Irene Xagoraraki, Ph. D. | Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering | College of Engineering

Welcome to Environmental Virology Laboratory where we love working on water quality and public health issues. Check out some of our recent work in the links below.

Protecting People Through Wastewater Evaluation: Irene Xagoraraki gets another $2.7 Million Grant to Advance Work (June 2021)

Video: Introduction with Dr. Xagoraraki, Brijen Mijani, and Liang Zhao (September 2020)

Video: DWSD Expands Virus Detection Partnership with MSU to Combat COVID-19 (January 2021)

BBC CrowdScience podcast (April 2021)

Detroit Free Press: Flushing out COVID-19: EGLE awards $10M in grants to detect virus in wastewater (November 2020)

City of Detroit, GLWA and MSU Expand Partnership on Virus Detection Project During the Pandemic (December 2020)

City of Detroit, GLWA and Michigan State University partner on virus detection project using the sewer system to help predict outbreaks (May 2020)

MSU College of Engineering: Virus research at MSU (September 2020)

MSU Today: Wastewater may help predict the next COVID-19 outbreak (May 2020)

NY Times: Is It Safe to Come Out of Lockdown? Check the Sewer
(May 2020)