Undergraduates funded through SURF grant present individual research projects

The Mclellan lab received multiple Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) grants to enhance ongoing research on E.coli levels on various beaches local to SE Wisconsin.

Throughout the summer of 20203, our students (pictured below) collected over 70 water and sand samples from 6 beaches across Lake Michigan in addition to working on individual projects which they presented in the form of poster.

From left to right: Zachary Lewan, Mariella Boudreau, and Kirandeep Kaur

 

Read more aobut the UWM SURF program here: https://uwm.edu/our/programs/support-for-undergraduate-research-fellows-surf/

Dr. McLellan Receives Lynde B. Uihlein Professorship to Expand Research

Dr. Sandra McLellan was recognized as a distinguished professor, and has received the first Lynde B. Uihlein Professorship in Ecosystem Health. The four-year appointment will allow Sandra to expand her lab’s exploration into new research on the evolution of bacteria living in urban water infrastructure. Read more about these accomplishments here: https://uwm.edu/freshwater/mclellan-receives-new-uihlein-professorship-to-expand-research-named-uwm-distinguished-professor/

National Wastewater Surveillance for Infectious Diseases Worthy of Further Investment, Says New Report

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Community Wastewater-based Infectious Disease Surveillance publishes on the importance of wastewater Survellience in new Consensus Study Report.

 

Read the news release here:

https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/01/national-wastewater-surveillance-for-infectious-diseases-worthy-of-further-investment-says-new

 

Newest Wastewater Surveillance Display Created by Colleagues at the WI State Lab of Hygiene

https://dataportal.slh.wisc.edu/sc2-ww-dashboard

A new COVID-19 wastewater surveillance dashboard (link above) has been created by our former post-doc Adelaide Roguet, who now works at the WI State Lab of Hygiene. This dashboard includes genomic data of SARS-CoV-2 variants from multiple Wisconsin cities, including Milwaukee samples that are processed in our laboratory.