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Erica Hartmann to give Young Investigator Oral Presentation at ASM2015
Erica will be talking about the Prevalence of Antimicrobials in Dust and their Impact on the Indoor Microbiome in the ASM Lecturer's Choice: Recent developments in Microbiome Research Session. The American Society for Microbiology General Meeting 2015 will be held in...
Ashley Bateman is selected as recipient of the 2015 William R. Sistrom Memorial Scholarship Award
The William R. Sistrom Memorial Scholarship was created through the generosity of Dorothy Sistrom. The scholarship was established to recognize biology graduate students who exhibit academic excellence in working with microbiology or a closely related field.
Erica Hartman is selected as recipient of the 2015 Donald E. Wimber Fund Award
The Donald E. Wimber Fund Award was created through the generosity of Carol Cogswell as a memorial to retired University of Oregon biology faculty member Donald Wimber. The award was established to provide support for junior faculty, research associates, or graduate...
BioBE Selected for AIA Design & Health Research Consortium
The UO BioBE Center, along with 10 other architecture schools and schools of public health, has been chosen by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the AIA Foundation, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture to be charter members of...
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:...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
BioBE Doctoral Candidate Awarded EPA STAR Fellowship
Gwynne Mhuireach, a Landscape Architecture PhD candidate and member of BioBE, has been awarded a Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship from the U.S. EPA to investigate heterogeneity among the microbial communities found in urban residential neighborhoods. She...
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...
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...
Built Environment Microbiology Videos from ASM 2014
James Meadow is recently back from the American Society for Microbiology meeting in Boston, MA, where he was speaking in a special session called "We Are Not Alone: Microbial Revelations of the Built Environment." The session was filled with really interesting talks...
New paper in PeerJ: Mobile phones reflect our personal microbiome
Our new paper on the bacterial connection between our hands and our mobile phones is out this week in PeerJ. Also, James Meadow did an interview with PeerJ about the study and it's implications as well as his thoughts about the PeerJ publishing experience. Worth a...
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