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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...
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...
2017 AIA Design & Health Research Consortium Convening
On March 21-22, the BioBE Center team took to Detroit to present "Biology & Buildings: How Indoor Environments Affect Human Health" to the American Institute of Architects Design & Health Research Consortium. We were encouraged to see the diversity of...
Mhuireach Awarded A&AA Dissertation Fellowship 2017-2018
Congratulations to Gwynne Mhuireach for winning a Dissertation Fellowship from the School of Architecture & Allied Arts at the University of Oregon! Her working dissertation title is: Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Relationships Between Airborne Microbial...
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...
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,...
Multiple Positions Open at University of Oregon BioBE Center
Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg and Jessica Green, of the Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE), are currently seeking a microbial ecology Research Associate / Research Assistant Professor / Research Associate Professor (non-tenure track faculty) to investigate...
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...
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.
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...
“Designing Buildings to House Our Favorite Germs”
The BioBE Center and several other labs funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation are featured in this article by Melissa Pandika in Ozy Magazine. The author interviewed Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, Gwynne Mhuireach, and Jeff Kline of the Center.
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...
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...
Linking antimicrobials and antibiotic resistance genes in indoor dust
Previous BioBE postdoc Erica Hartmann (now Assistant Professor at Northwestern University!), along with several BioBE researchers and members of Curtis Huttenhower's (Harvard) and Rolf Halden's (Arizona State) research groups, recently published a paper establishing a...
OSU & The Corvallis Art Center: “Microbiomes: To See the Unseen”
Graduate student Ashley Bateman recently contributed to the workshop portion of the The Microbiome Art Project, a collaboration between OSU and the Corvallis Arts Center. Artist workshops like the one she attended, bring graduate researchers and artists together to...
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