Jeseth Delgado Vela
Assistant Professor, Pratt School of Engineering
Duke University
She/Her/Hers
Description: Amidst growing challenges such as urban densification, climate change, aging infrastructure, and pandemics, engineers must develop an equitable, environmentally sustainable, and resilient urban water cycle. I will highlight how I study microbial interactions and communication and how studying microbial interactions within wastewater treatment systems can advance treatment. I will discuss our ongoing research trying to understand microbial signaling, both between bacterial populations and between bacteria and the viruses that infect bacteria (phage). I will also discuss how these microbial interactions can be translated to promote healthy environments.
About the speaker: Dr. Jeseth Delgado Vela is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University. She integrates molecular tools and modeling to understand how microbial community interactions and dynamics affect engineered water treatment systems. Dr. Delgado Vela earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering and M.S. at the University of Michigan, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a recipient of the Ford Foundation Dissertation Award, was named an Early Career Research Fellow by the Gulf Research Program, and was awarded an NSF CAREER Award.
Friday, August 30, 2024, 12:00-1:15pm Eastern
Field Auditorium, Room 1112, Grainger Hall (9 Circuit Drive, Durham, NC)
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