by nmclain | Aug 12, 2025 | Awards, News
Congratulations to IHBE member Dr. Gwynne Mhuireach, recipient of the Outstanding Article Award from Urban Agriculture and Regional Food Systems (UARFS)! Her award-winning article, “Garden soil bacteria transiently colonize gardeners’ skin after direct soil contact,”...
by nmclain | Apr 27, 2025 | News, Publication
As part of our on-going mass timber work, Dr. Gwynne Mhuireach just published a paper entitled, “Effects of wetting events on mass timber surface microbial communities and VOC emissions: Implications for building operation and occupant well-being.” The...
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...
