in pure culture on agarose
covered slides.
poster session.
Cassidy Schneider is a Bioenvironmental Engineer who began working with Dr. Donna E Fennell as a freshman in a Douglass Project program called Project SUPER.
Her first project was researching dechlorination of polychlorinated organohalides by anaerobic microbes in Passaic River sediments. She continued to work in Dr. Fennell's lab, receiving the STEM Summer Stipend in 2015 and 2016 and helping present their research at two conferences. In the summer of 2016, Cassidy received travel grants from the Douglass Project to work with Dr. Ute Lechner in Halle, Germany, attempting to find more effective ways to cultivate Dehalococcoides in pure culture.
Cassidy applied what she learned with Dr. Lechner to her work in Dr. Fennell's lab, trying to discover ways of cultivating bacteria capable of dechlorinating the infamous 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. She presented part of this research project in the 2017 Battelle Remediation Symposium as a platform presentation, and also incorporated this project into her J.J. Slade Senior Honors Thesis.
Cassidy graduated May of 2018 and is currently working towards a M.S. in Environmental Engineering at Rutgers with Dr. Miskewitz.
