ECR 2021

Download the Agenda with links to posters, networking videos and sessions. Note that sessions will be recorded. Session recordings at the bottom of the page.

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Session Recordings:

Day 1 – Full Session – Unedited video, so see direct link on timings below

SESSION 1 – Waste Management 07:40
Arinze Ezieke, University of Queensland, “Management and valorisation of waste from the berry sector via AD” – 10:10
Serena Simonetti, University of Aberdeen, “Acidogenic fermentation of model food waste for the production of added-value chemicals: effect of substrate concentration and residence time” – 27:00
Cynthia Okoro-Shekwaga, University of Leeds, “In-situ bio-methanisation using food waste: effect of sequential hydrogen acclimation” – 40:19
Precious Egbuikwem, University of Surrey, “Treatment and agricultural reuse of mixed industrial and domestic wastewater reclaimed by biological process and ozonation” – 59:19

POSTERS Sarah Hunter – University College London, “Evaluating the impact of substrate chemical structure on anaerobic digestion of food waste” – 1:13:00
Rachel Schwartz-Narbonne – Sheffield Hallam University, “Lipid biomarker tools to characterize wastewater reactor microbial communities” – 1:25:20

SESSION 2 Biochemical Valorisation 2:07:15
Cristina Marzo Gago, University of Cadiz, “Production of lactic acid from exhausted sugar beet pulp by biotechnological process” – 2:09:31
Seongbong Heo, University of Southampton, “Integration of enrichment and production for PHA by decoupling carbon and nutrient limitation” – 2:22:30
Tararag Pincam, University of Southampton, “Combined alkaline and thermal pretreatment for enhanced volatile fatty acids production and phosphorus release from sewage sludge” – 2:39:23
Maria Ramos Suarez, University of Southampton, “Fed-batch acidogenic fermentation of organic residual solids: effect of different feeding modes” – 2:54:48
Robert Colston, Cranfield University, “Enhanced phosphorus removal and struvite recovery from fresh urine using biomineralisation” – 3:10:58

Day 2 – Full Session – Unedited video, so see direct link on timings below:

SESSION 3 – Complex Microbial Communities
Viviane Runa, University of Bath: “New approaches to microbial ecology in biological phosphorus removal systems” – 2:30
Pavlina Theodosiou, Newcastle University: “Electroactive bacteria: How cool are they” : 19:05
Fabien Cholet, University of Glasgow: “Nitrification in coastal sediment driven by an unknown low-abundance AOB cluster”: – 34:32
Anastasiia Kostrytsia, University of Glasgow: “DNA-SIP metagenomics to recover active ammonia- and nitrite oxidisers”: 50:35

POSTERS
Roman Bielski, Loughborough University: “Investigating metabolic diversity of ANAMMOX bacteria using pan-genome analysis”: 1:07:32
Beatriz Delgado-Corrales, Northumbria University: “Studying indoor air microbiome dynamics to promote a healthier environment”: 1:18:26

SESSION 4 – (Novel) Applications for microbial electron transfer
Emma Beirns, Imperial College London: “Co-metabolism of sulfonamides in anaerobic wastewater treatment incorporating direct interspecies electron transfer”:  2:01:40
Zhongli Wang, Nottingham University: “Biological selenate removal and recovery of selenium nanoparticles using iron-oxidizing microbial consortium”: 2:18:34
Maira Anam, Nottingham University: “Advanced three-dimensional anode structure for improved biophotovoltaic system operation”: 2:34:34
Jordan Day, Newcastle University: “A scalable model of biofilm behaviour and fluid flow in microbial electrochemical technologies”: 2:50:29

POSTERS
Radwa Ibrahim, Westminster University: “Develop of photosynthetic microbial fuel cells for azo dye degradation”: 3:08:17
Chenxiao Liu, McGill University: “Adding zero valent iron in improving low temperature anaerobic digestion with ozonated waste activated sludge”: 3:18:57
Najiaowa Yu, University of Alberta: “Differentiated biofilm communities on various packed granular activated carbon (GAC) in wastewater anaerobic digestion. 3:32:30

Day 3 – Full Session – Unedited video, so see direct link on timings below:

SESSION 5 – Cross-disciplinary Environmental Biotechnology Applications
Angela Sherry, Northumbria University and Jane Scott, University of Newcastle: “Fibre Highways: translocation of the microbiome for hydrocarbon bioremediation”: 1:45
Yuxiu Chen, University of Surrey: “Biocoatings: Painting bacteria on surfaces”: 31:53
Maryam Lamere, University of Western England: “Lessons learnt from field trials of the Pee Power ® in Uganda, Kenya and South Africa”: 46:26
David Livingstone, Queen’s University Belfast: “Reducing the climate impact of intensive agriculture with strategically positioned willow coppice”: 1:03:42

POSTERS
Yuwei Pan, Cranfield University: “A paper-based electrochemical aptasensor for monitoring antibiotics in water”: 1:19:51
Xiaoqi Wen, University of Southampton: “Biochemical and microbial interactions with advanced coatings and sealants in biotechnology”: 1:31:29
Natalia Jawiarczyk, Cranfield University: “Bioadditives as an effective sewer fat, oil and grease (FOG) deposit management”: 1:43:40

SESSION 6 – Engineering for higher yields
Khaled Almoalimi, University of Southampton: “Impact of draw solution type and chemistry on ammonia rejection during the thin-film composite (TFC) forward osmosis process”: 2:05:05
Aaron Brown, University of Leeds: “Valorisation of alternative feedstocks via the integration of hydrothermal carbonisation and anaerobic digestion”: 2:22:03
George Hurst, Manchester Metropolitan University: “Solid residue by-product from levulinic acid production as biogas enhancers and microbial diversity promoter in anaerobic digestion”: 2:40:16
Sanjay Nagarajan, Queen’s University Belfast: “Using vortex-based hydrodynamic cavitation pre-treatment for enhancing biomethane yield from maize husk”: 2:55:40
Chai Lee, University of Nottingham: “Economic analysis of noncatalytic and catalytic supercritical water gasification with lignocellulosic biomass waste as feedstock”: 3:13:07

POSTER
Joseph Weaver, Newcastle University: “Modelling environmental bioreactors treating wastewater by integrating biological processes, floc microenvironments and computational fluid dynamics”: 3:30:00

Day 4 – Full Session – Unedited video, so see direct link on timings below:

SESSION 7 – ENZYMES AND ‘OMICS
Prasenjit Ghosh, National Institute of Goa: “Bacterial degradaton of carbazole, degradation pathway and elucidation of uptake mechanism”: 5:09
Alice Banks, Imperial College London: “Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) monomer metabolism and adaptation in environmentally isolated bacteria”: 23:53
Valentine Okonkwo, Glasgow University: “Suitability of the intl1 gene as proxy for inferring antimicrobial-risistance pollution: optimal intl1 primer selection”: 39:56
John Allan, Northumbria University: “New microbial chasses and new enzymatic technologies for MSW valorisation”: 56:18

POSTERS
Umar Abdulmutalib, University of Surrey: “Enzymatic degradation of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic: a greener approach to plastic recycling”:  1:11:17
Josephine Giard, Heriot-Watt University: “Diversity analysis and genome mining of microbial DNA data for the discovery of novel antibiotics”: 1:22:55
Fatima Ceballos Rodriguez-Conde, University College London: “Construction of a plastic-degrading synthetic microbial community”: 1:33:07