From Fundamentals to Microbial Power Plants:

Electrochemically Active Biofilms

International State-of-the-art Workshop

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Wednesday November 19, evening

5:00 pm Opening registration desk

7:00 pm Welcome reception

7:30 pm Diners

9:00 pm Evening session - Welcome

9:10 pm          The EA-Biofilms European project: objectives, results and perspectives

Alain BERGEL, CNRS-University of Toulouse

9:30 pm          From corrosion of steels to microbial fuel cells

Damien FERON, CEA Saclay

9:50 pm          The biofilm mode of life, electrified

Hans-Curt. FLEMMING, University Duisburg-Essen

Thursday November 20

8:00 am Welcome

MFC engineering

Chair Damien Féron (CEA-Saclay) Roberto Farina (ENEA)

8:15 am           Invited lecture - Successes and challenges in microbial fuel cell development and applications

Bruce E. LOGAN, Penn State University

9:00 am           Biocathodes for enhanced reduction catalysis in microbial fuel cells

Peter CLAUWAERT and Willy VERSTRAETE - Ghent University

9:20 am           Scaling up microbial fuel cells

Alim DEWAN, Haluk BEYENAL, Zbigniew LEWANDOWSKI - Washington State University

9:40 am           Improved Energy Output Levels from Small Scale Microbial Fuel Cells

Ioannis IEROPOULOS, John GREENMAN and Chris MELHUISH - University of Bristol and University of the West of England

10:00 am Coffee break

10:30 am         Mathematical model for microbial fuel cells with anodic biofilms and anaerobic digestion

Cristian PICIOREANU, Krishna KATURI, Ian HEAD, Mark VANLOOSDRECHT, Keith SCOTT - Delft University of Technology

10:50 am         Cancelled - Wastewater to Bioelectricity via Fermentation Process in Microbial Fuel Cell: a Sustainable and Green Approach

S. VENKATA MOHAN, G MOHANKRISHNA, S. VEER RAGHAVULU, S SRIKANTH, P. N. SARMA - Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad

11:10 am Poster session

Chair Alain BERGEL (CNRS Toulouse University) Hans-Curt FLEMMING (University Duisburg-Essen)

Short oral presentation of the posters, 3 minutes each.

12:30 am Lunch

Approach of microbial diversity in EA biofilms

Chair Peter Clauwaert (Ghent University)

2:00 pm          From "omics" to "ohmics": Electricity-producing bacterial community structures in microbial fuel cells

Lorris NIARD, Nathalie FUSCO, François BURET, Timothy M. VOGEL, and Jean-Michel MONIER - Ecole Centrale de Lyon

2:20 pm          Microbial diversity in sediment Microbial Fuel Cells fuelled by the rice root

Exudation

Angela CABEZAS, Liesje DE SCHAMPHELAIRE, Michael FRIEDRICH - Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg

2:40 pm          Bacterial diversity of a marine electroactive biofilm

I. VANDECANDELAERE, O. NERCESSIAN, E. SEGAERT, S. CONROD, W. ACHOUAK, M. FAIMALI, A. MOLLIC., P. DE VOS AND P. VANDAMME -Ghent University

3:00 pm          Electrochemical activity and bacterial diversity of natural marine biofilm in

laboratory closed systems

Marco FAIMALI, Elisabetta CHELOSSI, Giovanni PAVANELLO, Alessandro BENEDETTI, Ilse VANDECANDELAERE Paul DE VOS, Peter VANDAMME, Alfonso MOLLICA - Istituto di Scienze Marine, CNR Genoa

3:20 pm          Marine aerobic biofilm as biocathode catalyst

Benjamin ERABLE, Luc ETCHEVERRY and Alain BERGEL - University of Toulouse

3:40 pm Coffee break

Other applications than MFC: MEC, biosensors, wastewater treatment...

Chair Pierangela Cristiani (CESI-Ricerca) H.V.M.Hamelers (Wageningen University)

4:10 pm          Biocatalyzed hydrogen production in a continuous flow microbial fuel cell

with a gas cathode

B. TARTAKOVSKY, M.-F. MANUEL, V. NEBURCHILOV, H. WANG and Serge R. GUIOT, National Research Council of Canada, Montreal

4:30 pm          Comparison of Geobacter species to a mixed consortium in a microbial

electrolysis cell

Douglas F. CALL and Bruce E. LOGAN, Penn State University

4:50 pm          Feasibility of hydrogen production from glycerol in a microbial electrolysis

Cell

A. ESCAPA, A. MORÁN, X. GÓMEZ, S. R. GUIOT, B. TARTAKOVSKY, University of León

5:10 pm          A microbial fuel cell for removal of sulphur pollutants

Feng ZHAO, Nelli RAHUNEN, John R. VARCOE, Amreesh CHANDRA, Alexander ROBERTS, Claudio AVIGNONE-ROSSA, Robert C.T. SLADE, University of Surrey

