A review of current standards and best practices for wastewater-based epidemiology, COVID-19 detection, and the future applications of wastewater based epidemiology. Join Dr. Mats Leifels as he discusses his experience with SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in Singapore, along with past and future applications for wastewater testing.
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After a PhD in Environmental Virology from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, Mats Leifels spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow at the School of Public Health, University of Alberta in Edmonton (Canada) and the Water Institute at the Gilling’s School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (NC) before settling in at the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Here, he works on the assessment of microbial community dynamics in drinking water distribution systems and is involved in the establishment, validation, and operation of the SCELSE’s contribution to Singapore’s national SARS-CoV-2 wastewater-based surveillance efforts.
Mats Leifels is also Associated Editor for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at Elsevier’s International Journal for Hygiene and Environmental Health and active in the IWA specialist group “Health-related Water Microbiology
Frank Bizouarn joined Bio-Rad in 2000 to support quantitative PCR (qPCR) technology as a Field Applications Specialist (FAS) in the southeast United States. In 2006, he moved into the role of International FAS for Bio-Rad’s global Gene Expression Division to promote best practices in qPCR around the world. In 2011, Frank began working on droplet digital PCR applications (ddPCR) and joined the Digital Biology group. Currently, he is focused on supporting and promoting quantitation, detection, and sample discrimination applications that take advantage of the high resolution and sensitivity provided by the power of droplet partitioning.
