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3rd Annual Microbiology of the Built Environment Conference
Last week several members of the BioBE Center visited Boulder, CO for the 3rd annual Microbiology of the Built Environment Conference hosted by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. James Meadow presented our recent work on building-scale microbial patterns, the phone-hand...
Meta-Analysis of Built Environment Datasets at NESCent
It's time to look deeper into the overarching patterns that scientists around the world are beginning to see in the indoor microbiome. BioBE members Ashley Bateman and James Meadow are headed to Durham, NC this week with fellow built environment scientists Rachel...
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...
NOVA Next on hospital microbiomes
NOVA Next, a PBS website, recently published "Manipulating the Unseen Microbial Ecosystem – the Future of Hospitals?", mentioning BioBE's Providence study.
Climate Chamber Experiments
Our team has been conducting additional experiments in the Climate Chamber in the Portland ESBL lab this week and will continue into next. We hope to have some of the data prepped for our presentation at the Microbiology of the Built Environment Conference in Boulder,...
Indoor Air Most Accessed Papers in 2013
The BioBE paper "Indoor airborne bacterial communities are influenced by ventilation, occupancy, and outdoor air source" was recently noted as one of the most downloaded papers from the journal Indoor Air in 2013.
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...
BioBE Animation of the BEMicrobiome
Here's the latest animation of the built environment microbiome created by the BioBE Center with Cameron Slayden (Cosmocyte) and funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The video can be used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.
2 BioBE Positions Available
We have two positions available at the BioBE Center. If you know of awesome candidates or places to spread the word, please do so! Information about the positions, located at the University of Oregon (recently rated by livability.com as one of the top 10 “Best...
Can bioinformed design promote healthy indoor ecosystems?
An editorial in the journal Indoor Air from Jessica Green is out today. Jessica describes her vision for incorporating biological insight into architectural design decisions, what she calls "bioinformed design". In the article, she lays out the arguments for why she...
Behind the scenes of the animation
Here's a short behind-the-scenes time-lapse video from the artist on our last whiteboard video, Anthony Scott Russell. Check out his blog and these pictures of the storyboard drafts.
BioMed Central on Surfaces paper
The above graphic accompanied a post on BioMed Central's blog about the Lillis Surfaces paper out recently in the journal Microbiome. The post also discusses an editorial which cites our paper as a model for reproducible science in microbial ecology.
What can the microbes on your chair tell us about the indoor microbiome?
What sorts of bacteria did we find in a university classroom? from BioBE Center on Vimeo. Funny you should ask! A new BioBE study is out today in the journal Microbiome. We sampled the bacteria from surfaces all over a university classroom and found that the bacteria...
Meet the Neighbors You’ll Never See
Recently on Nautilus Jessica Green wrote a short piece along side a fun interactive graphic that takes a look at what shapes the microbiomes of buildings.
Media coverage of PLoS Lillis Dust paper
Here's a list of all the media coverage on the recent release of the Lillis Dust paper as compiled by James Meadow. There are some really interesting write-ups that tie together some ideas from previous work out of the BioBE Center and related labs. Original articles:...
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