BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.3//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Arab Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230101 TZNAME:Arab Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Host: The WDRC Student CommitteeAbstract: Complex\n microbial c ommunities carry out wastewater treatment\, which often \nincludes water r euse\, resource recovery\, and energy production. A good \nunderstanding o f identity\, function and ecology of the process-critical \nmicrobes is im portant for proper function and management. We have tried \nto answer foll owing questions: What is the global diversity of microbes \nacross the glo be in wastewater treatment plants and how many of these \nbacteria are imp ortant? And what are their main functions and how can we\n manipulate the community structure? Our recent global study of more \nthan 700 treatment plants has given a comprehensive overview and \nrevealed many novel proces s-critical species. We have retrieved more \nthan 1000 high-quality metage nome assembled genomes and designed \ncomprehensive sets of FISH probes fo r the visualization of key species. \nHighlights of novel species\, physio logies\, global distributions and \ndrivers for their presence will be dis cussed. These resources provide a \nshared vocabulary for wastewater treat ment microbiologists\, providing \nnew opportunities for cross-study compa risons and ecological studies at \nhigh taxonomic resolution. \;Bio: P er \nHalkjær Nielsen is professor at the Department of Chemistry and \nBio science at Aalborg University\, Aalborg\, Denmark. He is heading the \nCen ter for Microbial Communities where they study uncultured \nmicroorganisms in natural and engineered systems. Important focus points\n the past many years have been investigations of structure and function \nof microbial c ommunities in wastewater treatment\, resource recovery and \nbioenergy pro duction. A main activity is MiDAS\, an online fieldguide to \nthe microbio logy of wastewater treatment systems. He has been heading \nthe IWA specia list group on microbial ecology and water engineering \n(2005-2013) and ha s since been head of the BioCluster\, coordinating \nactivities between IW A and ISME. DTEND:20220407T130000Z DTSTAMP:20240328T105247Z DTSTART:20220407T120000Z LOCATION:Zoom SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The global wastewater treatment microbiota: extremely diverse or su rprisingly simple? UID:RFCALITEM638472307675639889 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Host: The WDRC Student Com mittee
Abstract:
Complex\n microbial communitie
s carry out wastewater treatment\, which often \nincludes water reuse\, re
source recovery\, and energy production. A good \nunderstanding of identit
y\, function and ecology of the process-critical \nmicrobes is important f
or proper function and management. We have tried \nto answer following que
stions: What is the global diversity of microbes \nacross the globe in was
tewater treatment plants and how many of these \nbacteria are important? A
nd what are their main functions and how can we\n manipulate the community
structure? Our recent global study of more \nthan 700 treatment plants ha
s given a comprehensive overview and \nrevealed many novel process-critica
l species. We have retrieved more \nthan 1000 high-quality metagenome asse
mbled genomes and designed \ncomprehensive sets of FISH probes for the vis
ualization of key species. \nHighlights of novel species\, physiologies\,
global distributions and \ndrivers for their presence will be discussed. T
hese resources provide a \nshared vocabulary for wastewater treatment micr
obiologists\, providing \nnew opportunities for cross-study comparisons an
d ecological studies at \nhigh taxonomic resolution. \;
Bio:
Per \nHalkjær Nielsen is professor at the Department of
Chemistry and \nBioscience at Aalborg University\, Aalborg\, Denmark. He i
s heading the \nCenter for Microbial Communities where they study uncultur
ed \nmicroorganisms in natural and engineered systems. Important focus poi
nts\n the past many years have been investigations of structure and functi
on \nof microbial communities in wastewater treatment\, resource recovery
and \nbioenergy production. A main activity is MiDAS\, an online fieldguid
e to \nthe microbiology of wastewater treatment systems. He has been headi
ng \nthe IWA specialist group on microbial ecology and water engineering \
n(2005-2013) and has since been head of the BioCluster\, coordinating \nac
tivities between IWA and ISME.