What’s Happening

Living Interfaces Lab Showcases Research at 2025 Bioremediation Symposium

06/24/2025

Hao-Wei Shih Karolina Sulich Elizabeth Hénaff

Gowanus Canal Microbiome

Microbiomes and the Anthropocene

TalkPoster PresentationSymposium

The Hénaff Lab Summer Tour

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The Hénaff Lab Summer Tour

06/15/2025 → 06/27/2025

Alma Rocha Phoebe Mankiewicz Diedre Brown Hao-Wei Shih Karolina Sulich Elizabeth Hénaff

Gowanus Canal Microbiome Urban Aerobiome Microclimates Green Walls and the Indoor Microbiome

TalkConference PresentationPoster PresentationSymposium

LAMP-PCR biosensor top 8 finalist at Bio Design Challenge 2025

06/13/2025

Karolina Sulich Elizabeth Hénaff

Gowanus Canal Microbiome

Microbiomes and the Anthropocene

TalkExhibit

Our lab participated in Tandon Excellence Exhibit 2025 !

04/25/2025

Elizabeth Hénaff Caroline Chou Karolina Sulich Seba Alabdullatif Hao-Wei Shih Yuwei Chen

Gowanus Canal Microbiome

Exhibit

Pollution-eating microbes are thriving in infamous NYC canal - Popular Science

04/15/2025

Elizabeth, Chandrima

Press

Metagenomic Interrogation of Urban Superfund Site Reveals Antimicrobial Resistance Reservoir and Bioremediation Potential

04/15/2025

Elizabeth

Publication

Environmental Microbiomes and Their Secrets with Dr. Elizabeth Henaff

11/26/2024

Elizabeth Hénaff

Podcast

Art and science for collaboration across species

11/22/2024

Elizabeth Hénaff

Channel

Talk

Art Spiel Picks : Art and Technology NYC Exhibitions November 2024

11/21/2024

Elizabeth Hénaff

Press

Artist Talk + Q&A: Concetta Abbate & Dr. Elizabeth Hénaff

11/01/2024

Elizabeth Hénaff

Channel

Talk

Water Stories

10/16/2024

Elizabeth Hénaff

Press

A deployable film method to enable replicable sampling of low-abundance environmental microbiomes.

10/11/2024

Elizabeth Hénaff Phoebe Mankiewicz

Green Walls and the Indoor Microbiome

Publication

Bioremediation with Heavy-metal-binding Hydrogels and Microbial Heritage Sites

10/08/2024 → 10/11/2024

Caroline Chou Elizabeth Hénaff Hao-Wei Shih Karolina Sulich

Gowanus Canal Microbiome

Conference Presentation

More-than-human Mapping: Microbial Heritage in Post-industrial Landscapes

09/27/2024 → 09/27/2024

Caroline Chou Elizabeth Hénaff

Gowanus Canal Microbiome

Conference Presentation

Nocturnal Medicine: Sensuous Planet

09/27/2024

Elizabeth

Exhibit

2024 NYU Climate Week Kick-Off

09/22/2024

Diedre Brown

Urban Aerobiome Microclimates

ExhibitLLI

Dr. Elizabeth Hénaff will be mentor for the Creative Science track at NEW INC!

09/21/2024

Elizabeth Hénaff

Service

Exosome Loaded Protein Hydrogel for Enhanced Gelation Kinetics and Wound Healing

08/22/2024

Hao-Wei Shih

Gowanus Canal Microbiome

Publication

Distinguished Teacher Award

08/15/2024

Elizabeth Hénaff

NYU Tandon Faculty Excellence Awards

Award

Biodesign Symposium: How to Grow a Biodesigner

06/12/2024

Caroline Chou

Roots of Renewal: Biodesign Community Program for AAPI Youth

PublicationConference PresentationSymposium

CHANNEL | BioBAT Art Space

06/08/2024

Elizabeth Hénaff

Exhibit

FloodNet: Low‐Cost Ultrasonic Sensors for Real‐Time Measurement of Hyperlocal, Street‐Level Floods in New York City

05/01/2024

Elizabeth

Publication

2024 Tandon Research Excellence Exhibit

04/26/2024

Hao-Wei Shih Caroline Chou Karolina Sulich Elizabeth Hénaff

Gowanus Canal Microbiome

Microbiomes and the Anthropocene

AwardExhibitLLI

Assessment of Hyperlocal Urban Aerobiomes

04/25/2024

Diedre Brown Progga Nabiha Bhuiyan Harry Trethowan Tori Coleman Elizabeth Hénaff

Urban Aerobiome Microclimates

Holobiont Interactions, Resilient Cities

Conference Presentation

“Growing Indoor Environmental Infrastructure: Designing for Microbial Diversity with Implications for Pollutant Metabolism and Human Health.”

