International Experts:
1. Jaakko A. Puhakka,
jaakko.puhakka@tut.fi
Professor of Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology
Head of the Institute of Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology
Tampere University of Technology (TUT) Tampere, Finland.
2. Alfred Spormann,
spormann@stanford.edu
Associate Professor of Environmental Microbiology in the Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering, of Biological Sciences.
Research Area: Molecular interactions of microbes and microbial communities in complex environments such as in biofilms.
3. Perry L. McCarty,
pmccarty@stanford.edu
Professor Emeritus, Environmental Engineering and Science, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Research Area: His research interests have been in biological processes for the control of environmental contaminants. His early research was on anaerobic treatment processes, biological processes for nitrogen removal, and water reuse. Current interests are on aerobic and anaerobic biological processes for control of hazardous chemicals, advanced wastewater treatment processes, and movement, fate, and control of groundwater contaminants.
4. Dr. Charles Greer,
charles.greer@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca
Principle Research Officer and Leader of the Environmental Microbiology Group at National Research Council Canada's Biotechnology Research Institute in Montreal.
Research Area: His research interests include the microbial ecology and molecular microbiology of the biodegradation of organic pollutants, the development and application of molecular tools and techniques for evaluating and monitoring biodegradation activity, the characterization of cold-adapted pollutant-degrading bacteria and microbial community structure, diversity and function
5. Dr. Peter Lau ,
peter.lau@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca
Senior Research Officer and Leader of the Bioconversion and Sustainable Development Group in the Environmental Science Sector of the NRC Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI).
Research interests: Microorganisms and biocatalysts as environmental and sustainability tools, microbial genomics, and development of a strong knowledge base for the advancement of enzyme technology in green processes and applications in industry. Since 1999, he has served as a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Task Force on Biotechnology for Sustainable Industrial Development.
6. Prof. Dr. Georg Gübitz ,Professor ,
guebitz@tugraz.at
The Institute of Environmental Biotechnology is member of the Faculty of Science at the University of Technology, Graz.
Research interests: Microbial degradation of xenobiotics (Study of degradation mechanisms and involved enzymes) , Enzymatic and microbial processes in effluent and waste treatment and recycling (e.g. degradation of dyes with oxidoreductases) , Enzymatic fibre modification (Physiology of formation and function of these enzymes)
7. Tim Magnuson,
magntimo@isu.edu
Associate Professor of Microbiology, Department of Biological Sciences
Idaho State University,
Area: Applied Microbiology; Molecular Biology; Biochemistry;
Enzyme Biotechnology
8. Malcolm Shields,
shiemalc@isu.edu
Associate Professor of Microbiology, Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University
Research Area: Bacterial Degradative Enzymes, Catabolic Pathway Construction, and Environmental Applications for Bioremediation of Pollutants
9. Prof. Linda Blackall,
l.blackall@ebcrc.com.au
Research Director, Environmental Biotechnology Corporative Research Centre,
University of Queensland
10. Art Meyers, Adjunct Professor,
ajmeyers@eastman.com
The Center for Environmental Biotechnology
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
676 Dabney Hall
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1605
Research Area: Wastewater Treatment
11. Susan Pfiffner, Research Assistant Professor,
pfiffner@utk.edu
Research Area: Bioremediation Microbial Ecology
12. Raj Raman, Associate Professor,
draman@utk.edu
Research Area: Environmental Bioprocess Engineering
13. Kevin Robinson, Associate Professor,
kgr@utk.edu
Research Area: Wastewater Treatment
14. John Sanseverino,
jsansev@utk.edu
Research Area: Biotreatment/Bioconversion of Waste Products
15. Professor Goen Ho, Professor,
G.Ho@murdoch.edu.au
School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Austrelia.
Research Area: Waste management; pollution control; environmental technologies, particularly those which achieve sustainable development.
16. Dr Jaya Nair, Lecturer,
Email: J.Nair@murdoch.edu.au
School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Austrelia.
