Events
BioBE heads to the UO SPICE Fair, Saturday April 13
This Saturday, April 13th, is the 2019 UO Science and Invention Fair, held on campus in Willamette Hall from 11 am to 3 pm. The Fair is designed for children in grades K - 8 to meet local scientists, and develop an enthusiasm for STEM using hands-on activities and...
Dr. Sue Ishaq will be presenting at the International Society for Microbial Ecology!
Dr. Sue Ishaq has been accepted to give a poster presentation at the 17th meeting of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME). The meeting, ISME17, will bring nearly 1,800 researchers from around the globe to Leipzig, Germany. Sue will be...
Upcoming presentations at Indoor Air 2018
BioBE researchers will be giving two oral presentations at the Indoor Air 2018 conference this summer! This will be the 15th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ), and will take place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center,...
Design Champs: Daylight and Microbes
This week, BioBE held the third session of our "Design Champions" webinar series, which we have been developing over the last few months as a means of actively communicating our work with industry professionals. Design Champs brings together a small number of...
HERC Recap: Artist Morgan Maiolie
How do you illustrate the microbiome of bacterial, fungal and viral communities to architects, engineers and building equipment manufacturers? You commission an artist! During the events of Health and Energy Research Consortium, Morgan Maiolie was busy with a brush...
OSU & The Corvallis Art Center: “Microbiomes: To See the Unseen”
Graduate student Ashley Bateman recently contributed to the workshop portion of the The Microbiome Art Project, a collaboration between OSU and the Corvallis Arts Center. Artist workshops like the one she attended, bring graduate researchers and artists together to...
2016 Pacific Northwest Women in Science Retreat
I (Ashley Bateman) recently won a scholarship from the Women in Graduate Sciences organization at the University of Oregon, to attend the 2016 Pacific Northwest Women in Science Retreat. The event was held at Camp Magruder in Rockaway Beach, OR from July 8th-10th. The...
BioBE hosts Microbiome Science Youth Outreach event
The BioBE Center hosted its inaugural Microbiome Science Youth Outreach workshop this past Saturday, March 12. The event featured hands-on activities covering microbiology, bioinformatics and architecture led by volunteers from the Green lab and Energy Studies in...
Landscape Architect Robin Moore visits BioBE
Robin Moore, Professor of Landscape Architecture at North Carolina State University and Director of The Natural Learning Initiative (www.naturalearning.org), will visit BioBE on Monday, 11/2. His lecture on “Naturalizing Childhood: Landscape Architecture’s New Quest”...
Clarisse Betancourt and Gwynne Mhuireach received scholarships to attend the Healthy Buildings America 2015
Clarisse Betancourt Román and Gwynne Mhuireach have both been awarded scholarships to attend and present their research at the Healthy Buildings 2015 America Conference in Boulder, CO, July 19-22. The mission of the conference is to promote collaboration among built...
AIA Design & Health Research Consortium Kickoff
G.Z. Brown of BioBE and Deb Johnson-Shelton of the Oregon Research Institute attended the kickoff meeting of the AIA Design & Health Research Consortium on March 5, 2015. Held at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey, the 11 inaugural...
Workshop at the Society of Building Science Educators retreat
BioBE and microBEnet are partnering to bring a built environment microbiology workshop to the Society of Building Science Educators annual retreat taking place at Biosphere 2 in June. The theme of this year’s retreat is Adaptation, which will focus on “adjustment in...
AAAS Meeting on Microbiomes of the Built Environment
Last week a AAAS meeting on the Microbiomes of the Built Environment was held to bring together leaders in the field to discuss existing knowledge and future directions. Jessica Green participated in the panel video above and the whole meeting is available online. You...
Rethinking Cities: a holistic approach to sustainability and urban design
The Sustainable Cities Initiative at the University of Oregon brought in a special speaker Monday night for a lecture titled, “Rethinking Cities: a holistic approach to sustainability and urban design.” Mr. Stellan Fryxell is a partner at Tengbom Architects based in...
BioBE and Autodesk join forces
Jessica Green at TED 2012 from BioBE Center. Jessica Green looks forward to continuing work with Ramtin Attar at Autodesk Research on Project Biodasher . She will visit Carlos Olguin in the San Francisco office to discuss visualization tools for the built environment...
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 2011
The Pioneer Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation invited the BioBE Center to TEDMED 2011 to explore TEDMED's Twenty Great Challenges of Health and Medicine. BioBE has been assigned to gather information during the conference from TEDMED attendees about...
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