Microbial Ecology of Wastewater Treatment Plants

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 is a professor in biological water treatment at LUT University, Finland. She 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. 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.

• 1. Structure and function of microbial communities2. Microbial community genetics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics3. Microbial interaction4. Microbial communication5. Microbial ecology6. Microbial population biology7. Biogeochemical processes (C, N, P, S-cycles)8. Microbial life in extreme environments9. Evolutionary processes of microbial communities10. Biofilm formation and surface microbes11. Metabolic flux analysis and stable isotope probing (DNA, RNA and protein)12. Microbiome biology of environmental habitats13. Microbial treatment14. Microbial pollution: pathogenic microorganisms in the environment (water/soil/air/food); microbial metabolism and environmental pollution (e.g., microbial toxin)15. Microbiological monitoring: testing methods and monitoring techniques development16. Microbial Degradation of Xenobiotics17. Microbiological Wastewater Treatment18. Genetics and Physiology of Anaerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Microorganisms19. Bioremediation - The Natural Solution20. Molecular Ecology and Genetic Diversity of Marine Microorganisms