Research Area: Drinking water Microbiology and water test kits ; Wastewater reuse ; On-site Wastewater Treatment; Vermicomposting; Pathogen inactivation during composting and Anaerobic digestion ; H2S method as an on-site test for microbial quality of drinking water; Efficiency of silver oxide for disinfecting Legionella sp, E.coli and Salmonella typhimurium; Evaluation of the microbial quality of rainwater stored in tanks; Testing bore water using the H2S method; Aquaponics as a method for treatment and reuse of domestic wastewater
17. Dr Pratap Pullammanappallil, Adjunct Associate Professor,
pratap@murdoch.edu.au
School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.
Area: Methane fermentation of wastes and biomass for bioenergy; wastewater and solid waste processing for value-added products and resource recovery; modelling, control and optimisation of processes for pollution control; environmental biotechnology
18. Daniel R. Noguera , Professor,
E-mail: noguera@engr.wisc.edu
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fields of Interest: Environmental engineering, biotechnology, microbial ecology, biological nutrient removal, biofilms, mathematical modeling, biodegradation pathways, nitroaromatic compounds.
19. Katherine (Trina) McMahon, Assistant Professor,
E-mail: tmcmahon@engr.wisc.edu
Research Interests - Microbial ecology, environmental biotechnology, biochemical engineering, environmental engineering, water quality.
20. Dr. Mike Belosevic, Professor,
Email: mike.belosevic@ualberta.ca
Department of Biological Science, University of Alberta
Area: My primary research interest is comparative molecular immunology and my long term research goals are to: (1) Characterize cytokine regulation of macrophage hematopoiesis and antimicrobial mechanisms in mammals and fish; (2) Describe and analyze the mechanisms of cellular immune responses to obligate intracellular and extracellular protozoan parasites; and (3) Detection and inactivation of chemical contaminants, pathogens in environmental samples.
21. Dr. Jonathan J. Dennis, Associate Professor,
Email: dennisj@ualberta.ca
Department of Biological Science, University of Alberta
Area: Phage therapy; Bacterial genetics / genomics; Mobile genetic elements; Burkholderia cepacia complex; Antibiotic resistance and organic solvent tolerance; Bacterial multidrug efflux pumps; Bacterial biodegredation and bioremediation.
21. Dr. Phillip M Fedorak, Professor,
Email: phil.fedorak@ualberta.ca
Department of Biological Science, University of Alberta
Anaerobic microbiology of oil sands waste waters. Biodegradation and analyses of naphthenic acids.
Aerobic microbial degradation of hydrocarbons, sulfur- and nitrogen-heterocycles.
22. Dr. Julia M. Foght, Professor,
Email: julia.foght@ualberta.ca
Department of Biological Science,
University of Alberta
Area: Current interests include microbial biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons, particularly under adverse environmental conditions in fuel-contaminated Antarctic soils, cold groundwater and subsurface soils. Other research areas related to petroleum microbiology include fundamental studies on mechanisms of hydrocarbon transport across bacterial membranes, and the use of whole cell biocatalysts for biological upgrading of petroleum and refined products.
23. Joseph Blake Hughes, Professor,
email: joseph.hughes@ce.gatech.edu
Georgia Institute of Technology , School of Materials Science and Engineering
771 Ferst Drive, N.W. Atlanta, GA 30332.0245
Area: Environmental biotechnology; Nanotechnology in environmental systems
24. Christopher Knowles,
chris.knowles@eng.ox.ac.uk
Oxford Centre for Environmental Biotechnology, Oxford University
Director of the Oxford Centre for Environmental Biotechnology
Area: His research interests are: the bioremediation of polluted land, for example PCBs, cyanides and metals; end-of-pipe technologies to degrade organic contaminants; and the development of bioreactor systems including novel membrane separations. He is also interested in biotransformations, for example, the enantiospecific generation of lactones and the bioconversion of nitriles.
