Megan Lott is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Georgia. As a public health microbiologist, Megan is interested in understanding the interactions between humans and microbes in their shared environments.
Megan’s current research focuses on monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic using wastewater-based surveillance. Through a partnership with the University of Georgia and Athens-Clarke County Utility, Megan monitors local wastewater samples for SARS-CoV-2 to better estimate trends in community-scale disease transmission.
Megan’s graduate training has been supported by the UGA Presidential Fellowship, the George Hugh Boyd Memorial Scholarship, the Smithsonian Link Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program through UGA’s Interdisciplinary Disease Ecology Across Scales (IDEAS) Program.
Megan’s current research focuses on monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic using wastewater-based surveillance. Through a partnership with the University of Georgia and Athens-Clarke County Utility, Megan monitors local wastewater samples for SARS-CoV-2 to better estimate trends in community-scale disease transmission.
Megan’s graduate training has been supported by the UGA Presidential Fellowship, the George Hugh Boyd Memorial Scholarship, the Smithsonian Link Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program through UGA’s Interdisciplinary Disease Ecology Across Scales (IDEAS) Program.
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Education
PhD Candidate, University of Georgia MS, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill BSPH, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Skills Project management, experimental design, R programming and data analysis, grant writing, technical writing, Next Generation Sequencing, culture and molecular assays |
