School of Life Sciences New Faculty Showcase — Danica Schaffer-Smith and Qiyun Zhu

School of Life Sciences Fall 2020 New Faculty Showcase

Danica Schaffer-Smith: "Water resources management under extreme events: human and natural engineering solutions"

Can infrastructure and floodplain management help to protect and sustain freshwater resources? I explore risks and opportunities with remote sensing, watershed modeling and stakeholder-based processes. 

Qiyun Zhu: "Untangling microbe-community-host interactions in light of evolution"

Universal phylogenomic tree of microbial organisms enables an upgrade of shotgun metagenomics.