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 | Sep 28, 2022 | Research
Imagine a city with crops on every rooftop. This might seem odd at first, but 80% of food will be consumed in cities by 2050, which means city-goers need to become city-growers if we want to have resilience in the wake of food supply chain shortages. During the...
by Mira | Apr 4, 2022 | Research, Team Members
See our researchers talk with Jack Gilbert, mSystems Editor-In-Chief, on the pandemic built environment. Read the publication that inspired this conversation here: 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Built Environment Considerations To Reduce Transmission...
by Mira | Mar 30, 2022 | News, Publication, Research
Our latest preprint on COVID-19 and aerosol transmission: “A novel VOC breath tracer method to evaluate indoor respiratory exposures in the near- and far-fields” is available! The public has been told for the majority of the pandemic that we need to keep...
by Mira | Sep 1, 2020 | News, Research
What if we could change the spread of COVID-19 by studying building design? What if we could test buildings instead of people for the virus? The University of Oregon’s Institute for Health in the Built Environment, partnered with the Biology and the Built Environment...
