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Sandra L. McLellan is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, with notable work in subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Water Science and Technology, and Ecology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, biosensors and analytical detection, fecal contamination and water quality, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, microbial community ecology and physiology, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Science of The Total Environment, ACS ES&T Water, Environmental Science Water Research & Technology, and Preprints.org.

Among the recent papers authored by Sandra L. McLellan are:

  • Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19 (2020) published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Minimizing errors in RT-PCR detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for wastewater surveillance (2021) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Evaluation of Sampling, Analysis, and Normalization Methods for SARS-CoV-2 Concentrations in Wastewater to Assess COVID-19 Burdens in Wisconsin Communities (2021) published in ACS ES&T Water
  • SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Surveillance for Public Health Action (2021) published in Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • SARS-CoV-2 RNA is enriched by orders of magnitude in primary settled solids relative to liquid wastewater at publicly owned treatment works (2022) published in Environmental Science Water Research & Technology

Sandra L. McLellan has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Adélaïde Roguet
  • Rachel T. Noble
  • Kyle Bibby
  • Jill S. McClary-Gutierrez
  • John F. Griffith

Best Publications

  • Nitrogen-fixing populations of Planctomycetes and Proteobacteria are abundant in surface ocean metagenomes.

    Tom O. Delmont;Christopher Quince;Alon Shaiber;Özcan C. Esen

  • Diversity and population structure of sewage‐derived microorganisms in wastewater treatment plant influent

    S. L. McLellan;S. M. Huse;S. R. Mueller-Spitz;E. N. Andreishcheva

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

    Aaron Bivins;Devin North;Arslan Ahmad;Warish Ahmed

  • Community structures of fecal bacteria in cattle from different animal feeding operations.

    Orin C. Shanks;Catherine A. Kelty;Shawn Archibeque;Michael Jenkins

  • Climate change and waterborne disease risk in the Great Lakes region of the U.S.

    Jonathan A. Patz;Stephen J. Vavrus;Christopher K. Uejio;Sandra L. McLellan

  • Detection of the human specific Bacteroides genetic marker provides evidence of widespread sewage contamination of stormwater in the urban environment

    Elizabeth P. Sauer;Jessica L. VandeWalle;Melinda J. Bootsma;Sandra L. McLellan

  • Freshwater Recirculating Aquaculture System Operations Drive Biofilter Bacterial Community Shifts around a Stable Nitrifying Consortium of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Comammox Nitrospira .

    Ryan P. Bartelme;Sandra L. McLellan;Ryan J. Newton

  • Sewage reflects the microbiomes of human populations.

    Ryan J. Newton;Sandra L. McLellan;Deborah K. Dila;Joseph H. Vineis

  • 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

  • A Microbial Signature Approach to Identify Fecal Pollution in the Waters Off an Urbanized Coast of Lake Michigan

    Ryan J. Newton;Melinda J. Bootsma;Hilary G. Morrison;Mitchell L. Sogin

  • Evaluation of Sampling, Analysis, and Normalization Methods for SARS-CoV-2 Concentrations in Wastewater to Assess COVID-19 Burdens in Wisconsin Communities

    Shuchen Feng;Adelaide Roguet;Jill S. McClary-Gutierrez;Ryan J. Newton

  • Acinetobacter, Aeromonas and Trichococcus populations dominate the microbial community within urban sewer infrastructure

    J. L. VandeWalle;G. W. Goetz;S. M. Huse;H. G. Morrison

  • Genetic characterization of Escherichia coli populations from host sources of fecal pollution by using DNA fingerprinting.

    Sandra L. McLellan;Annette D. Daniels;Alissa K. Salmore

  • Comparison of the Microbial Community Structures of Untreated Wastewaters from Different Geographic Locales

    Orin C. Shanks;Ryan J. Newton;Catherine A. Kelty;Susan M. Huse;Susan M. Huse

  • Discovering new indicators of fecal pollution

    Sandra L. McLellan;A. Murat Eren

  • A single genus in the gut microbiome reflects host preference and specificity

    A Murat Eren;Mitchell L Sogin;Hilary G Morrison;Joseph H Vineis

  • Genetic diversity of Escherichia coli isolated from urban rivers and beach water.

    Sandra L. McLellan

  • The potential for beach sand to serve as a reservoir for Escherichia coli and the physical influences on cell die-off

    L.J. Beversdorf;S.M. Bornstein-Forst;S.L. McLellan

  • Distribution and Fate of Escherichia coli in Lake Michigan Following Contamination with Urban Stormwater and Combined Sewer Overflows

    Sandra L. McLellan;Erika J. Hollis;Morgan M. Depas;Meredith Van Dyke

  • High levels of sewage contamination released from urban areas after storm events: A quantitative survey with sewage specific bacterial indicators

    Hayley T. Olds;Hayley T. Olds;Steven R. Corsi;Deborah K. Dila;Katherine M. Halmo

  • Detection of genetic markers of fecal indicator bacteria in Lake Michigan and determination of their relationship to Escherichia coli densities using standard microbiological methods.

    Patricia A. Bower;Caitlin O. Scopel;Erika T. Jensen;Morgan M. Depas

Frequent Co-Authors

Mitchell L. Sogin
Mitchell L. Sogin Marine Biological Laboratory
A. Murat Eren
A. Murat Eren Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Susan M. Huse
Susan M. Huse Brown University
Orin C. Shanks
Orin C. Shanks Environmental Protection Agency
Hilary G. Morrison
Hilary G. Morrison Marine Biological Laboratory
Kyle Bibby
Kyle Bibby University of Notre Dame
Alexandria B. Boehm
Alexandria B. Boehm Stanford University
Rachel T. Noble
Rachel T. Noble University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Warish Ahmed
Warish Ahmed Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Stefan Wuertz
Stefan Wuertz Nanyang Technological University

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