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Yoshiteru Aoi Assistant Professor | Investigations of nitrifying bacteria in biofilm communities and its application to wastewater treatment processes. | Daniel J. Arp Professor | Investigations at the genome level of bacteria involved in nitrification. | Elizabeth Baggs NERC Adv. Res. Fellow | Soil biogeochemistry, soil microbiology, N2O production in soil, plant-soil interactions. | University of Aberdeen Scotland UK |
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Michael Beman Assistant Professor | Nitrogen cycling and microbial community structure in coastal ecosystems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anne E. Bernhard Assitant Professor | Nitrification in estuaries and salt marshes. Ammonia oxidizers community structure and function in coastal systems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Annette Bollmann Assistant Professor | Physiology and ecology of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter J.Bottomley Professor | Physiology and ecology of bacteria that inhabit the surface and subsurface soil environment, and especially those bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle and biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aurelio M. Briones Assistant Professor | Environmental microbiology relevant to dairy waste management (manure, composting, anaerobic digestion); environmental contaminants; soil biogeochemistry. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Karen L. Casciotti Assistant Scientist | Marine nitrogen cycle, genetics and physiology of nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria, biological control of trace gas production, biology of isotope fractionation, mechanistic modeling of biological isotope fractionation, evolution of biogeochemical cycles. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Patrick Chain Biomedical Scientist | Genomics, bioinformatics, molecular microbiology, comparative genomics, molecular evolution, and regulatory networks, microbial phylogenetics, the contribution of lateral transfer to shaping bacterial genomes and the bacterial species concept. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kartik Chandran Assistant Professor | Environmental and public health microbiology, environmental biotechnology, microbial ecology of engineered biological waste and water treatment reactors, development and application of novel biokinetic estimation tools, elucidation of microbial biochemical degradation pathways, bioprocess modeling and parameter identification for complex biotransformations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Holger Daims Assistant Professor | Nitrification and N-cycle microbes in engineered and natural ecosystems; ecophysiology and genomics of nitrite oxidizers; biological wastewater treatment; molecular and imaging techniques for studying uncultured microorganisms. | University of Vienna Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hongyue Dang Professor | Marine geomicrobiology of N biogeochemical cycling; Environmental and molecular microbiology; Microbe-mediated metal corrosion in marine environment and oil industry. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| José R. de la Torre Assistant Professor | Physiology, diversity, ecology and evolution of ammonia oxidizing archaea. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mike Dempsey Managing Director | Nitrification of water and wastewater; microbial physiology; microbial adhesion; development of expanded and fluidized bed bioprocesses; development of bioprocess monitoring and control strategies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Leon Downing Industry | Nitrification in biofilms; wastewater nitrification; GHG emissions from nitrification/denitrification processes; simulataneous nitrification and denitrification is wastewater systems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rebecca Ferrell Professor | Nitrification in constructed sewage treatment wetlands. Characterization of nitrifiers from the environment. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chris Francis Assistant Professor | Molecular, biochemical, and ecological aspects of the microbial geochemical cycling of nitrogen and metals in the environment. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
David Graham Professor | Biogeochemistry and in situ methane oxidation. Fate and migration of antibiotic resistance genes and organisms in receiving waters and sediments. Energy minimization of industrial and domestic waste treatment. Engineering biology and non-linear dynamics. Biogeography of functional genes in nutrient-cycling in urban landscapes. | Newcastle University United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ramesh Goel Assistant Professor | General nutrient removal, bacteriophages, biomass reduction and estrogen degradation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ji-Dong Gu Associate Professor | Nitrogen transformation in the environment. | The University of Hong Kong PR China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ji-Zheng He Professor | Structure and distribution of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in different types of soils and their responses to changed soil conditions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gerhard Herndl Professor | Microbial oceanography, geochemistry. | Vienna Ecology Center Austria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William J. Hickey Professor | Soil microbiology and biochemistry. | Micorobial Oceanography on the anaerobic ammonia oxidation (anammox),ammonia oxidation of archaea (AOA) and anaerobic oxidation methane (AOM) in the South China sea and mangrove wetland. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alan B. Hooper Professor | Microbial Biochemistry; Redox Proteins; N-Oxidation; Microbial Detoxification. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jun Huang Professor | Heterotrophic nitrifiers, mechanism of nitrification and denitrification, application of bacteria in wastewater treatment. | Chengdu Institute of Biology, CAS P. R. China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mike S.M. Jetten Professor, Director | Ecology and physiology of (anaerobic) micro-organisms, anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox), nitrogen and sulfur conversion, physiological role of redox enzymes, application of bacteria, phylogeny of micro-organisms, C1 metabolism, compartimentation in prokaryotes, amino acid production. | Radboud University, Nijmegen The Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Matthew D. Kane Program Director | The diversity, ecology, systematics, evolution, physiology and comparative genomics of microorganisms, microbial consortia and communities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Martin Klotz Professor | Molecular evolution of bacterial genes, gene clusters and genomes that participate in the nitrogen cycle and confer oxidative stress tolerance. