Specialist Group on Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering - IWA
Specialist Group on Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering - IWA
Specialist Group on Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering - IWA
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Objective: The main objective is to gather people to present <strong>and</strong> discuss the newest data<strong>on</strong> activated sludge microbial community structure <strong>and</strong> functi<strong>on</strong>, the dynamics of thepopulati<strong>on</strong>s <strong>and</strong> new ways to make quantitative models of the ecosystem “activatedsludge”.C<strong>on</strong>tact: Per Halkjær Nielsen (phn@bio.aau.dk)Workshop <strong>on</strong> ”Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Genomics”Date: To Be DeterminedVenue: To Be DeterminedObjective: The purpose of this workshop is to introduce researchers studying enhancedbiological phosphorus removal to the genomic <strong>and</strong> post-genomic based tools <strong>and</strong>datasets. Genome annotati<strong>on</strong> is an <strong>on</strong>going effort, <strong>and</strong> the finished genome ofAccumulibacter phosphatis Type IIA str. UW-1 awaits further curati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> study.Additi<strong>on</strong>al (meta)genomic <strong>and</strong> post-genomic datasets will so<strong>on</strong> be available from severalresearch groups around the world. Workshop participants will share current findings <strong>and</strong>strategies to analyze these incredibly complex datasets. The workshop model we willfollow is the Joint Genome Institute’s “Genome Jamborees”.We are in the early stages of planning this workshop. Please c<strong>on</strong>tact Trina if you areinterested in joining us <strong>and</strong>/or helping to plan <strong>and</strong> organize it.C<strong>on</strong>tact: Trina McMah<strong>on</strong> (tmcmah<strong>on</strong>@engr.wisc.edu)Internati<strong>on</strong>al Specialized Course:“Operati<strong>on</strong> <strong>and</strong> C<strong>on</strong>trol of Activated Sludge Processes using Microscopic Analysis”Venue <strong>and</strong> time: Perugia, Italy, 14-18 June, 2010.The activated sludge process is the most comm<strong>on</strong>ly used biological wastewater treatmentprocess. In the world Activated sludge can biodegrade many organic pollutants, oxidize<strong>and</strong> remove reduced nitrogen compounds <strong>and</strong> promote the enhanced removal ofphosphate from municipal <strong>and</strong> industrial wastewaters. Recent process modificati<strong>on</strong>sinclude biological nutrient removal (BNR), sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) <strong>and</strong>membrane bioreactors (MBRs) <strong>and</strong> moving bed bioeactors (MBBRs). Solid backgroundsin process engineering <strong>and</strong> microbiology are required for the diagnosis, c<strong>on</strong>trol <strong>and</strong>resoluti<strong>on</strong> of comm<strong>on</strong> activated sludge process problems such as deteriorati<strong>on</strong> of settling_________________________________________________________________________________________________<strong>IWA</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Specialist</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Group</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong>: <strong>Microbial</strong> <strong>Ecology</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Water</strong> <strong>Engineering</strong> 8Newsletter December 2009
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