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NSF RCN Webinar #39: 1 November 2024 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Adrian Lison, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, “Estimating transmission dynamics from wastewater measurements with Bayesian generative modeling”
Speaker 2: David Dreifuss, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland, “Modelling the competition between viral variants from wastewater genomic data”
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Zoom recording November 1
NSF RCN Webinar #38: 4 October 2024 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Judith Wong, Director of Microbiology and Molecular Epidemiology Division, Environmental Health Institute, Singapore, “Wastewater Surveillance for Public Health in Singapore”
Speaker 2: Elke Wollants, Laboratory Manager at the Rega Institute of the KU Leuven, Belgium, “Flush and find: measles down the drain”
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Zoom recording October 4
NSF RCN Webinar #37: 7 June 2024 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Masaaki Kitajima, Project Professor at The University of Tokyo, “Wastewater surveillance at international airports to monitor imported infectious diseases: a proof-of-concept study in Japan”
Speaker 2: Daniele Lantange, Research Professor at Tufts University, “Expanding wastewater surveillance to low- and middle-income countries: examples from waste effluence surveillance in Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire”
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Zoom recording June 7
NSF RCN Webinar #36: 3 May 2024 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Marisa Eisenberg, Associate Professor at University of Michigan, “Wastewater monitoring and public health actionability: data and analytics challenges and opportunities”
Speaker 2: Marlene Wolfe, Assistant Professor at Emory University, “Detection of H5 Influenza A Virus Subtype RNA in Municipal Wastewater Solids: Preliminary Findings and Outstanding Questions”
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Zoom recording May 3
NSF RCN Webinar #35: 5 April 2024 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Jingjing Wu,Postdoctoral Research Associate at Rice University, & Kaavya Domakonda, Senior Staff Analyst at Houston Health Department, “Wastewater surveillance for measles: Assay development, application, and action plan”
Speaker 2: Marina Valeria Mozgovoj, Researcher at National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA), Argentina, “Wastewater surveillance of enteric viruses in eastern Argentina: High rates of detection and first report of NoV GI.5 and GII.20”
RECORDING:
Zoom recording April 5
NSF RCN Webinar #34: 1 March 2024 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Joe Brown, Associate Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Environmental pathogen surveillance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): opportunities and challenges”
Speaker 2: Jolinda de Korne, Postdoctoral Fellow at Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), “Design and Implementation of 7-plex digital PCR assay for quantification of respiratory viruses and process quality control in the Swiss Wastewater Surveillance Program”
RECORDING:
Zoom recording March 1
NSF RCN Webinar #33: 2 February 2024 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Assistant Professor at University of British Columbia, & Carolyn Prouse, Assistant Professor at Queen’s University, Canada, “Investigating the emerging role of private firms in wastewater-based surveillance”
Speaker 2: Sílvia Monteiro, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal, “Tracing the Circulation of Dengue and Chikungunya Viruses using wastewater-based surveillance in a non-endemic country”
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Zoom recording February 2
NSF RCN Webinar #32: 1 December 2023 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Christine Stauber, Associate Professor, Georgia State University, “Arbovirus Surveillance in Wastewater: From Proof of Concept to Implementation”
Speaker 2: Kyle Bibby and William Chen, University of Notre Dame, “Modeling Tools to Evaluate Wastewater-Based Surveillance Targets”
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Zoom recording December 2
NSF RCN Webinar #31: 3 November 2023 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Audrey (Li-wen) Wang and Minxi Jiang:University of California, Berkeley, “Benchmarking concentration methods for respiratory viruses from wastewater”
