Dr. Abraham Esteve-Núñez has been invited to give a keynote lecture at the 64th Annual Meeting of The International Society of Electrochemistry to be held in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico from 8 to 13 September.
The lecture is part of the Symposium 2: Sensing in Living Systems, a novel and current topic that is addressed for the first time in ISE Meetings. The symposium aims to present a broad overview on developments in electrochemical sensing systems and architectures for monitoring living cell activity, living microorganisms and plants, including medicine and clinical monitoring.
Bioelectrogenesis group will be attending MFC4, the 4th International Conference on Microbial Fuels Cells, that will take place on 1-4 September in Cairns, Australia. After successful events organised by Pennsylvania State University (USA), Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (Korea) and Wageningen University/WETSUS (The Netherlands) this is also the first meeting in the series to be supported and co-organised by the newly formed International Society for Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (ISMET).
MFC4 will be organised by The University of Queensland and held in the tropical city of Cairns in the far north of Queensland, Australia.
Bioelectrogenesis PI Dr. Abraham Esteve-Núñez will talk about ‘Full scale demonstration of a hybrid MET-constructed wetland for urban wastewater teçreatment: the AQUAELECTRA project”.
Prof. Bruce Logan, Penn State university, Prof. Korneel Rabaey, University of Ghent, and Prof. Lars Pieter Nielsen, Aarhus University, Denmark, are among the confirmed presenters.
The SIMB meeting will feature a Bioelectrosynthesis session, convened by Dr. Enrico Marsili from Dublin City University, Ireland. The invited speakers will present their latest findings in electrochemically active biofilms, bioelectrosynthesis of organic chemicals from low-cost substrates, and metabolic engineering of bioelectrosynthetic microorganisms. Dr. Esteve-Núñez will talk about one of the main challenges in bioelectrosynthesis that is the capacity of bacteria for accepting electrons from a conductive material.
The Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) is a US-based professional society that promotes industrial research and cross-cutting communications between various applied disciplines and the corresponding industries. Selected poster and oral presentations will be published in a special issue of Journal of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.
Bioelectrogenesis Group is attending VI Workshop on Analytical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (VI NyNA, 2013) to be held at College of San Ildefonso of the University of Alcalá, on July 8-9. Bioe will present recent work on 'Microbial electrogenic biosensors: acetate into electricity by bacteria of the genus Geobacter'.
This workshop is organised by MINYNANOTECH which is led by Dr. Alberto Escarpa, Director of the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, UAH.
The most important advances in the field of wastewater will be the subject of course on "New trends in biological wastewater treatments: water and energy", organized by University of Alcalá from 24 to 26 June within its summer program, in collaboration with IMDEA Water and sponsored by aqualia company.
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Researchers from AQUAELECTRA Project have developed a system of wastewater treatment based on an electrically conductive biofilter. This system attempts to solve some of the problems that arise during the water treatment, in which oxygen is a significant portion of operating costs, while it generates a large amount of biomass, or sewage sludge, due to the high growth yield from aerobic microorganisms.
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