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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 &...

Daylight Exposure & Microbial Communities Indoors

The microbiome and its relevance to healthy environments was of critical interest at the Health Energy Research Consortium.  Ashkaan Fahimipour, presented BioBE's recent investigations in microbial communities and exposure to daylight. Humans spend most of their time...

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Dr. Sue Ishaq joins the BioBE team!

Hello, readers! I'm Dr. Sue Ishaq, the newest Research Assistant Professor hire in the BioBE center at the University of Oregon.  I've been at the center for two weeks now, and I thought I'd introduce myself as I'll soon be a regular contributor to the center's...

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Health + Energy Research Consortium

The Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE) and Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL) at the University of Oregon, are pleased to announce the launch of the the Health + Energy Research Consortium!  On May 4-5, 2017, in Portland Oregon, we begin our...

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EPA Progress Meeting

Jeff Kline presented BioBE's project, "The Impact of Weatherization on Microbial Ecology and Human Health" at EPA's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Indoor Air & Climate Change Progress Review Meeting and Webinar.  The meeting was held in December in Washington,...

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The concept of hygiene and the human microbiome.

Reblogged from MicrobeBE.net. (This post was written by Roo Vandegrift, at the University of Oregon) I was recently asked to spearhead the writing of a review centered around the interaction between the concept of hygiene and our increasingly nuanced understanding of...

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The City Of Tomorrow Is a Petri dish

Jessica Green and Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg are quoted in an architecture article wrote by Mark Wilson and published in the Fast Company Magazine called: "The City of Tomorrow is A Petri Dish- By Design". Read the complete piece here.

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Cleanliness in Context

The BioBE Center just published a white paper, titled "Hand Hygiene in the 21st Century: Cleanliness in Context" that examines the history and current literature on hygiene. Specifically, the paper focuses on the role of hand drying and the debate in the literature...

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Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics

Postdoc Roxana Hickey presented "Microbial interactions between humans and the built environment" at the 21st Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics meeting held in Lake Arrowhead, California on September 18-22, 2016 (slide deck below). The biannual conference hosted more...

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BioBe research highlighted in LabRoots webinar

BioBE postdoc Roxana Hickey presented a live webinar highlighting past and ongoing BioBE research in the LabRoots Microbiology and Immunology Virtual Event held on September 7-8, 2016. Her talk, titled "Exploring the Great Indoors: The Built Environment and Human...

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