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Overview

Jorge W. Santo Domingo is affiliated with the Environmental Protection Agency in the United States. Their primary research focus lies within Environmental Science, with a specialization in related subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including Water Treatment and Disinfection, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Fecal Contamination and Water Quality, as well as Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Hodon Ryu, Youchul Jeon, Young-Woo Seo, Jess Brown, and Michael Elk. Their publications appear regularly in recognized scientific venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Harmful Algae, Water Research, Ecotoxicology, and mSphere.

Key recent papers authored by the scientist include:

  • The Lake Erie HABs Grab: A binational collaboration to characterize the western basin cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms at an unprecedented high-resolution spatial scale (2021, Harmful Algae)
  • Impact of algal organic matter on the performance, cyanotoxin removal, and biofilms of biologically-active filtration systems (2020, Water Research)
  • Ecological insights into assembly processes and network structures of bacterial biofilms in full-scale biologically active carbon filters under ozone implementation (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Impact of harmful algal bloom severity on bacterial communities in a full-scale biological filtration system for drinking water treatment (2024, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Highlighting the promise of qPCR-based environmental monitoring: response of the ribosomal RNA:DNA ratio of calanoid copepods to toxic cyanobacteria (2021, Ecotoxicology)

Best Publications

  • Microbial source tracking: state of the science.

    Joyce M Simpson;Jorge W Santo Domingo;Donald J Reasoner

  • Comparative fecal metagenomics unveils unique functional capacity of the swine gut.

    Regina Lamendella;Regina Lamendella;Jorge W Santo Domingo;Shreya Ghosh;John Martinson

  • Host Distributions of Uncultivated Fecal Bacteroidales Bacteria Reveal Genetic Markers for Fecal Source Identification

    Linda K. Dick;Anne E. Bernhard;Timothy J. Brodeur;Jorge W. Santo Domingo

  • Quo vadis source tracking? Towards a strategic framework for environmental monitoring of fecal pollution.

    Jorge W. Santo Domingo;Dustin G. Bambic;Thomas A. Edge;Stefan Wuertz

  • Quantitative PCR for Detection and Enumeration of Genetic Markers of Bovine Fecal Pollution

    Orin C. Shanks;Emina Atikovic;A. Denene Blackwood;Jingrang Lu

  • Phylogenetic Diversity and Molecular Detection of Bacteria in Gull Feces

    Jingrang Lu;Jorge W. Santo Domingo;Regina Lamendella;Thomas Edge

  • Phylogenetic diversity of drinking water bacteria in a distribution system simulator

    M.M. Williams;J.W.S. Domingo;M.C. Meckes;C.A. Kelty

  • Metagenomic Analyses of Drinking Water Receiving Different Disinfection Treatments

    Vicente Gomez-Alvarez;Randy P. Revetta;Jorge W. Santo Domingo

  • Functional microbial diversity explains groundwater chemistry in a pristine aquifer

    Theodore M Flynn;Theodore M Flynn;Robert A Sanford;Hodon Ryu;Craig M Bethke

  • Genome-Enabled Insights into the Ecophysiology of the Comammox Bacterium “Candidatus Nitrospira nitrosa”

    Pamela Y. Camejo;Jorge Santo Domingo;Katherine D. McMahon;Daniel R. Noguera

  • Bifidobacteria in feces and environmental waters.

    Regina Lamendella;Jorge W. Santo Domingo;Catherine A. Kelty;Daniel B. Oerther

  • Identification of bacterial populations in drinking water using 16S rRNA-based sequence analyses.

    Randy P. Revetta;Adin Pemberton;Regina Lamendella;Brandon Iker

  • Impact of Heavy Metals on Transcriptional and Physiological Activity of Nitrifying Bacteria

    Vikram Kapoor;Xuan Li;Michael Elk;Kartik Chandran

  • Whole-Community Metagenomics in Two Different Anammox Configurations: Process Performance and Community Structure

    Ananda S. Bhattacharjee;Sha Wu;Christopher E. Lawson;Mike S. M. Jetten

  • Competitive Metagenomic DNA Hybridization Identifies Host-Specific Microbial Genetic Markers in Cow Fecal Samples†

    Orin C. Shanks;Jorge W. Santo Domingo;Regina Lamendella;Catherine A. Kelty

  • Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis clades enriched under cyclic anaerobic and microaerobic conditions simultaneously use different electron acceptors.

    Pamela Y. Camejo;Brian R. Owen;Joseph Martirano;Juan Ma

  • Metagenome analyses of corroded concrete wastewater pipe biofilms reveal a complex microbial system

    Vicente Gomez-Alvarez;Randy P Revetta;Jorge W Santo Domingo

  • Identification of chicken-specific fecal microbial sequences using a metagenomic approach.

    Jingrang Lu;Jorge Santo Domingo;Orin C. Shanks

  • Pilot plant demonstration of stable and efficient high rate biological nutrient removal with low dissolved oxygen conditions.

    Natalie A. Keene;Steve R. Reusser;Matthew J. Scarborough;Alan L. Grooms

  • Molecular survey of concrete sewer biofilm microbial communities.

    Jorge W. Santo Domingo;Randy P. Revetta;Brandon Iker;Vicente Gomez-Alvarez

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas J. Ashbolt
Nicholas J. Ashbolt Queensland University of Technology
Orin C. Shanks
Orin C. Shanks Environmental Protection Agency
Thomas A. Edge
Thomas A. Edge Environment and Climate Change Canada
Daniel R. Noguera
Daniel R. Noguera University of Wisconsin–Madison
Katherine D. McMahon
Katherine D. McMahon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hyung-Sool Lee
Hyung-Sool Lee Korea Institute of Energy Technology
Kartik Chandran
Kartik Chandran Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Michael J. Sadowsky
Michael J. Sadowsky University of Minnesota
Stefan Wuertz
Stefan Wuertz Nanyang Technological University
Rachel T. Noble
Rachel T. Noble University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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