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Transport of Pathogens
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93 minutes.
From 4/20/2007.
How do pathogens travel from sources to humans? Our speakers address this critical question and talk about the latest techniques for studying pathogen fate & transport and our current understanding of how pathogens move through the environment.
About the Speakers: Dr. Stanley Grant is Professor of Environmental Engineering, and Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Grant studies the sources, fate, and transport of pathogens and indicator organisms in drinking water, urban runoff, and the coastal ocean. He is the lead on several multidisciplinary research projects including one on the influence of tidal wetlands on coastal pollution, another on the association of pathogens and particles in storm runoff, and a third on the contribution of marinas to fecal indicator bacteria impairment in tidal embayments.
Dr. Jeanette Thurston is an environmental Microbiologist for the United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS), Soil and Water Conservation Research Unit and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research interests include evaluation of the occurrence, fate and survival of pathogens in the environment, disinfection and alternative water and waste treatment strategies for pathogen reduction, and development of methods for rapid, specific, and sensitive detection of human pathogens in the environment.
More information about MSU Center for Water Sciences is at
http://cws.msu.edu/
Presented by
MSU Fisheries and Wildlife - Center for Water Sciences
This event is part of
Pathogen Workshop Series
The Pathogen Workshop Series is designed to bring together nationally renowned water scientists and individuals who have an interest and stake in the future of water in the State of Michigan. The purpose of the workshop series is to learn about sources, pathways, and impacts of pathogens in water and to discuss potential solutions. Our goals are to characterize the issues regarding pathogens in Michigan, examine methods and solutions to address those issues, and to develop a framework for monitoring pathogens.
More information is available at
http://cws.msu.edu/pathogen_wkshop.htm
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