The WBEready project with the Institute for Urban Public Health, the University Hospital Frankfurt, RWTH Aaachen, EGLV and FiW aims to broaden the use of wastewater based methods for public health purposes as well as improving said methods.

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Project aims

WBE-Catalogue

We will work with clinicians and public health authorities to establish a catalogue of viruses and bacteria to monitor.

WBE-Tool Box

We will establish a set of in-vitro and in-silico tools for monitoring the organisms in the catalogue in Wastewater using a both PCR and DNA sequencing based approaches. We will design novel primers for both application types.

WBE Communications

Establish data exchange and communications tools with the public health authorities.

Lab work

Working with our colleagues in the Institute for Urban Public Health we will also attempt to include sampling sites inside the sewer system.

Funding

Funded by the German Ministry for Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit, BMG).

funded by BMG

We apply a number of in-vitro techniques (qPCR, genomics) and computational as well as modeling approaches to work towards an early warning system for pathogens beyond SARS-CoV-2. The pathogens include Viruses and Bacteria, for Bacteria we aim at antibiotic resistance genes.

Team

PI: Prof. Dr. Folker Meyer Co-PI: PD. Dr. Dr. Ricarda Schmithausen Co-PI: Dr. Ivana Kraiselburd



Sampling site inside the Essen sewer system.
Sampling site inside the Essen sewer system
Data Science | Data Science for Sepsis