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Aerosol Surveillance: Detection & Prevention of COVID-19
COVID seems like it is here to stay, and as we move into an endemic era, we need reliable and cost-effective solutions to support safe indoor congregation. If air contamination levels can be examined in buildings, we may be able to better control and identify COVID-19...
COVID-19 and the Built Environment
As corporate entities, city, county, state and federal governments around the world take action against the spread of COVID-19, the built environment has been thrust onto center stage with a prominent role. Therefore, the unique expertise of researchers at the...
02/15/2020 Remembering GZ Brown
With the recent passing of one of our dearest members, founders and influencers; we are remembering GZ “Charlie” Brown with high regards knowing how much he impacted architecture and everyone around him throughout his life. Specifically, his time here at the...
Latest Publication from BioBE!
This past January 2020, the publication How Light Exposure Changes Bacterial Communities in Household Dust was published under new discovery at Frontiers for Young Minds. The full article can be read here on their website. Rosenberg, S., Ishaq, S., May, J., and...
Review on health in the built environment
Hot off the press, a new review on health in the built environment is available today! The article is found here, but an open-access, view-only version is available here. It's part of the Healthy Building special issue from the Journal of Exposure Science &...
Publication on the urban microbiome
Dr. Gwynne Mhuireach published one of the chapters from her dissertation, on evaluating bacteria found in air from vegetated or paved areas in an urban setting! Mhuireach, G.Á., Betancourt-Román, C.M., Green, J.L., Johnson B.R. 2019. Spatiotemporal controls on the...
Congratulations to BioBE’s Sam Velazquez!
Another of BioBE's stellar student researchers is headed to graduate school! Sam Velazquez has been working with Dr. Sue Ishaq on bioinformatics in our lab. She is a bright face in the room, conducting experiments, programming, working on data visualization, and...
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...
Microbes in the built environment; interview with Jefferson Exchange
In case you missed it live, you can stream Sue Ishaq's interview with Geoffrey Riley at the Jefferson Exchange, about her work at BioBE. She talks about how to go from researching microbes in the rumen stomach of moose to researching the effect of building surface...
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 can...
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...
CoD interview with Sue Ishaq on Indoor Microbiology
UO College of Design's Alex Notman sat down with BioBE's Sue Ishaq to chat about her work on microbes in buildings and the intersection of biology and buildings: "The Great Indoors: Interior Ecology Under the Looking Glass."
New Publication on Anti-Microbials & Drug Resistant Microbes Indoors
After reading this, you might think twice about hand washing after your workout. Dr, Erica Hartmann, of Northwestern University, and Dr. Ashkaan Fahimipour, of BioBE, have been heading a study on the relationships between gyms, anti-microbial chemicals, and antibiotic...
A Tale of Two Cohorts
Sequence data contamination from biological or digital sources can obscure true results and falsely raise one's hopes. Contamination is a persist issue in microbial ecology, and each experiment faces unique challenges from a myriad of sources, which I have previously...
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...
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