OUR WORK
Research
The Keenum Research Group focuses on improving our understanding of environmental microbiology in engineered systems in order to facilitate the safe and sustainable use of our resources. We use computational, lab and field methods to address questions related to environmental biotechnology
Antibiotic resistance in the environment
Persistance and propagation of antibiotic resistance in agricultural systems
Wastewater Surveillance
Tracking pathogens in wastewater systems can improve our understanding of community health
Improving data reuse and comparability of wastewater microbiome data
Current data of wastewater microbiomes is often not re-usbale due to lacking metadata and reporting
Impacts of disasters on engineered systems
Natural disasters such as floods and hurricanes can allow for pathogen infiltration in drinking water system s
Developing Bioinformatic tools for antibiotic resistance
Developing new tools for computational biology can be critical as we learn more about antibiotic resistanc ein the environment