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ariel Kushmaro Assistant Professor | Nitrogen removal in wastewater, Nitrification in coral, and Archaeal ammonia oxidation.. | Ben-Gurion University Israel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hendrikus J. Laanbroek Professor, Director | Microbial Ecology. The role of microbial diversity in geochemical cycles. Ammonia-oxidising bacteria. | NIOO-KNAW The Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank W. Larimer Professor (Research) | Microbial genomics, with emphasis on genome structure: operon, regulon, and supra-regulon organization; genome organization; and genome evolution. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nancy G. Love Professor and Chair | Ammonia oxidizer-directed biotransformation, and the stress responses in and ecological dynamics of ammonia oxidizers and nitrite oxidizers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
N. J. Manju Senior Research Fellow | Microbiology of nitrification. Microbial ecology of marine nitrification. Comammox and Anammox processes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
David Myrold Professor | Soil microbial ecology, nitrogen cycling in soils, linkages between microbial community structure and function in soils. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tatsunori Nakagawa Assistant Professor | Nitrifying archaea, Ammonia and nitrite oxidizing bacteria, microbial ecology,Nitrification in marine and soil.. | Nihon University Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graeme Nicol Advanced Research Fellow | Soil microbiology, diversity and ecology of ammonia oxidising archara and bacteria, nitrification in soil. | University of Aberdeen Scotland, UK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jeanette M. Norton Professor | Soil microbiology. Nitrification. Genomics. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Satoshi Okabe Associate Professor | Ecology and physiology of autotrophic nitrifying biofilms. Water Quality Control Engineering. | Hokkaido University Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hee-Deung Park Assistant Professor | Environmental biotechnology. | Korea University Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hoa Pham Research Scientist | The nitrogen cycle in marine aquaculture; microbiology. | Research Institute for Marine Fisheries Vietnam Franck Poly Research Scientist Physiology, diversity, ecology of nitrite oxidizing bacteria in soil. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jonathan Pressman Research Scientist | Drinking water distribution system nitrification. | EPA USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
James Prosser Professor | Molecular evolution of bacterial genes, gene clusters and genomes that participate in the nitrogen cycle and confer oxidative stress tolerance. | University of Aberdeene United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Luis Sayavedra-Soto Associate Professor (Research) | Molecular biology, biochemistry and physiology of microorganisms in the nitrogen cycle. | Christa Schleper Professor | Stress response in hyperthermophilic archaea; development of genetic tools for hyperthermophiles, biodiversity and ecology of archaea, environmental genomics: developing tools for the study of uncultivated archaea and bacteria | University of Vienna Austria |
Carsten U. Schwermer Aquateam's employee | Nitrification, denitrification, anaerobic sludge digestion, coupling of nitrogen and sulfur cycles, microsensors, oil field ecology and biogeochemistry, microbial biofilms, corrosion | Holly M. Simon Assistant Professor | Microbial interactions and ecology; environmental genomics; ecophysiology of mesophilic Crenarchaeota. | Barth F. Smets Professor | Interaction between aerobic and anaerobic ammonium oxidation, molecular ecology and biotechnology, interaction between autotrophic nitrifiers and heterotrophs, intermediates in nitrification/denitrification, N removal biofilms, redox gradients, interaction between nitrifiers and trace organic pollutants, greenhouse gasses, process kinetics. | Richard L. Smith Research Scientist | Carbon and nitrogen cycling processes in aquatic environments, biogeochemistry, groundwater microbiology, nitrification, denitrification. | Robert C. Smith Industry | Nitrification/denitrification reactor design. Bioaugmentation. | Eva Spieck Assistant Professor | Ammonia and nitrite oxidizing bacteria, nitrifying archaea, taxonomy and physiology, microbial ecology, nitrification in extreme habitats | Universität Hamburg. Germany |
David A. Stahl Professor | General Microbial Ecology; Applied Microbial Ecology; Microbial Evolution and Systematics | Lisa Y. Stein Associate Professor | Molecular physiology and ecology of ammonia and methane oxidizing bacteria. Influence of microbial metabolism on greenhouse gas production. | University of Alberta CANADA |
Sung-Keun Rhee Associate Professor | Archaeal nitrification; anaerobic respiration. | Chungbuk National University South Korea |
Yuichi Suwa Professor | Analysis of total microbial community structure and predominant nitrifying population in nitrifying activated sudges by molecular methods | Chuo University Japan |
Marc Strous Assistant Professor | Physiology, ecology and evolution of chemolithoautotrophs and planctomycetes. Relation between biochemistry, cell biology, and ecological niche (for bacteria). Applications of micro-organisms in solving environmental problems | Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands |
Akihiko Terada Assistant Professor | Linking microbial ecology and nitrification (or partial ammonia oxidation) performance of engineered systems like activated sludge and biofilm reactors. | Eric Tripplet Professor and Chair | The regulation of the abundance and diversity of ammonia oxidizing archaea. | Hidetoshi Urakawa Associate Professor | Ecology and physiology of nitrifiers. | Ocean Research Institute The University of Tokyo |
Michael Wagner Professor | Identity and ecophysiology of microorganisms within selected environmental systems and their interactions among each other and with eukaryotes. | University of Vienna Austria |
Microbial Ecology, Oceanography, Geochemistry. | Biological treatment for drinking water, especially the technology and mechanism to remove ammonia from source water. | Geomicrobiology and biogeochemistry of Archaea. | |||||||||||
Postdoctors
Ecology of estuarine nitrogen cycling. CSIRO Australia Soil nitrification in New Zealand grazed pastures; Climate change; Nitrification inhibitors; Nitrifiers. AgResearch New Zealand Manuela Di Lorenzo Genomics of nitrifying bacteria. Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) The Netherlands James Hemp Ecology and evolution of aerobic respiration.
