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...
by Mark Fretz | Mar 24, 2021 | News
The University of Oregon Biology and the Built Environment Center (BioBE Center) has conducted extensive research using Thermo Fisher Scientific’s AerosolSense air sampler. AerosolSense is an active air sampler that pulls 200 L/minute of room air into the unit for...
by Mark Fretz | Dec 16, 2020 | News
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the role that built environments play in transmitting the disease has become clear and caused a focused effort on eliminating the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen from built environments. However, in a recent article by Caroline Winter at Bloomberg...
