Author: Amanda Makowiecki

Amanda Makowiecki is a graduate student in the Miller Research Group at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Acquired Resistance to Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation

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By Amanda Makowiecki Miller Research Group University of Colorado, Boulder With drug resistant bacteria becoming a growing problem, alternative methods are being pursued to decontaminate air and surfaces; ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) is one of these methods. UVGI uses short wavelength light in order to disrupt the genetic material of microorganisms, this disruption either kills …

Review of Architectural Design Drives the Biogeography of Indoor Bacterial Communities

By Amanda Makowiecki   Posted in Air and Air Quality Architecture Buildings Research Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports) Urban Microbiomes
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By Amanda Makowiecki 1st Year Mechanical Engineering PhD Student Miller Research Group, University of Colorado Boulder Researchers at the University of Oregon recently published a paper examining the connection between architectural design and microbial diversity in our buildings (Kembel et al. 2014). Although occupancy type was identified as the strongest predictor of microbial variation, several …