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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		How many microbial communities live in your office?
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:03
	Publish Date:		2016-08-01 19:00:00
	Description:		Every hour, one person can shed about 37 million microbes into the air. That’s something to consider while spending 8 hours in windowless office buildings, not to mention any time spent on an airplane! Jonathan Allen, a bioinformatics scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is part of a new, national panel that will study how microbial communities of organisms (or microbiomes) can affect human health in 'built environments'. "How can we apply the current technologies that are being used to study the microbiome in a broad array of research areas and apply them, to really advance the field in building design and interactions with people? What are the open challenges, where do the research efforts need to go to actually develop the practical information that’s going to really impact building design?" The panel plans to assess the current base of knowledge in this field and identify research gaps to improve future building design. They will also look into other built environments like cars, subways and hospitals, where the aim will be to limit the spread of infectious disease
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