Sunday, 11 April |
19:00 | Welcome Reception and Conference Pre-Registration |
Monday, 12 April: Conference Day One |
07:30 | Registration and Coffee |
09:00 | Opening by Mogens Henze, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark |
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General Session |
09:10 |
Keynote Presentation: Are microbial diversity and system stability correlated?
Jim Tiedje, Michigan State University, USA |
09:50 |
Keynote Presentation: Molecular detection of pathogens in water – the do’s and don’ts. WEBCAST AVAILABLE Rosina Girones, University of Barcelona, Spain |
10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Parallel Session 1 – Microbial ecology for sustainable water and wastewater treatment |
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Parallel Session 2 – Shifting paradigms in assessment of recreational water quality |
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Microbial Diversity and Community Dynamics
Chair: Kartik Chandran, Columbia University, USA |
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Pathogens in Water: Absent or Present?
Chair: Nick Ashbolt, US Environmental Protection Agency, USA |
11:00 |
Revealing biological complexity in drinking water treatment through transcriptional profiling
of model bacteria: the role of non-specific and conserved stress responses WEBCAST AVAILABLE
D. Berry, University of Vienna, Austria |
11:00 |
Survival of infectious prions in water
S. L. Miles, University of Arizona, USA |
11:20 |
Analyzing the assumptions of structure-function studies using molecular biological
techniques: challenges in determining causation WEBCAST AVAILABLE
F.L. de los Reyes III, North Carolina State University, USA |
11:20 |
Bacteriophages infecting the pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain in coastal waters
and their possible effect on the extent of seafood related diarrhea outbreaks
R.T. Espejo, University of Chile, Chile |
11:40 |
Clade-level variation in key bacteria is associated with community composition and ecosystem function in enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) systems WEBCAST AVAILABLE
F.R. Slater, The University of Queensland, Australia |
11:40 |
A framework for ambient water quality WEBCAST AVAILABLE
G. McBride, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand |
12:00 |
Predominance of ammonia-oxidizing archaea on granular activated carbon used in a full-scale advanced drinking water treatment plant WEBCAST AVAILABLE
I. Kasuga, The University of Tokyo, Japan |
12:00 |
Estimating the primary etiologic agents in freshwater recreational waters impacted by human sources of fecal contamination
Jeffrey A. Soller, Soller Environmental LLC, USA
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12:20 |
Lunch |
12:20 |
Lunch |
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Drinking Water Microbiology
Chair: Lutgarde Raskin, University of Michigan, USA |
14:30 |
Identifying Sources of Microbial Pollution
Chair: tbc |
| 13:50 |
Keynote Presentation: How to live at a very low substrate concentration WEBCAST AVAILABLE
Thomas Egli, Eawag, Switzerland |
13:50 |
Keynote Presentation: Microbial source tracking – how reliable and how quantitative?
Dr. Orin Shanks, US EPA |
14:30 |
Quantification and identification of phylogenetically different subclusters of Nitrosomonas oligotropha in chloraminated drinking water distribution systems by quantitative PCR (qPCR) WEBCAST AVAILABLE
J.A. Starke, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
14:30 |
Application of Microbial Source Tracking to River Pollution Monitoring in England and France: Outcomes of Initial Pilot Catchment Studies WEBCAST AVAILABLE
H. Taylor, University of Brighton, United Kingdom |
14:50 |
Influence of water composition, distance and season on the ATP concentration in water and
sediment in the distribution systems of unchlorinated water supplies in the Netherlands WEBCAST AVAILABLE
P.W.J.J. van der Wielen, KWR Watercycle Research Institute, The Netherlands |
14:50 |
Hypothesis-driven identification of faecal pollution sources in mountainous water resources used for recreational purposes WEBCAST AVAILABLE
G.H. Reischer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria |
15:10 |
Microbial Community Structure and Function in a Fixed-bed Bioreactor System used for Simultaneous Removal of Nitrate and Arsenic from Drinking Water WEBCAST AVAILABLE
G. Upadhyaya, University of Michigan, USA |
15:10 |
Development of Microbial and Chemical MST Tools to Identify the Origin of the Faecal Pollution in Bathing and Shellfish Harvesting Waters in France WEBCAST AVAILABLE
M. Gourmelon, Ifremer, Plouzané, France |
15:30 |
Development of a bioassay to estimate the growth potential of pathogenic bacteria in
different types of water WEBCAST AVAILABLE
Marius Vital, Eawag, Switzerland |
15:30 |
Mining for new alternative indicators of human feacal pollution using next generation sequencing technologies
S.L. McLellan, Great Lakes Water Institute, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, USA |
15:50 |
Coffee Break |
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General Session |
16:20 |
Keynote Presentation: Catchment dynamics and microbial pollution WEBCAST AVAILABLE
David Kay, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom |
17:00 |
Poster Session |
| Tuesday, 13 April: Conference Day Two |
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General Session
Chair: Jim Tiedje, Michigan State University, USA |
09:00 |
Keynote Presentation: If not fecal indicator bacteria, then what?
