Research Output

Publications

Selected publications from the Norman Molecular Microbial Ecology Laboratory, focused on microbial ecology, wastewater-based epidemiology, environmental pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, microbial genomics, and molecular tools for public health.

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Selected Publications

Our publications span environmental microbiology, molecular microbial ecology, wastewater surveillance, antibiotic resistance, environmental pathogen dynamics, microbial genomics, and the development of sequencing-based approaches for understanding microbial systems that affect ecosystem and public health.

Theme 01

Wastewater-Based Epidemiology and Public Health Surveillance

2026

Granular Insights: Wastewater-Based Modeling for Localized COVID-19 Predictions.

Tabassum N, McMahan C, Self S, Isanovic M, Correa Velez K, Sellers SC, Norman RS*, and Rennert L*.

Epidemics.

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2022

Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 mutational profiles at a university and its surrounding community reveals a 20G outbreak on campus.

Swift CL, Isanovic M, Correa Velez KE, Sellers SC, and Norman RS.

PLoS One. 17(4).

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Theme 02

Environmental Pathogens and Vibrio Ecology

2024

Wildfire ashes from the wildland urban interface alter Vibrio vulnificus growth and gene expression.

Correa Velez KE, Alam M, Baalousha M, Norman RS.

Environmental Science and Technology. 58:8169-8181.

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2023

Modeling of pH and temperature as climatic hazards in Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus planktonic growth and biofilm formation.

Correa Velez K, Leighton RE, Decho AW, Pinckney JL, and Norman RS.

GeoHealth. Apr 19;7(4.

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Theme 03

Antimicrobial Resistance Across Human–Environment Interfaces

2025

Aerosolization of Azithromycin, Ofloxacin, and Co-occurring Antibiotic Resistance Genes during Municipal Wastewater Treatment.

Norman RS*, Granger CO, Cochran KH, Isanovic M, Self S, Klein, E., Richardson SD.

Environmental Science and Technology..

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2024

Seasonal patterns in mobile colistin resistance gene variants in wastewater bioaerosols and liquid sludge.

Isanovic M, Correa Velez KE, Viner B, Norman RS .

ES&T Water. 4(1) 178–189.

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Theme 04

Microbial Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Molecular Methods

2019

Defining genomic and predicted metabolic features of the Acetobacterium genus.

Ross DE, Marshall CW, Gulliver D, May HD, Norman RS.

mSystems.

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2020

BLAST-QC: Automated analysis of BLAST results.

Torkian, B, Hann, S, Preisner, EC, and Norman, RS.

Environmental Microbiome .

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Theme 05

Environmental Microbial Ecology and Ecosystem Function

2016

Microbial mat compositional and functional sensitivity to environmental disturbance.

Preisner, EC, EB Fichot, and RS Norman.

Front. Microbiol..7:1632.

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2013

Microbial phylogenetic profiling with the Pacific Biosciences sequencing platform.

Fichot, EB, and RS Norman.

Microbiome. 1:10.

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