What sorts of bacteria did we find in a university classroom?

For more information about the study and others like it, visit http://biobe.uoregon.edu.

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This video describes a scientific paper published in the journal Microbiome:

Bacterial communities on classroom surfaces vary with human contact

Meadow JM, Altrichter AE, Kembel SW, Moriyama M, O’Connor TK,

Womack AM, Brown GZ, Green JL, Bohannan, BJM.

Microbiome 2: 7 (2014)

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We also investigated the bacteria floating in the air and in the dust in the same building.

Those papers are published as well:

Architectural design drives the biogeography of indoor bacterial communities.

Kembel SW, Meadow JF, O’Connor TK, Mhuireach G, Northcut D, Kline J, Moriyama, M,

Brown GZ, Bohannan BJM, Green JL.

PLOS ONE. e87093 (2014)

Indoor airborne bacterial communities are influenced by ventilation, occupancy, and outdoor air source.

Meadow JF, Altrichter AE, Kembel SW, Kline J, Mhuireach G, Moriyama M, Northcutt D,

O’Connor TK, Womack AM, Brown GZ, Green JL, Bohannan BJM.

Indoor Air 24: 41-48 (2013)

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Thanks very much to:

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for funding

Anthony Scott Russell for illustrating

Mary Morgan for narrating,

and KWVA Radio for audio recording