Outreach Videos
Conferences
January 18-19, 2024 | Symposium, Microbes in
Wastewater: Molecular Approaches in Pathogen & AMR
Surveillance
“Wastewater Based Epidemiology Beyond the
COVID-19 Pandemic: Opportunities and Next Steps”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele (Download presentation.pdf)
October 21, 2023 | American Association for Pediatrics
“Surveillance of Wastewater for COVID-19 in Schools to
Predict Absenteeism and Community Infection Rates”
Dr. Lisa Gwynn
October 4, 2023 | American Association for Aerosol
Research
“Targeted Virus Analysis and Genome Sequencing
of Aerosol Emissions From Wastewater Treatment Plant”
Shruti Choudhary
(Abstract)
June 22, 2023 | Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
“Correlative analysis of wastewater trends with clinical cases and hospitalizations through five dominant variant waves of COVID-19”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele (Download presentation.pdf)
March 15, 2023 | University of Miami’s Department of Medicine
9th Annual Eugene J. Sayfie, MD Research Day, Miami, FL
“Utility of wastewater-based epidemiology to detect multiple human pathogens”
Dr. Mark Sharkey
“The role of Shared Resources in facilitating human and environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2”
George Grills (Download Abstract) (Download Poster.pdf)
“MetaSUB, RADx, and Wastewater Surveillance”
Poster presenters from UM pictured from left: Ayaaz Amirali, Erik Lamm, Tina Babler, Matthew Roca, Collette Thomas, Samantha Abelson
Global Metagenomics Summit Agenda
Metasub 2022 Presentations
June 6 – June 9, 2022 Presentation 1 of 3 | AGBT Meeting, Orlando Florida
“Development of a novel in-house qPCR assay to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA extracted from wastewater”
Dr. Mark Sharkey
(Download .pdf)
June 6 – June 9, 2022 Presentation 2 of 3 | AGBT Meeting, Orlando Florida
“Environmental SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 prediction at local, regional and national scales”
Samantha Abelson, Shelja Kumar, Johnathon Penso, Julio Contreras, Dr. Mark Sharkey, Dr. Alejandro Mantero, Wei Zhang, Dr. Christopher Mason, George Grills, Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele, and Dr. Naresh Kumar
(Download .pdf)
June 6 – June 9, 2022 Presentation 3 of 3 | AGBT Meeting, Orlando Florida
“Pangea: a platform for viral discovery spanning wastewater, urban centers, and astronauts”
Dr. Christopher E. Mason, Jonathan Foox, Maria Sierra, JJ Hastings, Eliah Overbey, Krista Ryon, Braden Tierney, Dr. Mark Sharkey, Dr. Alejandro Mantero, Dr. Naresh Kumar, George Grills, The MetaSUB Consortium, Kasthuri J Venkateswaran, Dr. Natasha Schaefer Solle, and Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
(Download .pdf )
March 27-30, 2022 | Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) 2022 Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA
“The role of Shared Resources in facilitating human and environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2”
George Grills
(Download flash talk slides, poster.pdf)
November 19-20, 2021 | Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
“The Role of Shared Resources in Facilitating Human and Environmental Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2”
George Grills, Poster presentation
(Download .pdf)
July 27, 2021 Presentation 1 of 3 | University of Arizona Seminar Series: “Updates on SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Wastewater”
“Innovative methods of detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater”
Dr. Mark Sharkey, presenter
(Download .pdf)
July 27, 2021 Presentation 2 of 3 | University of Arizona Seminar Series: “Updates on SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Wastewater”
“TINY, Tiny Isothermal Nucleic acid quantification sYstem and Magnetic Bead Technology for Wastewater”
Dr. Sion Williams, presenter
(Download .pdf)
July 27, 2021 Presentation 3 of 3 | University of Arizona Seminar Series: “Updates on SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Wastewater”
“Sampling strategies for SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
(Download .pdf)
February 20, 2021 | American Water Works Association (AWWA) National Conference
“Wastewater Measurements for the RNA of SARS-CoV-2”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
(Download .pdf)
February 2021 | Association of Biomolecular Resources Facilities (ABRF) Annual Meeting
“The Role of Shared Resources in Facilitating Human and Environmental Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2”
George Grills, Poster presentation
(Download .pdf)
December 3, 2020 | Florida Engineering Society
“Lessons Learned from SARS-CoV-2 Measurements in Wastewater”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
(Download .pdf | WATCH Video: .mp4 )
Seminars
University of Miami
March 9, 2023| Meeting with Miami-Dade County Stakeholders (Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department).