Speaker 2: Auke Haver: PhD Candidate at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, “Long-term wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 viral loads and variants at the major international passenger hub Amsterdam Schiphol Airport: a valuable addition to COVID-19 surveillance”
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Zoom recording November 3
NSF RCN Webinar #30: 6 October 2023 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Leslie Ogorzaly (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology) “Three-year wastewater surveillance for human respiratory and enteric viruses in Luxembourg: moving beyond SARS-CoV-2”
Speaker 2: Sami Oikarinen: Tampere University, Finland, “Wastewater-based surveillance of virus epidemics at the national level in Finland”
RECORDING:
Zoom recording October 6
NSF RCN Webinar #29: 1 September 2023 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Cresten Mansfeldt (Associate Professor @ University of Colorado, Boulder) “The Ethics of the Next Target: Learning Best Practices in Sustainable Wastewater-Testing in Support of Public Health”
Speaker 2: Kata Farkas: Postdoctoral Research Officer at Bangor University, Gwynedd, Wales, “Applicability of Wastewater-Based Epidemiology for Respiratory Diseases Beyond COVID-19”
RECORDING:
Zoom Recording September 1
NSF RCN Webinar #28: 2 June 2023 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Rachel Poretsky (Associate Professor @ University of Illinois, Chicago) “A Sequence Based Approach to Broad Infectious Disease Surveillance in Wastewater”
Speaker 2: Irene Xagoraraki (Professor @ Michigan State University, East Lansing) “Wastewater Surveillance Beyond COVID-19”
RECORDING:
Zoom Recording June 2
NSF RCN Webinar #27: 5 May 2023 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: J. Scott Meschke (Professor @ University of Washington, Seattle) “Global Perspectives on the Surveillance of Poliovirus in Wastewater”
Speaker 2: Edwin Oh (Associate Professor @ University of Nevada, Las Vegas) “Antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater and application to public health decision making”
RECORDING:
Zoom Recording May 5
NSF RCN Webinar #26: 7 April 2023 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Nathan LaCross (Utah Dept of Health and Human Services, Wastewater Surveillance Program Manager) “Wastewater Surveillance in Utah”
Speaker 2: Rebecca Schneider (Staff Analyst, Houston Health Department) “Wastewater Surveillance in Houston”
NSF RCN Webinar #25: 3 March 2023 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Janelle Thompson (Associate Professor @ NTU, Singapore) “Wastewater surveillance for endemic pathogens”
Speaker 2: Tyler Radniecki (Associate Professor @ Oregon State University) “The use of wastewater surveillance to identify the potential public health impacts of large international events on host communities”
NSF RCN Webinar #24: 3 February 2023 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Kara De León (Assistant Professor @ University of Oklahoma) Wastewater-based bacterial pathogen tracking in cities across Oklahoma
Speaker 2: Otakuye Conroy-Ben (Professor @ Arizona State University) Wastewater Monitoring on U.S. Reservations
NSF RCN Webinar #23: 6 January 2023 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Alessandro Zulli (PhD student @ Yale) Quantitative comparison of wastewater virus concentrations to EPIC data for Norovirus, RSV, and Influenza A outbreaks
Speaker 2: Janell Routh (CDC, Team Lead, Acute Flaccid Myelitis and Domestic Polio) Investigation of a case of paralytic polio and wastewater testing in New York, 2022
NSF RCN Webinar #22: 2 December 2022 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Elana Chan (PhD student @ Stanford University) RSV wastewater surveillance
Speaker 2: Katherine Crank (Post-Doctoral Researcher @ Southern Nevada Water Authority) Wastewater Detection of Candida auris during a Local Healthcare-Associated Outbreak
NSF RCN Webinar #21: 4 November 2022 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker 1: Peter Arts (PhD student @ UMICH): Variability and Dynamics of Individual Viral Fecal Shedding Influences the Representativeness of Modeled Community-Level Wastewater SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Measurements
Speaker 2: Amy Pruden (Prof @ VTech): Wastewater-based surveillance of antimicrobial resistance
