Research Interests
Identifying genetic adaptation mechanisms resulting from anthropogenic contaminant exposure; developing biosensors capable of pathogen and contaminant detection in water and air; studying the impact of emerging contaminants on aquatic microbial ecology; and the development of novel techniques for controlling pathogen proliferation
Selected Grants
Duke University Program in Environmental Health
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2029NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2027University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1994 - 2027Convergence RAISE: Harnessing Extracellular Vesicle Mediated Interkingdom Communication
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2023COVID Sampler: a wastewater collection technology optimized for pathogen surveillance at the building scale
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2021 - 2022External Relationships
- Association for Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
- Elsevier Inc.
- Hong Kong Grant Research Council
- National University of Singapore
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