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Congratulations to BioBE’s Sam Velazquez!
Another of BioBE's stellar student researchers is headed to graduate school! Sam Velazquez has been working with Dr. Sue Ishaq on bioinformatics in our lab. She is a bright...
BioBE heads to the UO SPICE Fair, Saturday April 13
This Saturday, April 13th, is the 2019 UO Science and Invention Fair, held on campus in Willamette Hall from 11 am to 3 pm. The Fair is designed for children in grades K -...
Twelve Days at the University of Oregon
Written by Dr. Rich Corsi, edited by Sue Ishaq and Jeff Kline. Several months ago, I connected with Dr. Kevin van Den Wymelenberg at the University of Oregon about the...
Design Champs: Daylight and Microbes
This week, BioBE held the third session of our "Design Champions" webinar series, which we have been developing over the last few months as a means of actively communicating...
ESBL/BioBE welcome new Associate Director of Outreach
ESBL and BioBE are thrilled to announce that Mark Fretz has joined the team as the new Associate Director of Outreach, based out of the Portland location. Mark brings a...
National Academies of Science MoBE meeting
In mid-October, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine co-hosted the MoBE 2017 (Microbiology of the Built...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation renews BioBE funding!
Dr. Van Den Wymelenberg, Biology and the Built Environment Center PI and Co-Director, is excited to announce that the Center has secured another two years of funding from...
OCCRI Mini-Conference
We attended the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute Mini-Conference at Oregon State University on 10/18/17. This half-day event featured 4 minute lightning talks on a...
Combining multiple sequencing runs: heterogeneity spacers
We do a lot of Illumina-based metabarcode sequencing here at the BioBE center. Sequencing is getting cheaper, and the amount of data you can get from a sequencing run...
Design Champs
Last week, the staff of the Biology and the Built Environment Center presented cutting-edge science from the Center and beyond to a group of interested practitioners. The...
So long, summer!
Written by Hannah Wilson The beginning of my summer was dedicated to moving the BioBE center’s molecular biology lab to a new location on campus. I dedicated the next part...
Round up of ESA conference
The 2017 ESA meeting in Portland, OR, which took place August 6-11, created a flurry of imagination here in Eugene: Roo Vandegrift left with a large hash of approximately...
Report from the Mycological Society
In July, one of our own, Dr. Roo Vandegrift, went to the annual Mycological Society of America (MSA) meeting, held just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, in the college town of...
BioBE and ESBL are seeking a new Office Manager!
BioBE and ESBL are looking to a hire an office manager to support our teams! The full position description and application can be found here. The position will serve as the...
BioBE presentations at the ESA meeting next week
The 2017 Ecological Society of America (ESA) conference is being held next week in Portland, OR, at the Oregon Convention Center, and members of the BioBE team will have a...
Congratulations to Dr. Ashley Bateman on her defense, next steps!
Last week, BioBE said good-bye and good-luck to Ashley Bateman, who successfully defended her dissertation on May 25th. Ashley has been with the department for 6 years, as...
ESBL is seeking an Associate Director of Outreach in Portland, OR
The Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL) at the University of Oregon is seeking a new Associate Director of Outreach at the Portland location! At ESBL, as part of...
HERC Recap: Artist Morgan Maiolie
How do you illustrate the microbiome of bacterial, fungal and viral communities to architects, engineers and building equipment manufacturers? You commission an artist!...
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...
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,...
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...
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...