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Linking bacterial population dynamics and nutrient removal in the granular sludge biofilm ecosystem engineered for wastewater treatment

Christof Holliger, David Gregory Weissbrodt, Noam Shani

Intensive nutrient removal from wastewater in anaerobic–aerobic systems using granular sludge should rely on optimal balances at biofilm and microbial ecology levels. This study targets the impacts of reactor characteristics and fluctuations in operation c ...

Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford2014

Impact Assessment of Pumping Parameters on Groundwater Bacterial Communities

Christof Holliger, Guillaume Laulan, Pierre Rossi, Noam Shani

Groundwater microbial community samples are traditionally collected using pumping techniques optimized for groundwater chemistry assessment, although the impact of groundwater pumping parameters on apparent bacterial community structures (BCSs) is not real ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Correlations between environmental variables and bacterial community structures suggest Fe(III) and vinyl chloride reduction as antagonistic terminal electron-accepting processes

Christof Holliger, Pierre Rossi, Noam Shani

Natural attenuation of anaerobic aquifers contaminated with tetrachloroethene (PCE) often results in the accumulation of the intermediates cis-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride (VC) which are even more toxic than the parent compound. Reasons for this accum ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Assessing the Bacterial Ecology of Organohalide Respiration for the Design of Bioremediation Strategies

Noam Shani

Groundwater is essential for human activities and is sometimes referred to as a non-renewable resource in the same way as oil and gas. During the past century, precious groundwater reserves worldwide have been threatened by anthropogenic release of chemica ...

EPFL2012

Ecology and Biogeography of Bacterial Communities Associated with Chloroethene-Contaminated Aquifers

Christof Holliger, Pierre Rossi, Noam Shani

Massive usage, along with careless handling, storage, spills, and leakages made chloroethenes (CEs) one of the most abundant classes of groundwater contaminants. Anaerobic organohalide respiring bacteria (OHRB) can couple reductive dechlorination of CEs wi ...

Frontiers Media SA2012

PyroTRF-ID: a novel bioinformatics methodology for the affiliation of terminal-restriction fragments using 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing data

Christof Holliger, Julien Maillard, David Gregory Weissbrodt, Lucas Sinclair, Pierre Rossi, Noam Shani, Jacques Rougemont

Background: In molecular microbial ecology, massive sequencing is gradually replacing classical fingerprinting techniques such as terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) combined with cloning-sequencing for the characterization of microb ...

BioMed Central2012

Characterization of Groundwater Microbial Communities, Dechlorinating Bacteria, and In Situ Biodegradation of Chloroethenes Along a Vertical Gradient

Pierre Rossi, Noam Shani

The variability of hydrogeochemical conditions can affect groundwater microbial communities and the natural attenuation of organic chemicals in contaminated aquifers. It is suspected that in situ biodegradation in anoxic plumes of chloroethenes depends on ...

2011