Maitreyee Mukherjee

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Assistant Professor

Biology

401H Mark Jefferson

[email protected]

Education

PhD: Environmental Microbiology, Bowling Green State University

Postdoc - University of Chicago – 2013-15

Postdoc - Texas A&M University, College Station – 2015-18

Interests and Expertise

Research area –

Environmental microbiology, microbial water quality, microbial source tracking, antimicrobial and multidrug resistance.

Courses

Teaching –

Bacterial Pathogenesis, Microbial Ecology, Microbiology for the Health Professional, General Microbiology and labs, Applied Microbiology and labs, Environmental Microbiology, Introductory Biology and Labs, Tiny Earth Labs, Immunology.

Publications and Presentations

(* indicates graduate student ; § indicates undergraduate students)

  1. Mukherjee, M., Hossain, M.H., Boswell, J., Allen, M., Zhang, Y., Allen, M., LaMontagne, M.G., and Gentry, T.J. 2024. Large, but short-term, increase in fecal indicator bacteria following extreme flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston, TX. Front. Water 6, 1466377.
  2. Mukherjee M., Cuthbert, R*., Aitken, A., Gay, K.§, McKinney, K.§, and John P. Brooks. Revealing an abundance of microbial fecal contamination and multidrug resistant bacteria in the Mississippi Gulf Coast. 2023. Water. 15: 2339.
  1. Mukherjee, M.,Laird, E., Gentry, T.J., Brooks, J.P., and Karthikeyan, R.  Increased Antimicrobial and Multidrug Resistance Downstream of Wastewater Treatment Plants in an Urban Watershed. 2021. Microbiol. 12:657353.
  1. Mukherjee, M., Marie, L, Liles, C.§, Mustafa, N.§, Bullerjahn, G., Gentry, T.J., Brooks, J.P. Elevated Incidences of Antimicrobial Resistance and Multidrug Resistance in the Maumee River (Ohio, USA), a Major Tributary of Lake Erie. Microorganisms. 2021; 9(5):911.
  2. Mukherjee, M.; Gentry, T.; Mjelde, H.; Brooks, J.P.; Harmel, D.; Gregory, L.; Wagner, K. Escherichia coliAntimicrobial resistance variability in water runoff and soil from a remnant native prairie, an improved pasture, and a cultivated agricultural watershed. Water 2020, 12(5), 1251. *Editor’s choice article

  3. Iqbal, A., Mukherjee, M., Rashid, J., Khan, S.A., Ali, M.A., and Arshad, M. Development of a plant-microbe phytoremediation system for petroleum hydrocarbon degradation: An insight from alkBgene expression and phytotoxicity analysis. 2019. Science of the Total Environment 671: 696-704.
  1. Gregory, L., Gentry, T.J., Mukherjee, M., Rodriguez, R.,  Casarez, E.A., and Truesdale, J.A. 2018. Texas Bacterial Source Tracking Program Application, Expansion and Marker Evaluation (FY16-17). Texas Water Research Institute TR-508. (https://twri.tamu.edu/media/1457/tr-508.pdf)
  2. Wagner, K., Gentry, T.J.,Mukherjee, M., Di Giovanni, G.D., Casarez, E.A., and Truesdale, J.A. 2016. Texas BST Program Refinement, Expansion and Use – FY15. Texas Water Research Institute TR496. (http://twri.tamu.edu/media/652925/tr-496.pdf)
  3. Mukherjee, M.,Ray, A., Post, A. F., McKay, R.M. and Bullerjahn, G.S. 2015. Identification, enumeration and diversity of nitrifying planktonic archaea and bacteria in trophic end members of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 42(1): 39-49.
  4. Small, G.E., Bullerjahn, G.S., Sterner, R.W., Beall, B., Brovold, S., Finlay, J.C., McKay, R.M.L.,Mukherjee, M. 2013. Rates and controls of nitrification in a large oligotrophic lake. Limnology and Oceanography 58 (1): 276-286.
  5. French, E., Kozlowski J.A.,Mukherjee, M., Bullerjahn, G.S., and Bollmann, A. 2012. Ecophysiological characterization of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria from freshwater. Applied and Enviromental Microbiology 78(16):5773-5780.

Grants, Honors and Awards

Butch Outstalet Distinguished Faculty for excellence in teaching from the University of Southern Mississippi, 2021

Additional Information

Dr.  Mukherjee's website