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Welcome to the Richardson Lab of Applied Microbiology
The Richardson group studies microbial communities of relevance to important environmental engineering problems. Application areas include sustainable water and wastewater treatment, nutrient and greenhouse gas cycling, Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), bioremediation, bioenergy, and environmental DNA monitoring tools. The Richardson Lab toolkit includes various techniques in microscopy, genomics (DNA), transcriptomics (RNA) and proteomics as well as modeling of community kinetics and gene networks. Common goals in lab projects involve development of diagnostic biomarker detection assays and their use to monitoring microbial activities in complex environments. Lab alums go on to work in a mix of academia, industry and government.
Active areas of research are exploring bioreactor designs for sustainable water and wastewater treatment alongside Cornell’s AguaClara Project Team and Harmful Algal Bloom detection research using inexpensive microscopy and image analysis instead of qPCR detection with the goal of making water quality testing accessible to more communities.
If you want to learn more about our Lab, feel free to explore the website pages. If you have any questions about our work, don’t be afraid to email us at rer26@cornell.edu (Dr. Richardson’s email).
Welcome to the Richardson Lab of Applied Microbiology
The Richardson group studies microbial communities of relevance to important environmental engineering problems. Application areas include sustainable water and wastewater treatment, nutrient and greenhouse gas cycling, Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs), bioremediation, bioenergy, and environmental DNA monitoring tools. The Richardson Lab toolkit includes various techniques in microscopy, genomics (DNA), transcriptomics (RNA) and proteomics as well as modeling of community kinetics and gene networks. Common goals in lab projects involve development of diagnostic biomarker detection assays and their use to monitoring microbial activities in complex environments. Lab alums go on to work in a mix of academia, industry and government.
Active areas of research are exploring bioreactor designs for sustainable water and wastewater treatment alongside Cornell’s AguaClara Project Team and Harmful Algal Bloom detection research using inexpensive microscopy and image analysis instead of qPCR detection with the goal of making water quality testing accessible to more communities.
If you want to learn more about our Lab, feel free to explore the website pages. If you have any questions about our work, don’t be afraid to email us at rer26@cornell.edu (Dr. Richardson’s email).
