Faculty Profile
Yaqi You

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Assistant Professor

Department of Environmental Resources Engineering
421 Baker Lab

[email protected]
315-470-6765

Education

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Environmental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Environmental Microbiome Research Lab

Lab Website: http://environresearch.net/

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@yaqiyou

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Research

Emerging contaminants have profound impacts on microbial communities, the heart of many ecosystems. My research goal is to understand responses of microbial communities to emerging contaminants in both natural and engineered systems, and to translate this knowledge to innovative solutions for resource recovery and reuse, ecosystem sustainability, and public health improvement.

Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology
Antibiotic Resistome and Mobilome
Environmental Health and Pathogen Exposure
Sustainable Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Sustainable Nanotechnology

Selected Honors and Awards

Chancellor's Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship, State University of New York (2025)
New Investigator Award, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (2025)
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2024)
Emerging Investigator, Environmental Science: Nano (Royal Society of Chemistry) (2023)
Faculty Fellow, Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (2022)
Chancellor's Early Career Scholar, State University of New York Empire Innovation Program (2021)
Best Paper, Environmental Science: Nano (2018)
Outstanding Student Poster, American Society for Microbiology General Meeting (2013)

Selected Awards Received by Graduate Students

2025	Zihan Zhong (PhD student)	SUNY ESF College Foundation Scholarship
2024	Amina Mughal (PhD student)	NYS Center of Excellence in Healthy Water Solutions Summer Fellowship
2024	Hanyue Yang (PhD student)	SUNY ESF Alumni Association Grant
2024	Hanyue Yang (PhD student)	American Chemical Society (ACS) Graduate Student Awardee in Environmental Chemistry
2023	Maryam Saffari Aman (PhD student)	Compost Research & Education Foundation University Scholarship
2023	Mohamad Hashemi (MS student)	SUNY ESF O’Brien & Gere Scholarship
2023	Amina Mughal (PhD student)	Great Lakes Research Consortium Small Grant
2023	Hanyue Yang (PhD student)	Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Travel Grant
2023	Mohamad Hashemi (MS student)	NYS Graduate Student Employee Union (GSEU) Professional Development Award
2023	Mohamad Hashemi (MS student)	SUNY ESF Graduate Student Association (GSA) Research Grant
2023	Amina Mughal (PhD student)	SUNY ESF Alumni Memorial Scholarship
2023	Amina Mughal (PhD student)	Edna Bailey Sussman Fund Graduate Fellowship (with Merit Award)
2022	Hanyue Yang (PhD student)	SUNY ESF O’Brien & Gere Scholarship
2022	Hanyue Yang (PhD student)	SUNY ESF Alumni Association Grant
2021	Patricia Kerner (MS student)	Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Congress Attendance Grant
2020	Patricia Kerner (MS student)	Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) Diversity Travel Award

Teaching

	ERE 797	Seminar: Research Methods in Environ. Resources Eng.
	MAT 598	Statistics Seminar (Guest Lecture)
	ERE 620	Systems Microbiology and Biotechnology
	ERE 596	Emerging Contaminants
	ERE 580/ERE 480	Fate and Transport of Contaminants
	ERE 335	Numerical & Computing Methods
	ERE 132	Introduction to Environ. Resources Eng. (Guest Lecture)
	BTC 132	Biotechnology Orientation (Guest Lecture)

	Research Credits	ESF 499 Honors Program
		ERE 498 Research Problem in Environ. Resources Eng.
		ENS 420 Internship in Environmental Science
		BTC 498 Research Problems in Biotechnology
		BIO 460 Research in Biology