The 5th Annual SLOAN
MoBE (Microbiology of the Built Environment) Conference
June 1-3,2016
University of Colorado Boulder
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is funding an emerging field of scientific inquiry: the microbiology of the built environment.
Our homes and workplaces, hospitals and schools are quite literally complex ecosystems filled with a variety of microorganisms, tiny life forms that are invisible to the naked eye. Understanding these complex ecosystems will present opportunities to influence construction practices and other industrial processes, and to impact both human health and well-being.
This conference series convenes thought leaders across fields—including biology, engineering, architecture and others—who characterize and control the microbiology in our built environment.
This is the last of five annual meetings on the topic of the microbiology of the built environment.
Conference Objectives:
Our homes and workplaces, hospitals and schools are quite literally complex ecosystems filled with a variety of microorganisms, tiny life forms that are invisible to the naked eye. Understanding these complex ecosystems will present opportunities to influence construction practices and other industrial processes, and to impact both human health and well-being.
This conference series convenes thought leaders across fields—including biology, engineering, architecture and others—who characterize and control the microbiology in our built environment.
This is the last of five annual meetings on the topic of the microbiology of the built environment.
Conference Objectives:
- Establish and sustain a multidisciplinary community of biologists, engineers, architects, and others studying the microbiology of built environments.
- Develop and advance a research agenda for the Alfred P. Sloan's Microbiology of the Built Environment program.
- Educate non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and key federal agencies about the importance of directing research and regulatory resources to the field.
- Convene Sloan grantees, other stakeholders, selected press, and representatives of key federal agencies.
- Integral to these conferences will be professionally facilitated breakout groups expressly designed to challenge this elite consortium to collaboratively define a research agenda that can be shared with NGOs and federal agencies.