Sarah+Haig

= = I am a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the [|University of Michigan], joining the groups of [|Lutgarde Raskin] and [|John LiPuma] in October 2014. I have just been awarded a Microbiology of the Built Environment fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to [|link the drinking water microbiome to human health].   = Contact Details = 219 EWRE University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109 E-mail: sjhaig@umich.edu Twitter: @SarahJaneHaig Webpage: [] = Ph.D. Research = I completed my PhD: [|"Characterising the Functional Microbial Ecology of Slow Sand Filters Through Environmental Genomics"] in September 2014 in the [|Infrastructure and Environment Research Group] at the University of Glasgow, working under the supervision of [|Christopher Quince], [|Robert Davies], and [|Gavin Collins]. I was funded by the [|Lord Kelvin Adam Smith scholarship scheme.]  My research aimed to determine the functional microbial ecology of slow sand filters (SSFs) by carrying out both field sampling (at an industrial SSF site) and laboratory experimentation (creation of lab-scale SSFs). In order to answer these complex questions I used a combination of multivariate statistics, traditional microbiological techniques alongside next-generation amplicon sequencing (454 and Illumina), metagenomics and DNA-SIP.   

