Congressman earmarks money for wastewater contamination project to improve proactive wastewater testing processes.
– A Texas A&M University-San Antonio professor is working to keep San Antonians safe with plans on how she’ll use a new grant.for community projects around San Antonio, the university said. One million of those $11 million is set to be allocated to Dr. Davida Smyth’s efforts to track harmful wastewater contaminants around the city.
“The way the surveillance ideally works is it’s predictive,” Smyth said. “It sees a pattern before there’s a problem.” One of the ways to predict is through sequencing. In this case, sequencing identifies the exact parts of molecules within a virus. “Remember when we were hearing about alpha and delta and omicron ?” Smyth said. “The way that we identified those was through sequencing. So, what I want to do is have it so that our students are doing sequencing. They are doing sequencing in classes here, so they learn how to use the sequencer.”“Having more equipment like this would benefit the lab tremendously,” TAMU-SA graduate student Blake Meche said.
Smyth and Meche are hopeful their work will detect bacteria and viruses in the water better, giving San Antonians the necessary information to stay healthy.Zaria Oates is a news reporter for KSAT 12. She joined in June 2024 from Memphis, where she worked at ABC24. Oates graduated from Clemens High School in Schertz and earned a journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma. She's passionate about learning, traveling and storytelling.
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