Wastewater Treatment Reactors: Microbial Community Structure - Softcover

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Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis.

Susana Rodríguez-Couto (female) got her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry (Industrial Chemistry) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1992 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1999 from the University of Vigo, obtaining the maximal grade (magna cum laude) and, in addition, she was awarded with the Extraordinary Prize for Doctoral Thesis in Chemistry. She worked as an Associate Professor and an Isidro Parga Pondal Senior Researcher at the University of Vigo (2000-2004), as a Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at Rovira i Virgili University (2004-2008) and as an Ikerbasque Research Professor (2009-2019). She has also worked as an Invited Researcher at the Institute from Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology (Austria) and at the Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal). In 2008, she received the I3 Professor from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education to the recognition of an outstanding research activity. In March 2021 she is joining LUT School of Engineering Science at Mikkeli, Finland, as a Full Professor in biological water treatment. She has published more than 140 articles in highly reputed international journals (h index 42). She is editor of several journals (3Biotech, Frontiers) and 14 Elsevier books.

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Microbial communities are extremely complex, containing thousands of species, where the exact function of most species is unknown. In addition to this complexity, microbial communities respond quickly to alterations in physico-chemical parameters of their habitat. However, the physiological consequences of such changes for higher trophic levels and for the respective ecosystem are mostly unknown.

Wastewater Treatment Reactors: Microbial Community Structure focuses on the following: analyses of microbial community structure in relation to changes in physico-chemical parameters; analyses of gene content (metagenome) or gene expression (metatranscriptome) of microbial communities in relation to changes in physico-chemical parameters; physiological analyses of microbial communities, enrichment cultures or pure cultures of key species in relation to changes in physico-chemical parameters; and analyses and modelling of potential consequences of changes in microbial community structure or function for higher trophic levels in a given habitat. Several studies have been carried out to understand bulking phenomena and the importance of environmental factors on sludge settling characteristics, which are thought to be strongly influenced by flocculation, sludge bulking, foaming and rising. The temporal dynamics of bacterial communities are also discussed.