AU '18 SENR Seminar Series- Rachel Poretsky

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SENR welcomes Rachel Poretsky (University of Illinois at Chicago) who will present How Wastewater and Stormwater Influence Microbial Communities in Urban Aquatic Systems on November 1st, 2018 at 4:10 P.M. in 103 Kottman Hall.

 

Rachel hails from the great urban microbial hotspot of Brooklyn, NY. She obtained a BS in Biology from Brandeis University in 1999 and a PhD in Marine Sciences from the University of Georgia in 2008. She was a postdoc at Caltech in Geology and Planetary Sciences and at Georgia Tech in Environmental Engineering. She has done pioneering work using metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of microbial communities. Since January 2013 she has been an Assistant Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.