Engaging the Design Profession

Bringing together facilities professionals from the regional healthcare industry, the seminar “Creating Healthy Buildings: Natural Light and Ventilation Design in Healthcare Applications” was held April 22, Earth Day, at the Energy Studies in Buildings...

Evolution of the indoor microbiome

Ashley Bateman, James Meadow, Steve Kembel, Gwynne Mhuireach and other 20 fellow scientists have published an article about the evolution of the indoor microbiome in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Read the piece about this article in the New York...

MicroBEnet modeling microbial metabolism

Our partners MicoBEnet received an award by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation to construct mechanistic metabolic ecosystem models of the bacteria and viruses that survive, colonize and grow on different built environment materials under different environmental conditions....