A5062901133- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Gut microbiota and health
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques
- Orthopedic Infections and Treatments
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques
- Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows
- Phosphorus and nutrient management
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Antimicrobial agents and applications
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
University of Palermo
2021-2025
The reuse of treated wastewater (TWW) in agriculture for crop irrigation is desirable. Crop responses to with TWW depend on the characteristics and intrinsic extrinsic soil properties. aim this study was assess response tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) cultivated five different soils TWW, compared tap water (TAP) an inorganic NPK solution (IFW). In addition, since microbiota play many important roles plant growth, a metataxonomic analysis performed reveal prokaryotic community structures...
The salt ponds of Trapani, Sicily, represent an extreme and under-explored ecosystem characterised by varying salinity gradients environmental conditions. These ponds, integral to traditional extraction, include cold, driving, hot crystallizer each hosting diverse microbial communities. This study aimed explore the biological physical-chemical diversity 11 during production season in Trapani. We conducted comprehensive characterizations, including measurements pH, conductivity, viscosity,...
The wastewater sector paradigm is shifting from treatment to resource recovery. In addition, concerns regarding sustainability during the operation have increased. this sense, there a need break barriers (i.e., social, economic, technological, legal, etc.) for moving forward towards water recovery facilities and demonstration case studies can be very effective insightful. This paper presents new study which part of Horizon 2020 EU Project “Achieving wider uptake water-smart solutions—Wider...
The shift from conventional wastewater treatment plants to biorefineries is one of the most environmentally and economically sustainable pathways for extracting valuable compounds waste. Besides chemical-physical processes, microorganisms within sewage sludge utilize organic inorganic pollutants in as nutrients, leading effective water purification. However, remaining solid residue, typically destined specific landfills or incineration, could undergo microbial fermentation produce volatile...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system, caused by combination genetic and environmental factors. In recent years, role in MS pathogenesis was assigned to gut microbiota. However, different signatures dysbiosis have been shown depend on factors, like diet lifestyle. this study, we compared microbiome patients their household healthy relatives sharing lifestyle Faecal metagenomic DNA extracted V3–V4 regions conserved bacterial 16S ribosomal...
Microbial communities provide essential information about host ecology and could be helpful as a tool to improve species conservation efforts. However, microbes can also infect compromise the development process viability. Caretta caretta is most widespread marine turtle in Mediterranean basin only of sea nesting along Italian coasts. Little known microbiota composition nest turtles its correlation with hatching failures. In this study, microbial two nests C. featuring different rates...
The products of an advanced sewage sludge fermentation process can be used to generate polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), precursors bioplastics considered excellent candidates for replacing petroleum-derived plastics. aerobic feast-anoxic famine cycling strategy has proven efficient method enriching microbiota with PHA-producing microorganisms. This work evaluated the effect different carbon nitrogen ratios (C/N) 3.5, 2, and 1 g COD/g N modulating structure improve PHA production. study was...
Volatile fatty acids (VFA) from sewage sludge represent an excellent recovered resource wastewater treatment. This study investigated four pre-treatments (namely, potassium permanganate - KMnO
In this study, 327 presumptive lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were isolated from goats' milk curds produced at a Sicilian dairy farm with the aim to identify potential starter cultures for traditional cheeses. All isolates first processed by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)-PCR analysis. This approach identified 63 distinct strains which evaluated their acidifying capacity. Only 15 specifically stood out acidification capacity and through 16S rRNA gene sequencing as Lactococcus lactis...
Conversion of wastewater treatment plants into biorefineries is a sustainable alternative for obtaining valuable compounds, thus reducing pollutants and costs protecting the environment human health. Under specific operating conditions, microbial fermentative products sewage sludge are volatile fatty acids (VFA) that can be precursors polyhydroxyalkanoate thermoplastic polyesters. The role various parameters in VFA production has yet to elucidated. This study aimed correlate levels yields...
Subclinical mastitis represents one of the most contagious diseases affecting animals involved in dairy production systems. Although coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNSs) have been considered minor pathogens for many years, they recently emerged as opportunistic disorders. The objectives this work were to assess antimicrobial resistance profile and ability produce a biofilm comparison with reference strain search genes related production, resistance, enterotoxins 18 isolates...
Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) are complex systems characterized by interconnected chemical, physical, and biological processes. Considering the high amount of nutrients still present worldwide pollution, conversion WWTPs into Water Resource Recovery Facilities (WRRFs) or Biorefineries (WWBRs) is a challenge to protect water quality, environment, thus, human health.In WWTPs, under specific operating conditions microbial fermentative products can be volatile fatty acids (VFAs) that...