Today, Dr. Rachel Poretsky, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago joins the #QualityQuorum to discuss how examining wastewater (and related water) can give insights into the presence of pathogen antimicrobial resistance genes and even microbial ecology.
Host: Mark O. Martin
Guest: Rachel Poretsky
Download MM#84 (37 MB mp3, 61 min)
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Become a patron of Matters Microbial!
Links for this episode
- A link to demonstrate the wonders of the Marine Biological Laboratories’ Microbial Diversity course, which I know for a fact is life changing.
- Recommended by David Ranada, an article about water bottles and microbes.
- An essay about the Chicago River and cholera, which led to the necessity of effective waste water treatment.
- An overview of the complexities of waste water treatment. Here is a video on that topic.
- An essay by Carl Zimmer about the microbial ecology of lakes…and human beings.
- How “recreational water quality” is determined.
- An article describing the microbiota associated with human biological waste with an amusing name (scroll down).
- How qPCR can be used to determine the prevalence of specific microbes.
- A recent article from Dr. Poretsky’s research group, investigating how antimicrobial resistance genes can move through a hospital waste water system.
- A link to the Bacterial-Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center, for which Dr. Poretsky is a Principle Investigator.
- The Illinois state wastewater surveillance dashboard. Fascinating!
- A Discovery Channel documentary on virus hunting and surveillance that includes Dr. Poretsky.
- Dr. Poretsky’s faculty webpage.
- Dr. Poretsky’s webpage for her research group.
Intro music is by Reber Clark
Send your questions and comments to mattersmicrobial@gmail.com
Leave a Reply