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Design Champs: Daylight and Microbes
This week, BioBE held the third session of our "Design Champions" webinar series, which we have been developing over the last few months as a means of actively communicating our work with industry professionals. Design Champs brings together a small number of...
ESBL/BioBE welcome new Associate Director of Outreach
ESBL and BioBE are thrilled to announce that Mark Fretz has joined the team as the new Associate Director of Outreach, based out of the Portland location. Mark brings a unique combination of experience in architecture and public health service, and will help further...
National Academies of Science MoBE meeting
In mid-October, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine co-hosted the MoBE 2017 (Microbiology of the Built Environment) Research and Applications Symposium, in Washington, D.C. The meeting brings together...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation renews BioBE funding!
Dr. Van Den Wymelenberg, Biology and the Built Environment Center PI and Co-Director, is excited to announce that the Center has secured another two years of funding from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and their Microbiology of the Built Environment (MoBE) program. ...
OCCRI Mini-Conference
We attended the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute Mini-Conference at Oregon State University on 10/18/17. This half-day event featured 4 minute lightning talks on a broad gamut of climate change related topics, including presentations on atmospheric modeling,...
Combining multiple sequencing runs: heterogeneity spacers
We do a lot of Illumina-based metabarcode sequencing here at the BioBE center. Sequencing is getting cheaper, and the amount of data you can get from a sequencing run continues to increase, but not at the same rate: it is now becoming more and more common to sequence...
Design Champs
Last week, the staff of the Biology and the Built Environment Center presented cutting-edge science from the Center and beyond to a group of interested practitioners. The Design Champs webinar series is intended to communicate new scientific advances in the field of...
So long, summer!
Written by Hannah Wilson The beginning of my summer was dedicated to moving the BioBE center’s molecular biology lab to a new location on campus. I dedicated the next part of my summer to finishing the DNA extractions for ~350 swab samples collected from cohort 2 of...
Round up of ESA conference
The 2017 ESA meeting in Portland, OR, which took place August 6-11, created a flurry of imagination here in Eugene: Roo Vandegrift left with a large hash of approximately 275 live-tweets, Sue Ishaq left with a jumbled pile of hastily scribbled notes in the program...
Report from the Mycological Society
In July, one of our own, Dr. Roo Vandegrift, went to the annual Mycological Society of America (MSA) meeting, held just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, in the college town of Athens. He went to learn what others in the field are up to, and present work from the BioBE...
BioBE and ESBL are seeking a new Office Manager!
BioBE and ESBL are looking to a hire an office manager to support our teams! The full position description and application can be found here. The position will serve as the primary business officer in charge of coordinating and supporting both labs’ fiscal and...
BioBE presentations at the ESA meeting next week
The 2017 Ecological Society of America (ESA) conference is being held next week in Portland, OR, at the Oregon Convention Center, and members of the BioBE team will have a strong showing. After the conference, we'll be sure to have a round-up post with more...
Congratulations to Dr. Ashley Bateman on her defense, next steps!
Last week, BioBE said good-bye and good-luck to Ashley Bateman, who successfully defended her dissertation on May 25th. Ashley has been with the department for 6 years, as a graduate student in the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon. She...
ESBL is seeking an Associate Director of Outreach in Portland, OR
The Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL) at the University of Oregon is seeking a new Associate Director of Outreach at the Portland location! At ESBL, as part of the Department of Architecture, we research how buildings, related transportation and land use...
HERC Recap: Artist Morgan Maiolie
How do you illustrate the microbiome of bacterial, fungal and viral communities to architects, engineers and building equipment manufacturers? You commission an artist! During the events of Health and Energy Research Consortium, Morgan Maiolie was busy with a brush...
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