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Treatment”. Many MG and SG members have contributed to these books.• New activities: The coming year we will organise some 1-2 days workshops ormeetings on more specific topics, e.g. PHB production, Population Dynamics, orEBPR processes. More info follows below.• The next specialized MEWE conference will be held in 2012 in Ann Arbour,Michigan. Professor Nancy Love will organise the conference together withLutgarde Raskin, Trina McMahon, Steven Liss, Dan Noguera, and others.Trina McMahon, SecretaryPer Halkjær Nielsen, ChairNEW NAME OF THE SPECIALIST GROUP: MICROBIAL ECOLOGY ANDWATER ENGINEERING (MEWE)The <strong>Specialist</strong> <strong>Group</strong> ”Activated Sludge Population Dynamics” (ASPD) has changed itsname to ”Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering” (MEWE). This was decided at therecent specialized conference in Aalborg, Denmark in May 2009.The ASPD SG was established in 1989 and has since been very successful with manymembers and activities. The main rationale for the name change was the fact that manyother topics besides activated sludge were, and are intended to be, included in the work ofthe SG. Previous conferences focused on the activated sludge process because thisprocess is by far the most dominant wastewater treatment process worldwide and manyimportant scientific and operational problems (still) need to be solved. However, theimpressive advancement of technologies and methods for the study of unculturedmicroorganisms and the new knowledge this has provided our wider discipline over thepast few years has created the opportunity to assess biological wastewater treatment morebroadly. The SG continues to pursue similar fundamental microbiological questionsrelated to mixed microbial ecosystems that go beyond activated sludge, includingbiofilms or granules, membrane bioreactors, nutrient recovery strategies, and bioplasticsproduction. The common themes in these pursuits are general microbial ecology andmanagement of the microbial communities using more rational engineering design.Our vision is that the SG will serve researchers and practitioners working at the interfaceof microbiology and engineering. The SG will try to encompass most major systems inwastewater treatment and focus on the commonalities – the quest to understand andmanage the microbial world. Many of the organisms are similar across systems, and theanalysis toolbox is essentially the same. In order not to become too broad, the SG will nottry to encompass all biological processes of interest to IWA. Thus, we will not coverbiofuels, food production, anaerobic digestion, or other biological processes currently_________________________________________________________________________________________________IWA <strong>Specialist</strong> <strong>Group</strong> on: Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering 4Newsletter December 2009
served by other SGs. The new SG is limited in scope to wastewater treatment andbeneficial use (e.g. for nutrient recovery or bioplastics production).This initiative is also in line with recent meetings between IWA and ISME (InternationalSociety for Microbial Ecology) about a stronger link between the two organizationscovering water and wastewater treatment, food production, and energy production.CURRENT MANAGEMENT TEAM OF THE SPECIALIST GROUPPer H. Nielsen, Chairman, Aalborg University, Denmark (phn@bio.aau.dk )Trina McMahon, Secretary, University of Wisconsin, USA (tmcmahon@cae.wisc.edu)Simona Rossetti, Editor, CNR-IRSA, Rome, Italy (rossetti@irsa.cnr.it)Adrian Oehmen, University of Lisbon, PortugalFaizal Bux, Durban Institute of Technology, South AfricaHilde Lemmer, Bayerisches Landesamt fuer Umwelt Mikrobiologie, GermanyIveta Ruzickova, PICT, Praque, Czeck Rep.Mark van Loosdrecht, TU Delft, The NetherlandsMauro Majone, University La Sapienza, Rome, ItalyMichael Wagner, University of Vienna, AustriaNancy Love, University of Michigan, USANoco Boon, Ghent University, BelgiumNorbert Kreuzinger, Tech. University of Vienna, AustriaPatrick Dabert, Cemagref, FrancePhil Bond, University of Queensland, AustraliaSatoshi Okabe, Hokaido University, JapanSteven Liss, University of Guelph, CanadaTom Curtis, Newcastle University, United KingdomWen-Tso Liu, University of Illinois, USAOne of the members wanted to retire from the MC, Philippe Duchène, France. We thankPhillippe for his many years of work in the SG._________________________________________________________________________________________________IWA <strong>Specialist</strong> <strong>Group</strong> on: Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering 5Newsletter December 2009
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