Purification and recycling of waste water is an issue that is receiving more and more attention. Algae can accumulate large quantities of nitrate or phosphate, for example, and thus have the potential to clean agricultural effluents as well as to be used as nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers. A BioSC workshop on this topic with international participation took place at Forschungszentrum Jülich on September 6 and 7, 2018.
BioSC Workshop 2018 website
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Workgroup Rapporteurs
Lectures Session I: Algae - N/P/C uptake and storage biology
Session chair: SALIH, Anya, Univ. Western Sydney, Australia
Engineering algae for optimum nutrient recycling –what do we need and what is possible?
Imperial College, London, UK
Mechanisms of luxury phosphorus uptake in microalgae
SOLOVCHENKO, Alexei
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
A model of phosphate metabolism in Chlorella vulgaris
METTLER-ALTMANN, Tabea
Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
Biofertilisation potential of the diazotrophic cyanobacteria Anabaena
VALTON, Marine
Imperial College, London, UK
Managing nitrogen metabolism in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 to increase fertilization efficiencies
PERIN, Giorgio
Imperial College, London, UK
Microalgal lipids, high-value products
KHOZIN-GOLDBERG, Inna
Ben Gurion University, S’de Boqer, Israel
Lectures Session II: Methods for measuring N/P/C reserves
Session chair: NEDBAL, Ladislav, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Confocal Raman microscopy of microalgae, identification, detection and quantification of energy-and nutrient-storing pools, and crystalline inclusions at a single-cell level
MOJZEŠ, Peter
Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic
31P-NMR introduction and applications
WILLBOLD, Sabine
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Microsensing and confocal in situ imaging of energy storage in microalgae focusing on Symbiodinium of reef corals
University of Western Sydney, Australia
Lectures Session III: Algae cultivation systems and protocols
Session chair: CAMARGO-VALERO, Miller Alonso, University of Leeds, UK
Immobilisation of microalgae: a promising tool for waste-water treatment and biochemical production
KOSOUROV, Sergey, ALLAHVERDIYEVA, Yagut
University of Turku, Finland
Large scale algal production
VONSHAK, Avigad
Ben Gurion University, S’de Boqer, Israel
Algal turf scrubbing for wastewater treatment and agriculture
Smithonian Institution, USA
Growth physiology of Chlamydopodium fusiforme cultivated in a mineral medium and pig wastewater
TORZILLO, Guiseppe
Ben Gurion University, S’de Boqer, Israel
Closing cycles from wastewater by microalgae-bacteria consortia: opportunities vs. risks
Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, NL
Lectures Session IV: Waste water
Session chair: CALAHAN, Dean, Smithonian Institution, USA
Microalgae and cyanobacteria for wastewater treatment in waste stabilization ponds in tropical and temperate climate countries
University of Leeds, UK
Reducing the effluent nutrient concentration of municipal wastewater treatment plants using microalgae and considering further biomass application
THEILEN, Ulf, WAWILOW, Tatjana, HASPORT, Nils
University of Applied Sciences, Giessen, Germany
Lectures Session V: Closing the cycles to soil fertilization and soil conditioning
Session chair: JONES, Patrik R., Imperial College, London, UK
Interactions of algal biostimulants with plant microbiome
BALDASSARRE-ŠVECOVÁ, Eva
Institute of Botany, Praha, Czech Republic
Role of biological soil crusts in C and N enrichment in arid soils
ADESSI, Alessandra
University of Florence, Italy
Phosphorus uptake by algae and experimental use of algal biomass for fertilization of marginal soils
NEDBAL, Ladislav Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany