Research Pillar 3 - Environmental Biotechnology
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Nireas-IWRC Pillars
- Research Pillar 1 – Water/Wastewater quality, monitoring and treatment
- Research Pillar 2 – Drinking water supply, distribution and management
- Research Pillar 3 – Environmental Biotechnology
- Research Pillar 4 – Subsurface processes and engineering
- Research Pillar 5 – Hydrologic, hydro-geomorphic and hydro-climatic processes
- Research Pillar 6 – Geophysical hydrodynamics
- Research Pillar 7 – Socioeconomic analysis of water-related issues
Research Pillar 3 - Environmental Biotechnology
- Wastewater biotreatment for:
- natural antibiotics production, and
- production of biodegradable and biobased materials
- Omics approaches to connect gene and proteins expression, and metabolites formation to physiological status of biological systems in aquatic environments
- Data-driven kinetic modelling in aquatic environments for:
- quantitative understanding of gene regulatory networks of interest
- prediction of genes’ expression and metabolic activities of biological systems
- prediction of biodegradable and biobased materials’ formation patterns, and
- optimization of wastewater bioprocesses
- Systems and synthetic biology approaches to improve and optimize wastewater biotreatment
- Development of wastewater biotreatment technologies