CURRICULUM VITAE Jianyong Wu (August 10, 2011) - Carolina ...

Education:
CURRICULUM VITAE
Jianyong Wu
Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, Room 2026, GA, USA, 30322.
Email: jianyong.wu@emory.edu, w_jianyong@hotmail.com; Tel: 404-712-6841
(August 10, 2011)
2011 Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Research Interests:
Water quality and waterborne diseases
Environmental health microbiology
GIS and spatial epidemiology
Data management and Bayesian statistics
Research Skills
1. Computer skills
GIS and spatial analysis: ArcGIS, Geoda, SatScan
Statistics: SAS, R, SPSS, WinBUGS
Office: Word, Excel, Powerpoint
2. Laboratory skills
Microbiology: Microscopy, media culture, cell culture, PCR, qPCR etc.
Toxicology: Ames test, Comet assay, Micronucleus test, mouse bioassay
Analytic chemistry: GC, HPLC, GC-MS
Sample preparation: chemical and pathogens concentration and purification
Awards
2002, Di’Ao Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Academic Activities
Journal Reader Panel: Nature
Journal reviewer: Bulletin of World Health Organization
Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Pollution

Ecological Engineering, Journal of Environmental Quality
Marine pollution Bulletin, PLOS One, Science of the Total Environment
Member, American society of Microbiology, 2009
Member, Global Health Council, 2008
Work Experience:
Jul 2011-Present: Research staff, Emory University
Aug 2007-May 2011: Research and teaching assistant, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sep 2005- Jul 2007: Research assistant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jul 2002- Aug 2005: Employed full-time in East China Sea Environmental Monitoring Center, State
Oceanic Administration, China
Teach experience:
Jan-May, 2011: Teaching Assistant for the course ‘Environmental Health 600’, Department of
Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Peer-reviewed publications (* Corresponding author)
Paper under review
1. Wu J. van Geen A, Ahmed KM, Akita Y, Alam MJ, Culligan PJ, Escamilla V, Feighery J, Ferguson
AS, Knappett P, Mailloux BJ, McKay LD, Serre ML, Streatfield PK, Yunus M, Emch M. Increase of
diarrheal disease associated with arsenic mitigation in Bangladesh. (under review).
2. Wu J, Yunus M, Streatfield PK, van Geen A, Escamilla V, Akita Y, Serre M, Emch M. Impact of
tubewell access and depth on childhood diarrhea in Matlab, Bangladesh. (under review).
Paper published or in press
1. Wu J, Long SC, Des D, Dorner SM. (2011). Are microbial indicators and pathogens correlated? A
statistical analysis of 40 years of research. Journal of Water and Health 9(2):265-278.
2. Wu J*, Rodriguez RA, Stewart JR, Sobsey MD. (2011). A simple and novel method for recovering
adenovirus 41 in small volumes of source water. Journal of Applied Microbiology 110:1332-1340.
3. van Geen A, Ahmed KM, Akita Y, Alam MJ, Culligan PJ, Feighery J, Ferguson AS, Michael Emch M,
Escamilla V, Knappett P, Layton AC, Mailloux BJ, McKay LD, Mey JL, Serre ML, Streatfield PK, Wu J,
and Yunus M. (2011). Fecal contamination of shallow tubewells in Bangladesh inversely related to
arsenic. Environmental Science and Technology 45(4):1199-1205.

