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FIRST INTERNATIONAL MICROBIAL FUEL CELL SYMPOSIUM
Penn State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

 
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Tuesday, May 27: Preconference meetings and opening session

12:30–2:30  Preconference laboratory workshop on MFC designs and electrochemical measurements
   
3:00 Session 1: Opening session and plenary talks
3-3:15 Welcome and opening remarks
3:15-3:40 Bruce Logan

Energy sustainability of the water infrastructure
3:40-4:05 Ken Nealson

Shewanella
4:05-4:30 Bruce Rittmann

Understanding the Biofilm Anode in MFCs
4:30-4:55 Willy Verstraete

Potentials and limiting factors of bio-electrochemical systems
4:55-5:20 Jurg Keller

Experiences from MFC pilot plant operation: How to get the technology market-ready?
5:30–7:30 Poster session I and reception at the Life Sciences Building
 

Wednesday, May 28

8:00 a.m.–noon Plenary presentations, invited and contributed
8-8:25 Derek Lovley

Adaptive evolution and systems biology approaches to elucidating electron transfer mechanisms and optimizing power output of microbial fuel cells
8:25-10:00

(15 min each)
Session 2: Studies of Shewanella and Geobacter

Moderator: TBA
  Cao, Zhang, Fan, Liang, and Huang

Electricity generation and biofilm formation by Geobacter sulfurreducens stimulated by a pairing microorganism in a microbial fuel cell
  Esteve-Núñez, Busalmen, Rogero, Fernández, and Feliu

Combined electrochemical and topographic characterization of Geobacter sulfurreducens cell surface under electrogenic conditions
  Cheung, Bretschger, and Nealson

The effect of carbon metabolism on the efficiency of microbial fuel cells operating with different Shewanella spp. as the anode catalysts
  Nakamura, Kai, and Hashimoto

Self-Constructed Shewanella/Semiconductor Electrical Networks
  Newton, Nakamura, Watanabe, and Hashimoto

Shewanella loihica PV-4 outperforms S. oneidensis MR-1 in an MFC using mechanisms of direct electron transfer and adaptability
  Hsu, Bretschger, Pirbazari, and Nealson

Employing Shewanella oneidensis MR1 as a cathodic biocatalyst
   
10:15-12:00

(15 min each)
Session 3: Novel Isolates and Isolation Strategies

Moderator: TBA
  Biffinger, Ribbens, Finkel, Nealson, and Ringeisen

High Throughput Screening Array for Electrochemically Active Bacteria (EAB) using Voltage Detection
  Zuo, Xing, Regan, and Logan

An Exoelectrogenic Bacterium Ochrobactrum anthropi YZ-1 Isolated Using a U-tube Microbial Fuel Cell
  Xing, Zuo, Cheng, Regan, and Logan

High power generation by a photosynthetic bacterium in single chamber air-cathode MFCs
  Watanabe and Kodama

A long-tailed bacterium occurring in cellulose-fed MFC reactors and rice paddy-field MFC
   
1:00–5:20 p.m. Plenary presentations, invited and contributed   
1-1:25 Yuri Gorby

Nanowires
1:25-3:00

(15 min each)
Session 4: Anode Communities

Moderator: TBA
  Monier, Niard, and Vogel

Metagenomic approaches to understanding MFC community structure and function
  Wang, Ren, Cheng, Logan, Wu, He, Tiedje, and Zhou

From Waste to H2: GeoChip-based Analysis of Microbial Community Structure and Functions in Bio-electrochemically Assisted Microbial Reactor
  Katuri, Scott, Curtis, Picioreanu, and Head

Microbes meet with resistance; the effect of external load on anode communities and MFC performance
  Speers, Kim, and Reguera

Novel Bioprocessing Technologies Based on Microbial Consortia
  Lee and Rittmann

Is Geobacteraceae the universal family of anode-respiring bacteria in the biofilm-anode of microbial electrolytic cells?
  Kim and Chang

Microbial fuel cell: A novel approach to convert synthesis gas to electricity
   
3:15-5:05

(15 min each)
Session 5: Electrochemical constraints

Moderator: TBA
  Schröder

Approaches and challenges in studying the electron transfer in microbial fuel cells
  Fan, Hu, Sharbrough, and Liu

Quantification of the Internal Resistance Distribution of Microbial Fuel Cells and Proton Transfer Mechanisms
  Hamelers and Buisman

Low conductivity and alkalinity as major design challenges in MFC & MEC systems
  Huang, Fan, Cao, and Liang