5:30 pm          Directly applicable microbial fuel cells into aeration tank for wastewater

Treatment

Jaehwan CHA, Soojung CHOI, Hana YU, Guowei CHEN, Changwon KIM, Pusan National University, Busan

5:50 pm          Developing microbial electrochemical biosensors

Pierangela CRISTIANI, Cesiricerca, Milano, Italy

6:10 pm Poster session and cocktail

8:00 pm Dinner

Friday November 21

8:00 am General remarks

Mechanisms of EA biofilms: electrochemical approach

Chair José Moura (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Alain Bergel (CNRSToulouse University)

8:10 am           The voltammetric study of electroactive biofilms: prospects and limitations

F. HARNISCH, U.SCHRÖDER, University of Greifswald

8:30 am           A dynamic bio-anode model: development and validation using cyclic voltammetry

H.V.M. HAMELERS, T.I.M. GROOTSCHOLTEN, A. TER HEIJNE, C.J.N. BUISMAN, Wageningen University

8:50 am           Structural aspects of the electrochemical interaction between Geobacter

sulfurreducens and gold single crystal electrodes

Antonio BERNÁ, Abraham ESTEVE-NUÑEZ, Juan Pablo BUSALMEN and Juan Miguel FELIUDE Astrobiología, Ctra. de Torrejón a Ajalvir

9:10 am           Anodic electronic transference assessment in a microbial fuel cell

Luciana PEIXOTO, Daniel POÇAS, Regina NOGUEIRA, António G. BRITO, Pablo A. KROFF, Pier PARPOT, University of Minho

9:30 am           Study of electron transfer from aerobic biofilms to electrodes

Jizhou DUAN, Fengling XU, Lin YU, Baorong HOU, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao

9:50 am           Mathematical model of electron transfer in microbial fuel cell

PHUC THI HA and IN SEOP CHANG, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

10:10 am Coffee break

Mechanisms of EA biofilms: (micro)biological approach

Chair Hans-Curt Flemming (University Duisburg-Essen) Marco Faimali (CNR-ISMAR Genoa)

10:40 am         Electrochemically active bacteria in co-culture with methanogens

Jeanine S GEELHOED, and Alfons STAMS - J.M, Wageningen University

11:00 am         Electrochemical reduction of dioxygene by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and

other opportunistic pathogens

Amandine COURNET, Mathieu BERGE, Marie-Line DELIA, Alain BERGEL and Christine ROQUES - University of Toulouse

11:20 am         Electroactive Biofilms from Sulphate Reducing Bacteria

José J. G. MOURA, Cristina M. CORDAS, Tiago GUERRA and Catarina XAVIER - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

11:40 am         Correlating changes in current production by Shewanella oneidensis with cellular physiology using time course data

Justin BIFFINGER, Ricky RAY, Brenda LITTLE, Meghann RIBBENS, Steven FINKEL, Bradley RINGEISEN - Naval Research Laboratory, Washington

12:00 am         Cancelled - Fermenters switch metabolism in microbial fuel cell anodic biofilms

Stefano FREGUIA, Masaki MASUDA, Seiya TSUJIMURA, Kenji KANO - Kyoto University

12:20 am General discussion and conclusions of the workshop, including comments about the "ENEA promotional event" hold at the European Parliament, Sept.17 by P.Cristiani, (CESI Ricerca).

1:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm End of the workshop

POSTER PRESENTATION

Each poster will be presented by a 3-minute oral communication during the poster session on Thursday Nov. 20. Depending on the authors' wish, abstracts retained as poster are eligible for publication as full papers or short communications in the "Bioelectrochemistry" special issue devoted to the workshop. Decision will be taken by the programme committee at the end of the workshop. Only the corresponding author is noted in the list below

MFC engineering

- A horizontal thin flow surface air cathode microbial fuel cell process for

electricity production during wastewater treatment

Young-Chae SONG, Sundaram RAJAKUMAR, Kyu Seon YOO and Song Keun LEE, Korea Maritime University, Busan

- Is resistance futile? Power production appears constant despite changing

external resistances

Delina LYON, Francois BURET, Timothy VOGEL, and Jean-Michel MONIER, Ecole Centrale Lyon, France

- Microbial fuel cells generating electricity from rhizodeposits of rice plants

Liesje DE SCHAMPHELAIRE, Korneel RABAEYAND and Willy VERSTRAETE, Ghent University, Belgium

- Novel air cathodes and permeable membrane for use in acetate fed microbial fuel cell , poster

Deepak PANT, Gilbert VAN BOGAERT, Sandra VAN ROY, Mark DE SMET, Ludo DIELS and Karolien VANBROEKHOVEN, VITO - Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Boeretang, Belgium