4. Wu J*, Rees P, Dorner S. (2011). Variability of E. coli density and sources in an urban watershed.
Journal of Water and Health 9(1):94-106.
5. Wu J, Rees P, Storrer S, Alderisio K, Dorner S. (2009) Fate and transport modeling of potential
pathogens: the contribution from sediments. Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
45(1):35-44.
6. Wang J, Wu J*. (2009). Occurrence and potential risks of harmful algal blooms in the East China Sea.
Science of the Total Environment. 407(13): 4012-4021.
7. Wu J*, Wang J. (2008). Impacts of pollution from different sources on ecological quality of a
multiple-use coast. Water, Soil and Air Pollution. 193(1-4):25-35.
8. Huang H, Wu JY, Wu JH. (2007). Heavy metal monitoring using bivalved shellfish from Zhejiang
coastal waters, East China Sea. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 129(1-3): 320-325.
9. Wu JY*, Xu QJ, Gao G and Shen JH.(2006). Evaluating genotoxicity associated with microcystin-LR
and its risks on source water safety in Meiliang Bay, Taihu Lake. Environmental Toxicology. 21(3):250-
255.
10. Wu JY*. (2005). Assessing surface water quality of the Yangtze Estuary with genotoxicity data.
Marine Pollution Bulletin. 50 (12):1661-1667.
11. Wu JY*, Zheng L and Wang JH (2005). Contamination of shellfish from Shanghai seafood markets
with paralytic shellfish poisoning and diarrheic shellfish poisoning toxins determined by mouse bioassay
and HPLC. Food Additives and Contaminants. 22(7): 647–651.
12. Shen L, Wu JY, Lin GF, Shen JH, Westendorf J. and Hühnerfuss H (2003). The mutagenic potentials
of tap water samples in Shanghai. Chemosphere 52(9):1641-1646.
Peer-Reviewed report
1. Brown J, Outlaw T, Clasen T, Wu J, and Sobsey M. (2009). Safe Water for All: Harnessing the Private
Sector to Reach the Underserved. Washington, D.C.: International Finance Corporation/World Bank.
Oral and Poster presentations
1. Wu J. Diarrheal diseases and arsenic poisoning: The challenge of accessing safe drinking water in rural
Bangladesh. Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, October 27, 2010 (In-house seminar).
2. van Geen A, Ahmed KM, Akita Y, Alam MJ, Culligan P, Feighery J, Ferguson AS, Emch M.,
Escamilla V, Knappett P, Layton A, Mailloux B, McKay LD, Mey JL, Serre ML, Streatfield PK, Wu J,
Yunus M. Could arsenic mitigation lead to increased diarrheal disease in Bangladesh? 2010 AUG Fall
meeting, Dec 13-17, San Francisco, CA, USA (Oral).
3. Wu J*, Rodriguez R, Stewart J, Simmons O, Sobsey M. Concentrating Adenovirus 41 in Drinking
Water using Electronegative Membrane Filtration and Hollow Fiber Utrafiltration. American Society for
Microbiology 110th general meeting, San Diego, CA. May 23-27, 2010 (Poster).

4. Emch M, Escamillo V, Akita Y, Wu J, van Geen A. Fecal Contamination in Tubewell Water of
Matlab, Bangladesh: Sources and Health Impact on Diarrheal Disease: Water and Health: Where Science
Meets Policy. Chapel Hill, NC, USA, October 23-26, 2010 (Oral).
5. A. van Geen, P.J. Culligan, J. Feighery, A.S. Ferguson, M. Emch, V. Escamillo, J. Wu, A.C. Layton,
B.J. Mailloux, L.D. McKay, P. Knappett, .M.L. Serre, Y. Akita D , P.K. Streatfield, M. Yunus, K.M.
Ahmed, M.R. Huq, M.J. Alam, 2010. Fecal contamination in tubewell water of Bangladesh: Part I -
Spatial and temporal patterns, Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Atlantic City, NJ, USA,
March 22 – 25, 2010 (Oral).
6. Dorner S, Wu J, Long S. Four decades of research: are indicators and pathogens correlated? 15 th
International Symposium of the health-related water microbiology. Naxos, Greece, May 31-June 5, 2009
(Poster).
7. Dorner SM, Alderisio KA, Wu J, Long SC, Rees PL. Integrating Microbial Source Tracking and
Hydrology to Better Anticipate Microbial Loading to Source Waters. AWWA Source Water Protection
Symposium. Savannah, Georgia, January 28-30, 2007 (Oral).
8. Wu J, Rees P, Dorner S. Sources and Transport of E. coli in the Blackstone River watershed during
wet weather events. MA water Resources Research Conference, Amherst, MA, 2007, April 9 (Poster).
9. Dorner S, Wu J, Rees P. Fate and Transport Modeling of Potential Pathogens: The Contribution from
Sediments -2007 AWRA summer specialty conference: Emerging Contaminants of Concern in the
Environment: Issues, Investigations, and Solutions. Vail, CO, June 25-27, 2007 (Oral).
10. Wu JY, Lin GF, Shen L, Gao G and Shen JH. (2005). Genotoxic Potential of Sediments from Taihu
Lake, China. International Symposium on the Eutrophication Process and Control in Large Shallow Lake.
Nanjing, China, April 23-26 (Poster).