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UO Architecture 1st in Sustainable Design
The University of Oregon’s architecture program was recently selected as the nation’s number one program for sustainable design education in the 2013 report of architecture schools. The top-ranked program has been recognized multiple times as leading sustainable...
More Trees in Urban Spaces Linked to Less Childhood Asthma
A recent post from The Nature of Cities discusses a case study in Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: Action and Policy, 2012. The study reports that increasing trends in childhood asthma rates are correlated with the density of urban street trees. The report says:...
Skin Microbiome Workshop in Boulder, CO
In mid-October members of the BioBE center, co-director Brendan Bohannan and Biology graduate student Ashley Bateman, attended the Skin Microbiome Workshop in Boulder, CO. The 2-day meeting was facilitated by Rob Knight from UC-Boulder and Wally Buchholz from the...
QIIME/VAMPS Workshop Wraps Up at CU-Boulder
Built environment researchers from all over the country got together last week to improve the functionality of two of the most commonly-used bioinformatics pipelines, QIIME and VAMPS, and to facilitate data sharing. Rob Knight and Mitch Sogin were on hand to discuss...
Architects Take Notice of Latent Potential
ArchLab, a building science studio at HMC Architects, is tracking BioBE’s avant-garde research linking microorganisms in the built environment to building energy conservation strategies while promoting healthy environments.
National Energy Efficiency Technology Roadmapping Summit
G.Z. Brown, director of Energy Studies and Buildings Laboratory, just returned from the National Energy Efficiency Technology Roadmapping Summit. Researchers in building energy use were invited to update and refine a portfolio of residential and commercial technology...
microBEnet post: Recorded talks from Lake Arrowhead
The microBEnet blog has posted several videos from the built environment session talks at the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics meeting from last month (previous post). Check out James Meadow's BioBE Center talk, along with Jason Stajich from MoBEDAC and Susana Remold...
Built Environment Research at Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Meeting 2012
BioBE participated in the Microbiology of the Built Environment Session at the Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics Meeting (September 16-20, 2012). James Meadow shared some exciting new BioBE results from a study at the Lillis Business Complex, detailing the influences...
Urban Organisms
At the BioBE Center we are always delighted to find bloggers interested in urban ecology and evolution. Today we found Urban Organisms. Check it out.
Potential Collaboration with the Cascadia Green Building Council
Members of the BioBE center attended a public presentation given by members of and partners with the Cascadia Green Building Council, including St. Vincent de Paul and the University of Oregon. Construction is now underway on 12 new low income housing buildings, one...
Creator Ashley Bateman explores building-human ties
BioBE Center student Ashley Bateman bring to light invisible connections between the built environment microbiome and the human microbiome.
BioBE and Autodesk join forces
Jessica Green at TED 2012 from BioBE Center. Jessica Green looks forward to continuing work with Ramtin Attar at Autodesk Research on Project Biodasher . She will visit Carlos Olguin in the San Francisco office to discuss visualization tools for the built environment...
Indoor Microbiology at ISME 2012
Indoor microbiology was a notable presence at last week's ISME Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark. The biennial summit of the world's microbial ecologists featured research from a growing number of indoor microbiology groups, including the BioBE Center. Tim O'Connor...
BioBE @TEDxTalks
The BioBE Center's preliminary findings at the Lillis Business Complex presented at TEDxPortland this year can now be viewed online via TEDxTalks.
Is Your Office Building Trying to Kill You?
(credit: wired.com. Flickr/Andrew Dupont) The BioBE center was featured in an article on Wired, “Is Your Office Building Trying to Kill You?” Don’t panic! While we may know very little about the indoors, we are working to advance our understanding of the interaction...
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