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About Soil-Seq
About Soil-Seq
The Soil-Seq bioinformatics module was developed by the Pickering Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. The predecessor to this module, PARE-Seq, was developed at Tufts University.
Our team
Our team
Hannah Wharton
Hannah Wharton
PhD Candidate, Civil & Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Hannah received her BS in Civil Engineering and MS in Environmental Engineering from UMass Amherst, where she evaluated fate and transport of E. coli in intermittent water supply. Her current work has focused on developing the Soil-Seq module, implementing it in classrooms around the Bay Area. She is interested in environmental surveillance for antibiotic resistance, investigating pathogen transmission in low-income settings and the impacts of WASH interventions on transmission pathways, as well as STEM education.
Amy Pickering, PhD
Amy Pickering, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
Dr. Pickering is the Blum Center Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice jointly appointed in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Dr. Pickering received her B.S. from Cornell University, M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She has also held positions as a senior fellow and research engineer at Stanford University, an environmental engineer at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Fulbright Fellow in Malaysia. She is a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator and winner of the NSF early CAREER Award.
Crystal Ong
Crystal Ong
Undergraduate, Molecular & Cell Biology, Public Health, UC Berkeley
Crystal is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, double majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology (Cell and Developmental Physiology) and Public Health. She is passionate about learning and teaching science, as well as addressing medical and community health inequities. Other organizations she is involved in on campus include being an educational director for the Telehealth DeCal, volunteering with the Kidney Disease Screening & Awareness Program, and leading the Asian Community Health organization. Beyond academia, she enjoys skiing in Tahoe, attending concerts with friends, and exploring different cafes around Berkeley!
Lily Strange
Lily Strange
Undergraduate, Microbiology & Earth Science, Climate and Environment, UC Santa Barbara
Lily is third-year at UC Santa Barbara and a visiting undergraduate in the Pickering lab through UC Berkeley's STEER Environmental Health Sciences internship. She assisted in classroom implementations of Soil-Seq, lab work, and designed the Soil-Seq website. At UCSB, Lily is involved in wildfire and health equity research, genomics research, club leadership, curation of natural history collections, and student government.
Lana Makarem
Lana Makarem
Undergraduate, Public Health, UC Berkeley
Lana is a second-year undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley studying public health. She is passionate about using STEM education as a way to connect with youth and foster passion for learning and discovery. She also strives to understand and address health inequities through all facets of her personal and professional journey. On campus, she is a volunteer EMT with the Berkeley Medical Reserve Corps and the K-12 director for the Middle Eastern North African Recruitment and Retention Center. Off campus, she enjoys her job as an EMT in Oakland and San Francisco as well as going camping and exploring new places with friends!
Adinath Lane
Adinath Lane
Undergraduate, Molecular & Cell Biology, Public Health, UC Berkeley
Adinath is a third-year undergraduate whose interests in the Pickering Lab focus on methods to foster STEM affinity among students. He loves to teach and is especially interested in the relationship between educational support systems and local health outcomes. He is also passionate about exploring the intersection of immunology and public health policy in addressing intercommunity disparities. Outside of the Pickering Lab, he enjoys volunteering at local schools with the Sage Mentorship Project and Fighting Cancer at Berkeley, organizing and competing in debate conferences with the UC Berkeley Model United Nations team, and swimming at the local YMCA!
Our sponser
Our sponser
Soil-Seq is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) award #2143622
For inquiries about becoming a sponsor, please contact us at soilsequencing@gmail.com
Our partner institutions
Our partner institutions
University of California, Berkeley
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