25. Ian Thompson, Project Leader, Microbial Diversity Group,
ipt@ceh.ac.uk
His research interests include studies of the diversity of bacteria populations associated with plants, development of bacterial inocula for environmental applications and assessing microbial community response to stress such as pollution events. In more recent years he has developed a growing interest in exploiting the ability of indigenous microbial communities, particularly those closely associated with plants, to degrade organic pollutants in soil.
26. Brian Bellhouse,
brian.bellhouse@eng.ox.ac.uk
Director of the Powder Ject Centre for Gene and Drug Delivery Research
Area: His research interests in environmental biotechnology lie in the application of fluid mixing techniques to membrane separation processes, which include membrane filtration using secondary flows, affinity separations and membrane-based biotransformations and bioreactors.
27. Bo Jin, Associate Research Professor,
bo.jin@unisa.edu.au
School of Natural and Built Environments,
University of South Austrelia,
Research interests:
· Integrated biotechnological processes for recycling and conversion of organic wastes into value-added bioproducts.
· Chemical and biological processes in wastewater treatment, water reclamation and resource recovery.
· Biotechnological processes in biomass production, wastewater reclamation, biological nutrient removal and resource recovery.
· Process optimisation and management on chlorinating, coagulation, flocculation, biological nutrient removal, softening and stabilisation in water reclamation from industrial wastewater.
· Optimisation, simulation and modelling of chemical and biotechnological processes.
· Water and wastewater quality
28. Professor Peter D. Rose,
P.Rose@ru.ac.za
Environmental Biotechnology Research Unit. Rhodes University. Grahamstown. 6140.
South Africa,
Research Area:
• The microbial ecology of sulphur biocycle microorganisms and the biotechnology of their application in the treatment of sulphated and heavy metal contaminated mine drainage wastewaters.
• Stress physiology in photosynthetic microorganisms and the biotechnology of their application in industrial and domestic wastewater treatment.
• The microbial ecology of hypersaline environments.
• The molecular microbial ecology of aquatic environments.
29. Christof Holliger, Professor and Head,
Christof.holliger@epfl.ch
Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology, Environmental Science and Technological Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Swizerland.
Research interests: Transformation of organic pollutants under anaerobic conditions, isolation and characterization of bacteria catalyzing reductive transformations, biochemistry and enzymology of reductive transformation processes, ecology of bacteria catalyzing reductive transformations, development of molecular tools for the detection of specific bacteria and enzymes, Anaerobic microbiology, psychrophilic methanogenesis, physiology and biochemistry of iron reducing bacteria, Dynamics of microbial populations in biological treatment systems, microbial populations in a biotrickling filter system treating chlorobenzene-contaminated waste gas, microbial population dynamics in anaerobic digesters due to shock loads and changes of substrate composition
30. Marc Deront, Scientific Colleborator,
marc.deront@epfl.ch
Research Activities
· A great interest for research works about anaerobic digestion bioprocesses serving sustainable development. Contribution to research works of project 99.02 concerning the biomethanisation of organic solid wastes
· Contribution to research project 99.01 concerning the Biotransformation of tetrachlorothene into harmless products
· Contribution to research project 96.01 concerning the biological treatement of volatil organic compounds by mean of biofiltration, "Biotrickling filters for the treatment of volatile organic compound-contaminated air"
· Contribution to research on "Industrial wastewater treatment with fixed biomass"
31. John P Barford, Associate Professor,
kejohnb@ust.hk
Current Research Activities:
Biochemical engineering; yeast metabolism; bioremediation wastewater treatment; biological nutrient removal; biofiltration; animal cell cultivation; bioaerosols.
32. Jian Yu, Assistant Professor,
kejianyu@ust.hk
Current Research Activities:
Biotransformation and biodegradation; enzymatic catalysis; microbial fermentation processes; Biodegradable polymers.
