Jessica Green (academic)

Jessica L. Green
Jessica L. Green
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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.

References

  1. ^ "Phylagen: Digitizing the Global Microbiome". www.phylagen.com.
  2. ^ "Who We Are | BioBE". biobe.uoregon.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-05-27.
  3. ^ "BioBE | Biology and the Built Environment Center". biobe.uoregon.edu.
  4. ^ Green, Jessica (25 March 2013). "We're covered in germs. Let's design for that" – via www.ted.com.
  5. ^ Green, Jessica (4 August 2011). "Are we filtering the wrong microbes?" – via www.ted.com.
  6. ^ Harte, J.; Kinzig, A.; Green, J. L. (1999). "Self-similarity in the distribution and abundance of species". Science. doi:10.1126/science.284.5412.334.
  7. ^ Green, J.; Holmes, A; Westoby, M. (2004). "Spatial scaling of microbial eukaryote diversity". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature03034.
  8. ^ 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.080192010.
  9. ^ 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.1216057111. PMC 4183302.
  10. ^ Womack, A. M.; Bohannan, B. J. M.; Green, J.L. (2010). "Biodiversity and biogeography of the atmosphere". Phil. Trans. R. Soc. doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0283. PMC 2982008.
  11. ^ Kembel, S.; Jones, E.; Kline, J. (2012). "Architectural design influences the diversity and structure of the built environment microbiome". doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.211. PMC 3400407. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. ^ Green, J. L. (2014). "Can bioinformed design promote healthy indoor ecosystems?". Indoor Air. doi:10.1111/ina.12090.
  13. ^ "S.F. startup Phylagen's quest: airborne COVID-19 detection in offices". www.SFChronicle.com.
  14. ^ "Jessica Green's TED Profile". www.ted.com.
  15. ^ "Jessica Green at the Santa Fe Institute". www.santafe.edu.
  16. ^ "Fellows Friday with Jessica Green". blog.ted.com.
  17. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Jessica Green".