Biomedical Engineering major Grace Morgan recently joined the lab to assist in our systematic literature review of antimicrobial resistance in water and wastewater environments. Welcome to the group Grace!

High school student Aditya Kuppravalli joined the lab this week from BASIS Scottsdale. Through an innovative internship program which allows seniors to spend 10 weeks interning at a location of their choice and developing a project. Aditya will work on assessing the risks of Legionnaires’ disease and has already started learning to code in R!…

PhD student Ashley Heida participated in the 2019 Climate Change Theater Action program, organized by ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the Biodesign Institute. This was no small task as there were Powerpoint slides allowed {gasp}! We had wonderful help on giving dynamic presentations in support of this event from Ausette Anderies,…

Dr. Hamilton & Ashley Heida presented at the Society for Risk Analysis 2019 Annual Meeting in Arlington, VA on December 8-12, 2019. Dr. Hamilton presented on a systematic review of antimicrobial resistance in stormwater, highlighting research needs. Ashley presented her ongoing thesis work on optimizing conditions in the built environment for preventing Legionnaires’ disease transmission.

PhD student Ashley Heida will be conducting research on microbial treatment technologies for harvested rainwater in the laboratory of Wesaal Khan at Stellenbosch University this Spring 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa! This will be made possible thanks to the ASU International Research Experiences in Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (IRECCEE) program. A huge thank…

PhD student Ashley Heida won a Biodesign Travel grant to present her research at the 2019 Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting in Arlington, VA in December!

The new National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report “Management of Legionella in Water Systems” has just been released and our work is highly cited. In particular, guidance values based on our risk assessment have been recommended. Read more here and keep up with us on Google Scholar!

PhD student Sayalee Joshi attended an 11-day intensive workshop at the Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment (QMRA III) institute hosted by Dr. Mark Weir (Ohio State University) and Dr. Jade Mitchell (Michigan State University) this past August 5-15. The QMRA workshop provides students with opportunities to interact with experts from multiple disciplines to work on an…

Dr. Hamilton and PhD student Sayalee Joshi visited the laboratory of Dr. Warish Ahmed in the Land and Water Division at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) for five weeks this past July. CSIRO is the largest government research organization in Australia. Sayalee learned how to perform qPCR and used this technique to…

Dr. Hamilton presented her work “Microbiological quality of green stormwater infrastructure and potential risks” at the Society for Risk Analysis meeting in Cape Town, South Africa this past May and gave a lecture “A quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) approach for predicting public health risks in premise plumbing and green stormwater infrastructure” for the microbiology…

Dr. Hamilton presented her poster, “Microfluidic quantification of pathogens, antimicrobial resistance genes, and fecal indicator bacteria in green stormwater infrastructure: Steps toward a quantitative health risk assessment” at the 5th International Symposium on the Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance (EDAR) meeting in Hong Kong June 9-14th, 2019. With Dr. Amy Pruden (Virginia Tech), Dr. Emily…

Our Editor’s Choice paper “Risk-Based Critical Concentrations of Legionella pneumophila for Indoor Residential Water Uses” is featured on the cover of the April edition of ES&T! Many thanks to our collaborators from American Water, Drexel University, and Microsoft.