Faculty Profile
Yaqi You

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Assistant Professor

Department of Environmental Resources Engineering
421 Baker Lab

yyou@esf.edu

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/

Google Scholar

ResearchGate

@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

New Investigator Award, DOE Joint Genome Institute (2025)
NSF CAREER Award (2024)
Emerging Investigator, Environmental Science: Nano (2023)
Faculty Fellow, Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (2022)
Chancellor's Early Career Scholar, SUNY 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

2024	Amina Mughal (PhD student)	NYS Center of Excellence in Healthy Water Solutions Summer Fellowship
2024	Hanyue Yang (PhD student)	ESF Alumni Association Grant
2024	Hanyue Yang (PhD student)	ACS Graduate Student Awardee in Environmental Chemistry
2023	Mohamad Hashemi (MS student)	ESF O’Brien & Gere Scholarship
2023	Amina Mughal (PhD student)	Great Lakes Research Consortium Small Grant
2023	Hanyue Yang (PhD student)	AEESP Travel Grant
2023	Mohamad Hashemi (MS student)	NYS GSEU Professional Development Award
2023	Mohamad Hashemi (MS student)	ESF GSA Research Grant
2023	Amina Mughal (PhD student)	ESF Alumni Memorial Scholarship
2023	Amina Mughal (PhD student)	Edna Bailey Sussman Fellowship (with Merit Award)
2022	Hanyue Yang (PhD student)	ESF O’Brien & Gere Scholarship
2022	Hanyue Yang (PhD student)	ESF Alumni Association Grant
2021	Patricia Kerner (MS student)	FEMS Congress Attendance Grant
2020	Patricia Kerner (MS student)	SIMB Diversity Travel Award

Teaching

	ERE 797	Research Methods in Environ. Resources Eng.
	ERE 620	Systems Microbiology and Biotechnology
	ERE 596	Emerging Contaminants
	ERE 580 / ERE 480	Fate and Transport of Contaminants
	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