Current members
Dae-Wook Kang, PhD
Assistant Professor
daewook.kang@utoledo.edu
Arvind Kumar Akula
MS student
Project: Covid19 surveillance in wastewater
Biplov Regmi
MS student
Caitlyn Kulwicki
Undergraduate student
Project: Harmful algal bloom and microbiome in Maumee River
Mashuk Siddiquee
PhD student
Project: Harmful algal bloom and microbiome in Lake Erie
Mudit Bhatia
PhD student (Co-advised with Dr. Youngwoo Seo)
Sara Mashhadi Nejad
PhD student
Project: Harmful algal bloom and microbiome in Maumee River
Shadman Sakib Sayem
MS student (Co-advised with Dr. Youngwoo Seo)
Project: Harmful algal bloom and microbial competition
Former members
Mohammad Mahmudul Hassan
MS degree (June 2024); A thesis title “Microbial ecology of environmental and engineered systems”
Currently at Arcadis Inc.
Hicham Hussein Omairi
MS degree (December 2022); A thesis title “Dormitory wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 at Universities and Colleges in the State of Ohio”
Currently at NTH Consultants, Ltd.
Oluwamayowa Amuda
MS degree (August 2021, co-advised with Dr. Seo); A thesis title “Investigating a potential role of human gut microbes on the fate of disinfection by-products”
Currently at Turner Co.
Samatha Reddy Burri
MS degree (August 2021); A thesis title “Evaluating potential roles of probiotic bacteria on alpha diversity of human gut microbiome in children with autism spectrum disorders”
Currently at Vanguard
Former Undergraduate Students
- Vansh Patel (Undergraduate student, advised since Spring 2023)
- A student researcher for the project of US ARMY Corps of Engineers
- Kadidiatou Tidiani Diakite (Undergraduate student, advised since Fall 2023)
- A student researcher for the project of US ARMY Corps of Engineers
- Diadji Diawara (Undergraduate student, advised in Spring 2023)
- A student researcher for the project of US ARMY Corps of Engineers
- Kristen Hall (Undergraduate student at Civil & Environmental Engineering): Independent study credits in Summer 2022
- A research topic “Fungal dynamics and harmful algal blooms”
- Awarded with the Undergraduate Summer Research and Creative Activities Program (USRCAP) (2022 Summer)
- Gavin Schaeffer (Undergraduate student at Civil & Environmental Engineering)
- Honor Contract (Fall 2021-Spring 2022)
- Noah Meyers (Undergraduate student, advised in Summer 2021)
- Co-op program “Microbiome analysis associated with SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater”
- Anqi Huang (Undergraduate student at Chemical Engineering)
- A student researcher for the project of Ohio Water Development Authority (Supervised with Dr. Youngwoo Seo)
- Emily Briese (Undergraduate student, advised since Summer 2019, and graduated in Spring 2020):
- A research topic “Dynamics of fungal communities in fresh water and Toledo water treatment plants”
- Awarded with the Undergraduate Summer Research and Creative Activities Program (USRCAP) (2019 Summer)
- Hourly worker for the Univ. of Toledo Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award (IRIA) project (Supervised with Dr. Youngwoo Seo)
- Kennedy Hoffman (Undergraduate student in Fall 2019)
- A student researcher for the Univ. of Toledo Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Award (IRIA) project (Supervised with Dr. Youngwoo Seo)
High-school students
1. Faith Seo and Elise Denk (Sophomore at Ottawa-Hills high-school in Spring 2020)
- Conduct research titled “The impact of food preservatives on gut probiotic bacteria growth” under the guidance of Mashuk Siddiquee
- Presented a poster at the Toledo regional high-school competition and won the second place in an award pertaining to nutrition sciences