David Wanless

Southern California Coastal Water Research Project — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

12h-index2.5kcitations19works4.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Fecal contamination and water quality(12), Water Treatment and Disinfection(5), Environmental Justice and Health Disparities(3), Gut microbiota and health(2), Trypanosoma species research and implications(2)

Publications19 total

Proficiency testing and cross-laboratory method comparison to support standardisation of diatom DNA metabarcoding for freshwater biomonitoring
Metabarcoding and Metagenomics·2025· 10 citedOpen Access
Addressing underestimation of waterborne disease risks due to fecal indicator bacteria bound in aggregates
Journal of Applied Microbiology·2024· 2 cited
Addressing Underestimation of Waterborne Disease Risks Due to Fecal Indicator Bacteria Bound in Aggregates
2024Open Access
RNA Viromics of Southern California Wastewater and Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Single-Nucleotide Variants
Applied and Environmental Microbiology·2021· 67 citedOpen Access
RNA viromics of Southern California wastewater and detection of SARS-CoV-2 single nucleotide variants
2021· 5 citedOpen Access
The Fellowship of the Ring Test: DNAqua-Net WG2 initiative to compare diatom metabarcoding protocols used in routine freshwater biomonitoring for standardisation
ARPHA Conference Abstracts·2021· 8 citedOpen Access
Use of Quantitative Real-Time PCR for Direct Detection of Serratia marcescens in Marine and Other Aquatic Environments
Applied and Environmental Microbiology·2013· 48 citedOpen Access
Performance evaluation of canine-associated Bacteroidales assays in a multi-laboratory comparison study
Water Research·2013· 53 cited
Multi-laboratory evaluations of the performance of Catellicoccus marimammalium PCR assays developed to target gull fecal sources
Water Research·2013· 63 cited
Controls and Improvements of Molecular Assays for Microbiological Water Testing
2012
Interlaboratory Comparison of Real-Time PCR Protocols for Quantification of General Fecal Indicator Bacteria
Environmental Science & Technology·2011· 79 cited
Daily measures of microbes and human health at a non-point source marine beach
Journal of Water and Health·2011· 51 citedOpen Access
Indicator microbes correlate with pathogenic bacteria, yeasts and helminthes in sand at a subtropical recreational beach site
Journal of Applied Microbiology·2011· 109 cited
Evaluation of Conventional and Alternative Monitoring Methods for a Recreational Marine Beach with Nonpoint Source of Fecal Contamination
Environmental Science & Technology·2010· 53 citedOpen Access
Traditional and molecular analyses for fecal indicator bacteria in non-point source subtropical recreational marine waters
Water Research·2010· 143 cited
A Preliminary Investigation of Fecal Indicator Bacteria, Human Pathogens, and Source Tracking Markers in Beach Water and Sand.
PubMed·2009· 8 citedOpen Access
Luminex detection of fecal indicators in river samples, marine recreational water, and beach sand
Marine Pollution Bulletin·2007· 56 citedOpen Access
The Genome of the African Trypanosome <i>Trypanosoma brucei</i>
Science·2005· 1.7k cited
Gene synteny and evolution of genome architecture in trypanosomatids
Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology·2003· 102 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Christopher D. Sinigalliano(9), John F. Griffith(5), Maribeth L. Gidley(4), Helena M. Solo‐Gabriele(4), Lisa R. W. Plano(4), Amir M. Abdelzaher(4), Jonathan Kish(4), Lora E. Fleming(4), Kelly D. Goodwin(4), Jay M. Fleisher(3), Tomoyuki Shibata(3), Samir M. Elmir(3), Guoqing He(3), Cristina Ortega(3), Mary E. Wright(3), Troy M. Scott(3), Matthew Berriman(2), Elodie Ghedin(2), Nicola Lennard(2), Frédéric Bringaud(2)