Theme: Microbial Environments
Our vision is to develop biotechnologies to create a new generation of Living Buildings which are responsible and responsive to their natural environment; grown using living engineered materials to reduce inefficient industrial construction processes; metabolise their own waste, reducing pollution, generate energy and high-value products and modulate their microbiome to benefit human and ecological health and wellbeing.
Characterising and harnessing the diversity of microbial environments and their relationships to the built environment and occupant’s health.
•To overlay pan-Kingdom microbiota studies of the built environment.
•Generate, supplement and curate a database of ‘all’ built environment microbial communities to date, that allows deep learning and artificial intelligence to predict microbial community changes alongside longitudinal data.
• Incorporation of handheld sequencing devices (Oxford Nanopore) and biosensors directly into the built environment enabling rapid assessments of microbial flux alongside environmental data.
• The translocation of microbiomes across the built environment including households and industrial spaces.
The theme is lead by Darren Smith.
