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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 &...

2014 William R. Sistrom Memorial Scholarship Award

Ashley Bateman was very excited to be selected as a recipient of the 2014 William R. Sistrom Memorial Scholarship, which carries an award of $1300. The William R. Sistrom Memorial Scholarship was created through the generosity of Dorothy Sistrom. The scholarship was...

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Animation Release

The Built Environment Microbiome from BioBE Center on Vimeo. The BioBE Center partnered with XVIVO to produce an animation visualizing microbes in the built environment a while back and it's now published on Vimeo. We're releasing this under the a CC-BY-SA license for...

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BioBE: a ‘Creative Remix’

Eric Berlow and Sean Gourley's recent TED talk entitled "Mapping ideas worth spreading" discusses their application of ecological networks to demonstrate how the catalog of 24,000 TED talks are connected globally. Around minute 5:15 in the video, they begin to talk...

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Jessica at RWJF

Jessica recently paid a visit to the folks at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to talk about how we can utilize our growing understanding of the built environment microbiome to build healthier, more sustainable buildings. Watch her "What's Next Health" interview and...

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AAAR Annual Conference in Portland

Ann Womack will be presenting on the BioBE Center's recently published paper, "Indoor airborne bacterial communities are influenced by ventilation, occupancy, and outdoor air source", at the American Association for Aerosol Research Annual Conference just up the road...

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ESA Minneapolis

James Meadow and Adam Altrichter travelled to Minneapolis for this year's Ecological Society of America Conference where they each presented work from the last year. James talked about the Roller Derby study in a 'Community Assembly and Neutral Theory' session while...

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New Publication in Indoor Air

A new paper just published by members of BioBE is out now, and open access at Indoor Air journal. The study details air samples collected in classrooms at the University of Oregon, and the temporal changes that happen in indoor airborne microbial communities over the...

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Evolution of the Indoor Biome

The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) held an exciting meeting focused on investigating evolution of organisms in the built environment, and especially in homes. Three BioBE researchers were in attendance (Ashley Bateman, Gwynne Mhuireach, and James...

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