Advancing environmental biotechnology with microbial community modeling rooted in functional 'omics

P Sampara, CE Lawson, MJ Scarborough… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Many environmental biotechnologies are driven by diverse microbiomes.•Current
environmental process models do not account for physiological diversity.•New modeling …

Direct interspecies electron transfer for environmental treatment and chemical electrosynthesis: A review

Z Fang, Y Huang, S Tang, Q Fan, Y Zhang… - Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Microbial electric syntrophy, involving direct electron transfer between electron-donating
strains and electron-accepting strains, could reduce more than 50% of methane emissions …

[HTML][HTML] Resilience towards organic load and activated sludge variations in co-fermentation for carboxylic acid production

N Perez-Esteban, J Vives-Egea, J Dosta, S Astals… - Bioresource …, 2024 - Elsevier
Two perturbations were investigated in acidogenic co-fermentation of waste activated
sludge (WAS) and food waste in continuous mesophilic fermenters: increasing the organic …

Distinct Mechanisms between Free Iron Species and Magnetite Addition in Anaerobic Digestion on Alleviating Ammonia Inhibition

XF Dai, Y Bai, SJ Lian, XJ Qi, K Feng, SF Fu… - ACS ES&T …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ammonia inhibition often occurs during anaerobic digestion (AD) of the protein-rich
substrate. Iron-containing substances were proved to be efficient in alleviating the ammonia …

Lineage-dependent partitioning of activities in chemoclines defines Woesearchaeota ecotypes in an extreme aquatic ecosystem

LA Cloarec, T Bacchetta, M Bruto, C Leboulanger… - Microbiome, 2024 - Springer
Background DPANN archaea, including Woesearchaeota, encompass a large fraction of the
archaeal diversity, yet their genomic diversity, lifestyle, and role in natural microbiomes …

Conductive materials and applied potential to augment methanogenesis for biogas upgradation: Acidogenic synergy, CO2 dynamics and sustainability analysis

S Singh, T Mukherjee, SV Mohan - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
Methane (CH 4) and carbon dioxide (CO 2) make up the majority of the raw biogas
produced by anaerobic digestion (AD). Increasing the process intensity by concurrently …

Response of Exogenous and Indigenous Microorganisms in Alleviating Acetate–Ammonium Coinhibition during Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion

C Yang, P He, H Zhang, F Lü - ACS ES&T Engineering, 2024 - ACS Publications
Bioaugmentation can alleviate the inhibition of acids and ammonia by introducing functional
strains in anaerobic digesters, but there is an urgent need to develop functional strains that …

Top-down and bottom-up microbiome engineering approaches to enable biomanufacturing from waste biomass

X Lyu, M Nuhu, P Candry, J Wolfanger… - Journal of Industrial …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Growing environmental concerns and the need to adopt a circular economy have
highlighted the importance of waste valorization for resource recovery. Microbial consortia …

MetaPathways v3. 5: Modularity and Scalability Improvements for Pathway Inference from Environmental Genomes

R McLaughlin, TX Liu, T Altman, AN Nallan, A Hahn… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Over the past decade MetaPathways has advanced as a modular pipeline for constructing
environmental pathway genome databases (ePGDBs), increasing our understanding of …

[BOOK][B] The Impact of Energy Availability and Substrate Complexity on Anaerobic Microbial Communities in Marine Sediment

S Lim - 2024 - thesis.library.caltech.edu
This thesis probes the interplay of organic matter complexity (Chapters 1 and 2) and local
redox gradients (Chapter 3) with the community structure and function of the anaerobic …