A5087369895- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Gut microbiota and health
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Noise Effects and Management
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
- Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Occupational Therapy Practice and Research
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Dietary Effects on Health
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2020-2025
Villanova University
2019-2022
St. Edward's University
2020-2021
Reed College
2012
Health and Safety Executive
1986
West Virginia University
1975
Battelle
1967
As an active interface between the host and their diet, gut microbiota influences metabolic adaptation; however, contributions of fungi have been overlooked. Here, we investigate whether variations in mycobiome abundance composition correlate with key features metabolism. We obtained animals from four commercial sources parallel to test if differing starting mycobiomes can shape adaptation response processed diets. show that healthy mice is shaped by environment, including significantly...
Humans are inextricably linked to each other and our natural world, microorganisms lie at the nexus of those interactions. Microorganisms form genetically flexible, taxonomically diverse, biochemically rich communities, i.e., microbiomes that integral health development macroorganisms, societies, ecosystems.
For nearly 450 million years, mycorrhizal fungi have constructed networks to collect and trade nutrient resources with plant roots1,2. Owing their dependence on host-derived carbon, these face conflicting trade-offs in building that balance construction costs against geographical coverage long-distance resource transport from roots3. How they navigate design challenges is unclear4. Here, monitor the of living networks, we built a custom-designed robot for high-throughput time-lapse imaging...
The drug para-amino benzene sulfonamide, or sulfanilamide, and its related compounds is in wide use at the present time treatment of certain infections. Its usage rests largely on an empiric basis, much remains to be learned about bacteriologic pharmacologic aspects drug. study concerned with factors governing excretion sulfanilamide when administered treatment. In a group patients without cardiovascular, hepatic renal disability, infection, measured amount was given daily six hour intervals...
Elemental ratios in biogenic marine calcium carbonates are widely used geobiology, environmental science, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. It is generally accepted that the elemental abundance of reflects a combination ion seawater, physical properties mineralogy biomineral, pathways mechanisms biomineralization. Here we report measurements suite nine (Li/Ca, B/Ca, Na/Ca, Mg/Ca, Zn/Ca, Sr/Ca, Cd/Ca, Ba/Ca, U/Ca) 18 species benthic invertebrates spanning range carbonate polymorph...
Urban air pollution poses a major threat to human health. Understanding where and when urban pollutant concentrations peak is essential for effective quality management sustainable development. To this end, we implement mobile monitoring methodology determine the spatiotemporal distribution of particulate matter (PM) black carbon (BC) throughout Philadelphia, Pennsylvania use hot spot analysis heatmaps times locations are highest. Over course 12 days between June 27 July 29, 2019, measured...
Microbes are abundant inhabitants of the near-surface atmosphere in urban areas. The distribution microbial communities may benefit or hinder human wellbeing and ecosystem function. Surveys airborne diversity uncommon both natural built environments those that investigate stationary city, thus missing continuous exposure to microbes covary with three-dimensional structure. Individuals cities generally mobile would be exposed diverse structures outdoors within indoor-transit systems a day. We...
The immunofluorescent technique was employed to evaluate the sensitivity of 10 human and animal cell monolayers tissue sections as substrates for titering antinuclear antibody content serum samples. highest mean ranks sensitivity, relative ability each substrate maintain its rank when 21 selected positive sera were tested, achieved by two fibroblast lines, baby hamster kidney (BHK 21/C13) lung (WI-38), respectively. least sensitive commercial rat liver sections.
Discerning the relationship between urban structure and function is crucial for sustainable city planning requires examination of how components in systems are organized three-dimensional space. The Structure Urban Landscape (STURLA) classification accounts compositional complexity landcover structures including built natural environment. Building on previous research, we develop a STURLA Philadelphia, PA study land surface temperature. We evaluate results Philadelphia as compared to case...
Societal Impact Statement Cities are stressful environments for plants, plagued by heat, pollution, and biodiversity loss. As a result, plant communities tend to suffer in green roofs, parks, living walls. Finding solutions help plants grow is goal of the sustainable city. One solution better incorporate plant–microbe symbiosis architecture. Symbiotic fungi bacteria can provide nutrients, water, cope with urban stress. The reconceptualization infrastructure from microbial‐focused perspective...
ABSTRACT Successful plant growth requires plants to minimize harm from antagonists and maximize benefit mutualists. However, these outcomes may be difficult achieve simultaneously, since defenses activated in response can compromise mutualism function, resources allocated defense trade off with managing Here, we investigate how antagonist attack affects ability manage mutualists sanctions, which a rewards cooperative and/or punishes uncooperative We studied interactions among wild...
We examine whether aggregate daily Twitter keyword volumes over eight months from November 2011 to June 2012 can be used predict consumer spending as reported by Gallup. also volume improves predictive ability prediction based solely on current spending, weekday norms, and history. divide data into (i) in-sample identify which words are highly correlated with estimate model coefficients, (ii) out-of-sample measure forecast success. Our methods very general include n-grams (e.g., pairs of...
Surface temperature influences human health directly and alters the biodiversity productivity of environment. While previous research has identified that composition urban landscapes physical properties environment such as surface temperature, a generalizable flexible framework is needed can be used to compare cities across time space. This study employs Structure Urban Landscapes (STURLA) classification combined with remote sensing New York City’s land (LST). These are then linked using...
The cadmium body burden, blood and urine concentrations, renal function were studied in a group of 53 solderers. results showed raised concentrations burden all workers (31) with more than five years exposure, 27 having excess the proposed biological threshold 10 nmol/mmol creatinine. Renal tubular dysfunction was found 17 subjects exposure one this associated glomerular dysfunction. These data indicate that frequency end users may be as high those smelters or production workers. Subjects...
Understanding the relationships between land cover/urban structure patterns and air pollutants is key to sustainable urban planning development. In this study, we employ a mobile monitoring method collect PM2.5 BC data in city of Philadelphia, PA during summer 2019 apply Structure Urban Landscapes (STURLA) methodology examine atmospheric pollution. We find that, while vary by STURLA class, many differences pollutant concentrations classes are not significant. However, also that proportions...
Discerning the relationship between urban structure and function is crucial for sustainable city planning requires examination of how components in systems are organized three-dimensional space. The Structure Urban Landscape (STURLA) classification accounts compositional complexity landcover structures including built natural environment. Building on previous research, we develop a STURLA Philadelphia, PA study 1 land surface temperature. Finally, evaluate results Philadelphia as compared to...
ABSTRACT Empirical evidence supports selection of soil microbial communities by edaphic properties across large spatial scales; however, less is known at smaller scales. The goal this research was to evaluate relationships between ecosystem characteristics and bacterial community structure/function broad taxonomic resolutions in soils small We employed 16S rRNA gene sequencing, community-level physiological profiling chemical analysis address goal. found weak gradients structure/function....