April 27, 2020

JESSICA GREEN

By Checker Bot

Updated 05-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about JESSICA GREEN!

Jessica Green’s TED Profile: Jessica Green is a member of TED’s global online community. Ideas spread because of people.

Are we filtering the wrong microbes?: Should we keep the outdoors out of hospitals? Ecologist and TED Fellow Jessica Green has found that mechanical ventilation does get rid of many types of microbes, but the wrong kinds: the ones left in the hospital are much more likely to be pathogens.

We’re covered in germs. Let’s design for that.: Our bodies and homes are covered in microbes — some good for us, some bad for us. As we learn more about the germs and microbes who share our living spaces, TED Fellow Jessica Green asks: Can we design buildings that encourage happy, healthy microbial environments?

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Jessica Green is an American engineer, ecologist, and entrepreneur whose research focuses on Microbial Ecology and Genomics . she co-founded Phylagen Inc. in 2015 with Harrison Dillon, the founder of In 2013 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on a science fiction graphic novel about the Human Microbiome.