Abstract
The Sloan Symposium, “Microbiology of the Indoor Environment,” was held to facilitate dialog on biological research between scientists and practitioners in the field which was complementary to the adjoining activities of the ISIAQ Healthy Buildings Europe conference, Eindhoven, Netherlands, on 20–21 May 2015. Multi-media archives of these special adjunct proceedings are presented.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40168-015-0115-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Highlights
The Sloan Symposium on the Microbiology of the Indoor Environment (MoBE) was held in Eindhoven, Background The symposium presented and addressed barriers to the widespread practical use of the latest molecular microbial ecology methods to characterize indoor environments, in an effort to help practitioners to use these data in creating more healthful settings
We attempted to identify key research questions based on practical needs that can lead to more widespread and contextually appropriate use of molecular methods and collection of useful metadata. This special symposium consisted of a plenary lecture, two technical sessions, and an interactive workshop facilitated as an open forum embedded in the Healthy Buildings 2015-Europe conference program followed by an Annex Workshop to capture, expand, and to prioritize potentially important future indoor environment research themes
There was general consensus that while the applied microbiology developments emerging in this research community—first and foremost, DNA recovery methodology and in particular, generation sequencing—have had notable impacts as judged by common academic metrics; these advances have not successfully translated into paths which are available for practitioners to apply such methods or interpret these results with confidence in the field
Summary
The Sloan Symposium on the Microbiology of the Indoor Environment (MoBE) was held in Eindhoven, Background The symposium presented and addressed barriers to the widespread practical use of the latest molecular microbial ecology methods to characterize indoor environments, in an effort to help practitioners to use these data in creating more healthful settings. The use of high throughput DNA sequencing methods raises important questions as to how to interpret the results of ecological approaches to indoor environment research or applications.
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