A5014556623- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Heavy metals in environment
- Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Environmental Chemistry and Analysis
- Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Radioactive element chemistry and processing
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2016-2023
University of La Salle
2023
Purdue University West Lafayette
2014-2023
Universidad de La Sabana
2023
State Street (United States)
2022
Soil-derived prokaryotic gut communities of the Japanese beetle Popillia japonica Newman (JB) larval include heterotrophic, ammonia-oxidizing, and methanogenic microbes potentially capable promoting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, no research has directly explored GHG emissions or eukaryotic microbiota associated with this invasive species. In particular, fungi are frequently insect where they produce digestive enzymes aid in nutrient acquisition. Using a series laboratory field...
To isolate and identify TNT-transforming cultures from explosive-contaminated soils with the ability to produce biosurfactants.Bacteria (pure mixed cultures) were selected based on their transform TNT in minimum media as sole nitrogen source an additional carbon source. bacteria identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. transformation rates significantly lower when no or sources added. Surfactant production was enabled presence of TNT. Fourteen able explosive (>50%); these, five showed a high...
Invasive scarab beetles, like the Japanese beetle Popillia japonica Newman (JB), spend most of their lives as larvae feeding in soil matrix. Despite potential importance larval gut microbial community driving behavior, physiology, and nutritional ecology this invasive insect, role biological physicochemical characteristics shaping are relatively unknown. Our objectives were to (1) characterize degree which communities environmentally acquired, (2) examine combined effects region (i.e.,...
Metal oxide engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) in study influenced soil function and microbes, but we found no evidence that changes were caused exclusively by a nano-size effect.
<title>Abstract</title> Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) is a nitrate ester explosive, true xenobiotic, recalcitrant and persistent compound in the environment. Our main objective was to isolate bacteria from environmental samples collected at an explosive manufacturing plant with capacity transform PETN (100 mg L<sup>− 1</sup>) under aerobic and/or anaerobic conditions. Biotransformation of evaluated using mineral medium without (M-C) additional carbon (M + C) source conditions, Here we...
Abstract Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) is a nitrate ester explosive that may be persistent with scarce reports on its environmental fate and impacts. Our main objective was to isolate characterize bacteria transform PETN under aerobic anaerobic conditions. Biotransformation of (100 mg L−1) evaluated using mineral medium (M + C) without − additional carbon sources conditions Here, we report the isolation 12 PETN-transforming cultures (4 pure 8 co-cultures) from samples collected at an...