Is Your Office Building Trying to Kill You?

(credit: wired.com. Flickr/Andrew Dupont) The BioBE center was featured in an article on Wired, “Is Your Office Building Trying to Kill You?” Don’t panic! While we may know very little about the indoors, we are working to advance our understanding of the interaction...

Discover Mag talks with BioBE

“Earth’s Last Unexplored Wilderness: Your Very Own Home” in the July-August 2012 issue of Discover Magazine features the BioBE Center and other prominent labs leading the investigation of the indoor microbiome. Members of BioBE talk about center projects including The...

The Nature of Cities

The recently launched Nature of Cities collective blog looks fantastic.  From the contributors:  The Nature of Cities is a collective of contributors, an essay site devoted to cities as ecological spaces.  Cities are fundamentally ecological spaces. They are...

Indoor Ecology featured at TEDxPortland

TEDxPortland invited the BioBE Center to speak about indoor ecology and our most recent research at the Lillis Business Complex.  This event was extraordinary.  Featured speakers included architect Gene Sandoval who designed the award winning  John E. Jacqua Academic...

BioBE Center at TEDMED 2012

BioBE Center members Jessica Green and Keith Herkert were granted Front-Line Scholarships to attend the TEDMED conference from April 10-13. We made many new connections with some amazing and inspiring individuals. More innovative ideas are on the horizon for BioBE...

BioBE Center at TED 2012

The BioBE Center is working with the Autodesk Dasher Project to visualize microbiological data in the built environment.  Go here for a brief demo of Jessica Green interfacing with Project Dasher at TED2012.