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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:

  1. Wastewater surveillance for public health action: Surveillance of infectious diseases and biomarkers of human health to advance public health interventions, personal health empowerment, pandemic preparedness, and health equity.
  2. Microbiome engineering: Engineering microbial communities in situ using horizontal gene transfer via conjugation and phage delivery strategies.

Potential skills gained: Environmental sampling, microbiology, molecular biology, synthetic biology

Required qualifications: Bioscience, Environmental Engineering, Bioengineering, Earth and Environmental Science

Direct mentor: Faculty/P.I., Post-doctorate, Graduate Student, Other Research Associate

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.