Engineering solutions to environmental microbial contamination

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

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Research Areas we focus on:

Antibiotic resistance in the environment

Our work focuses on optimizing wastewater treatment to ensure that antibiotic resistant bacteria are removed by wastewater treatment so that they cannot impact downstream communities.

Wastewater Surveillance

Our group focuses on establishing methods to generate comparable wastewater based surveillance data as well as examines factors that cause for wastewater surveillance to fail by providing inaccurate results.

Data Reuse and Reproducibility

Reproducible data is critical for improving microbial measurements.

Impact of disasters on engineered systems

Our work aims to understand what makes systems vulnerable to pathogen infiltration as well as works on improving methods to detect pathogens in water systems.