Nanami Kubota

  • 4th Year GS

Why did you choose the University of Pittsburgh?

I chose the University of Pittsburgh because the program had labs that fit my research interests, but more importantly, both faculty and students were friendly and welcoming.

Education & Training

  • BA in Biology, City University of New York Queens College, 2020

Research Interests

Microbial evolution; bacteriophage; bacteriology; population biology; ecology

Publications

Smyth, D. S., Trujillo, M., Gregory, D. A., Cheung, K., Gao, A., Graham, M., Guan, Y., Guldenpfennig, C., Hoxie, I., Kannoly, S., Kubota, N., Lyddon, T. D., Markman, M., Rushford, C., San, K. M., Sompanya, G., Spagnolo, F., Suarez, R., Teixeiro, E., … Dennehy, J. J. (2022). Tracking cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages detected in NYC wastewater. Nature Communications, 13(1), 635. 

Trujillo, M., Cheung, K., Gao, A., Hoxie, I., Kannoly, S., Kubota, N., San, K. M., Smyth, D. S., & Dennehy, J. J. (2021). Protocol for safe, affordable, and reproducible isolation and quantitation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from wastewater. PLOS ONE, 16(9), e0257454. 

Smyth, D. S., Trujillo, M., Cheung, K., Gao, A., Hoxie, I., Kannoly, S., Kubota, N., Markman, M., San, K. M., Sompanya, G., & Dennehy, J. J. (2021). Detection of Mutations Associated with Variants of Concern Via High Throughput Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 Isolated from NYC Wastewater. MedRxiv, 2021.03.21.21253978.