BioBE Center

the University of Oregon's Institute for Health in the Built Environment (formerly known as the BioBE Center) studies how building material choices such as mass timber, versus conventional concrete and steel, shift resident microbial communities,…

Country: United States

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Coverage

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Verifiable facts

Fact	Value	Source
Affiliation	University of Oregon	biobe.uoregon.edu · microbe.net
Research focus	Microbiome of the built environment (MoBE), including the impact of design, building materials, light, and air on microbial communities to improve human health and environmental sustainability	biobe.uoregon.edu · microbe.net · sloan.org
Facility	Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory (ESBL), Institute for Health in the Built Environment (IHBE)	biobe.uoregon.edu
Grant	$1,000,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2017	sloan.org
Publications	Multiple academic publications in journals such as Science of the Total Environment, Buildings, and Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology regarding indoor microbiomes and building design	biobe.uoregon.edu
Principal staff	Mark Fretz (Interim Director), Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg (Director), Gwynne Mhuireach (Research Assistant Professor), Jason Stenson (Research Associate Professor)	biobe.uoregon.edu
Founded	2010	biobe.uoregon.edu · sloan.org

Independent sources: microbe.net · sloan.org

Technologies

Name	Cluster	Risk
Urban microbiome management	monitoring-conservation	Medium	→

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