Research Portfolio

Microbial ecology at the interface of environment, infrastructure, and public health.

The Norman Microbial Ecology Laboratory integrates field sampling, molecular biology, high-throughput sequencing, bioinformatics, and statistical modeling to understand how microorganisms influence ecosystem function and human health.

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Focus Areas

Advancing One Health through molecular microbial ecology.

Wastewater Surveillance of Infectious Diseases

Using wastewater systems as early-warning tools for infectious disease detection and public health decision-making.

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Systems-level drivers of antibiotic resistance across the human–environment interface

Studying how human activity, infrastructure, antibiotic use, and microbial ecology shape resistance patterns.

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Extreme Weather and Marine Pathogens

Understanding how storms, flooding, warming, and coastal change influence pathogen risk.

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