Approach of microbial diversity in EA biofilms

- Initial investigation of identification protocol using the RASI and MIDI methodologies to identify bacterial communities linked to the bacteriologically influenced generation of electricity

Kristina NELSON; Behrooz RAZBAN; Dena MCMARTIN and Roy CULLIMORE, University of Regina, Canada

- Towards bentic microbial fuel cell implementation in volcanic eutrophic lakes: Bacterial electrochemical activity assessment in Lake Furnas (Azores) - Portugal

Gilberto MARTINS; Luciana PEIXOTO, Daniel C. RIBEIRO, Pier PARPOT, Regina NOGUEIRA and António G. BRITO, University of Minho, Portugal

Other applications than MFC: MEC, biosensors, wastewater treatment, microbial corrosion

Microbial corrosion

- Modelling the role of sulfate-reducing biofilms in biocorrosion

Cristian PICIOREANU, Alexandra Ada BÂRZESCU and Mark C.M. VAN LOOSDRECHT, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

-  Evaluation of Geobacter sulfurreducens influence on the anaerobic

biocorrosion of steels

M. MEHANNA, R. BASSEGUY, ML. DELIA and A. BERGEL, CNRS-University of Toulouse, France

MEC, hydrogen production

- Microbial electrolysis with a biocathode

H.V.M. HAMELERS, T.I.M. GROOTSCHOLTEN, A. TER HEIJNE, C.J.N. BUISMAN, Wetsus, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

- Comparison of biohydrogen production rate from glucose by Escherichia coli W3110 wild types and its hydrogen gas overproducing mutants in a miniaturised microbial fuel cell system

Hyeongu YEO, Daehee KIM, Jaryeong PARK, Kang-Mu LEE, Sungsu PARK and In Seop CHANG, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

Wastewater treatment

- Microbial dechlorination of trichloroethene with graphite electrodes serving as

electron donors

F. AULENTA, A. CANOSA, P. REALE, S. ROSSETTI, S. PANERO AND M. MAJONE, Sapienza University of Rome

- Cancelled - Biologically catalyzed electrochemical treatment evaluation in microbial fuel cell associated with bioelectricity generation

S. VENKATA MOHAN, S. VEER RAGHAVULU AND P. N. SARMA, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology

- Cancelled - Sago industrial wastewater treatment with in situ electricity generation via microbial fuel cell: A novel strategy of waste to wealth

Athinarayanan JEGAN and Alagunambi RAMASUBBU, Government Arts College (Autonomous), Coimbator, India

Biosensors

- A new sensor to detect toxicity in drinking water p.123

Nienke STEIN, Hubertus HAMELERS and Cees BUISMAN - Wetsus, Leeuwarden The Netherlands

Mechanisms of EA biofilms: electrochemical approach

- ATR-SEIRAS characterization of redox processes during electricity production by G. sulfurreducens

Juan Pablo BUSALMEN, Abraham ESTEVE-NUÑEZ, Antonio BERNÁ and Juan Miguel FELIU - INTEMA, CONICET, Argentina

- Geobacter sulfurreducens : a model to study the efficiency of materials used in microbial fuel cells

Liz PONS, Alain BERGEL and Marie-Line DELIA - CNRS-University of Toulouse, France

- A study of the electrochemically active biofilm on carbon-based materials

Ying LIU, Uwe SCHRÖDER, Falk HARNISCH and Katja FRICKE - Institute of Electrochemistry, UA, Spain

- Evaluation of electrochemical performance of microbial anodes for MFC p.133

Bibiana CERCADO QUEZADA, Alain BERGEL and Marie-Line DELIA - CNRS-University of Toulouse, France

- Electrochemical characterization of the microbial biofilm-anode interaction in rice-fuelled sedimentary fuel cell

Abraham ESTEVE-NUÑEZ and Juan Pablo BUSALMEN - Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC/INTA), Spain

Mechanisms of EA biofilms: (micro)biological approach

- Cancelled - H2 oxidation catalysis by hyperthermophilic hydrogenases immobilized onto electrodes modified by carbon nanotubes

E.LOJOU, X.J. LUO, A. GARACCI, P. TRON-INFOSSI, M. BRUGNA and M.T.GIUDICI-ORTICONI, Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des protéines - CNRS, France

- Potential application of Candida melibiosica in biofuel cells

Yolina HUBENOVA and Mario MITOV, Plovdiv University, Bulgaria

- Cancelled - Influence of variable anodic mixed biofilm growth conditions on bioelectrochemical behavior and enzymatic activity

S. VENKATA MOHAN, S. SRIKANTH, B LENIN and P. N. SARMA - Indian Institute of Chemical Technology

- Label free electrochemical prediction of quorum sensing inhibition

OHAD Bukelman, LITAL Alfonta - Ben Gurion University, Israel