Microbes

A topic Kyle saved into his June 29th, 2021 Roam “Quick Capture” reading log while at Index Ventures. The capture pairs two Jessica Green TED talks (“Are we filtering the wrong microbes?” and “We’re covered in germs — let’s design for that”) with Phylagen, the company whose page is the lone backlink here. The thread reads as Kyle exploring the microbiome / built-environment angle — the idea that the microbes around us (in buildings, on surfaces, in air) carry signal worth measuring — with Phylagen as the commercial expression of it.

Context: Microbes are microscopic organisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses, archaea). Jessica Green is a biologist known for work on the “built-environment microbiome” — the microbial communities inside the spaces humans occupy. Phylagen is a company that analyzes environmental microbial samples (e.g. dust) to trace where products and materials come from.

Where this appears

• Phylagen — the company filed alongside the Jessica Green microbiome TED talks in the same June 29, 2021 capture.