04/21/2024

Elizabeth Hénaff Phoebe Mankiewicz

Green Walls and the Indoor Microbiome

Holobiont Interactions

Publication

How synthetic biology reshapes UX, climate & more

03/14/2024

Karolina Sulich

Podcast

Assessment of Urban Aerobiome Microclimates

03/06/2024

Diedre Brown Elizabeth Hénaff

Urban Aerobiome Microclimates

Conference PresentationNYU seminar

Sponge Park: Gowanus Canal

01/11/2024

Elizabeth Hénaff

Critical Acclaim

Find Me in the Feral Pockets

01/02/2024

Critical Acclaim

NYU Biomaterials class final presentations @ New Lab

2023-12-15

Elizabeth Hénaff Sara Nejad

TeachingExhibit

Assessment of Urban Aerobiome Microclimates

12/12/2023

Diedre Brown Harry Trethowan Progga Nabiha Bhuiyan Tori Coleman

Urban Aerobiome Microclimates

Holobiont Interactions

Conference Presentation

Dan Grushkin and Elizabeth Henaff at Fabrica

2023-11-16

Elizabeth Hénaff

Talk

Green Team Workshop

11/11/2023

Progga Nabiha Bhuiyan Harry Trethowan Diedre Brown Elizabeth Hénaff

Urban Aerobiome Microclimates

ServiceOutreach

Reciprocity in the Multispecies City

2023-10-28

Elizabeth Hénaff Heather Parrish, Leonard Roussel, Seth Wenger

Holobiont Interactions

Conference Presentation

NYU Urban Doctoral Fellowship 2023-2024 Cohort

09/01/2023 → 05/31/2024

Diedre Brown

Urban Aerobiome Microclimates

Award

GENE ZINE | Wignall Museum

08/21/2023 → 11/18/2023

Elizabeth

Exhibit

NYU ARISE program

08/17/2023

Ands Sanchez Sheila Atieno Adriana St. Clair Rabtah Jinan

PressTeaching

PRECIPITATE | Open Source Gallery

06/29/2023

Elizabeth Hénaff

Microbiomes and the Anthropocene

Exhibit

tHrIVE wins the Science Sandbox Prize for Public Engagement at the 2023 Biodesign Challenge

06/23/2023

Ands Sanchez Sheila Atieno Tori Coleman Diedre Brown Anshika Srivastava

Aerobiomes as seen by Honeybees

Microbiomes and the Anthropocene

Award

tHrIVE

06/22/2023 → 06/23/2023

Sheila Atieno Diedre Brown Tori Coleman Ands Sanchez Anshika Srivastava

Aerobiomes as seen by Honeybees

Holobiont Interactions Microbiomes and the Anthropocene Biological Metrics and Design

Conference PresentationExhibitLLIAward

Beehives are the honeypot for a city’s microbial secrets

2023-03-31

Tori Coleman Ands Sanchez Rabtah Jinan Adriana St. Clair

Aerobiomes as seen by Honeybees

Microbiomes and the Anthropocene

Press

Behind the Paper: Holobiont Urbanism

2023-03-30

Elizabeth Hénaff

Aerobiomes as seen by Honeybees

Holobiont Interactions

Invited Article

Holobiont Urbanism: sampling urban beehives reveals cities’ metagenomes

2023-03-30

Elizabeth Hénaff

Microbiomes and the Anthropocene

Publication

Urban Microbiomes and Honeybees - Selected Press

03/29/2023

Press

Data through Design

2023-03-10

Ands Sanchez Tori Coleman Elizabeth Hénaff Sheila Atieno

ExhibitLLI

How to grow (almost) anything: a hybrid distance learning model for global laboratory-based synthetic biology education

12/12/2022

Karolina Sulich

Publication

DISC: Gene Zine

2022-11-01

Elizabeth Hénaff

Artistic Publication

Supervised Machine Learning Enables Geospatial Microbial Provenance

10/18/2022

Elizabeth Hénaff Chandrima Bhattacharya

Publication

Vernacular Biotechnologies

2022-09-27

Elizabeth Hénaff

Publication

Benchmarking DNA recovery rates from aerobiomes sampled with electret filters

2022-08-22

Harry Trethowan

Urban Aerobiome Microclimates

Conference Presentation

Indoor Environmental Parameters: Considering Measures of Microbial Ecology in the Characterization of Indoor Air Quality

2022-05-04

Elizabeth Hénaff Phoebe Mankiewicz

Conference Paper

The Invisible Scrubbers at the Bottom of the Gowanus / Curbed

2022-04-08

Elizabeth Hénaff

Gowanus Canal Microbiome

Microbiomes and the Anthropocene

Press

Developing design criteria for active green wall bioremediation performance: Growth media selection shapes plant physiology, water and air flow patterns.

2022-04-01

Elizabeth Hénaff Phoebe Mankiewicz

Green Walls and the Indoor Microbiome

Holobiont Interactions

Publication

The Urban Microbiome - Conversation with Elizabeth Hénaff and Núria Conde

2021-11-22

Elizabeth Hénaff

Microbiomes and the Anthropocene

Talk

Metabolite: Material as Physical History of a Relationship

2021-08-01

Elizabeth Hénaff

Book Chapter

Voices of Biotech Research

2021-01-01

Elizabeth Hénaff

Invited Article

What Biodesign Means to Me

2020-07-01

Elizabeth Hénaff

Invited Article

DRIFT | Okayama Art Summit

2019-09-26

Elizabeth Hénaff

Exhibit

Theater for Collaborative Survival | Detroit Science Gallery

2019-06-01

Elizabeth Hénaff

Exhibit

GENE ZINE: Gowanus | NYC Tech Zine Fair

11/01/2018

Elizabeth Hénaff

Exhibit

SUBCULTURE | Storefront for Art and Architecture

09/19/2018

Elizabeth Hénaff

Exhibit

Invisible Inhabitants

2017-07-12

Elizabeth Hénaff

Invited Article

Holobiont Urbanism | Palazzo Mora

05/01/2016

Elizabeth Hénaff

Holobiont Interactions

Exhibit

HLAB website

2023-09

Elizabeth Hénaff

PressInterview