Seminar
Impacts of Environmental Factors on the Health and Biogeochemical Effects of Fungal Spores and Marine Viruses
Yinon Rudich, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 3:30 pm Mountain Time
DSRC 2A305
Abstract
Recent challenges in bioaerosol research include identification, quantification and assessment of their environmental and public health impacts. In this talk I will describe our current studies on using genomic and proteomic methods to understand bioaerosol diversity as well as some of the processes that biological aerosol participate in. Specifically I will focus on how air pollution and global change may affect fungal spores potency for inducing allergies. In addition, I will describe the possible contribution of marine aerosol to the burden of endotoxins in coastal areas. Finally, I will introduce a new dispersal mechanism for marine viruses in the oceans through marine aerosols.
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