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Out today in Science Advances! How have 20 years of cleaner cars and trucks in California impacted PM2.5 air pollution exposure disparities? We found good news, not-good news, and some surprises. With @LibbyKoolik, @MarshallJulian and OEHHA. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/

Exciting new pre-print out led by Erica Fuhrmeister! Context-Seq: CRISPR-Cas9 Targeted Nanopore Sequencing for Transmission Dynamics of Antimicrobial Resistance biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

📢Next in the EPISOL collaboration! 🇺🇸 🇧🇯and 🇮🇳Environmental surveillance - STH 🪱 & enteric pathogens - in places without networked wastewater - we need methods and strategies to expand surveillance outside of large urban areas Amy Pickering biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Open assistant professor position at Berkeley in construction automation. Please pass on to those that would be good candidates: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04612

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How can you do wastewater surveillance when there are no sewers? Check out our new preprint on sampling strategies!

Join us for the CEE Community Highlights Event on Friday, October 25th, 5-8 pm at West Pauley Ballroom! Register on Eventbrite here: bit.ly/3zKgkQl. We can’t wait to see CEE students, alumni, industry partners, and friends of the department come together! Berkeley Engineering

Love how Europeans say they are “on holidays”, like there could never be just one day of holidaying

Now published in #PLOSWater: Environmental surveillance of soil-transmitted helminths and other enteric pathogens in settings ... Amy Pickering dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

New pre-print on infant first infections with enteric pathogens! 85% of pathogens detected in infants are also in animals living nearby, using longitudinal sampling we find child hand contact with soil contaminated with animal feces is a primary pathway! medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nope, won't save $4B given the positive externalities of NIH funding, BUT it will make college inaccessible for young Americans - tuition will increase. Faculty are already extremely efficient at research, teaching, admin/service for universities - there is no room to do more

For communities, most policy standards for "modern energy" are a connection to an electrical grid. But in a new paper in Nature Cities, Prof. Dan Kammen and colleagues show a simple connection does not equal affordable, reliable electricity: nature.com/articles/s4428…

Future climate change will increase the water fetching time burden in Sub-Saharan Africa - read more in our Nature Communications paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

We’re proud to have backed Amy Pickering (Amy Pickering) and her team in developing the TuriTap: an inexpensive, low-tech water chlorination device. Read more about Pickering’s work in our latest grantee spotlight: openphilanthropy.org/research/how-a…

How a low-cost, no-electricity device is expanding access to clean water | Open Philanthropy openphilanthropy.org/research/how-a…

Excited to piggyback off of this work and see if the TuriTap can be adapted for handpumps givewell.org/research/grant…

Climate change is expected to make sub-Saharan Africa warmer and drier. In Nature Communications, Amy Pickering & co. explore how this affects the burden of collecting water—with impacts for health, hygiene, income, and gender equity: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Out Now! Contaminated drinking water facilitates Escherichia coli strain-sharing within households in urban informal settlements bit.ly/44k5nBY #WaterQuality #Ecoli #AntibioticResistance

How are pathogenic and antibiotic resistant bacterial strains shared across humans, animals, and the environment? Using a new approach (PIC-seq), we find drinking water plays an important role in human strain sharing. Just published in Nature Microbiology! nature.com/articles/s4156…

“We were interested in understanding the role of the household environment in bacterial transmission to humans,” said Prof. Amy Pickering. “And our findings showed that water is actually one of the most important transmission pathways for pathogenic and drug-resistant bacteria.”