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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 &...

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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.  

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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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