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Microbes in the built environment; interview with Jefferson Exchange
In case you missed it live, you can stream Sue Ishaq's interview with Geoffrey Riley at the Jefferson Exchange, about her work at BioBE. She talks about how to go from...
Upcoming radio interview with Jefferson Exchange!
BioBE's Sue Ishaq will be speaking with the Jefferson Exchange crew on their live radio show about microbiology in the built environment on March 11th, at about 8:30 am PST....
Health + Energy Research Consortium
The Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE) and Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL) at the University of Oregon, are pleased to announce the launch of the...
EPA Progress Meeting
Jeff Kline presented BioBE's project, "The Impact of Weatherization on Microbial Ecology and Human Health" at EPA's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Indoor Air &...
Multiple Positions Open at University of Oregon BioBE Center
Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg and Jessica Green, of the Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE), are currently seeking a microbial ecology Research Associate / Research...
The concept of hygiene and the human microbiome.
Reblogged from MicrobeBE.net. (This post was written by Roo Vandegrift, at the University of Oregon) I was recently asked to spearhead the writing of a review centered...
The City Of Tomorrow Is a Petri dish
Jessica Green and Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg are quoted in an architecture article wrote by Mark Wilson and published in the Fast Company Magazine called: "The City of...
Cleanliness in Context
The BioBE Center just published a white paper, titled "Hand Hygiene in the 21st Century: Cleanliness in Context" that examines the history and current literature on hygiene....
“Designing Buildings to House Our Favorite Germs”
The BioBE Center and several other labs funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation are featured in this article by Melissa Pandika in Ozy Magazine. The author interviewed...
Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics
Postdoc Roxana Hickey presented "Microbial interactions between humans and the built environment" at the 21st Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics meeting held in Lake...
BioBe research highlighted in LabRoots webinar
BioBE postdoc Roxana Hickey presented a live webinar highlighting past and ongoing BioBE research in the LabRoots Microbiology and Immunology Virtual Event held on September...
Linking antimicrobials and antibiotic resistance genes in indoor dust
Previous BioBE postdoc Erica Hartmann (now Assistant Professor at Northwestern University!), along with several BioBE researchers and members of Curtis Huttenhower's...
OSU & The Corvallis Art Center: “Microbiomes: To See the Unseen”
Graduate student Ashley Bateman recently contributed to the workshop portion of the The Microbiome Art Project, a collaboration between OSU and the Corvallis Arts Center....
Urban green space and airborne microbial communities
We recently published a paper investigating airborne microbes found in parks versus parking lots in Science of the Total Environment. Read more about it here.
2016 Pacific Northwest Women in Science Retreat
I (Ashley Bateman) recently won a scholarship from the Women in Graduate Sciences organization at the University of Oregon, to attend the 2016 Pacific Northwest Women in...
Understanding the microbiome of the Boston subway
BioBE members Jessica Green and Erica Hartmann contributed to a study looking at the microbiome of the Boston transit system, the MBTA. The paper, published in mSystems is...
Toward a Predictive Understanding of Earth’s Microbiomes
Jessica Green and other 10 fellow microbiome scientists have published an article titled "Toward a Predictive Understanding of Earth's Microbiomes to Address 21st Century...
“Microbiology of Built Environments” FAQ
The American Academy of Microbiology has published a FAQ report on the microbiology of the built environment colloquium convened in September 2015. The report is "based on...
BioBE research featured in GreenBiz
Check out the recent GreenBiz article featuring some of the goings on at the BioBE center here. Around the O also talks about this article here.
BioBE to host a microbiome science Wikipedia edit-a-thon
This Friday we'll be hosting an edit-a-thon to help spread knowledge related to microbiome science through Wikipedia. Come join us on campus or remotely! For more...
BioBE undergrads share their research at UO symposium
Undergraduate students Andy Siemens and Kyla Martichuski were selected to give oral presentations at the Sixth Annual University of Oregon Undergraduate Symposium. The...
Built environment microbiome design charrette
In December we posted about the design-oriented microbiome course that doctoral candidate Gwynne Mhuireach would be teaching in the winter term. Students in the course were...