Michelle Ammerman
mammer@umich.edu
Assistant Research Scientist
2006 PhD Biochemistry, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
1999 BA Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Research Interests
Characterization of microorganisms in the environment and their impact on human health.
Research Projects
My primary role is to oversee a project for the Michigan DHHS that involves monitoring SARS-CoV- 2 in wastewater samples from five southeast Michigan treatment plants. This wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) project is a collaboration between The Wigginton (CEE) and Bakker (Epidemiology) labs. Additionally we are developing methods to identify other pathogens in wastewater for community-level monitoring.
Publications
Kim, S., Kennedy, L. C., Wolfe, M. K., Criddle, C. S., Duong, D. H., Topol, A., White, B. J., Kantor, R. S., Nelson, K. L., Steele, J. A., Langlois, K., Griffith, J. F., Zimmer-Faust, A. G., McLellan, S. L., Schussman, M. K., Ammerman, M., Wigginton, K. R., Bakker, K. M. & Boehm, A. B. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 RNA is enriched by orders of magnitude in solid relative to liquid wastewater at publicly owned treatment works. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EW00826A