by Mark Fretz | Dec 14, 2025 | News
Design research conducted by the Institute for Health in the Built Environment was recently featured in Nature in an article titled, “The probiotic home: Where microbes are welcome guests,” by Katherine Bourzac. The article was part of Nature Outlook: The...
by Mark Fretz | Sep 26, 2024 | News
A newly published article by Professor Andy Tay in the journal Nature highlights the challenges and ways in which universities worldwide, including the Biology and the Built Environment Center, have been battling the single-use plastic waste stream associated with...
by Gwynne Mhuireach | Aug 30, 2023 | News, Research
Did you know that every day, we eat billions of microbes (bacteria, fungi, viruses) inhabiting our food? According to Wasserman et al. (2019), a single apple harbors about 100,000,000 bacteria, not to mention an unquantified number of fungi, viruses, and other...
by Mira | Mar 23, 2023 | News, Publication, Research
What types of bacteria, fungi, and viruses inhabit garden soil? Does gardening without gloves affect your own skin microbiome? In 2019, BioBE’s Dr. Gwynne Mhuireach received a prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship from the USDA National Institute of Food and...
by Mira | Jan 3, 2023 | Publication, Research
That plant you have on your desk? You are in relationship with it- well, microbially at least. Dr. Gwynne Mhuireach at BioBE is working to understand relationships between plant microbes and people. Humans have always been close to the microbial communities in plants...
