Seminary: Unraveling Important Wastewater Treatment Bacteria

A seminar given by Dr. Jorge Padrão of the University of Minho (Portugal) will take place on Thursday, April 25 at 4:00 p.m. in the ETSE Project Classroom.

The objective of this seminar is to present the importance of identifying the role of some bacteria in wastewater treatment plants and the different techniques used for this at the University of Minho

Jorge Padrão has a degree in applied biology (2006) and a Doctor of Chemistry and Biological Engineering (2014). He is currently a researcher and deputy director of the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory at the Center for Biological Engineering, University of Minho.

Program
16:00 – 16:10 h Presentation
16:10 – 16:55 “Genomic-scale metabolic modeling applied to nitrifying bacteria”
16:55 – 17:05 h Rest
17:05 – 17:50 “Identifying filamentous bacteria associated to foaming and bulking events in wastewater treatment plants”

Inscription
Open activity To attend it is only necessary to register on this form:  LINK

Attendance certificates will be delivered.

Organized by:
– The USC Chemical and Environmental Engineering Doctoral Program
– CRETUS strategic grouping (ED431E 2018/01)
– The TREASURE-TECHNOSALT project (CTQ2017-83225-C2-1-R) co-financed by the Government of Spain (AEI) and ERDF (EU) funds http://www.usc.es/biogroup/treasure