Congratulations to Stephanie on leading this new publication on wastewater microbial community functioning!

In this study, Stephanie characterized nontarget chemical features present in influent and effluent samples collected daily from a full-scale wastewater treatment plant using high-resolution mass spectrometry. She then processed the data to discover evidence of (co)metabolic processes and learned that the activity levels of the majority of those functions exhibited broad stability over a two-week period. This stability contrasts with previously observed temporal variability for micropollutant biotransformations suggesting micropollutant biotransformations are linked to specialized microbial community functions.

You can read more about this work here.