Evolution of the nitrogen cycle.
Physiology and ecology of AOB and AOA.
Heme-copper oxidoreductase superfamily. Boran Kartal Ecophysiology, biochemistry and proteomics of aerobic and anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria. Application of these processes in nutrient removal from wastewater streams. University of Nijmegen The Netherlands Ecophysiology of nitrifying crenarchaea. Paleomicrobiology. Universität Oldenburg Germany Willm Martens-Habbena Diversity, ecophysiology and cultivation of microorganisms, microbial biogeochemistry. Pierre Offre The role of mesophilic crenarchaea in soil nitrification.. The University of Aberdeen UK (Scotland) Ammonia oxidizing acteria, ammonia oxidizing archaea, biological nutrient removal, molecular biology, biosensors, nanoparticle toxicity, and biofilm. Alyson Santoro Molecular ecology and physiology of nitrifying bacteria and archaea in marine systems. Elena Stoica Ecological roles of planktonic archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidizers in the marine/oceanic nitrogen cycle. Separating the ammonia-oxidizing activities of bacteria and archaea in soils | Genomics, bioinformatics, molecular microbiology, comparative genomics and regulatory networks. | Drinking water distribution system nitrification. | Relative contribution of archaea and bacteria to nitrification in sediments of eutrophic freshwater lake and regulating factors of nitrification in eutrophic lakes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Graduate Students Expanded bed technology and nitrification of wastewater, particulate biofilm involved in nitrification, the effect of biofilm thickness on nitrification rates and nitrification of oil refinery wastewater. Manchester Metropolitan University United Kingdom Interested on constructed wetlands to remove nitrogen using different water levels. Tigray Water Bureau Ethiopia Nitrogen removal through biological wastewater treatments, anaerobic nitrification, ANAMMOX. Nitrification of high-strength ammonia wastewater, genomics of nitrification, and agronomic use of nitrified effluents. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Molecular ecology of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea; evolution of some genes related to nitrification. The University of Hong Kong P. R. China The impact of nitrification on the formation of regions of hypoxia in Lake Erie. Microbial ecology of nitrifiers using moleculat tools like FISH,DGGE, cloning etc. Molecular analysis of nitrogen transformation microorganisms like Anammox, AOB and AOA in various environments. Nitrification under environmental stress. McGill University Canada Biochemistry of nitrifying bacteria.. Nitrification using aerobic attached growth process.Interested in Rotating Biological Contactors. Cochin University of Science and Technology India Anammox and AOA processes in mangrove wetland and coastal sediments. The University of Hong Kong P.R. China The biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen. Microbial nitrogen cycling in estuaries, molecular microbial ecology of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria, cultivation and physiology of ammonia-oxidizing archaea. Partial nitrification and nitrogen removal in Membrane-Aerated biofilm reactors. Characterization/control of biofilms for partial nitrification/nitrogen removal. DTU Environment Denmark The use of nitrifying biomass to degrade estrogens and other emerging contaminants of concern. The effect of heterotrophic community changes on a nitrifying community. Microbial Ecology, Soil Science. Shandong University China Nitrification in extreme environments, such as hyper arid soils and contaminated soils | Ammonia oxidizing bacteria in biofilms. | Microbiology of nitrification, eco-physiology of marine nitrifying consortia, artificial microbial consortia, biological waste water treatment. Bioremediation. | Molecular microbial ecology of nitrifiers and denitrifiers in marine/brackish environments, isolation of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. | University of Helsinki Finland |
Microbial ecology, interactions and metabolic pathways of ammonia-oxidizing archaea. | Anammox in the sediment and rhizosphere of paddy fields under different fertilization practices. | The University of Hong Kong P.R. China |
Molecular microbial ecology of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in biological nutrient removal systems, microbial biogeography, sustainable wastewater treatment processes. | Microbial interaction and ecology; ammonia oxidation in freshwater and sediment. | Application of nitrification in treatment of high-strength ammonium wastewater. | Universiti Putra Malaysia Malaysia |
