Scholarship opprtunity for PhD student and Postdoctoral researcher with our colleagues of the Nordic Center of Excellence (NordAqua). A successful PhD candidate will pursue doctoral study at the Doctoral Programme in Molecular Life Sciences of the University of Turku. The project will focus on wastewater treatment and valorization of the algal biomass. 

For more information please contact sesiri@utu.fi

Professor Raquel Lebrero is doing a research stay at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Santiago de Chile with our colleague Professor Andrea Carvajal. During her stay, they have visited Alberto Vergara and Jessica San Martín at the Universidad de los Andes.

Really nice to meet some of our Chilean friends!

New paper accepted at Metabolic Engineering

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Genome scale metabolic modeling reveals the metabolic potential of three Type II methanotrophs of the genus Methylocystis

New paper accepted at International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

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The effect of temperature during culture enrichment on methanotrophic polyhydroxyalkanoate production

New paper accepted at Waste Management

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Ammonium influences kinetics and structure of methanotropich consortia

Professor Raúl Muñoz has been awarded with the "Bankia Young Innovator" prize from the newspaper "El Mundo - Castilla y León".

The "Bankia Young Innovator" award is a recognition for its work in search of alternatives that allow reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Congratulations Raúl!!!!

Take a look at the video of INCOVER Case study 2 - Resources recovery from wastewater

Dr José L. Martínez, visiting professor from the Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the Technical University of Denmark (Denmark), giving a seminar to our students from the PhD program in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Thanks a lot José!!

New paper accepted at Bioresource Technology

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Optimisation of the production of fermentable monosaccharides from algal biomass grown in photobioreactors treating wastewater

Professor Raúl Muñoz has been awarded with the "Bankia Innovative Young Award"

Congratulations Raúl!!!!

New paper accepted at Bioresource Technology

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Assessing the potential of purple phototrophic bacteria for the simultaneous treatment of piggery wastewater and upgrading of biogas

Ílker successfully defended his PhD thesis!!! Congratulations!! 

Take a look at the pictures of the dissertation.

New paper accepted at Biochemical Engineering Journal

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A rapid regulation with different response intensities of the pmoA gene guarantees process robustness towards methane surges in continuous and feast-famine bioreactors

Meet our new researchers.

Nuria Fernandez joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a postdoctoral researcher. Her research focuses on understanding the factors that regulates and influences the diversity and functioning of complex microbial ecosystems mostly in biotechnological processes and marine ecosystems.

Martín Dávila joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a visiting student from the Popular Autonomous University of the State of Puebla (México). His research focuses on the removal of an organism gene of Methylocystis hirsuta.

Shinya Okano joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a visiting student from the University of Soka (Japan). His research focuses on a gene knockout for higher PHB accumulation by the methanotrophs Methylocystis hirsuta.

Cristina González joined the gas treatment and microalgae research group as a Chemical Engineering student from the University of Valladolid (Spain). Her research focuses on the study of the temperature potential of strains of methanotrophic bacteria for the bioconversion of biogas to polymers.

New paper accepted at Bioresource Technology

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Influence of liquid-to-biogas ratio and alkalinity on the biogas upgrading performance in a demo scale algal-bacterial photobioreactor

Dr Cesar Mota, visiting professor from the Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), giving a seminar to our students from the PhD program in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Thanks a lot Cesar!!

New paper accepted at Journal of Applied Phycology

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Elucidating the symbiotic interactions between a locally isolated microalga Chlorella vulgaris and its co-occurring bacterium Rhizobium sp. in synthetic municipal wastewater

Don´t miss this year the first NOVEDAR symposium "Presence and elimination of micropollutants in water", to be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain on June 13-14, 2019

For more information visit

http://www.novedar.com/

New paper accepted at Bioresource Technology

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Technology validation of photosynthetic biogas upgrading in a semi-industrial scale algal-bacterial photobioreactor

New paper accepted at Science of The Total Environment

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Removal of contaminants of emerging concern from urban wastewater in novel algal-bacterial photobioreactors