Karena Nguyen, Ph.D.
Assistant Director of Postdoctoral Services
Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Education | Georgia Institute of Technology
K.H. Nguyen, S. Smith, A. Rountree, D.J. Feistel, A. Kirby, K. Levy, M.C. Mattioli. 2022. Fecal indicators and antibiotic resistance genes exhibit diurnal trends in the Chattahoochee River: Implications for water quality monitoring. Frontiers in Microbiology 13: 1029176. Article link.
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D.J. Civitello, T. Angelo, K.H. Nguyen, R.B. Hartman, N.C. Starkloff, M.P. Mahalila, J. Charles, A. Manrique, B.K. Delius, L.M. Bradley, R.M. Nisbet, S. Kinung’hi, J.R. Rohr. 2022. Transmission potential of human schistosomes can be driven by resource competition among snail intermediate hosts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 119: e2116512119. Article link.
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K.H. Nguyen, E.C. Rynkiewicz, D.J. Civitello. 2022. Simulating parasite transmission and epidemics using contact networks. Article 13 In: Boone E and Thuecks S, eds. Advances in Biology Laboratory Education. Volume 42. Publication of the 42nd Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory.
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K.H. Nguyen†, P.H. Boersch-Supan†, R.B. Hartman, S.Y. Mendiola, V.J. Harwood, D.J. Civitello, J.R. Rohr. 2021. Interventions can shift the thermal optimum for parasitic disease transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 118: e2017537118. Article link.
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Justin T. Nguyen§, David J. Civitello, Karena H. Nguyen. 2020. Evaluating environmental drivers of disease outbreaks from seasonal trends. Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology, Vol. 16: Practice #1. Article link.
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Devin Jones, David Davila§, K.H. Nguyen, and Jason R. Rohr. 2020. Effect of agrochemical exposure on Schistosoma mansoni cercariae survival and activity. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 39: 1421-1428. Article link.
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Erin L. Sauer, Jeremy M. Cohen, Marc J. Lajeunesse, Taegan A. McMahon, David J. Civitello, Sarah A. Knutie, K.H. Nguyen, Elizabeth A. Roznik, Brittany F. Sears, Scott Bessler, Bryan K. Delius, Neal Halstead, Nicole Ortega, Matthew D. Venesky, Suzanne Young, and Jason R. Rohr. 2020. A meta-analysis reveals temperature, dose, life stage, and taxonomy influence host susceptibility to a fungal parasite. Ecology 101: e02979. PDF
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K.H. Nguyen, B.J. Gemmell, J.R. Rohr. 2020. Effects of temperature and viscosity on miracidial and cercarial movement of Schistosoma mansoni: ramifications for disease transmission. International Journal for Parasitology 50:153-159. PDF​
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Jason R. Rohr, David J. Civitello, Bryan Delius, Meggan E. Craft, Giulio DeLeo, Peter J. Hudson, Nicolas Jouanard, Karena H. Nguyen, Richard S. Ostfeld, Justin V. Remais, Gilles Riveau, Sanna Sokolow, David Tilman. 2019. Interactions between Feeding 11 Billion People and Infectious Diseases. Nature Sustainability 2:445–456. PDF
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Jeremy M. Cohen, Taegan A. McMahon, Chloe Ramsay, Elizabeth A. Roznik, Erin L. Sauer, Scott Bessler, David J. Civitello, Bryan K. Delius, Neal Halstead, Sarah A. Knutie, K.H. Nguyen, Nicole Ortega, Brittany Sears, Matthew D. Venesky, Suzanne Young, Jason R. Rohr. 2019. Impacts of thermal mismatches on disease prevalence are moderated by life stage, body size, elevation and latitude. Ecology Letters 22:817-825. PDF
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K.H. Nguyen, C. Senay, S. Young, B. Nayak, A. Lobos, J. Conrad, and V.J. Harwood. 2018. Determination of Wild Animal Sources of Fecal Indicator Bacteria by Microbial Source Tracking (MST) Influences Regulatory Decisions. Water Research 144: 424-434. PDF
E.M. Symonds, K.H. Nguyen, V.J. Harwood, M. Breitbart. 2018. Pepper mild mottle virus: A plant pathogen with a greater purpose in (waste)water treatment development and public health management. Water Research 144: 1-12. PDF
N.T. Halstead, C.M. Hoover, A. Arakala, D.J. Civitello, G.A. De Leo, M. Gambhir, S.A. Johnson, N. Jouanard, K.A. Loerns, T.A. McMahon, R.A. Ndione, K. H. Nguyen, T.R. Raffel, J.V. Remais, G. Riveau, S.H. Sokolow, and J.R. Rohr. 2018. Agrochemicals increase risk of human schistosomiasis by supporting higher densities of intermediate hosts. Nature Communications 9:837. PDF
W. Ahmed, V.J. Harwood, K. H. Nguyen, S. Young, K. Hamilton, S. Toze. 2016. Utility of Helicobacter spp. Associated GFD Markers for Detecting Avian Fecal Pollution in Environmental Waters of Two Continents. Water Research 88:613-622. PDF
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†these authors contributed equally
§denotes undergraduate author
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