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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Dr M. Laureni
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Michele Laureni\n13:30 – 14:30 – Dr Michele Laureni\nPo
 stdoctoral researcher\, Delft University of Technology\, The Netherlands\n
 \nMicrobiome engineering for wastewater-centred environmental resource bio
 recovery\n\nMicrobial communities (“microbiomes”) drive global nutrien
 t cycles\, shape our diets and health\, and are the beating heart of biote
 chnologies of invaluable societal and environmental relevance\, such as wa
 stewater treatment plants (WWTP) and the anaerobic recovery of biogas from
  organic residues. Rapid advancements in high-throughput and cultivation-i
 ndependent genome sequencing are disclosing unprecedented biotechnological
  opportunities by illuminating the immense diversity and metabolic reperto
 ire of natural and engineered microbiomes. Yet\, our current system-level 
 understanding of the mechanisms controlling how different microorganisms a
 re selected and interact remains limited\, greatly hindering our ability t
 o fully harness microbiomes function. In my lecture\, I will discuss the p
 otential central role of WWTP in the development and wide adoption of grou
 nd-breaking biotechnologies for environmental resource biorecovery. Also\,
  I will advocate for the establishment of novel systems microbiology appro
 aches to resolve metabolic interactions in complex communities. Based on m
 y own research\, I will start by focussing on the microbial metabolism tha
 t is paving the way for enhanced carbon recovery and energy-efficiency in 
 WWTP. Next\, I will discuss the potential of the integration of metagenomi
 cs and metaproteomics to streamline rational bioengineering to commoditize
  materials from diverse organic feedstocks. Also\, an underlying motif of 
 my lecture will be the importance of elucidating general ecological princi
 ples to understand the responses of the global biosphere to a rapidly chan
 ging climate. Ultimately\, I seek to highlight the need for the involvemen
 t of society at large to accelerate fundamental knowledge transfer into ap
 plication towards the transition to a circular\, bio-based and resilient s
 ociety.\n\n\nShort bio:\nTrained as an environmental engineer\, Michele La
 ureni holds a PhD in process engineering from ETH (Swiss Federal Institute
  of Technology in Zurich) and Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sc
 ience and Technology)\, where he worked under the supervision of Prof. E. 
 Morgenroth and Dr. A. Joss. After graduating\, Michele obtained a Marie Sk
 łodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to join the Environmental Biotechnol
 ogy group\, led by Prof. M.C.M. van Loosdrecht at TUD (Delft University of
  Technology)\, with a joint appointment at Aalborg University in the group
  of Prof. J. L. Nielsen. Currently\, Michele is developing his own indepen
 dent research at TUD as a Dutch Research Council (NWO) VENI Laureate\, and
  is co-supervising five PhD students. His work aims to understand how mixe
 d microbial communities assemble and function\, and to translate this fund
 amental knowledge into community engineering principles. To this end\, Mic
 hele integrates advanced microbiological methods with bioreactors and math
 ematical modelling. Also\, he is now leading a national research program w
 ith the Dutch waterboards to apply proteome-based approaches to resolve th
 e metabolic network underlying nitrogen turnover during full-scale wastewa
 ter treatment.\n\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61589268768
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