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Water-damaged housing has been associated with a number of negative health outcomes, principally respiratory disease and asthma. Much of what we know about fungi associated with water-damaged buildings has come from culture-based and immunochemical methods. Few studies have used high-throughput sequencing technologies to assess the impact of water-damage on microbial communities in residential buildings. In this study we used amplicon sequencing and quantitative-PCR to evaluate fungal communities on surfaces and in airborne dust in multiple units of a condemned public housing project located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We recruited 21 households to participate in this study and characterized their apartments as either a unit with visible mold or no visible mold. We sampled airborne fungi from dust settled over a month-long time period from the outdoors, in units with no visible mold, and units with visible mold. In units with visible mold we additionally sampled the visible fungal colonies from bathrooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and living rooms. We found that fungal biomass in settled dust was greater outdoors compared to indoors, but there was no significant difference of fungal biomass in units with visible mold and no visible mold. Interestingly, we found that fungal diversity was reduced in units with visible mold compared to units with no visible mold and the outdoors. Units with visible mold harbored fungal communities distinct from units with no visible mold and the outdoors. Units with visible mold had a greater abundance of taxa within the classes Eurotiomycetes, Saccharomycetes, and Wallemiomycetes. Colonies of fungi collected from units with visible mold were dominated by two Cladosporium species, C. sphaerospermum and C halotolerans. This study demonstrates that high-throughput sequencing of fungi indoors can be a useful strategy for distinguishing distinct microbial exposures in water-damaged homes with visible and nonvisible mold growth, and may provide a microbial means for identifying water damaged housing.

Susan K. Rainey, who earned a Seminary Studies for Student Wives certificate, was the 10,000th female graduate from Southwestern Seminary in its 111-year history.

Indiana University faculty members voted to ask trustees to review the performance of the institution's president. Faculty gathered to discuss their frustrations with Adam W. Herbert Jr., the university system's president, and to voice a lack of confidence in his leadership.

(Marketwire - Nov. 2, 2010) - Never Give Up and Unilever Canada are making a $62,000 donation of Breyers Ice Cream to the Calgary Food Bank. An additional $10,000 donation of ice cream will be made to the Calgary Dream Centre. After the tragic spousal homicide of their sister, Karen Louise Beck on 15 November 2007, [Darlene Dorchak] and [Adam W. Frisch] founded Never Give Up in her honour. Through this initiative, Darlene and Adam have raised awareness about domestic abuse, and have helped collect and distribute more than $210,000 in donations in the past 26 months in support of women's shelters.

University of Florida Pres John Lombardi has decided to resign in the wake of calling black chancellor Adam Herbert Jr an \"Oreo.\" The racist remark caused a furor among campus leaders.