NSF RCN Webinar #20: 7 October 2022 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Speaker #1: Robert Delatolla (Professor @ Univ Ottawa): Early detection, surveillance and sub-typing of influenza in wastewaters
Speaker #2: Marlene Wolfe, (Assistant Professor @ Emory):
MPXV in wastewater
NSF RCN Webinar #19: 19 November 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderator: Jeseth Delgado Vela
Speaker 1: Marc Johnson (Professor @ U of Missouri):
Using wastewater surveillance to monitor known and unknown lineages of SARS-CoV-2
Speaker 2: Jana Huisman (Postdoc @ ETH Zurich):
Wastewater-based estimation of the effective reproductive number Re
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NSF RCN Webinar #18: 29 October 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderator: Rolf Halden & Jeseth Delgado Vela
Speaker 1: Nathan LaCross (Program Manager @ Utah Department of Health):
SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance in Utah
Speaker 2: Loren Hopkins (Chief Environmental Science Officer @ Houston Health Department):
Use of Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Public Health Interventions in Houston
NSF RCN Webinar #17: 24 September 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderator: Jeseth Delgado Vela & Jill McClary-Gutierrez
Speaker 1: Alessandro Zulli (PhD student @ Yale):
Estimating variant abundance of SARS-CoV-II in domestic wastewater
Speaker 2: Smruthi Karthikeyan (Postdoc @ UCSD):
High-throughput SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing from wastewater for tracking COVID-19 infection dynamics at the campus and county level
NSF RCN Webinar #16: 26 May 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderator: Kyle Bibby & Jill McClary-Gutierrez
Speaker 1: Marlene Wolfe (post doc @ Stanford):
SARS-CoV-2 monitoring with daily, high-throughput analysis of settled solids collected from publicly owned treatment works in Northern California
Speaker 2: Hannah Greenwald (PhD student @ UC Berkeley):
COVID-WEB: Wastewater monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 in the San Francisco Bay Area
NSF RCN Webinar #15: 12 May 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderator: Jeseth Delgado Vela & Jill McClary-Gutierrez
Speaker 1: Cresten Mansfeldt (Assistant Professor @ CU Boulder):
CUSew: On Campus Sewage Monitoring for SARS-CoV-2
Speaker 2: Mitham Al-faliti (PhD student @ Howard University):
Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in the District of Columbia Metropolitan Area
NSF RCN Webinar #14: 28 April 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderator: Jill McClary-Gutierrez
Speaker 1: Ayella Maile-Moskowitz (PhD student @ Virginia Tech):
SARS-CoV-2 Monitoring at Virginia Tech
Speaker 2: Ye Li (PhD student @ University of Tennessee):
Raw wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV 2 over 26 weeks in an academic year in the University of Tennessee student residential buildings
NSF RCN Webinar #13: 14 April 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderator: Jill McClary-Gutierrez
Speaker 1: Maitreyi Nagarkar (postdoc @ US EPA):
Long-term quantitative monitoring and preliminary sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in Cincinnati, OH
Speaker 2: Devrim Kaya (faculty research associate @ Oregon State):
Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 prevalence and dynamics from building to city scale
NSF RCN Webinar #12: 31 March 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderators: Kyle Bibby & Jill McClary-Gutierrez
Speaker 1: Juan Eduardo Sosa Hernández (post-doc @ Tecnológico de Monterrey):
First glance of WBE applied to Tec de Monterrey campuses against SARS-CoV-2 outbreak
Speaker 2: Kyle Curtis (environmental scientist @ HRSD):
A Bayesian Framework for Understanding SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance Results
NSF RCN Webinar #11: 17 March 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderators: Jeseth Delgado Vela & Jill McClary-Gutierrez
Speaker 1: Abhilasha Shrestha (Research Assistant Professor @ UIC)
Adapting from Beach Monitoring qPCR to COVID-19 WBE in Chicago
Speaker 2: Patrick D’Aoust (PhD student @ University of Ottawa)
Wastewater surveillance of COVID-19 and VOCs in Ottawa, Canada
NSF RCN Webinar #10: 3 March 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderator: Jill McClary-Gutierrez
Speaker 1: Sarah Philo (PhD student @ University of Washington)
