by sueishaq | Mar 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
BioBE researchers spend quite a bit of time writing grant proposals. In particular, over the last few months I (Sue Ishaq) have been co-writing proposals which expand our understanding of indoor lighting on human health and behavior, the indoor microbiome, and energy...
by sueishaq | Feb 28, 2018 | Uncategorized
Looking to participate in research? Amir Nezamdoost, a graduate research fellow in Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory, is collecting survey data for his PhD dissertation. Amir’s dissertation is about developing a rating system to score the quality of...
by sueishaq | Jan 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last week, BioBE’s resident mycologist, Dr. Roo Vandegrift, and Dr. Bitty Roy, a Professor in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution here at UO (and Roo’s advisor during his Ph.D.), spoke with basketball legend Bill Walton about mushrooms. The story and...
by sueishaq | Dec 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Written by Dr. Rich Corsi, edited by Sue Ishaq and Jeff Kline. Several months ago, I connected with Dr. Kevin van Den Wymelenberg at the University of Oregon about the interaction between indoor microbiology and indoor chemistry, and several other common interests. ...
by jkline@uoregon.edu | Oct 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
We attended the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute Mini-Conference at Oregon State University on 10/18/17. This half-day event featured 4 minute lightning talks on a broad gamut of climate change related topics, including presentations on atmospheric modeling,...
by Roo Vandegrift | Oct 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
We do a lot of Illumina-based metabarcode sequencing here at the BioBE center. Sequencing is getting cheaper, and the amount of data you can get from a sequencing run continues to increase, but not at the same rate: it is now becoming more and more common to sequence...
