2 papers
q-bio.PE2024
An Interdisciplinary Perspective of the Built-Environment Microbiome
John S. McAlister, Michael J. Blum, Yana Bromberg +8
The built environment provides an excellent setting for interdisciplinary research on the dynamics of microbial communities. The system is simplified compared to many natural setti…
q-bio.PE2023
The Case for Controls: Identifying outbreak risk factors through case-control comparisons
Nina H. Fefferman, Michael J. Blum, Lydia Bourouiba +7
Investigations of infectious disease outbreaks often focus on identifying place- and context-dependent factors responsible for emergence and spread, resulting in phenomenological n…