Julie L. Zilles

Research Assistant Professor

3204 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory

Phone: (217) 244-2925

Fax: (217) 333-6968

Email: jzilles@uiuc.edu

Research website: http://cee.uiuc.edu/people/jzilles

Julie L. Zilles received her B.S. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993) and her Ph.D. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin Madison (1999). She joined the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2002 following postdoctoral work in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She is a member of the Graduate College of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and an affiliate of the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Dr. Zilles currently teaches biological principles of environmental engineering.

Dr. Zilles’ research interests lie at the intersection of environmental engineering and microbiology. In systems such as biological wastewater treatment, a more complete understanding of the microbial ecology and physiology may be applied to the development of process improvements. Current research areas include the microbial physiology of enhanced biological phosphorus removal, the effects of agricultural antibiotic use on antibiotic resistance levels in swine waste treatment systems and manure-amended soils, the microbial ecology of denitrification in tile drainage bioreactors, and gene expression and genetic adaptation for herbicide degradation in a model dynamic soil system.