Applied environmental microbial biology and organic chemistry to promote water quality and public health in natural, urban, agricultural, and engineered systems. Recent projects include environmental antibiotic resistance, opportunistic pathogens in drinking water, microplastic pollution, wastewater based epidemiology, and more.
Program Faculty
- Nicole Fahrenfeld
- Associate Professor
- Department: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Graduate Program(s): Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
- Major Research Interest(s): Microbiome, Pathogenesis
- Research Techniques: Genomics
- Research Organism(s): Bacteria, Viruses
- Phone: 1.8484458416
- Email:
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- Richard Weeks Hall of Engineering, Room 328D
- 500 Bartholomew Road
- Piscataway, NJ 08854
- Key Words: antibiotic resistance; waterborne pathogens; microbial source tracking
- Lab Site URL
- News Items: Harmful Microbes Found on Sewer Pipe Walls, Microplastic Sizes in Hudson-Raritan Estuary and Coastal Ocean Revealed