Dr. Rebecca Reiss is the lead author of a new study of microbes at superfund sites in New Mexico, identifying a microbiome that is deteriorating the hazardous materials at these sites.

Read the Joint Genome Institute article here.

Read the full article published in PLOS (Public Library of Science).

Whole metagenome sequencing and 16S rRNA gene amplicon analyses reveal the complex microbiome responsible for the success of enhanced in-situ reductive dechlorination (ERD) of a tetrachloroethene-contaminated Superfund site

by Rebecca A. Reiss, Peter A. Guerra, Oleg Makhnin, Matthew Kellom