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Tracking viruses in Houston schools: Wastewater surveillance helps protect kids’ health

Disease surveillance didn’t stop after COVID-19 — it expanded. Houston’s wastewater monitoring now covers more sites, more pathogens, and school-specific alerts.

Stadler Lab at the 2025 Rice Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium

The Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (OURI) at Rice University hosts the Rice Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium each year to highlight the research and creative work of undergraduate students from Rice and beyond!

Wastewater surveillance workshop focuses on pathogen target selection, ethics, and data visualization

The workshop was held August 5 and 6, 2025, at Rice’s new Ralph S. O'Connor Building for Engineering and Science.

Our recent publication: Controlling the Taxonomic Composition of Biological Information Storage in 16S rRNA

We’re excited to share that Kiara Reyes Gamas, Ph.D. and collaborators have a new article in ACS Synthetic Biology presenting Ribodesigner, a program that designs catalytic RNAs (cat-RNAs) to barcode ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) in specific microbes.