SARS-CoV-2 in Seattle Area Wastewater
Speaker 2: Bo Li (Post doc @ University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Fine-Scale Temporal Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Abundance in Wastewater during a COVID-19 Lockdown
NSF RCN Webinar #9: 17 February 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderators: Jill McClary-Gutierrez & Jeseth Delgado Vela
Speaker 1: Joshua Steele (Microbiologist @ SCCWRP)
Sources of Variability in Methods for Processing, Storing, and Concentrating Coronavirus in Influent from Southern California Sewage Plants
Speaker 2: Nishita D’Souza (Post doc @ Michigan State)
SARS CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance in Michigan: Methods and Monitoring
NSF RCN Webinar #8: 3 February 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderators: Jill McClary-Gutierrez & Kyle Bibby
Speaker 1: Nadine Kotlarz (Post doc @ NCSU)
SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance during three phases of reopening in Raleigh, North Carolina
Speaker 2: Kaung Myat “Zach” San (PhD student @ CUNY)
Optimization on the Protocol to detect SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater from New York City
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NSF RCN Webinar #7: 20 January 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderators: Jill McClary-Gutierrez & Rolf Halden
Speaker 1: Catherine Hoar (Post doc @ NYU)
SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring in New York City: Method optimization and implementation of routine monitoring
Speaker 2: Jessica Deaver (PhD student @ Clemson)
Wastewater-based epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in three Clemson, SC area sewer-sheds
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NSF RCN Webinar #6: 6 January 2021 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderators: Jill McClary-Gutierrez & Kyle Bibby
Speaker 1: Colleen Naughton (Assistant Professor @ UC Merced)
COVIDPoops19: A Global Dashboard and Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Monitoring Efforts
Speaker 2: Shuchen Feng (Post doc @ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Method optimization and assessment of technical and biological variability for SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance
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NSF RCN Webinar #5: 2 December 2020 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderators: Jill McClary-Gutierrez & Rolf Halden
Speaker 1: Rubayat Jamal (PhD student @ Univ Utah):
Informing COVID-19 disease burden by monitoring the SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater
Speaker 2: Yihan Zhang (PhD student @ UC Davis)
Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater for Vulnerable Populations
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NSF RCN Webinar #4: 18 November 2020 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderators: Kyle Bibby & Rolf Halden
Speaker 1: Prashant Kalvapalle (PhD student @ Rice)
SARS CoV2 monitoring across Houston wastewater treatment plants
Speaker 2: Katerina Papp (Post doc @ Southern Nevada Water Authority):
Cells, Drugs, and COVID-19: Evaluating Community Health through Urban Water Systems
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NSF RCN Webinar #3: 4 November 2020 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderators: Kyle Bibby & Jeseth Delgado Vela
Speaker 1: Megan Lott (PhD student @ Univ Georgia):
Sewage-based Epidemiology in a College Town
Speaker 2: Aaron Bivins (Post doc @ Notre Dame):
SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Midwestern Wastewaters
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NSF RCN Webinar #2: 15 October 2020 8:00 AM Pacific Time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderator: Jeseth Delgado Vela
Speaker 1: Katy Graham (PhD student @ Stanford)
SARS-CoV-2 in primary settled solids and influent- a comparison and longitudinal time series in the San Francisco Bay Area
Speaker 2: Xavier Fernandez (Post doc @ EPFL, Switzerland):
Pitfalls in measuring SARS-CoV2 in sewage
NSF RCN Webinar #1: 2 October 2020 @ 8:00 AM Pacific time
Moderator: Alexandria Boehm
Co-Moderators: Jeseth Delgado Vela & Rolf Halden
Speaker 1: Devin Bowes (PhD student @ ASU):
Wastewater monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 in underserved communities
Speaker 2: Phillip Wang (PhD student @ USC):
Wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in the greater Los Angeles area
