Nanami Kubota
- PMI Graduate Student
Why did you choose the University of Pittsburgh?
I chose the University of Pittsburgh because of its growing appreciation for evolutionary biology research and its application in medicine, as evidenced by its formation of the Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine (CEBaM). There are also many research labs that work with bacteria and/or phages with experts who are enthusiastic about mentoring students.
Education & Training
- BA in Biology, City University of New York Macaulay Honors College at Queens College, 2020
Research Interests
Microbial evolution; bacteriophage; bacteriology; population biology; ecology; evolutionary game theory
Publications
Smyth DS, Trujillo M, Gregory DA, Cheung K, Gao A, Graham M, Guan Y, Guldenpfennig C, Hoxie I, Kannoly S, Kubota N, Lyddon TD, Markman M, Rushford C, San KM, Sompanya G, Spagnolo F, Suarez R, Teixeiro E, … Dennehy JJ. (2022). Tracking cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages detected in NYC wastewater. Nature Communications, 13(1), 635.
Trujillo M, Cheung K, Gao A, Hoxie I, Kannoly S, Kubota N, San KM, Smyth DS and Dennehy JJ. (2021). Protocol for safe, affordable, and reproducible isolation and quantitation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from wastewater. PLOS ONE, 16(9), e0257454.