Invitation to (invitation in Japanese here)

the COE Symposium on

Microbial Community and Functions in Wastewater Treatment Processes

March 10 - 11, 1998
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Organized by
The Center of Excellence (COE) Project on
Establishment and Evaluation of
Advanced Water Treatment Technology Systems
Using Functions of
Complex Microbial Community

Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering
The University of Tokyo

The COE Project

The Ministry of Education, Japan, started the program of "Center of Excellence" in 1995 to develop international academic centers in specific research fields. Under this program a COE project entitled "Establishment and Evaluation of Advan-ced Water Treatment Technology Systems Using Functions of Complex Microbial Community" was initiated in 1996 by Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering, the University of Tokyo. The project is expected to continue for 5 years, and aims to understand microbial structures and functions of biological water and wastewater treatment processes and to integrate engineering and microbiology for the development of efficient and safe water management systems.

Objective of Symposium

In the design and operation of wastewater treatment processes (WWTP), better and precise under-standing of biological nature and characteristics is necessary to meet with recent advanced and compli-cated needs such as nitrogen and/or phosphorus removal and bulking control. Innovative methods for microbial community analysis including vari-ous molecular techniques have been developed, which can be efficiently applied to analyze the microbial structures and functions of WWTP. The present symposium focuses on these new methodo-logies as well as traditional ones for microbial community analysis and their application to understand WWTP microbial communities.

March 10, Tuesday

Opening Session (8:45-10:10)

Chairman : Ohgaki S.

"Opening address" : Hasumi S. (President, the University of Tokyo) (5 min)

"Introduction" : Matsuo T. (UT) : Opening address and introduction to the COE project (20 min)

Keynote address : D. Jenkins (USA) : From TSS to FISH (and beyond) - the past, the present and the future of activated sludge population dynamics (60 min)

<Coffee Break (10:10-10:40)>

Session 1 (10:40-15:30)

Methodology of Microbial Community

Analysis
Chairman : Mino T.

1.1 Satoh H. (UT) : Diversity of microorganisms in activated sludge processes in metabolisms of substrate uptake (40 min)

1.2 P.H.Nielsen (Denmark) : Autoradiography for in situ analysis of microbial community structure in wastewater treatment processes (40 min)

<Lunch Break (12:00-13:30)>

1.3 Hiraishi A. (Toyohashi U Tech) : Biomarker and molecular approaches to microbial community analysis. (40 min)

1.4 D. Stahl (USA) : Combined nucleic acid hybridization methods to characterize community structure and activity (40 min)

Discussion (40 min) (Moderator : Mino T.)

<Coffee Break (15:30-16:00)>

Session 2 (16:00-18:20)

Enhanced Biological Phosphate Removal
Chairman : Satoh H.

2.1 Nakamura K. (Seimei-ken) : Characterization of bacterial community constructing anaerobic / aerobic activated sludge by isolation and cloning of 16S rDNAs. (40 min)

2.2 L. Blackall (Australia) : The microbial diversity of complex consortia in waste treatment processes : correlation between process performance and microbial composition (20 min)

2.3 Mino T. (UT) : Some new aspects of EBPR population dynamics (30 min)

Discussion (50 min) (Moderator : Satoh H.)

Reception (18:30-20:00)

March 11, Wednesday

Session 3 (9:00-10:00)

Short Presentation on Selected Topics Chairman : Yamamoto K.

3.1 Nakajima F. (UT) : Performance and ecology in biomass production from wastewater using photosynthetic bacteria (20 min)

3.2 Okabe N. (Hokkaido U) : Sulfur metabolisms in a biofilm (tentative) (20 min)

3.3 R. Goel (UT) : Hydrolysis of macromolecules in nutrient removal activated sludge processes (20 min)

Session 4 (10:00-12:40)

Activated Sludge Bulking & Foaming

Chairman : Hanaki K.

4.1 Kanagawa T. (Seimei-ken) : Phylogenic analysis of Type 021N isolated from bulking sludge (40 min)

<Coffee Break (10:40-11:10)>

4.2 L. Blackall (Australia) : The diversity of the activated sludge filamentous bacteria Microthrix parvicella, Nostocoida limicola, Type 021N, and the nocardioforms (30 min)

4.3 Mino T. (UT) : Activated sludge bulking and foaming problems in Japan (20 min)

Discussion (40 min) (Moderator : Hanaki K.)

<Lunch Break (12:40-14:00)>

Session 5 (14:00-18:30)

Nitrification and Denitrification for Biological Nitrogen Removal
Chairman : Furumai H.

5.1 Hanaki K. (UT) : Effect of availability of organic matters on nitrous oxide production in denitrifying microbial system. (40 min)

5.2 M. Wagner (Germany) : Polyphasic approach to analyze the natural diversity of nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria in activated sludge and biofilms. (40 min)

5.3 Suwa Y. (Shikan-ken) : Maintaining incompatible nitrification activities for improving nitrification efficiency in wastewater treatment processes; concept, performance and molecular analysis of community structure. (40 min)

<Coffee Break (16:00-16:30)>

5.4 M. Jetten (Netherlands) : Concept, performance and microbial community structure of the SHARON and ANAMMOX processes (40 min)

5.5 Furumai H. (UT) : Nitrogen removal in sequencing batch reactor (20 min)

Discussion (50 min) (Moderator : Furumai H.)

Closing Session (18:20-18:30)

Chairman : Mino T.

Closing address : Matsuo T. (UT)

Venue : Sanjo Conference Hall, the Univ of Tokyo

This hall is located in the Hongo campus of the University of Tokyo, 10 min walk from Hongo San-chome Station of Metro Marunouchi Line.

Registration

No registration fees are payable, but registration in advance is essential for participation. No given registration form is available. To register, the following information should be sent to the secretariat either by fax or by e-mail : name, title, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address (if available).

Secretariat

Fax No.: +81-3-5800-6956
E-mail address : seccoe@env3rd.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

The capacity of the hall is limited and early registration is recommended.

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