An analytical chemist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Aga researches the effects of animal antibiotics found in fertilizers on the environment.
"Aga is one of a handful of scientists in the world looking at the question from a unique vantage point, taking into consideration the complete journey made by animal antibiotics and their metabolites from the barnyard to the crop field and, possibly, to supplies of drinking water" ¹
She received her Bachelor of Science from the University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines in 1988; a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas, Lawrence in 1995; and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Environmental Science and Technology in Zurich from 1996 to 1998.
¹ Health & Medicine Week. Antibiotic Resistance: Do antibiotic residues from agricultural use contribute to human drug resistance? (2003)