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Current Lab Members

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Erin K. Lipp, PhD

My research interests include microbial ecology and environmental microbiology and its interface with both public and ecosystem health. I have worked on issues ranging from water and sanitation to climate change to coral disease ecology. Currently, my lab is focused on understanding population dynamics of Vibrio in the context of its response to episodic events in tropical waters. We are also working on unraveling mechanisms of coral disease, especially among the threatened coral Acropora palmata in the Caribbean. Closer to home in Athens, we are also working on water quality impacts in rural and urban streams and investigating the role of landscape in the persistence and transmission of enteric pathogens.

Post-Docs

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Jason R. Westrich

westrich@uga.edu

PhD, Ecology (2015)
Research: Mechanisms of iron acquisition, response and use among Vibrio; dust deposition effects on microbial communities in tropical waters; Vibrio population dynamics

Graduate Students
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Martinique Edwards

martinique.edwards@uga.edu

MS/BS, Environmental Health Science/Ecology
Research: Stream water quality; stream ecology; urban ecology
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Maite Ghazaleh

maiteghazaleh@uga.edu

PhD student, Environmental Health Science
Research: Coral disease and microbiome; microbial ecology
UGA Presidential Fellow
​NSF GRFP Fellow

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Keri M. Kemp

kerimkemp@gmail.com

PhD candidate, Ecology
Research: Microbial ecology of disease; functional analysis of coral mircobiome; Vibrio metabolism and genomics

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Keri A. Lydon

keri.lydon@uga.edu

PhD candidate, Environmental Health Science
Research: Antibiotic resistance in marine microbes; personal care product contamination and impacts on microbial communities; Vibrio ecology
​UGA PSO Fellow 

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Ade Oladeinde

ade1986@uga.edu

PhD candidate, Environmental Health Science
Research: UV and oxidative stress among fecal indicators and enteric pathogens in natural waters; fate and transport of enteric bacteria from agricultural lands; mechanisms of regrowth among pathogenic E. coli.
​EPA STAR Fellow

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Megan Robertson

mrober@uga.edu

PhD student, Environmental Health Science
Research: Water quality; antimicrobial resistance
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    R. Scott Rozier

      rsrozier@uga.edu

       PhD student, Environmental Health Science
       Research: Water quality and ecology of enteric bacterial pathogens in freshwater streams. Focusing on
       ecology of Salmonella in natural landscapes.
Undergraduates
.Martinique Edwards. BS. Ecology. UGA (2016 CURO fellow)
Harris Jamal, BS, Environmental Health Science, UGA (2017 CURO fellow)
Andre Jove, BS, Environmental Health Science, UGA
Roland Seim, BS, Environmental Health Science, UGA (2017 CURO fellow)

Lipp Lab Grad Alums
2015

Jason R. Westrich, PhD, Ecology
2014

Jessica L. Joyner, PhD, Ecology
2013

Beck Frydenborg, MS, Environmental Health Science
2012

Mary Katherine Crews, MS, Environmental Health Science
Monica Griffith, MS, Environmental Health Science
2010

Jeffrey W. Turner, PhD, Ecology
J. Carrie Futch Whitworth, PhD, Ecology
Ethell Vereen, Jr., PhD Ecology
2009

Leena Malayil, MS, Toxicology
Gordon Martin, MS, Environmental Health Science
Beth Mote, Environmental Health Science
2008

Erin E. Looney, MS, Environmental Health Science
Jennifer Gentry Shields, MS, Environmental Health Science
2006

Bradd Haley, MS, Environmental Health Science
2005

Tiffiani Onifade, MS, Environmental Health Science
Ethell Vereen, Jr., MS, Environmental Health Science
2004

Theng Theng Fong, MS, Environmental Health Science

Lipp Lab Undergrad Alums

Jacob Goodman, BS, Environmental Health Science, UGA
Kyler Herrington. B.S. Microbiology. UGA
Kylie Isaack. BS, Ecology, UGA (2016 CURO fellow)
Kelsey Montgomery, BS, Ecology (REU)
​Amy Wong, BS, Environmental Health Science, UGA
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