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The American Institute of Architects National Convention and Design Exposition
G. Z. Brown just returned from the 2013 AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in Denver, Colorado, where thousands of design professionals gathered to attend workshops, seminars, and talks to discuss leadership for architecture. In a talk titled “Leadership...
2nd Annual Sloan Microbiology of the Built Environment Meeting
The 2nd Microbiology of the Built Environment meeting funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation was held last week in Boulder, CO. Several members of the BioBE Center attended and contributed to the active Twitter coverage during the conference -- check out the meeting...
Built Environment Microbiome in NYTimes
The BioBE Center and many researchers active in microbiology of the built environment research were featured in a NYTimes article yesterday. Plus a fun little cartoon.
Health in Buildings Roundtable (HiBR)
The webcast on "Making the Human Health Connection: Healthy Buildings, Healthy People and Healthy Communities" on April 23rd was stimulating and informative. Highlights included: Judith Heerwagen's comment that perhaps buildings should be designed more like modern...
Hidden Dangers in the Air We Breathe
Berkeley Lab researchers work on new building standards after discovering previously unknown indoor air pollutants. "Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) made the discovery that the aggregate health...
Archiculture: documentary on today’s design education
Here's one for those biologists trying to get their head around the way architects work and think -- a new documentary film, "Archiculture" to be released later this month explores today's education of tomorrow's architects and designers. Check out the trailer and...
HOPES[19]
Jessica participated in the HOPES[19] Conference at the University of Oregon last week on a panel discussing the "Limits and Opportunities of Design." The panel was comprised of diverse perspectives on building design including experts in sociology, chemistry, and...
Jessica Green Talks “Bioinformed Design” at TED
Jessica Green's most recent TED talk is now available -- she talks about how our current building design is unconsciously designing the built environment microbiome. With some great data visualizations from a collaboration with Autodesk she discusses using...
BioBE on Facebook
The BioBE Center now has a page on Facebook! Like us to check out all our photos and news updates.
Roller Derby paper out in PeerJ
A new paper led by James Meadow looking at the microbes shared among roller derby teams came out yesterday in the new open access journal PeerJ. There's lots of media coverage going on and a great blog post from the Center's Ashley Bateman. Click here for a list...
Video Conference on Air Sampling Methods
Several Sloan funded groups working in the built environment had a great video conference session on bioaerosol sampling methods. You can check out the session recording on youtube. Look for another session coming up on surface swabbing methods.
AutoDesk Project Cyborg in NYTimes
Autodesk's "Project Cyborg" is hoping to make a splash at this week's TED Conference in Long Beach, CA and is featured in a NYTimes article. Project Cyborg is described as "a Web-based software platform for delivering a range of services like molecular modeling and...
BioBE Featured in UO Annual Research Report
The BioBE Center is featured in a special section of the University of Oregon's Annual Research Report for 2012, released earlier this month. You can find the full report here.
BBC Focus Mag Features “Buildings with Microbial Ecosystems”
2013's 1st issue of BBC Focus Magazine spotlights Breakthroughs of 2013 in science and technology. Jessica Green is featured under breakthroughs in "Buildings with Microbial Ecosystems." Here's a pdf selection of the article.
Climate Chamber: Pilot Experiment Sampling
The BioBE Center's newest experiment is working to find out how many and what types of bacteria a single person "sheds" in a few hours, for example, while sitting at your work desk. We had a few folks in the Climate Chamber constructed and operated by ESBL at the...
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