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H LAB @ Utah Water Research Lab
H LAB
H LAB is dedicated to investigating and utilizing functional microbial communities to promote water quality and resource recovery in engineered and natural systems in H lab. 'H' in the logo represents our goal to Applied Environmental Microbiology in Waste Recycling and Biotechnology via the One Health approach. To achieve this goal, the lab applies various methodologies such as genome sequencing, metabolic engineering, and metabolite analysis in the engineering aspect to understand how the contaminants interact with microbes to enhance the removal or valorization of contaminants.
The lab's research interests fall under two themes:
exploring the interactions between microbes and multi-contaminants to track the transport, source, and driver of multiple pollutants in urban water;
understanding the interactions like biodegradation mechanisms of pollutants to minimize and valorize waste using microbes.
Latest News
November 2023
Paper "Advancing early warning and surveillance for zoonotic diseases under climate change: Interdisciplinary systematic perspectives" published in Advances in Climate Change Research.
October 2023
Paper "Mass-immigration shapes the antibiotic resistome of wastewater treatment plants" published in Science of the Total Environment.
September 2023
Paper "Diatoms in wastewater treatment: Potentials, applications, and values of biomass" published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology.
Welcome Sarah O. Makled to join us as a visiting scholar!
August 2023
Welcome Peerzada Madany to our lab as a Ph.D. candidate!
June 2023
Delighted to welcome Ceaira Howard, our new M.S. student!
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May 2023
Paper "Urbanization influenced the interactions between dissolved organic matter and bacterial communities in rivers" published in Journal of Environmental Management.
Paper "Promoted aerobic denitrification through denitrifying fungal communities: Co-occurrence patterns and treatment of low C/N micro-polluted water" published in Science of The Total Environment.
December 2022
Welcome Donald Olsen to join the lab as an Engineering Undergraduate Research Scholar.
November 2022
Paper "Insight into variation and controlling factors of dissolved organic matter between urban rivers undergoing different anthropogenic influences" published in Journal of Environmental Management.
Welcome Angela Zhan! Angela joined us as a high school volunteer.
Paper "Seasonal hydrological dynamics govern lifestyle preference of aquatic antibiotic resistome" published in Environmental Science and Ecotechnology.
October 2022
Paper "Effects of land-use patterns on the biogeography of the sediment bacteria in the Yarlung Tsangpo River" published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology.
Paper "Storm promotes the dissemination of antibiotic resistome in an urban lagoon through enhancing bio-interactions" published in Environment International.
September 2022
Paper "Network analysis reveals significant joint effects of microplastics and tetracycline on the gut than the gill microbiome of marine medaka" published in Journal of Hazardous Materials.
August 2022
Welcome Tahira Rahman! Tahira joined the H Lab as an M.S. student.
Dr. Liyuan (Joanna) Hou launched the H Lab!