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Jorge W Santo Domingo
Summary
I am a Research Microbiologist with the Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati, Ohio. My research work has primarily focused on the development of molecular assays for the detection of bacteria in environmental waters and to study the microbial composition of drinking water systems. More recently, my research projects have included comparative genomics and metagenomics, studying the effects of heavy metals in wastewater nitrification, understanding the dynamics of harmful algal blooms, the structure and function of microbial communities in groundwater, wetlands and petroleum degrading enrichments, and eukaryotic plankton in freshwater systems. I have a PhD in Microbiology from Michigan State University and a MS in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico. I have co-authored over 130 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and co-edited two books. I have been an ad-hoc reviewer for several scientific journals and for federal and international agencies grant programs. My main interests relate to molecular microbial ecology, microbial water quality, wastewater, nitrogen cycle, antibiotic resistance, microbial genomics, metagenomics, and metatranscriptomics.