Bioremediation of Wastewater Factors and Treatment

Introduction

Bacterial Communities in Different Sections of a Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant Revealed by 16S rDNA 454 Pyrosequencing; Lin Ye and Tong Zhang

Taxonomic Precision of Different Hypervariable Regions of 16S rRNA Gene and Annotation Methods for Functional Bacterial Groups in Biological Wastewater Treatment; Feng Guo, Feng Ju, Lin Cai, and Tong Zhang

The Choice of PCR Primers Has Great Impact on Assessments of Bacterial Community Diversity and Dynamics in a Wastewater Treatment Plant; Nils Johan Fredriksson, Malte Hermansson, and Britt-Marie Wilén

Abundance and Diversity of Bacterial Nitrifiers and Denitrifiers and Their Functional Genes in Tannery Wastewater Treatment Plants Revealed by High-Throughput Sequencing; Zhu Wang, Xu-Xiang Zhang, Xin Lu, Bo Liu, Yan Li, Chao Long, and Aimin Li

Assessing Bacterial Diversity in a Seawater-Processing Wastewater Treatment Plant by 454-Pyrosequencing of the 16S rRNA and amoA Genes; Olga Sánchez, Isabel Ferrera, Jose M González, and Jordi Mas

Assessment of Bacterial and Structural Dynamics in Aerobic Granular Biofilms; David G. Weissbrodt, Thomas R. Neu, Ute Kuhlicke, Yoan Rappaz, and Christof Holliger

Abundance, Diversity and Seasonal Dynamics of Predatory Bacteria in Aquaculture Zero Discharge Systems; Prem P. Kandel, Zohar Pasternak, Jaap van Rijn, Ortal Nahum, and Edouard Jurkevitch

Microbial Community Functional Structures in Wastewater Treatment Plants as Characterized by GeoChip; Xiaohui Wang, Yu Xia, Xianghua Wen, Yunfeng Yang, and Jizhong Zhou

Key Design Factors Affecting Microbial Community Composition and Pathogenic Organism Removal in Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetlands; Jordi Morató, Francesc Codony, Olga Sánchez, Leonardo Martín Pérez, Joan García, and Jordi Mas

An Application of Wastewater Treatment in a Cold Environment and Stable Lipase Production of Antarctic Basidiomycetous Yeast Mrakia blollopis; Masaharu Tsuji, Yuji Yokota, Kodai Shimohara, Sakae Kudoh, and Tamotsu Hoshino

Revealing the Factors Influencing a Fermentative Biohydrogen Production Process Using Industrial Wastewater as Fermentation Substrate; Iulian Zoltan Boboescu, Mariana Ilie, Vasile Daniel Gherman, Ion Mirel, Bernadett Pap, Adina Negrea, Éva Kondorosi, Tibor Bíró, and Gergely Maróti

Microbial Communities from Different Types of Natural Wastewater Treatment Systems: Vertical and Horizontal Flow Constructed Wetlands and Biofilters; B. Adrados, O. Sánchez, C.A. Arias, E. Becares, L. Garrido, J. Mas, H. Brix, and J. Morató

Index

Biography

Olga Sánchez received her PhD degree in biological sciences from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) in 1996. Her research began with the study of the physiology of photosynthetic bacteria and went on to the utilization of complex microbial biofilms in packed reactors for the treatment of contaminated effluents. In 2007 she became an aggregate teacher at the Department of Genetics and Microbiology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and presently, her investigation focuses on the application of molecular techniques for the characterization of the diversity of different natural microbial communities, including marine environments or wastewater treatment systems. These methodologies include clone libraries, FISH (Fluorescence In Situ hybridization), fingerprinting techniques such as DGGE (Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis), and next-generation sequencing technologies.

"This book constitutes an excellent compendium of high-quality scientific articles from various biological treatment processes in wastewater microbiology. Different methodologies, from classical culture methods to diverse molecular technologies including high-throughput sequencing widely used nowadays, are included within the book to give broad information about the diversity and environmental factors affecting microbial communities in different conventional and non-conventional engineered systems. The book represents a definitive and well-selected overview of studies ranging from activated sludge to wastewater treatment plants, zero discharge systems, constructed wetlands or biofilters, providing a clear knowledge of the latest advances in wastewater bioremediation."
—Dr. Silvia G. Acinas, Institute of Marine Science (ICM), CSIC, Barcelona, Spain