The bacteria that colonize humans and our built environments have the potential to
influence our health. Microbial communities associated with seven families and their homes …

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Elucidating the biogeography of bacterial communities on the human body is critical for
establishing healthy baselines from which to detect differences associated with diseases. To …

The advent and application of high-throughput molecular techniques for analyzing microbial
communities in the indoor environment have led to illuminating findings and are beginning …

Westernization has propelled changes in urbanization and architecture, altering our
exposure to the outdoor environment from that experienced during most of human evolution …

Most of our time is spent indoors where we are exposed to a wide array of different
microorganisms living on surfaces and in the air of our homes. Despite their ubiquity and …

Buildings are complex ecosystems that house trillions of microorganisms interacting with
each other, with humans and with their environment. Understanding the ecological and …

Expanding urbanization is a major factor behind rapidly declining biodiversity. It has been
proposed that in urbanized societies, the rarity of contact with diverse environmental …

Background Humans can spend the majority of their time indoors, but little is known about
the interactions between the human and built-environment microbiomes or the forces that …

People's desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People
spend most of their time in spaces and structures designed, built, and managed by humans …