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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 &...

Join us in Atlanta in May!

BioBE has had 2 panel presentations accepted for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Convention 2015. This is the largest and pre-eminent architectural convention in the U.S. The first panel, titled “Architecture, Engineering, Biology, and Health:...

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Healthy Buildings Workshop

In collaboration with SRG Partnership and Mazzetti, ESBL will be offering a workshop in early 2015 for healthcare facility professionals. ESBL's portion of the half-day event will describe current research on built environment microbiomes and its implications for...

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BioBE in GEO Magazine

    BioBE research is featured in a new article in GEO Magazine. Titled "Die Wildnis im Wohnzimmer" ("The Wilderness in the Living Room") and written by Ute Eberle, the article discusses the human and built environment microbiome experiments that use ESBL's...

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Update from BioBE Alum in Denmark

Since January 2014, former BioBE Graduate Research Fellow Max Moriyama has been working at the Danish architecture firm Tredje Natur (or 'Third Nature' in English). The office explores the potentials of nature in the city, and specializes in climate-adaptive design,...

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Best Research Video!

The BioBE video "Clouds in a Box" was submitted to Oregon BESTFEST's video contest and was judged Best Research Video at their annual conference in Portland, Oregon, in September, 2014. This short video describes the preparations and activities for a recent experiment...

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BioBE Collected Air at the WSU Bread Lab

Sampling air around Jonathan the Bread Lab baker. Photo credit Kim Binczewski. Clarisse Betancourt and Erica Hartmann travelled to scenic Mount Vernon, Washington to collect air samples from the Washington State University Bread Lab. These samples will help generate...

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Indoor Air 2014 in Hong Kong

James Meadow is recently back from Hong Kong, where he was presenting new BioBE research at the 2014 Indoor Air meeting. Indoor microbiology research was very well represented in a series of packed sessions sponsored by the Sloan Foundation. Discussions throughout the...

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Press coverage for personal microbiome paper

The most recent BioBE paper has received quite a bit of coverage in the press, including some nice spots in scientific press. The study explored the personal microbial connection we have with our personal effects, specifically with smartphones. Here are a few notable...

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