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BioBE meets BuildWell
Erica Hartmann presented BioBE research at the 2016 BuildWell conference in San Francisco. Held at the beautiful Golden Gate Club, BuildWell brings together architects, builders, financial experts, manufacturers, and researchers to discuss how to make buildings...
BioBE human microbial cloud research featured on Science Friday
Get up close and personal with BioBE Center Director Jessica Green and postdoc Roxana Hickey as they discuss research on the human microbial cloud performed in collaboration with the Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory! The Science Friday video released today...
Gwynne Mhuireach to teach a design-oriented microbiome course this winter
Researchers studying the microbiology of the built environment have discovered linkages between architectural/urban design and microbial communities. Gwynne will introduce design students (architecture, landscape architecture, planning, etc.) to this field of research...
AIA Design + Health Consortium 2015 Progress Report released
BioBE work was highlighted in the recently released annual progress report from the AIA Design + Health Consortium. Our team of BioBE members and health researchers from the Oregon Research Institute was selected for the inaugural Consortium cohort, and is the only...
Andy Siemens received a UROP mini grant award
Andy is one of the recipients of the University of Oregon Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) mini grant award. This award will provide Andy with $1,000 to support his ongoing research. Andy's research project focused on the effects of different...
New publication in the open-access journal Biogeosciences
A new paper authored by BioBE Center Director Jessica Green and former Center members Ann (Womack) Klein and Brendan Bohannan was recently published in the open-access journal Biogeosciences. The paper examined fungal communities in the atmosphere over the Amazon...
BioBE women join the OpEd Project
Photo credit: Chelsea Carmona, the OpEd Project BioBE members Erica Hartmann and Clarisse Betancourt attended the OpEd Project in San Francisco this weekend. The program, geared toward increasing the voice of women and minorities in public discourse and especially...
Call for a Unified Microbiome Initiative
BioBE Center Director Jessica Green co-authored the recently published proposal for a Unified Microbiome Initiative. The goal is "to discover and advance tools to understand and harness the capabilities of Earth’s microbial ecosystems." Read more about it--and hear...
Landscape Architect Robin Moore visits BioBE
Robin Moore, Professor of Landscape Architecture at North Carolina State University and Director of The Natural Learning Initiative (www.naturalearning.org), will visit BioBE on Monday, 11/2. His lecture on “Naturalizing Childhood: Landscape Architecture’s New Quest”...
Microbiota of the Indoor Environment: A Meta-Analysis
Congratulations to all on this recently published paper in the journal Microbiome, from BioBE co-authors James Meadow & Ashley Bateman, with collaborators Rachel Adams & Holly Bik. This project was born during a 2013 NESCent Catalysis Meeting on "Evolution in...
KVAL Interview with Ashley Bateman on the Human Microbial Cloud
KVAL's Kelly Anderson interviewed co-author Ashley Bateman on the exciting findings from BioBE's most recent publication, "Humans differ in their personal microbial cloud"....
New BioBE publication in PeerJ: “Humans differ in their personal microbial cloud”
Congratulations to all co-authors on the successful publication of their research in ESBL's comfort chamber (affectionately, the Pickle Box). There has been a lot of excitement in the press; some links to articles in the media are listed below, and are also located at...
American Academy of Microbiology Colloquium
BioBE researcher Jeff Kline participated in a colloquium titled "The Microbiology of Built Environments". The event was hosted by the American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific branch of the American Society of Microbiology (ASM), and was held on Sept. 9, 2015,...
Watch Erica Hartmann’s talk on antimicrobials and the indoor microbiome through LabRoots
LabRoots recently held a webinar on microbiology that had a bunch of cool speakers, including our own Erica Hartmann. Watch her talk, and others like Jack Gilbert and Curtis Huttenhower, for free here. You can also earn free CME continuing education credits.
Erica Hartmann trains with the Huttenhower lab at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Erica recently returned from a 2-week intensive training session with Curtis Huttenhower's lab group at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health where she worked on analyzing amplicon and shotgun sequencing data. Thanks to the Huttenhower lab for being such...
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