Publications

For a complete list of publications, please see my Google Scholar.

Schill, R., Nelson, K.L., Harris-Lovett, S., Kantor, R.S., 2023. The dynamic relationship between COVID-19 cases and SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentrations across time and space: Considerations for model training data sets. Science of The Total Environment 871, 162069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162069

Kennedy, L.C., Miller, S.E., Kantor, R.S., Greenwald, H., Adelman, M., Seshan, H., Russell, P., Nelson, K.L., 2023. Stay in the loop: lessons learned about the microbial water quality in pipe loops transitioned from conventional to direct potable reuse water. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EW00858K

Miller, S., Greenwald, H., Kennedy, L.C., Kantor, R.S., Jiang, R., Pisarenko, A., Chen, E., Nelson, K.L., (2022). Microbial Water Quality through a Full-Scale Advanced Wastewater Treatment Demonstration Facility. ACS EST Eng. acsestengg.2c00198. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.2c00198

Harris-Lovett, S., Nelson, K.L., Kantor, R., Korfmacher, K.S. (2022) Wastewater Surveillance to Inform Public Health Decision Making in Residential Institutions. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001636. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000001636

Gregory, D.A., Trujillo, M., Rushford, C., Flury, A., Kannoly, S., San, K.M., Lyfoung, D.T., Wiseman, R.W., Bromert, K., Zhou, M.-Y., Kesler, E., Bivens, N.J., Hoskins, J., Lin, C.-H., O’Connor, D.H., Wieberg, C., Wenzel, J., Kantor, R.S., Dennehy, J.J., Johnson, M.C., (2022). Genetic diversity and evolutionary convergence of cryptic SARS- CoV-2 lineages detected via wastewater sequencing. PLOS Pathogens 18, e1010636. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010636

Kantor, R.S., Greenwald, H.D., Kennedy, L.C., Hinkle, A., Harris-Lovett, S., Metzger, M., Thornton, M., Paluba, J., Nelson, K.L. (2022). Operationalizing a routine wastewater monitoring laboratory for SARS-CoV-2. PLOS Water. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000007.

Greenwald, H.D., Kennedy, L.C., Hinkle, A., Whitney, O.N., Fan, V.B., Crits-Christoph, A., Harris-Lovett, S., Flamholz, A.I., Al-Shayeb, B., Liao, L.D., Beyers, M., Brown, D., Chakrabarti, A.R., Dow, J., Frost, D., Koekemoer, M., Lynch, C., Sarkar, P., White, E., Kantor, R., Nelson, K.L., 2021. Tools for interpretation of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 temporal and spatial trends demonstrated with data collected in the San Francisco Bay Area. Water Research X 12, 100111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wroa.2021.100111

Kantor, R. S., Nelson, K. L., Greenwald, H. D., & Kennedy, L. C. (2021). Challenges in Measuring the Recovery of SARS-CoV-2 from Wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(6), 3514–3519. http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c08210

Whitney, O. N., Kennedy, L. C., Fan, V. B., Hinkle, A., Kantor, R.S., Greenwald, H., et al. (2021). Sewage, Salt, Silica, and SARS-CoV-2 (4S): An Economical Kit-Free Method for Direct Capture of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from Wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology. http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c08129

Crits-Christoph, A., Kantor, R. S., Olm, M. R., Whitney, O. N., Al-Shayeb, B., Lou, Y. C., et al. (2021). Genome sequencing of sewage detects regionally prevalent SARS-CoV-2 variants. mBio, 12(1). http://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02703-20.

Kennedy, L. C., Miller, S. E., Kantor, R. S., & Nelson, K. L. (2021). Effect of disinfectant residual, pH, and temperature on microbial abundance in disinfected drinking water distribution systems. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 7(1). http://doi.org/10.1039/D0EW00809E.

Kantor, R. S., Miller, S. E., & Nelson, K. L. (2019). The Water Microbiome Through a Pilot Scale Advanced Treatment Facility for Direct Potable Reuse. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 993. http://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00993

Menu B. Leddy, Megan H. Plumlee, Rose S. Kantor, Kara L. Nelson, Scott E. Miller, Lauren C. Kennedy, Blake W. Stamps, John R. Spear, Nur A. Hasan, Rita R. Colwell. (2018). High-Throughput DNA Sequencing To Profile Microbial Water Quality Of Potable Reuse. Water Online.

Kantor, R. S., Huddy, R. J., Iyer, R., Thomas, B. C., Brown, C. T., Anantharaman, K., et al. (2017). Genome-resolved meta-omics ties microbial dynamics to process performance in biotechnology for thiocyanate degradation. Environmental Science & Technology. http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b04477

Kantor, R. S., van zyl, A. W., van Hille, R. P., Thomas, B. C., Harrison, S. T. L., & Banfield, J. F. (2015). Bioreactor microbial ecosystems for thiocyanate and cyanide degradation unravelled with genome-resolved metagenomics. Environmental Microbiology, 17(12), 4929–4941. http://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12936

Kantor, R. S., Wrighton, K. C., Handley, K. M., Sharon, I., Hug, L. A., Castelle, C. J., Thomas, B. C., & Banfield, J. F. (2013). Small genomes and sparse metabolisms of sediment-associated bacteria from four candidate phyla. mBio, 4(5), e00708–13. http://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00708-13