Advances in the Application of Molecular Biology to Biological Water Treatment Processes
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiome; microbial ecology; virome; microbiota; quantification of target genes; environmental bioengineering; wastewater; aerobic granular sludge; anammox
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Interests: biodiversity of microorganisms from extreme environments; microbial commu-nity structure and composition; microbial taxonomy; production of microbial enzymes and metabolites
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increase in consumption of freshwater and the rising contamination of this resource focus on the importance of developing new economically and environmentally sustainable treatments to mitigate the pollution. In this way, ecological engineering based on comprehension of the microbiome and their relationship to the modifying operational conditions is critical for the development and optimization of biological treatment technologies. This Special Issue seeks to highlight the strengths, challenges, and opportunities we face when we apply biological molecular tools to elucidate the processes occurring during the water and wastewater treatment. Culture-independent methods and the application of -omics for the microbial identification provided innovative vision about the metabolic, biochemical, and genetic aspects within bioprocesses for pollutant degradation, such as nutrient and pharmaceutical removal. In fact, nowadays, the operational features of biological water treatment are driven by the optimal conditions for the growth of target microorganisms or microbial consortia able to carry out specific metabolic pathways and enzyme production, among others. Given the novelty of topics, further efforts must be invested to cover the lack of knowledge about the microbial patterns and their functionalities. Therefore, we welcome original articles presenting recent findings, but not limited to, on the following topics:
- Metagenomics analysis of bioprocesses;
- Metatranscriptomic exploration in biological applications;
- Unraveling metabolomics for biomonitoring;
- Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in water and water treatment;
- Virome characterization.
Dr. Bárbara Muñoz Palazón
Dr. Susanna Gorrasi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metagenomics
- metatranscriptomic
- metabolomic
- high-throughput sequencing
- CRISPR
- molecular biology
- biological wastewater treatment
- biological water treatment
- ecological engineering
