studied and Probably Won’t be in the Conceivable Future
It is worth remembering, when deadly pathogens are in the news that most microscopic species are either of no consequence to human health and well-being [...]
The Tip of the Gutberg: The World’s First Map of the Patina of Feces
If one tells the story of the history of the Earth from the perspective of microbes, one of the great leaps forward was the evolution [...]
The Common Yet Relatively Unknown Bacteria in Your Belly Button
Two weeks ago, we (finally) returned data to participants in the Belly Button Biodiversity project and unveiled some slick, new data visualizations to help participants [...]
Revealing the twenty most important species living in your body
What lives in you? It is a simple enough question. Yet, for most of history, it has been unanswerable. Finally, in just the last few [...]