Detection and Isolation of Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variants Collected from Residential Settings

Vass, William B.¹; Nannu Shankar, Sripriya¹; Lednicky, John A.^2,3; Yang, Yang⁴; Boyette, Jessica¹; Chen, Jiayi¹; Zhang, Yuetong¹; Washeem, Mohammad¹; Shirkhani, Amin¹; Chen, Yuqiao¹; Fan, Z. Hugh^5,6; Eiguren-Fernandez, Arantzazu⁷; Wu, Chang-Yu¹

¹Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; ²Department of Environmental and Global Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; ³Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; ⁴Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30609, USA; ⁵Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA; ⁶Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA; ⁷Aerosol Dynamics Inc., Berkeley, CA, 94710, USA

Improved viral sequence identification through a multi-tool pipeline

Hegarty, Bridget¹; Riddell, James²; Bastien, Eric³; Langenfeld, Kathryn⁴; Lindback, Morgan³; Wing, Anthony³; Saini, Jaspreet⁵; Duhaime, Melissa³

¹Case Western Rserve University, United States of America; ²Ohio State University, United States of America; ³Universtity of Michigan, United States of America; ⁴Stanford University, United States of America; ⁵Université de Genève, Switzerland

Development of lateral flow-based electrokinetic nano-Raman biosensors for rapid, sensitive SARS-CoV-2 detection in environmental samples

Wang, Wei¹; Srivastava, Sonali¹; Garg, Aditya²; Xiao, Chuan²; Mejia, Elieser²; Zhou, Wei²; Marr, Linsey¹; Vikesland, Peter¹

¹Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech Institute of Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) Sustainable Nanotechnology Center (VTSuN), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States.; ²Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061 United States.

Evaluating a workflow for detection and subtyping of disease targets from wastewater through ddPCR and quantitative metagenomics

Scott, Katherine; Brown, Connor L.; Blair, Matthew F.; Davis, Benjamin C.; Darling, Amanda; Markham, Clayton J.; Pruden, Amy; Vikesland, Peter J.

Virginia Tech, United States of America

Validation of qPCR-Based Monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes sul1 and intI1in wastewater, recycled water, and surface waters across the United States

Liguori, Krista Margaretta¹; Calarco, Jeanette²; Keenum, Ishi¹; Maldonado-Rivera, Gabriel¹; Davis, Benjamin C¹; Kurowski, Anna¹; Milligan, Erin¹; Harwood, Valerie J.²; Pruden, Amy¹

¹Virginia Tech, United States of America; ²University of South Florida, United States of America