TIMOTHY M. LAPARA
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
PhD, Environmental Engineering, Purdue University, 1999
Research Interests
Biological wastewater treatment, wastewater microbiology, environmental microbiology, structure-function relationships in mixed microbial communities, microbial ecology, microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance.
Bio
Tim LaPara investigates how infrastructure can protect public health and the environment. His recent work has zeroed in on the most pressing threat to modern medicine—the rise of antibiotic resistance in the environment. Specifically, the LaPara lab seeks to find novel solutions to treat wastewater in a manner that minimizes the development of antibiotic resistance bacteria.