Joan Rose, Michigan State University, USA |
09:40 |
Keynote Presentation: How to search for new microbial activities WEBCAST AVAILABLE
Marc Strous, MPI for Marine Microbiology, Germany |
10:20 |
Coffee Break |
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Parallel Session 1 – Microbial ecology for sustainable water and wastewater treatment |
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Parallel Session 2 – Shifting paradigms in assessment of recreational water quality |
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Microbial Conversions
Chair: Milton Costa, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal |
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Transport and catchment analysis
Chair: Rosina Girones, University of Barcelona, Spain |
10:50 |
Competition between two types of PHA producing bacteria WEBCAST AVAILABLE
Y. Jiang, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
10:50 |
Keynote Presentation: Sources, fate, and transport of pathogen indicators at the land-sea interface: the role of sediments and groundwater
Alexandria Boehm, Stanford University, USA |
11:20 |
Partial bioaugmentation and effect of 3-Chloroaniline on microbial community dynamics in membrane bioreactors WEBCAST AVAILABLE
S. Wuertz, University of California, Davis, USA |
11:30 |
Incorporating growth and mutation into enteric bacteria fate and transport models
F.L. Hellweger, Northeastern University, USA |
11:30 |
Microbial Community Dynamics during Acclimatisation of Activated Sludge for Micropollutant Biodegradation WEBCAST AVAILABLE
B. Almeida, IBET/ITQB, Portugal |
11:50 |
Catchment Scale Microbiological Pollution Assessments: the Contribution of Sanitary Surveys
C. Campos, Cefas, United Kingdom |
11:50 |
Anaerobic LCFA degradation: a role for non-syntrophic conversions?
D.Z. Sousa, University of Minho, Portugal |
12:10 |
Predicting Microbial Pollution Concentrations in UK Rivers in Response to Land Use Change WEBCAST AVAILABLE
D.I. Hampson, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom |
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12:30 |
The Use of Biological Indicators for Water Quality Assessment in South Africa
M.S. Liphadzi, Water Research Commission, South Africa |
12:10 |
Lunch |
12:50 |
Lunch |
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Wastewater Microbiology
Chair: Maria Reis, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
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Bathing Water Quality
Chair: David Kay, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom |
13:40 |
Keynote Presentation: Combining microbial diversity and modelling of activated sludge WEBCAST AVAILABLE
Per Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark |
13:40 |
Keynote Presentation: Predicting health risks from recreational water contact WEBCAST AVAILABLE
Nick Ashbolt, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, United States |
14:20 |
Enzymatic Quorum Quenching: paradigm shift in biofouling control in a membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment
C.H. Lee, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea |
14:20 |
Association of Illness and Recreational Water Exposure During Non-Advisory conditions at an Inland U.S. Beach
J. Lee, Ohio State University, USA |
14:40 |
Incorporating Microbial Ecology into the Metabolic Modelling of Polyphosphate Accumulating Organisms and Glycogen Accumulating Organisms WEBCAST AVAILABLE
A. Oehmen, REQUIMTE/CQFB Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
14:40 |
New Methods for the Rapid Monitoring of Faecal Contamination in Bathing Water WEBCAST AVAILABLE
S. Courtois, Suez Environment, France |
15:00 |
Linking biofilm structure and function using a pair cross-correlation function model WEBCAST AVAILABLE
N. Mabrouk, Cemagref, France |
15:00 |
Methodology to elaborate the bathing water profile in urban beaches: the case of Santander (Spain) beaches WEBCAST AVAILABLE
I. López Martínez, Environmental Hydraulics Institute, University of Cantabria, Spain |
15:20 |
Integrating mathematical modelling and ‘molecular’ measurements of microbial biomass and in situ growth rates of filaments in activated sludge
F.L. de los Reyes III, North Carolina State University, USA |
15:20 |
Combining Modelling Tools and Automatic Monitoring Systems To Predict Bathing Water Quality in the Scope of the Bathing Water Profile Definition, Proposed by Directive 2006/07/CE WEBCAST AVAILABLE
C. Viegas, MARETEC-Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal |
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General Session |
15:40 |
Coffee Break and Poster Session |
| 19:00 |
Gala |
Wednesday, 14 April: Conference Day Three |
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Molecular Ecology
Chair: Per Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark |
09:00 |
Keynote Presentation: Azotomics - Interrogation of microbial structure and function of the global nitrogen cycle WEBCAST AVAILABLE
Kartik Chandran, Columbia University, USA |
09:40 |
Comparative Phylogenetic Analyses of Heterotrophic Communities in Nitrifying Reactors not Receiving an External Organic Carbon Source WEBCAST AVAILABLE
L.S.Y. Yilmaz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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10:00 |
Recent developments in the microbial ecology of filamentous bacteria
Z.A. Dyson, La Trobe University, Australia |
10:20 |
Revealing the diversity and function of Chloroflexi, the most important filamentous bacteria present in nutrient removal wastewater treatment plants WEBCAST AVAILABLE
C. Kragelund, Aalborg University, Denmark |
10:40 |
Diversity and molecular activity biomarkers of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria WEBCAST AVAILABLE
H. Park, Columbia University, USA |
11:00 |
Coffee Break |
11:30 |
General Discussion of Conference Outcome
Chair: Mark van Loosdrecht, Delft University of Technology and KWR Watercycle Research, The Netherlands and Stefan Wuertz, University of California, Davis, USA |
12:10 |
Conference Chair – Final Words |
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12:15 |
Conference Close |