Effects of electrode potentials on the electricity generation in microbial fuel cells
  Aelterman, Versichele, Freguia, Keller, Boon, Rabaey, and Verstraete

Improving the anodic biocatalysis in microbial fuel cells
  Ramasamy, Redcloud-Owen, Ren, Mench, and Regan

Effect of Biofilm Properties on the Electrochemical Performance of Microbial Fuel Cells
  Manohar, Bretschger, Nealson, Harrington, and Mansfeld

An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Dependence of the Internal Resistance of a Microbial Fuel on Cell Voltage
 

Thursday, May 29

8:00 a.m.–noon Plenary presentations, invited and contributed
8-8:25 Jay Regan

Community interactions with complex electron donors
8:25-10:00

(15 min each)
Session 6: Using sediments, cellulose and complex substrates

Moderator: TBA
  Tender and Lowy

Latest Results in Benthic Microbial Fuel Cell Research and Development
  Reimers, Nielsen, Girguis, and White

New Developments in Ocean Microbial Fuel Cells
  Girguis, White, and Reimers

Power production by sediment-hosted microbial fuel cells: the influence of substrate availability and microbial ecology
  Christy, Rismani-Yazdi, Carver, Yu, and Tuovinen

Cellulose Conversion to Electricity in Microbial Fuel Cells: Challenges and Constraints
  Feng, Wang, Wang, and Li

Electricity Generation from corn stover using air-cathode single chamber microbial fuel cell
  Cheng, Xing, Zuo, Logan

Electricity generation from cellulose in a single-chamber air cathode microbial fuel cell
   
10:15-12:00

(15 min each)
Session 7: Wastewater Treatment Considerations

Moderator: TBA
  Angenent

Electric power generation from municipal, food, and animal wastewaters using microbial fuel cells
  Ahn and Logan

Low solids production using microbial fuel cells for power generation and domestic wastewater treatment
  Rozendal, Hamelers, Buisman, Rabaey, and Keller

Bioelectrochemical systems for wastewater treatment: not so elementary
 

Lorenzo, Velasquez-Orta, Christgen, Scott, and Curtis

Performance of the anode compartment when treating complex wastewaters

  Kim

Alternative electron acceptors in microbial fuel cells
  Shea and Nerenberg

Microbial Fuel Cells for Total Nitrogen Removal
  Virdis, Rabaey, and Keller

Combined Carbon and Nitrogen removal opens new perspectives on wastewater treatment with Microbial Fuel Cells
   
1:00–5:20 p.m. Plenary presentations, invited and contributed
1-1:25 Korneel Rabaey

Biocathodes as the new opportunity for Bio-Electrochemical Systems
1:25-3:00

(15 min each)
Session 8: Microbial Electrolysis Cells and Modeling

Moderator: TBA
  Tartakovsky, Manuel, Neburchilov, Wang, and Guiot

Hydrogen production in a continuous flow microbial fuel cell with a gas-phase cathode
  Call and Logan

Novel single chamber microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) for high efficiency hydrogen gas production
  Hu, Fan, and Liu

Microbial Electrohydrogenesis Using Single-chamber Membrane-free Cells
  Sleutels, Lodder, Hamelers, and Buisman

Analyses of Resistance in Microbial Electrolysis Cells: Improvement of cell design
  Canosa, Reale, Panero, Aulenta, and Majone

Bio-electrochemically assisted reductive dechlorination of TCE: novel biotechnological approach to sustainable groundwater remediation
  Hamelers, Ter Heijne, Rozendal, and Buisman

Analysis of Bio-Anode Kinetics Using a Minimal Model
   
3:15-5:20

(15 min each)
Session 9: Modeling and Novel Designs

Moderator: TBA
  Oh and Sloan

Theoretical modelling of anodic microbial fuel cell
  Torres, Kato Marcus, and Rittmann

Experimental demonstration of the Nernst-Monod equation for the biofilm anode of microbial fuel cells
  Kim, Premier, Michie, Hawkes, Dinsdale, and Guwy

Power generation by a novel tubular MFC employing a membrane electrode assembly cathode
  Ringeisen,  Biffinger, Ray, and Little

Miniature Microbial Fuel Cells for Aerobic Applications
  Schaetzle, Pellissier, Barrière, Poriel, and Rault-Berthelot

Functionalization of electrode surfaces for more efficient microbial fuel cells
  Shea and Nerenberg

Air-Cathode Microbial Fuel Cells with Layered-Electrode Assemblies
  Shimoyama and Watanabe

Electricity generation from model organic waste in a cassette-electrode microbial fuel cell