Erica Fuhrmeister

As climate change increases the stress on an aging water and sanitation infrastructure, waterborne pathogens pose an emerging risk to public health. The global spread of antimicrobial resistance further compounds this threat and will severely limit our ability to treat life-threatening infections. The Fuhrmeister Group builds next-generation biosensing tools (e.g., nucleic acid detection and sequencing methods) to better understand the prevalence and transmission of these microbial threats. Projects in our group are range from fundamental to applied, domestic to international, and from the lab to the field.