Staff
Trevor Charles
Principal Investigator
Alyssa Overton, MSc
Lab and Project Manager
Managing wastewater based research and surveillance projects including for viral targets, AMR discovery and untargeted metagenomic sequencing. Lab managing - contact for lab-upkeep related queries and requests.
Jenn Knapp, MSc
Microbiology Research Coordinator
Jenn organizes research projects and associated data, maintains archived lab data, performs data analysis, outlines project objectives, writes research grant applications, and generally supports graduate students, undergraduate students, staff members, and other lab members throughout their projects.
Yemurayi Chipochashe Hungwe
Research Assistant
Wastewater Research - SARS-CoV-2 and other viral targets, AMR
Shiv Rakesh Naik
Research Assistant
Samran Rahemtulla Prasla
Research Assistant
Wastewater Research - SARS-CoV-2 and other viral targets, AMR
Julie Eliene Hernandez Salmeron
Genomics Researcher
Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
Oludoyin Adigun, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Eugenia Dadzie
PhD Student
Eugenia’s research focuses on petrochemical plastics biodegradation. Her goal is to engineer Pseudomonas putida strains capable of degrading polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics as well as utilize PET plastics as feedstock for the production of PHA bioplastics. She is also pursuing an MBET degree.
ZiYu Kuang, MSc
PhD Student
Zjardyn Liera-Hood, M. Binf.
PhD Candidate
Zjardyn’s research focuses on plastic biodegradation in Rhodococcus species. He also leverages his background in molecular genetics and bioinformatics to understand the effects of microplastics in freshwater ecosystems.
Minghui Ma
PhD Student
Ally Miners
MSc Student
Delaney Nash, MSc
PhD Candidate
Focus: Virology
Co-supervised by Dr. Joseph Nissimov
Nicole Schulz
PhD Candidate
David Felipe Tello Yepes
MSc Student
Aranksha Thakor
PhD Candidate
Shahrzad Zahedifar
PhD Student
Co-supervised by Dr. Andrew Doxey