Map showing distribution of viral contigs.
A University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder team is part of a major international effort to sample surfaces and the air on mass transit vehicles.
Two major international journals have published articles on the research, which included teams from ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder engineering gathering samples on RTD light rail cars and at stations to document their public microbiological signatures.ÌýÌý
Professor Mark Hernandez’s laboratory is a founding member of the international consortium that executed the sampling campaign. Marina Nieto-Caballero, an environmental engineering PhD student in Hernandez's lab who graduated in May, led the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder student teams through the efforts over the last few years.
The program was featured in a recent article in the New York Times:
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