Performance Assessment and Enrichment of Anaerobic Methane Oxidizing Microbial Communities from Marine Sediments in Bioreactors

Dr. Susma Bhattarai Gautam is from Nepal. She obtained her bachelor (BSc) and MSc in Environmental Science with the specialization in water resource management from Tribuvan University, Nepal. She obtained her masters (MSc) in Environmental Science from UNESCO-IHE, Institute of Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands, during which she worked on a research project from EAWAG, Switzerland which characterized the microbial community of Lake Kivu sediment, East Africa. Susma did her PhD in Environmental Science and Technology in Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Programme Environmental Technologies for Contaminated Solids, Soils and Sediments (ETeCoS3). Her research was mainly focused on the study of anaerobic oxidation of methane, enrichment of anaerobic methanotrophic communities which perform anaerobic oxidation of methane in bioreactors and understand their ecophysiology. Susma's main research interest are environmental biotechnology, anaerobic processes and molecular biology.

1. General introduction and outline
2. Physiology and distribution of anaerobic oxidation of methane by archaeal methanotrophs
3. Microbial sulfate reducing activities in anoxic sediment from Marine Lake Grevelingen
4. Anaerobic methane oxidizing microbial community in a coastal marine sediment: anaerobic methanotrophy dominated by ANME-3
5. Enrichment of anaerobic methane oxidizing ANME-1 from Ginsburg Mud Volcano (Gulf of Cadiz) sediment in a biotrickling filter
6. Enrichment of ANME-2 dominated anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to sulfate reduction consortia from cold seep sediment (Ginsburg Mud Volcano, Gulf of Cadiz) in a membrane bioreactor
7. Response of highly enriched ANME-2a community to different pressure and temperature conditions.
8. General discussion