Our group member Antonio León attended the Nordic Photosynthesis Conference - Nordic Algae Symposium 2025 at the Konventum venue in Elsinore, Denmark, from October 20th to 23th.

Antonio contributed with his poster titled ‘Antiviral capacity of freshwater and marine microalgae over three different DNA and RNA viruses.’

Meet our new researchers!

Débora and Erik. Most welcome!

Débora joined the Gas Treatment and Microalgae Research Group as a visiting PhD student. Her research focuses on hydrogen production via dark fermentation using lignocellulosic biomass.

Erik joined the Gas Treatment and Microalgae Research Group as a visiting PhD student. His ongoing thesis deals with the optimization and comparison of environmental technologies for the removal of emerging micropollutants.

Our group member Samuel Stegman presented at the XV Latin American Workshop and Symposium on Anaerobic Digestion, held in Fortaleza, Ceará, from October 14th to 17th, 2025.

Sam contributed with his work titled ‘Fom Greenhouse gas to goods: the power of genome mining and halophilic purple phototrophic bacteria.’

Our group member Sara Cantera presented at the XIX Meeting of the National Network of Extremophilic Microorganisms, held in Huelva (Spain) from the 14th to the 16th of October.

She contributed with her work titled ‘Novel extremophile platforms to valorise CO2 into chemical for the pharmaceutical inustry.’

 New paper accepted at Chemical Engineering and Processing

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Evaluating the experimental CO2 stripping performance of a new generation multicapillary Taylor flow reactor

New paper accepted at Algal Research

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Moving horizon estimation in microalgae-bacteria based wastewater treatment using online and analytical multi-rate measurements

New paper accepted at Building and Environment

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Elucidation of the mechanisms of VOC removal in botanical filters during indoor air treatment in a test chamber

Meet our new researchers!

María and Carolina. Most welcome!

María joined the Gas Treatment and Microalgae Research Group as a visiting PhD student. Her research focuses the development of mathematical models as tools to improve technology transfer in industrial-scale production of proteins.

Carolina joined the Gas Treatment and Microalgae Research Group as a visiting PhD student. Her thesis explores the different applications of microbial carotenoids in diverse areas

New paper accepted at Biomass and Bioenergy

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Hydrothermal pretreatment of brewer's spent grain: A pathway to sustainable biogas production and waste valorization

New paper accepted at Algal Research

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A comparative study of the treatment of dark fermentation effluent by purple-phototrophic bacteria and microalgae with focus on substrate to biomass conversion

Our group members Ysis Lanzoni and Cristina Martínez presented at the XXV International Congress of the Mexican Hydrogen Society, held in Morelia (México) from the 16th to the 19th of September.

Ysis contributed with the virtual presentation "Effect of organic loading rate perturbation on the fermentative hydrogen production of food waste in a two-stage lactate driven dark fermentation process."

Cristina contributed with the virtual presentation "Long-term hydrogen production performance during lactate-driven dark fermentation in a two-stage fermentation system."

New paper accepted at Fermentation

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Continuous Fermentative Biohydrogen Production from Fruit-Vegetable Waste: A Parallel Approach to Assess Process Reproducibility

New paper accepted at Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

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Airlift Taylor Flow bioreactors as a novel platform to enhance H2-assisted CO2 bioconversion processes

New paper accepted at Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

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Stimulation of microalgae growth and high-value compounds production by magnetic field exposure

Our group member María del Rosario Rodero attended the 21th congress of the European Society for Photobiology (ESP) Conference, held in Bari from the 24th to the 28th of August.

She was an invited speaker and contributed with her work titled ‘Harnessing purple non-sulfur bacteria for gas to protein bioconversion.’

Our group members Raúl Muñoz and Laura Vargas attended the I Ibero-American Congress on Algal Biotechnology, held in Antofagasta (Chile) from the 25th to the 28th of August.

Raúl, as a keynote speaker, presented "Biogas Purification to Biomethane in Microalgae and Bacteria Photobioreactors."

Laura contributed with her presentation "From Waste to Value: The Role of Olive-Mill Waste Biostimulants in Pigment Production from Microalgae Cultures Dedicated to Biogas Upgrading."

New paper accepted at Biotechnology Advances

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Towards syngas biorefineries: The potential of microbial consortia for syngas valorisation

New paper accepted at Algal Research

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Digestate dilution shapes carbohydrate and pigment production during microalgal and cyanobacterial-based biogas upgrading

New paper accepted at Journal of Hazardous Materials

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Reducing carbon footprint in high H2S emissions: A synergistic microalgal-bacterial solution for sugarcane biorefineries

New paper accepted at Bioresource Technology

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Enrichment of mesophilic and thermophilic mixed microbial cultures for syngas biomethanation in bubble column bioreactors under continuous operation