“Wastewater Monitoring for COVID-19 in Schools”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele, Dr. Lisa Gwynn, and Dr. Naresh Kumar
University of Miami
December 7, 2022 |NIH-National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development
“Wastewater Monitoring for COVID-19 in Schools”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele, Dr. Lisa Gwynn, and Dr. Naresh Kumar
September 23, 2022 | Dialogues in Research Ethics Seminar
“Sewer Science: Wastewater Analysis for Public Health”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele, Dr. Chris Mason. Moderator: Dr. Kenneth Goodman
(Download .Solo Presentation.pdf)
April 14, 2022 | Shared Resources Advanced Biomedical Technology Seminar
“Lessons Learned from Environmental Monitoring of SARS‐CoV‐2”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele, Dr. Chris Mason, Dr. Stephan Schürer, George Grills
(Download .pdf)
(Recording)
March 14, 2022 | DCC All Hands Meeting
“Development and Proof-of-Concept Implementation of the South Florida Miami RADx-rad SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater-Based Surveillance Infrastructure”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
(Download .pdf)
February 22, 2022 | University of Miami Environmental Health Science Graduate Course
“Wastewater-based monitoring of COVID-19”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
(Download .pdf)
February 17, 2022 | University of South Florida “Integrative Biology Weekly Seminar”
“Wastewater-based surveillance of COVID-19 at building, cluster, and community scales“
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
(Download .pdf | WATCH Video: .mp4)
December 9, 2021 | University of Miami “Outreach Meeting with Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department”
“Wastewater-Based Monitoring of COVID-19”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele, Dr. Naresh Kumar, Tina Babler, Johann Amirali (pictured), Samantha Abelson, Shelja Kumar and Quinyu Zhan
(Download pdf)
November 15, 2021 | Columbia University
“COVID Information Commons Research Webinar”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
(Download .pdf | WATCH Video: .mp4) | Read Transcript: pdf
October 15, 2021 | University of California – Irvine Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar Series
“Update on SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater and Relations to Human Health”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
(Download .pdf)
September 28, 2021 | University of Miami Environmental Health Science Graduate Course
“Wastewater-based Epidemiology for COVID-19”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
(Download .pdf | Watch VIDEO)
September 3, 2021 | University of Miami Civil and Architectural Engineering Seminar Series
“Development and Proof-of-Concept Implementation of the South Florida Miami RADx-rad SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater-Based Surveillance Infrastructure”
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele
(Download .pdf | Watch VIDEO)
August 11, 2021 | Data Coordination Center IRB/ELSI Workshop Series, RADx-Rad ELSI Office Hours
“Surveillance, Consent & Public Health: Save lives or stand on ceremony?”
Dr. Kenneth Goodman
(Download .pdf)
Additional Talks by Dr. Christopher Mason
February 23, 2023 | University of Miami
“Development and Proof-of-Concept Implementation of the South Florida Miami RADx-rad. SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater-Based Surveillance Infrastructure”
NanoString Technologies
December 6, 2022 | The New York City Spatial Biology Roadshow
“Spatial Omics Profiling of Normal, COVID-19, and Spaceflight Tissues”
Mirimus Inc Retreat
June 10, 2022 | Mirimus Inc Retreat 2022
“Sequencing and diagnostics methods on Earth and in Space”
March 28, 2022 | Virtual Tecan Genomics Symposium
“High-throughout Clinical and Environmental Viral Extraction”
(Watch video)
Scientific American
March 3, 2022 | Article by Sara Reardon
“Wastewater Monitoring Offers Powerful Tool for Tracking Covid and Other Diseases”
(Download .pdf)
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
December 1, 2021 | News – Press Release
“Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 clear more quickly, less likely to spread infection over time”
(Download .pdf)
Promega Connections
October 9, 2020 | Article by Jordan Villanueva
“Rapid COVID-19 Testing, International Collaboration, and a Family Favor”
(Download .pdf)
August 26, 2020 | Reported and produced by Jennifer Strong, Tate Ryan-Mosley, Emma Cillekens and Karen Hao with help from Benji Rosen. We’re edited by Michael Reilly and Gideon Lichfield. Technical director: Jacob Gorski
“The scientists who swab subways for coronavirus”
(Listen to audio Download .pdf)
June 22, 2020 | In the Hot Zones ZYMO RESEARCH
“Detecting Covid 19 in NYC”
(WATCH video)
June 17, 2020 | nanoString
“Insights into the Pathogenesis of COVID-19 as Revealed by Spatial Biology”
(WATCH video)
May 22, 2020 | WorldQuant, LLC | Article by Igor Tulchinsky
“Covid-19: A conversation with Christopher Mason”
(Download .pdf)
westsidespirit.com
April 27, 2020 | Article by Emily Higginbotham
“On the Front Line of Testing”
(Download .pdf)
illumina Genomics Podcast
“Genomic Surveillance and Testing for SARS-CoV-2”
(Listen to audio)
The Vallee Foundation
“Talking Science with Dr. Chris Mason and Dr. Feng Zhang”
(Watch video)
Network Meetings
UM has hosted a series of Covid Wastewater Laboratory Discussion (CWLD) where researchers from throughout the U.S. and Israel meet in a semi-informal atmosphere to exchange experiences and information about SARS-CoV-2 measures in wastewater. These meetings have been held on the following dates and featured the following individuals.
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- January 22, 2024, Chris Mason, Weill Cornell Medicine
- October 16, 2023, Dongyang Deng, North Carolina A&T, Helena Solo-Gabriele, University of Miami
- May 15, 2023, Chris Mason, Weill Cornell Medicine
- January 23, 2023, Cynthia Gibas of UNC-Charlotte and W. Betancourt, U of A, Biorepository Meeting
- October 13, 2022, Cynthia Gibas of UNC-Charlotte and Marie Agan, UV
- August 8, 2022, Cynthia Gibas of UNC-Charlotte, Walter Betancourt of UArizona
- May 2, 2022, Serghei Mangul, University of Southern California
- January 10, 2022, Jon Foox, Weill Cornell Medicine
- November 8, 2021, Christian Kis, Thermo Fisher (TF) and Walter Betancourt, University of Arizona (UofA)
- August 30, 2021, Helena Solo-Gabriele, University of Miami
- July 19, 2021, Scott Tighe, University of Vermont (UV) and Marie Agan, UV
- May 24, 2021, Dongyang Deng, NC A&T State
- April 12, 2021, Cynthia Gibas, Univ of NC at Charlotte
- February 15, 2021, W. Betancourt, UofA, Eben Gering, Nova SE Univ
- January 1, 2021. Presente, Lester Shulman, Tel Aviv Univ
- November 23, 2020, General Discussion
- November 2, 2020, General Discussion
- December 12, 2020, General Discussion
