So our collaborators from the Biology of the Built Environment (BioBE) Center at the University of Oregon have been working hard to get their environmental sampling qRT-PCR assays for SARS-CoV-2 up and running. I’m sure we’ll be posting more about their results as they develop. But they are now offering their testing as a service …
Posted by request from the BioBE Center at the University of Oregon: The work of our BioBE team will be represented at five different conferences from May to August 2020. Our projects on hospital-associated infection will be presented at American Society for Microbiology Conference in Chicago, Microbiology in the Built Environment in Andover, NH, …
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 The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and their Microbiology of the Built Environment (MoBE) program. Van Den Wymelenberg stated, “we are honored to have been awarded a final …
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 Assistant Professor / Research Associate Professor (non-tenure track faculty) to investigate fundamental questions surrounding the role of microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, and viruses) in the built environment and …
There is a new Youtube Video out from Science Friday today featuring the BioBE Center at the University of Oregon.
From the BioBE Center … What sorts of bacteria did we find in a university classroom? from BioBE Center on Vimeo.
Fun microbiology news this week. The BioBE Center has a new paper that is getting a lot of press. The paper is about microbes and roller derby. Really. If you want the inside story check out the guest post by Ashley Bateman from the BioBE Center on my Tree of Life Blog: The Tree of Life: …
Another good indoor microbiology video from the BioBE Center
Love this, from Ashley Bateman and the BioBE Center.
“Indoors” appeared as a session title for the first time at the annual meeting of the Ecology Society of America after Brendan Bohannan of the BioBE Center at the University of Oregon and Tom Bruns of BIMERC at the University of California organized a session entitled “The Great Indoors: Recent Advances in the Ecology of …