CEEES - Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment

Antibiotic resistance is emerging as global health challenge, often called a 'silent pandemic'. The environment is recognized as a potential source of antibiotic resistance, for example from wastewater or agricultural operations. In this project students will learn and apply microbiology techniques (e.g., DNA extraction, digital PCR) to measure antibiotic resistance in environmental water samples, ultimately informing engineering approaches to control antibiotic resistance in the environment.