HEALTH-RELATED WATER MICROBIOLOGY

International Water Association, Specialist Group

February 9, 2018

Featured Publications

Acceptance of new sanitation: The role of end-users’ pro-environmental personal norms and risk and benefit perceptions

Water Research, Volume 131, 15 March 2018, Pages 90-99.

P. Marijn Poortvliet, Liese Sanders, Jan Weijma, Jasper R. De Vries

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135417310278

February 8, 2018

Awards

2018 Water Travel Award

Candidates should fulfill the following criteria:

1. Postdoctral fellows (within three years of receiving their Ph.D.) or Ph.D. students undertaking water resources research.
2. They must present their own, original work as a poster or oral presentations at the conference for which the travel award application is being made.

You can find the details of this travel award in: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/water/awards.pdf/0/36_2018_2_flyer.pdf

February 6, 2018

Jobs

Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Microbiology, Eawag

Research focus
Qualified individuals are invited to apply for the fellowship to conduct research in any field in the general area of environmental microbiology, including but not limited to:

Aquatic environmental microbiology
Environmental microbial biochemistry
Public health microbiology
Engineered aquatic environments
Experimental microbiology
Microbial ecology and evolution
Mathematical modeling of microbial processes
Novel microbiological methods

You can find details in: https://apply.refline.ch/673277/0585/pub/1/index.html

February 4, 2018

Featured Publications

Pepper mild mottle virus as a process indicator at drinking water treatment plants employing coagulation-sedimentation, rapid sand filtration, ozonation, and biological activated carbon treatments in Japan

Water Research, Volume 132, 1 April 2018, Pages 61-70.

Ryuichi Kato, Tatsuya Asami, Etsuko Utagawa, Hiroaki Furumai, Hiroyuki Katayama

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135417310631

February 1, 2018

Featured Publications

Review of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in the eastern part of Europe, 2016

Eurosurveillance, 2018, 23(4), pii=16-00825.

Judit Plutzer, Brian Lassen, Pikka Jokelainen, Olgica Djurković-Djaković, István Kucsera, Elisabeth Dorbek-Kolin, Barbara Šoba, Tamás Sréter, Kálmán Imre, Jasmin Omeragić, Aleksandra Nikolić, Branko Bobić, Tatjana Živičnjak, Snježana Lučinger, Lorena Lazarić Stefanović, Jasmina Kučinar, Jacek Sroka, Gunita Deksne, Dace Keidāne, Martin Kváč, Zuzana Hůzová, Panagiotis Karanis

http://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.4.16-00825

February 1, 2018

Projects

Estimating Microbial Contamination in the Subsurface

Global Water Pathogen Project
Newsletter Vol. 4 , Issue 3
January 31, 2018

https://mailchi.mp/5e8333c38a61/gwpp-newsletter?e=e1e2204839

January 26, 2018

Events

20th International Symposium on Health Related Water Microbiology

Our next symposium has been officially registered in the IWA calender.

http://www.iwa-network.org/events/20th-international-symposium-on-health-related-water-microbiology/

January 23, 2018

Events

2018 UNC Water Microbiology Conference

Submit Your Papers and Side Event Proposals for the 2018 UNC Water Microbiology Conference (Due date is Feb. 16, 2018)!!!

https://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/8b0284c9-ba28-4fcb-bc3a-422cf2195e62?mc_cid=998317fc99&mc_eid=e346e029f1

January 18, 2018

Featured Publications

Role of Environmental Factors in Shaping Spatial Distribution of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi, Fiji

Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 24, Number 2—February 2018.

Ruklanthi de Alwis, Conall Watson, Birgit Nikolay, John H. Lowry, Nga Tran Vu Thieu, Tan Trinh Van, Dung Tran Thi Ngoc, Kitione Rawalai, Mere Taufa, Jerimaia Coriakula, Colleen L. Lau, Eric J. Nilles, W. John Edmunds, Mike Kama, Stephen Baker, and Jorge Cano

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/2/17-0704_article

January 18, 2018

Projects

Echinococcosis: A parasitic tapeworm disease

Global Water Pathogen Project
Newsletter Vol. 4 , Issue 2
January 17, 2018
http://mailchi.mp/16a36de43233/gwpp-newsletter-january-17-2018?e=e1e2204839

January 18, 2018

Featured Publications

Temporal Stability of Escherichia coli Concentrations in Waters of Two Irrigation Ponds in Maryland

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2018, vol. 84, no. 3, e01876-17.

Yakov Pachepsky, Rachel Kierzewski, Matthew Stocker, Kevin Sellner, Walter Mulbry, Hoonsoo Lee and Moon Kim

http://aem.asm.org/content/84/3/e01876-17.abstract

January 16, 2018

Featured Publications

Spatial and temporal dynamics of pathogenic Leptospira in surface waters from the urban slum environment

Water Research, Volume 130, 1 March 2018, Pages 176-184

Arnau Casanovas-Massana, Federico Costa, Irina N. Riediger, Marcelo Cunha, Daiana de Oliveira, Diogenes C. Mota, Erica Sousa, Vladimir A. Querino, Nivisson Nery Jr., Mitermayer G. Reis, Elsio A. Wunder Jr., Peter J. Diggle, Albert I. Ko

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135417309958

January 16, 2018

Featured Publications