Thanh Nguyen

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Projects

Pathogen Control for a Sustainable Reuse of Wastewater: Role of Surface Interactions on Transport of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in Subsurface

Lead Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Principal Investigator

Thanh Nguyen

Project type

Exploratory Research

Transport of pathogens such as Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in subsurface environment is of great concern for water resources protection or drinking water treatment. Groundwater source for drinking…

Horizontal Gene Transfer in Porous Media: A Real Time Microscopic Investigation

Lead Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Principal Investigator

Thanh Nguyen

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Horizontal gene transfer is widespread among bacteria and is an important component of microbial evolution and trait dispersal. Specifically, gene transfer can create new metabolic capabilities, e.g…