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Clarisse Betancourt wins best poster at Healthy Buildings America 2015
Clarisse's poster, entitled "Towards assessing the viability of the indoor microbiome using flow cytometry," was one of three selected for a Best Poster award at the Healthy Buildings America 2015 meeting this past week in Boulder, CO. The truly enviable prize...
ASM Colloquium on the Microbiology of Built Environments
BioBE researcher Jeff Kline has been invited to participate in a colloquium on the microbiology of the built environment, convened by American Academy of Microbiology within the American Society for Microbiology. This event, to be held in September in Washington,...
Sloan Foundation renews BioBE funding for another 2 years, $1.325M
The BioBE Center has just been awarded a 2-year $1.325M renewal grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to investigate the relationship between architectural design and the indoor microbiome - the collection of bacteria, fungi and viruses found inside of buildings –...
Kyla Martichuski received a 2015 UOWGS Undergraduate Summer Research Award
Kyla is one of the two recipients of the 2015 University of Oregon Women in Graduate Sciences (UOWGS) Undergraduate Summer Research Award. The UOWGS organization focuses on the professional development of women in all disciplines of science. This award is provided to...
Kyla Martichuski and Andy Siemens presented their research projects in the 5th Annual Undergraduate Symposium
Photo credit: Top, Ann Klein. Bottom, Lesli Larson and Mandi Garcia from the UO 5th Annual Undergraduate Symposium. Kyla and Andy presented their research projects in the Fifth Annual Undergraduate Symposium at the University of Oregon. Kyla did an oral...
Clarisse Betancourt and Gwynne Mhuireach received scholarships to attend the Healthy Buildings America 2015
Clarisse Betancourt Román and Gwynne Mhuireach have both been awarded scholarships to attend and present their research at the Healthy Buildings 2015 America Conference in Boulder, CO, July 19-22. The mission of the conference is to promote collaboration among built...
Erica Hartmann was profiled in the Conversation
The Conversation US is a news analysis and opinion website with content written by academics, edited by journalists and aimed at the general public. See what Erica has to say here.
Engaging the Design Profession
Bringing together facilities professionals from the regional healthcare industry, the seminar "Creating Healthy Buildings: Natural Light and Ventilation Design in Healthcare Applications" was held April 22, Earth Day, at the Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory's...
Clarisse Betancourt presented at the 2015 Early Career Scientists Symposium
Clarisse Betancourt Román presents her research titled "Microbiome viability in indoor dust" during the poster session in the 2015 Early Career Scientists Symposium "Ecosystems within organisms: ecology and evolution of the microbiome" at the University of Michigan.
Kyla Martichuski received a 2015 Barry Goldwater Scholarship
Kyla is one of the two recipients from an Oregon university. The Goldwater Scholarship is a prestigious national award that recognized undergraduates for their work in science, mathematics and engineering. Kyla is researching the diversity and temporal dynamics of...
Evolution of the indoor microbiome
Ashley Bateman, James Meadow, Steve Kembel, Gwynne Mhuireach and other 20 fellow scientists have published an article about the evolution of the indoor microbiome in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Read the piece about this article in the New York Times.
MicroBEnet modeling microbial metabolism
Our partners MicoBEnet received an award by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation to construct mechanistic metabolic ecosystem models of the bacteria and viruses that survive, colonize and grow on different built environment materials under different...
AIA Design & Health Research Consortium Kickoff
G.Z. Brown of BioBE and Deb Johnson-Shelton of the Oregon Research Institute attended the kickoff meeting of the AIA Design & Health Research Consortium on March 5, 2015. Held at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey, the 11 inaugural...
Andy Siemens to receive an UnderGrEBES Award for Undergraduate Research
Andy is one of only 4 recipients of the 2015 UnderGrEBES Awards for Undergraduate Research through the Graduate Evolutionary Biology and Ecology Students. This award will go towards his research project, The Effects of Light and Triclosan on the Dust Microbiome.
Come work with us!
The BioBE Center is currently seeking a bioinformatics postdoctoral research scholar to explore fundamental questions in microbial ecology and evolution. Applicants must have a Ph.D. with extensive training using bioinformatics to understand the ecology and/or...
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