{"id":20,"date":"2013-02-26T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/template\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2014-10-27T16:02:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T16:02:54","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wuertz\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Biofilms<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Horizontal gene transfer, degradation of PAHs, structure and\u00a0function of microbial communities, single cell analysis, (all in\u00a0environmental engineering applications).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Aerobic wastewater treatment<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Use of genetically modified microorganisms (GMO), sequencing batch\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 reactors (SBR), use of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 monitor reactors, membrane bioreactors, nitrification and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 denitrification, biological phosphorus removal, bioaugmentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Bacterial and viral pathogens<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Environmental detection by PCR, real time PCR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Microbial Source Tracking<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Highway facilities, TMDLs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Drinking water<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Role of biofilms in public health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biofilms Horizontal gene transfer, degradation of PAHs, structure and\u00a0function of microbial communities, single cell analysis, (all in\u00a0environmental engineering applications). Aerobic wastewater treatment Use of genetically modified microorganisms (GMO), sequencing batch\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 reactors (SBR), use of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 monitor reactors, membrane bioreactors, nitrification and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 denitrification, biological phosphorus removal, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wuertz\/research\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-twocolumns-left.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wuertz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wuertz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wuertz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wuertz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wuertz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wuertz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wuertz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/wuertz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}