Who we are

Graduate Student, year 1

Microbial community diversity and abundance in Biosolids

Graduate Student, NIH-URise Scholar, BRaVE Phage Foundry Scholar

Microbial pathogenesis and wastewater-based epidemiology

Graduate Student, CIRM scholar, BRaVE Phage Foundry Scholar

Phage diversity in wastewater influent

Graduate Student, year 1

Microbial pathogenesis of Klebsiella

Graduate Student, Genentech Scholar

Microbial drivers of native oyster restoration

Graduate Student, NIH-URise Scholar, Climate Action Fellow

Microbial community diversity and abundance in campus wastewater

Principal Investigator

I am an environmental microbiologist. I completed two postdoctoral research stints at Stanford University and Columbia University on microbial pathogenesis of SARS-CoV2 in wastewater. I got my PhD in the University of Hong Kong on ecosystem multifunctionality and eutrophication impacts on marine biodiversity and my B.Eng from the National University of Singapore. I am a National Geographic Explorer and helped characterize tourism impacts on the coral communities of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. I currently run the Global Change Microbiology lab in the department of biology at SF state. I am a Co-I on a grant from the State of California Coastal Conservancy where we characterize microbial drivers of oyster restoration and I’m also a Co-I on the DOE funded BRaVE Phage Foundry where we are characterising phage-host associations in environmental reservoirs including waste streams.

Graduate Student, Climate Action Fellow

eDNA and hypoxia in San Francisco Bay