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PLoS Lillis Dust paper on Fast Company
Fast Company write up on the PLoS Lillis Dust paper.
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...
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...
New BioBE building microbiome paper published in PLOS ONE
We've just published a new paper exploring the bacterial communities hanging out in the dust of a big university building, Lillis Hall. It's the same building that we used when exploring the effects of ventilation and occupancy on airborne bacteria (published in...
AMNH creates documentary featuring BioBE research
The American Museum of Natural History created a short documentary film that features a bit of the BioBE Center's recent work to characterize the human microbial cloud.
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...
What’s in your Bacterial Aura?
Scientific American has a short piece about the BioBE Center's upcoming study to characterize the human microbial cloud. More to come!
Meta-Analysis of Indoor Biome Datasets – A New Collaboration!
This past September, Sloan-funded biologists Ashley Bateman, James Meadow, Rachel Adams, and Holly Bik met at UC-Berkeley to begin collaboration on an exciting new project! The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of microbiological studies...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BioBE Research Highlighted at Gordon Research Conference
James Meadow just returned from the recent Applied and Environmental Microbiology Gordon Research Conference, held at Mount Holyoke College. He was presenting some brand new exciting results from our recent human microbial cloud sampling project. The talk was part of...
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