Jessica Green (academic) explained
Jessica Green is an American entrepreneur, engineer, and ecologist. She is CEO of Phylagen, Inc.,[1] a biotech startup developing tools to monitor the microbiology of air. Prior to Phylagen, she was a Professor of Biology[2] at the University of Oregon and co-founding director of the Biology and Built Environment Center.[3] Green’s two talks at the TED Conferences on the Microbiomes of the built environment have received over 1.7 million views.[4] [5]
Education
Green studied civil engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated magna cum laude in 1992. She interned as an environmental engineer at the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board while completing a M.S. degree in civil engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 1994. She received a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering in 2001 from University of California, Berkeley with a thesis on theoretical ecology, supervised by William E. Kastenberg and John Harte. She was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow working with Mark Westoby and Alan Hastings on the application of genomic tools to microbial biogeography.
Career
Green’s academic career focused on theoretical ecology[6] and microbial biogeography in environments including soils,[7] [8] the phyllosphere,[9] and the atmosphere.[10] Her later work centered on microbiomes of the built environment.[11] [12] In 2015 Green co-founded Phylagen, Inc., a biotech company specializing in digitizing the indoor microbiome for health and safety.[13] As a speaker at the TED conferences,[14] she has presented on microbiology-derived insights for healthy and sustainable buildings. She serves on the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute.[15]
Awards
Green is recipient of the TED Fellowship,[16] Guggenheim Fellowship[17] and Blaise Pascal International Research Chair.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Phylagen: Digitizing the Global Microbiome. www.phylagen.com.
- Web site: Who We Are BioBE . biobe.uoregon.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140527190607/http://biobe.uoregon.edu/who-we-are/ . 2014-05-27.
- Web site: BioBE | Biology and the Built Environment Center. biobe.uoregon.edu.
- Web site: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.. Jessica. Green. 25 March 2013 . www.ted.com.
- Web site: Are we filtering the wrong microbes?. Jessica. Green. 4 August 2011 . www.ted.com.
- Harte . J. . Kinzig . A. . Green . J. L. . 1999 . Self-similarity in the distribution and abundance of species . Science . 10.1126/science.284.5412.334.
- Green . J. . Holmes . A . Westoby . M. . 2004 . Spatial scaling of microbial eukaryote diversity . Nature . 10.1038/nature03034.
- Bryant . J.A. . Lamanna . C. . Morlon . H. . Kerkhoff . A.J. . Enquist . B.J.. . Green . J.L. . 2008 . Microbes on mountainsides: Contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity . Proc Natl Acad Sci . 10.1073/pnas.080192010.
- Kembel . S. W. . O’Connor . T.K. . Arnold . H. K. . Hubbell . S. P. . Wright . S. J. . Green . J.L. . 2014 . Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest . Proc Natl Acad Sci . 10.1073/pnas.1216057111. free . 4183302 .
- Womack . A. M. . Bohannan . B. J. M. . Green . J.L. . 2010 . Biodiversity and biogeography of the atmosphere . Phil. Trans. R. Soc. . 10.1098/rstb.2010.0283. free . 2982008 .
- Kembel . S. . Jones . E. . Kline . J. . 2012 . Architectural design influences the diversity and structure of the built environment microbiome. . 10.1038/ismej.2011.211. free . 3400407 .
- Green . J. L. . 2014 . Can bioinformed design promote healthy indoor ecosystems? . Indoor Air . 10.1111/ina.12090.
- Web site: S.F. startup Phylagen’s quest: airborne COVID-19 detection in offices. www.SFChronicle.com.
- Web site: Jessica Green's TED Profile. www.ted.com.
- Web site: Jessica Green at the Santa Fe Institute. www.santafe.edu.
- Web site: Fellows Friday with Jessica Green. blog.ted.com.
- Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Jessica Green.
