Pan+Ji

Pan Ji is a PhD candidate in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech advised by Dr. Amy Pruden and Dr. Marc Edwards. She earned her M.S. in Environmental Engineering (2011) at the Johns Hopkins University and B.S. in Environmental Science (2010) at the Peking University. Pan's research expertise include microbial community profiling, next-generation sequencing tools (e.g., metagenomics, Illumina 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing), quantitative polymerase chain reaction, and bioinformatics techniques. Her PhD study focuses on the effect of water chemistry, pipe material, water use frequency and potential engineering control measures on plumbing microbiota (both hot and cold water lines).

RESEARCH INTEREST Microbial ecology in the built environment and its implication on public health Engineering mitigation strategy towards a "healthy" plumbing microbiome Biofilm-water interactions