Congratulations to Chichedo Duru!
She has been the recipient of the 2025 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA).
https://esa.org/blog/2025/03/06/esa-2025-graduate-student-policy-award-cohort-named/
Presentations
Tamunobelema, Solomon, Samendra Sherchan (2025) “Wastewater surveillance of fungus, allergens and asthma biomarkers in Baltimore, Western Society of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (WSAAI), 62nd Annual Session, Big Island. Feb 9-13, 2025.
Chichedo Duru, Samendra Sherchan (2025) “Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (pfas) in drinking water systems in Maryland, SOT Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 17-20 2025
Tamunobelema, Solomon, Samendra Sherchan (2025). Wastewater Surveillance of Foodborne Pathogens in Baltimore. RCMI Consortium National Conference, March 16-19, 2025 · Hyatt Regency Bethesda · Bethesda, MD
Chichedo Duru, Samendra Sherchan (2025) Microbial Contamination in the Gunpowder River Watershed,RCMI Consortium National Conference, March 16-19, 2025 · Hyatt Regency Bethesda · Bethesda, MD
Saheed Idris, Samendra Sherchan (2025) Enhanced HF183 qPCRAssay for Human Fecal Contamination in Baltimore, RCMI Consortium National Conference, March 16-19, 2025 · Hyatt Regency Bethesda · Bethesda, MD
Rakshya Baral, Samendra Sherchan (2025) Hepatitis C virus RNA decay dynamics and persistence in wastewater, RCMI Consortium National Conference, March 16-19, 2025 · Hyatt Regency Bethesda · Bethesda, MD
Tania Moharrery, Samendra Sherchan (2025) Seasonal Fluctuations of HIV RNA concentration in Maryland Wastewater, RCMI Consortium National Conference, March 16-19, 2025 · Hyatt Regency Bethesda · Bethesda, MD
Daniel Nwaubani, Samendra Sherchan (2025) Wastewater surveillance of Candida auris in baltimore RCMI Consortium National Conference, March 16-19, 2025 · Hyatt Regency Bethesda · Bethesda, MD
Monica Uwaga, Samendra Sherchan (2025) Wastewater surveillance of JC Polyomavirus in Baltimore, RCMI Consortium National Conference, March 16-19, 2025 · Hyatt Regency Bethesda · Bethesda, MD
Ocean Thakali, Samendra Sherchan (2025) Wastewater surveillance for addressing health disparities, RCMI Consortium National Conference, March 16-19, 2025 · Hyatt Regency Bethesda · Bethesda, MD
Samendra Sherchan, (2025) Wastewater surveillance for emerging pathogens, 14th IWA International Conference on Water Reclamation and Reuse, 16-20 March, 2025, Capetown, South Africa
Poster Presentation, “Detection of Mpox Human Virus in Wastewater in Baltimore,” Morgan State University, Spring into Research Week II, April 17-21, 2023.
Oral Presentation, “Detection of Mpox Human Virus in Wastewater in Baltimore” at The ASM Microbe 2023 Conference, June 15-19, 2023.
Poster Presentation, “Detection of Mpox Human Virus in Wastewater in Baltimore” at the Microbes in Wastewater Symposium, January 18-19, 2024.
Poster Presentation, “Time Series Analysis of Sars-CoV-2 in Baltimore Wastewater Samples” at the ASM Microbe 2024, Atlanta, Georgia, June 15-19, 2024
Oral Presentation, “Evaluation of recovery efficiency of selected wastewater surveillance processes on Bovine coronavirus (BCoV)” at the Online weekly seminar organized by the RCMI Center for Urban Health Disparities Research and Innovation (CUHDRI) at Morgan State University, October 16th, 2024.
-Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland; G.R.I.N.D. Conference/Spring into Research 2024 and ACS Fall 2024 : Norovirus trends and seasonality in Baltimore wastewater: Year-long insight
- Star global conference 2023: Transformative education for an interconnected and equitable world (9 and 10 October 2023): Detection of blaKPC gene from carbapenemase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae from different clinical specimens at tertiary care hospital in Nepal.