Amy Pickering
@SeqH2O
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Assoc. Prof. Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley. Co-founder, Mangrove Water, also @seqh2o.bsky.social
UC Berkeley
Joined March 2020
Congrats to Will Tarpeh on being named a 2025 @macfound Fellow! Will, who did a Development Engineering PhD at Berkeley, has developed ways of sustainably recovering and recycling resources like nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus from wastewater. https://t.co/W1nidrp9WO
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Just when you think no one will ever read your dissertation, it informs global hand hygiene policy only 15 years after being published! Check out the new WHO guidelines for hand hygiene in community settings! Plain soap or ABHS is the REC - no antimicrobials needed!
On #GlobalHandwashingDay, @WHO and @UNICEF release the first-ever global Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Community Settings to support governments and practitioners across households, public spaces and institutions. Read more: https://t.co/4azQs6vtTp
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The consequences of letting avian influenza run rampant in US poultry | Science—Cliff notes version: don’t let it run rampant, shout out to the whole team @ggronvall @andrewpekosz Erin Sorrell and Michell Kromm
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The approach proposed by a high-ranking US government official would be dangerous and unethical
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We're hiring for 2 postdocs to work in our lab in London on the newly announced Wellcome Trust SynHG project. If you know people looking to work on big-scale ambitious science like this, please RT and share this with them. Apply by 7/20, interviews in Aug. https://t.co/TOVjZ3osO5
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"a Cas9 targeted sequencing assay to selectively enrich and sequence genomic regions of interest" Context-Seq: CRISPR-Cas9 targeted nanopore sequencing for transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance https://t.co/aqfUEc7wXm
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interested in CRISPR-Cas9 targeted sequencing of resistance genes and their genomic context? check out our new paper! led by @envbio
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Nature Communications - Evidence of antimicrobial resistance exchange between humans, animals, and the environment is limited by methodological challenges. Here, the authors report the development...
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“We were interested in understanding the role of the household environment in bacterial transmission to humans,” said Prof. @SeqH2O. “And our findings showed that water is actually one of the most important transmission pathways for pathogenic and drug-resistant bacteria.”
Berkeley researchers have shown that household environment might play a larger role in the transmission of gastrointestinal bacterial infections via drinking water than previously thought.
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Out Now! Contaminated drinking water facilitates Escherichia coli strain-sharing within households in urban informal settlements https://t.co/UPMZOCxkgT
#WaterQuality #Ecoli #AntibioticResistance
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How are pathogenic and antibiotic resistant bacterial strains shared across humans, animals, and the environment? Using a new approach (PIC-seq), we find drinking water plays an important role in human strain sharing. Just published in @NatureMicrobiol!
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Nature Microbiology - Escherichia coli-contaminated stored drinking water facilitates strain-sharing between household members, suggesting water treatment can curb bacterial transmission and...
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Climate change is expected to make sub-Saharan Africa warmer and drier. In @NatureComms, @SeqH2O & co. explore how this affects the burden of collecting water—with impacts for health, hygiene, income, and gender equity: https://t.co/T7KkbhC7rO
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Nature Communications - This study reveals that rising temperatures and decreased precipitation levels increase walking time for fetching drinking water in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rural areas are most...
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Excited to piggyback off of this work and see if the TuriTap can be adapted for handpumps https://t.co/MX5uXB4g7h
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Note: This page summarizes the rationale behind a GiveWell grant to Mangrove Water. Mangrove Water staff reviewed this page prior to publication.
We’re proud to have backed Amy Pickering (@SeqH2O) and her team in developing the TuriTap: an inexpensive, low-tech water chlorination device. Read more about Pickering’s work in our latest grantee spotlight: https://t.co/eKL0eY9IYn
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We’re proud to have backed Amy Pickering (@SeqH2O) and her team in developing the TuriTap: an inexpensive, low-tech water chlorination device. Read more about Pickering’s work in our latest grantee spotlight: https://t.co/eKL0eY9IYn
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How a low-cost, no-electricity device is expanding access to clean water | Open Philanthropy
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The TuriTap, a new low-tech water chlorination device that operates without electricity, entered a crucial phase of testing in January: a randomized controlled trial across 40 health care facilities...
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For communities, most policy standards for "modern energy" are a connection to an electrical grid. But in a new paper in @NatCities, Prof. Dan Kammen and colleagues show a simple connection does not equal affordable, reliable electricity: https://t.co/GsfvJGvUk6
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Future climate change will increase the water fetching time burden in Sub-Saharan Africa - read more in our @NatureComms paper here:
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Nature Communications - This study reveals that rising temperatures and decreased precipitation levels increase walking time for fetching drinking water in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rural areas are most...
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Nope, won't save $4B given the positive externalities of NIH funding, BUT it will make college inaccessible for young Americans - tuition will increase. Faculty are already extremely efficient at research, teaching, admin/service for universities - there is no room to do more
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above
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New pre-print on infant first infections with enteric pathogens! 85% of pathogens detected in infants are also in animals living nearby, using longitudinal sampling we find child hand contact with soil contaminated with animal feces is a primary pathway!
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Enteric pathogen infections in young children can result in diarrhea, malnutrition, and developmental impairments. Many enteric pathogens that infect young children can be zoonotic, yet the exposure...
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Now published in #PLOSWater: Environmental surveillance of soil-transmitted helminths and other enteric pathogens in settings ... @SeqH2O
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Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) are one of the most prevalent enteric infections world-wide. To control STH-related morbidity, the World Health Organization recommends targeted deworming and...
📢Next in the EPISOL collaboration! 🇺🇸 🇧🇯and 🇮🇳Environmental surveillance - STH 🪱 & enteric pathogens - in places without networked wastewater - we need methods and strategies to expand surveillance outside of large urban areas @SeqH2O
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