Upcoming radio interview with Jefferson Exchange!

BioBE’s Sue Ishaq will be speaking with the Jefferson Exchange crew on their live radio show about microbiology in the built environment on March 11th, at about 8:30 am PST. If you are local to the west coast, you can find a station to tune into. Otherwise, you...

Stop Motion Science: The Light Box Video

Written by Mira Zimmerman and Fiona Curliss At BioBE, we strive to produce scientific research that is clear and understandable to any audience, not only for interdisciplinary collaboration, but also for scientific education. Those unfamiliar with the language and...

Welcome to our New Wet Lab Manager: Leslie Dietz

A bold new addition to the BioBE family, we would like to welcome our new Wet Lab Manager, Leslie Dietz! She will be overseeing all new projects and day to day lab work, teaching students, collecting data and processing samples. Leslie has a molecular biology and...

Lightbox project video in production

Following our recent publication on the effect of light on house dust; Fahimipour et al. 2018. “Daylight exposure modulates bacterial communities associated with household dust”, some of our undergraduate students have been developing a short video that...
Your Microbiome and Your Phone

Your Microbiome and Your Phone

Written by Samantha Velazquez, Edited by Mira Zimmerman and Sue Ishaq If you were to guess what someone might be carrying in their pockets, a cell phone would be a safe choice.  It is almost not a guess at all; these days it is rare to be surrounded by people and not...