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Overview

Rachel T. Noble is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and medicine, with a notable emphasis on infectious diseases, biomedical engineering, and molecular biology.

Their work covers several main topics including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Vibrio bacteria research studies
  • Fecal contamination and water quality
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

They have contributed to research published in several key venues, such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative network include:

  • A. Denene Blackwood
  • Thomas Clerkin
  • Mark Ciesielski
  • Kyle Bibby
  • Denene Blackwood

Recent published papers by Rachel T. Noble include:

  • Human Health and Ocean Pollution, 2020, Annals of Global Health
  • Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Minimizing errors in RT-PCR detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for wastewater surveillance, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • The Environmental Microbiology Minimum Information (EMMI) Guidelines: qPCR and dPCR Quality and Reporting for Environmental Microbiology, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance for Public Health Action, 2021, Emerging infectious diseases

Best Publications

  • Use of SYBR Green I for rapid epifluorescence counts of marine viruses and bacteria

    Rachel T. Noble;Jed A. Fuhrman

  • Human Health and Ocean Pollution.

    Philip J Landrigan;John J Stegeman;Lora E Fleming;Denis Allemand

  • Viruses and protists cause similar bacterial mortality in coastal seawater

    Jed A. Fuhrman;Rachel T. Noble

  • Major viral impact on the functioning of benthic deep-sea ecosystems.

    Roberto Danovaro;Antonio Dell'Anno;Cinzia Corinaldesi;Mirko Magagnini

  • Human adenoviruses and coliphages in urban runoff-impacted coastal waters of Southern California.

    Sunny Jiang;Rachel Noble;Weiping Chu

  • Marine viruses and global climate change

    Roberto Danovaro;Cinzia Corinaldesi;Antonio Dell'Anno;Jed A. Fuhrman

  • Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19.

    Aaron Bivins;Devin North;Arslan Ahmad;Warish Ahmed

  • Virus Decay and Its Causes in Coastal Waters

    R T Noble;J A Fuhrman

  • Comparison of total coliform, fecal coliform, and enterococcus bacterial indicator response for ocean recreational water quality testing.

    R T Noble;D F Moore;M K Leecaster;Charles D McGee

  • Virus and prokaryote enumeration from planktonic aquatic environments by epifluorescence microscopy with SYBR Green I

    Anand Patel;Rachel T Noble;Joshua A Steele;Michael S Schwalbach

  • Microbial indicators of aquatic ecosystem change: current applications to eutrophication studies

    Hans W. Paerl;Julianne Dyble;Pia H. Moisander;Rachel T. Noble

  • Rapidly measured indicators of recreational water quality and swimming-associated illness at marine beaches: a prospective cohort study.

    Timothy J. Wade;Elizabeth Sams;Kristen P. Brenner;Richard Haugland

  • Inactivation of indicator micro‐organisms from various sources of faecal contamination in seawater and freshwater

    R.T. Noble;I.M. Lee;K.C. Schiff

  • A review of technologies for rapid detection of bacteria in recreational waters.

    Rachel T. Noble;Stephen B. Weisberg

  • Minimizing errors in RT-PCR detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for wastewater surveillance

    Warish Ahmed;Stuart L. Simpson;Paul M. Bertsch;Kyle Bibby

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

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

  • The Environmental Microbiology Minimum Information (EMMI) Guidelines: qPCR and dPCR Quality and Reporting for Environmental Microbiology.

    Mark A Borchardt;Alexandria B Boehm;Marc Salit;Marc Salit;Susan K Spencer

  • Enteroviruses detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction from the coastal waters of Santa Monica Bay, California: low correlation to bacterial indicator levels.

    Rachel T. Noble;Rachel T. Noble;Jed A. Fuhrman

  • Characterizing fecal contamination in stormwater runoff in coastal North Carolina, USA.

    J.K. Parker;D. McIntyre;R.T. Noble

  • Attachment of Fecal Indicator Bacteria to Particles in the Neuse River Estuary, N.C.

    J. Stephen Fries;Gregory W. Characklis;Rachel T. Noble

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen B. Weisberg
Stephen B. Weisberg Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
Jed A. Fuhrman
Jed A. Fuhrman University of Southern California
Richard A. Haugland
Richard A. Haugland Environmental Protection Agency
James D. Oliver
James D. Oliver University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Kenneth Schiff
Kenneth Schiff Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
Alexandria B. Boehm
Alexandria B. Boehm Stanford University
Stefan Wuertz
Stefan Wuertz Nanyang Technological University
Orin C. Shanks
Orin C. Shanks Environmental Protection Agency
Roberto Danovaro
Roberto Danovaro Marche Polytechnic University
Kyle Bibby
Kyle Bibby University of Notre Dame

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