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...
by Mira | Jul 18, 2022 | News
A warm welcome to Poppy, the newest member of our Build Health Consortium! Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world realized the role of indoor space in affecting lives and livelihoods. During this time, the scientific community learned a lot about...
