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Michael Jacob Plewa is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily operates within the domain of Environmental Science, with a specific focus on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, and Water Science and Technology.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Chemical Analysis and Environmental Impact
  • Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
  • Environmental Chemistry and Analysis
  • Fecal contamination and water quality
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies

Michael Jacob Plewa has contributed significantly to several research publications. Key recent papers include:

  • "To regulate or not to regulate? What to do with more toxic disinfection by-products?" (2020), published in Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
  • "Drivers of Disinfection Byproduct Cytotoxicity in U.S. Drinking Water: Should Other DBPs Be Considered for Regulation?" (2021), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Assessing Additivity of Cytotoxicity Associated with Disinfection Byproducts in Potable Reuse and Conventional Drinking Waters" (2020), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Comparative Quantitative Toxicology and QSAR Modeling of the Haloacetonitriles: Forcing Agents of Water Disinfection Byproduct Toxicity" (2020), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Toxicological assessment of potable reuse and conventional drinking waters" (2022), published in Nature Sustainability

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Elizabeth D. Wagner
  • Susan D. Richardson
  • Katherine Bokenkamp
  • Joshua M. Allen
  • Xiao Wei

Michael Jacob Plewa's publications predominantly appear in Environmental Science & Technology, with twelve papers in this venue. Other frequent publication sources include Journal of Environmental Sciences, Biology of Reproduction, Environmental Sciences Europe, and the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Occurrence, genotoxicity, and carcinogenicity of regulated and emerging disinfection by-products in drinking water: a review and roadmap for research.

    Susan D. Richardson;Michael J. Plewa;Elizabeth D. Wagner;Rita Schoeny

  • Haloacetonitriles vs. Regulated Haloacetic Acids: Are Nitrogen-Containing DBPs More Toxic?

    Mark G. Muellner;Elizabeth D. Wagner;Kristin Mccalla;Susan D. Richardson

  • CHO cell cytotoxicity and genotoxicity analyses of disinfection by-products: An updated review

    Elizabeth D. Wagner;Michael J. Plewa

  • Occurrence and mammalian cell toxicity of iodinated disinfection byproducts in drinking water.

    Susan D. Richardson;Francesca Fasano;J. Jackson Ellington;F. Gene Crumley

  • Chemical and Biological Characterization of Newly Discovered Iodoacid Drinking Water Disinfection Byproducts

    Michael Jacob Plewa;Elizabeth D. Wagner;Susan D. Richardson;Alfred D. Thruston

  • Halonitromethane drinking water disinfection byproducts: chemical characterization and mammalian cell cytotoxicity and genotoxicity.

    Michael J. Plewa;Elizabeth D. Wagner;Paulina Jazwierska;Susan D. Richardson

  • Occurrence, Synthesis, and Mammalian Cell Cytotoxicity and Genotoxicity of Haloacetamides: An Emerging Class of Nitrogenous Drinking Water Disinfection Byproducts

    Michael Jacob Plewa;Mark G. Muellner;Susan D. Richardson;Francesca Fasano

  • Mammalian cell cytotoxicity and genotoxicity analysis of drinking water disinfection by-products.

    Michael J. Plewa;Yahya Kargalioglu;Danielle Vankerk;Roger A. Minear

  • Evidence That Hydrogen Sulfide Is a Genotoxic Agent

    Matias S. Attene-Ramos;Elizabeth D. Wagner;Michael J. Plewa;H. Rex Gaskins

  • Comparative mammalian cell toxicity of N-DBPs and C-DBPs

    Michael J. Plewa;Elizabeth D. Wagner;Mark G. Muellner;Kang Mei Hsu

  • Mammalian cell cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of the haloacetic acids, a major class of drinking water disinfection by‐products

    Michael Jacob Plewa;Jane Ellen Simmons;Susan D. Richardson;Elizabeth D. Wagner

  • Tribromopyrrole, brominated acids, and other disinfection byproducts produced by disinfection of drinking water rich in bromide.

    Susan D. Richardson;Alfred D. Thruston;Chaim Rav-Acha;Ludmila Groisman

  • Formation of toxic iodinated disinfection by-products from compounds used in medical imaging.

    Stephen E. Duirk;Cristal Lindell;Christopher C. Cornelison;Jennifer Kormos

  • Hydrogen sulfide induces direct radical-associated DNA damage.

    Matias S. Attene-Ramos;Elizabeth D. Wagner;H. Rex Gaskins;Michael J. Plewa

  • DNA damage and toxicogenomic analyses of hydrogen sulfide in human intestinal epithelial FHs 74 Int cells

    Matias S. Attene-Ramos;Gerardo M. Nava;Mark G. Muellner;Elizabeth D. Wagner

  • Toxic Impact of Bromide and Iodide on Drinking Water Disinfected with Chlorine or Chloramines

    Yang Yang;Yukako Komaki;Susana Y. Kimura;Hong Ying Hu

  • TIC-Tox: A preliminary discussion on identifying the forcing agents of DBP-mediated toxicity of disinfected water.

    Michael J. Plewa;Elizabeth D. Wagner;Susan D. Richardson

  • Diethyldithiocarbamate suppresses the plant activation of aromatic amines into mutagens by inhibiting tobacco cell peroxidase.

    Michael J. Plewa;Shannon R. Smith;Elizabeth D. Wagner

  • N-Nitrosamines and halogenated disinfection byproducts in U.S. Full Advanced Treatment trains for potable reuse

    Teng Zeng;Michael Jacob Plewa;William A. Mitch;William A. Mitch

  • Occurrence and Comparative Toxicity of Haloacetaldehyde Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water.

    Clara H. Jeong;Cristina Postigo;Susan D. Richardson;Jane Ellen Simmons

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan D. Richardson
Susan D. Richardson University of South Carolina
William A. Mitch
William A. Mitch Stanford University
Benito J. Mariñas
Benito J. Mariñas University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas A. Ternes
Thomas A. Ternes Federal Institute of Hydrology
Diana Anderson
Diana Anderson University of Bradford
Mark A. Berhow
Mark A. Berhow United States Department of Agriculture
Beate I. Escher
Beate I. Escher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
David M. DeMarini
David M. DeMarini Environmental Protection Agency
Philip K. Hopke
Philip K. Hopke Clarkson University
Steven F. Vaughn
Steven F. Vaughn US Department of Agriculture

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