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Lauren Stadler

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering

CONTACT

lauren.stadler@rice.edu

WEBSITE(S)| https://www.stadler.rice.edu/

SURF Mentoring

Potential projects/topics: Building biosensors for tracking the movement of antibiotic resistance plasmids in microbial communities; Monitoring infectious disease dynamics in wastewater

Potential skills gained: Environmental sampling, molecular biology techniques (PCR, plasmid construction, culturing, conjugation, nucleic acid extraction)

Required qualifications: None

Direct mentor: Post-doctorate, Graduate Student

Student Project Titles List

Treatment Quality and the Fate of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in an Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor

Research Areas

The Stadler Research Group at Rice University focuses on advancing resource recovery from wastewater. We combine microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, process engineering, and sustainability assessment to study used water (wastewater) treatment systems, resource recovery, and their impact on the environment and human health.