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Research projects in our lab fall into the following four core areas. Click on each area for a poster explaining each research project:

 

 

 Development of DNA aptamers for arrayed detection of environmental toxins, pathogens, and allergens

●Potency of environmental allergens is sensitive to growth temperature

 

 

 
Exposure to aerosols emitted during the land application of stabilized sewage sludge (biosolids)

● Molecular-based source tracking of biological aerosols

●Modeled and measured exposure to biosolids bioaerosols at off site locations

●Pathogen content and in vitro toxicity of class A and class B biosolids

 

 

Optimization of methane/biohydrogen production and simultaneous pathogen inactivation in waste digesters

● Mechanisms controlling the inactivation of bacterial pathogens in thermophilic and mesophilic anaerobic digesters

 

Characterizing the microbial ecology of indoor and outdoor respirable particulate matter

● Influence of aerosol dynamics on microbial materials in indoor environments

● Microbial ecology of eukaryotes in outdoor aerosols