Kimberly Blauth, PhD student
Kimberly has been a part of the Sobsey lab since June 2002. She has worked on several projects isolating pasrasites, bacteria and viruses from environmetal samples including her master's project that studied the inactivation kinetics of Ascaris ova in an anaerobic thermophilic digester. Her current research focuses on the community health effects of antibiotic resistant bacteria originating from swine farms in North Carolina as compared with non animal agriculture. Kimberly received her B.S. in Environmnetal Sciences from the University of
Denver in 1997, served in the Peace Corps from 1997-1999 and received her
MSPH from the sobsey lab in environmeal health microbiology in 2004.
blauth@email.unc.edu
Joe Brown, PhD student
Joe's research interests include household-scale and village-scale drinking water treatment, quantitative microbial risk assessment, and the epidemiology of waterborne infectious diseases. His work at UNC has focused on the development of novel, sustainable ceramic filtration technology for the reduction of viruses in drinking water. His research project is based in Cambodia.
Joe Brown's research site :: joebrown@email.unc.edu :: CV
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Mark Elliott, PhD student
Stephanie Friedman, PhD student
Stephanie has been a member of UNC Sobsey lab since 2002, and works full time for US EPA and NHEERL in Gulf Breeze, FL. She holds a MS in Biochemistry from Clemson University and a BS in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of West Florida. Her PhD topic involves the use of coliphages as microbial indicator for viral pathogens in recreational waters.
friedman.stephanie@epa.gov
See her website and CV at www.unc.edu/~krometis
Dave Love, PhD student
Dave's research interests include coastal water quality, watershed protection, microbial source tracking, bacteriophages, and food safety.
Dave also works on oyster restoration and watershed protection with a grassroots nonprofit in Virginia Beach, VA.
Dave Love's website :: dlove@email.unc.edu
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Greg has worked for Dr. Sobsey since 1977 and is the manager of our satellite lab in Beaufort, NC. He graduated from the other North Carolina University with a degree in Zoology.
greglovelace@comcast.net :: directions to Beaufort Lab
Jen Murphy, PhD, postdoc
Jen's research interests include the use of microbiological- and molecular-based methods to characterize pathogens and microbial indicators of fecal pollution in both animal feces and natural waters. Her studies focus on detection, enumeration, and genotypic characterization of Campylobacter, Salmonella, and F-RNA coliphages in seagull feces and coastal wetland waters impacted by seagulls. She spent one year in Christchurch, New Zealand learning a number of molecular-based methods, including those to further evaluate thermotolerant Campylobacter species, a leading cause of gastrointestinal illness in the world.
jlmurphy@email.unc.edu :: Jen's CV
I have been interested in working internationally since I was 19 and traveled to Guadalajara,Mexico for five weeks. Since then I have tried to combine my interest in science, public health and international work. I hope to continue to work in the area of International Public Health and build a career as a professor.
Dorothy Thompson, Cell Culture guru
Doug Wait, Laboratory Manager extraordinaire
