Use of swine waste-derived biogas to enhance microalgae productivity.

The effects of swine wastewater-derived biogas on microalgae productivity were determined. Experiments were conducted in a closed photobioreactor containing digestate effluent as culturing media and biogas in the headspaceas source of CO2. Experiments were carried out under mixothrophic and autothrophic conditions. Results showed that autotrophic growth rate (0.6 d-1)was twofoldfaster than mixotrophic. Frequent reinjections of biogas containing up to 2,000 ppm of hydrogen sulfide was not inhibitory to microalgae growth. The rapid removal of H2S in the system suggests photobioreactors can be an interesting alternative to biogas purification. A model to estimate microalgae productivity based on the amount of available CO2, inorganic and organic carbon was developedand showed good data fit correlation (r²= 0.99).

Determination of microalgae cellular composition after phycoremediation of swine wastewaters.

Phycoremediation of swine wastewaters has been widely reported as an attractive tertiary treatment system, that effectively removes the excessive nutrient loadswhilst offering a valuable source of feedstock biomass. Digestate from an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB, 6%v/v) and a nitrification reactor (NR; 50% v/v) were used as culturing media to microalgae. Experiments were carried out in lab scale photobioreactors (PBRs) using a consortia of Chlorella and Scenedesmus. Ammonia (44 to 90%) and phosphorus (77%) were efficiently removed from both effluents tested after 4 days. Microalgae biomass harvested from the UASB effluent showed 57, 34 and 1% of proteins, carbohydrates and lipids, respectively. Comparatively, the cellular composition of microalgae grown on NR effluent had lower protein (43%) but higher carbohydrate (42%) contents. Negligible difference in lipid fraction was observed independently of the effluents tested. The results suggest that the biomass harvested from phycoremediation of swine wastewaters can offer a valuable protein and carbohydrate feedstock for nutritional and biotechnological applications.

Biodiversity and quantification of functional bacteria in deammonification process.

2015

The influence of use additives on nitrous oxide emission during swine slurry composting.

use of additives (Mg/P and nitrification inhibitor dicyandiamide - DCD), on nitrous oxide emission during swine slurry composting. The experiment was run in duplicate; the gas was monitored for 30 days in different treatments (control, DCD, Mg/P and DCD + Mg/P). Nitrous oxide emissions rate (mg of N2O-N.day-1) and the accumulated emissions were calculated to compare the treatments. Results has shown that emissions of N-N2O were reduced by approximately 70, 46 and 96% through the additions of DCD, MgCl2.6H2O + H3PO4 and both additives, respectively, compared to the control. Keywords Composting; swine slurry; additives; nitrous

Tópicos especiais em microbiologia.

Taxonomia bacteriana ? aspectos atuais e perspectivas. Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans: fatores de virulência e modulação do sistema imune. Escherichia coli diarreiogênica em animais. Fatores de virulência em escherichia coli patogênica Extraintestinal. Enterococcus sp em alimentos: paradigmas. Resistência a carbapenêmicos em enterobactérias. Resistência em Staphylococcus aureus. Relação mútua entre Candida albicans e imunidade. Switching fenotípico em Candida spp Phytomonas spp.: modelo para estudo de processos biológicos da família Trypanosomatidae? Rotavirus. Antimicrobianos naturais produzidos por microrganismos: da busca à identificação. Antivirais naturais. Nanopartículas metálicas com atividade antimicrobiana. Plantas medicinais: A busca de novos fármacos no tratamento de doenças causadas por protozoários tripanossomatídeos. Introdução, estabelecimento e adaptação de Bradirrizóbios simbiontes da soja em solos brasileiros. Microrganismos e processos microbianos como bioindicadores de qualidade ambiental.

Taxonomia bacteriana - aspectos atuais e perspectivas.

Métodos genotípicos. Determinação da razão de bases do DNA (% em moles de G + C); Hibridação DNA-DNA (HDD); Estudos filogenéticos com base no gene ribossomal 16S; Métodos de caracterização baseados nos polimorfismos de DNA (tipagem molecular); Métodos fenotípicos; Delineamento de uma espécie; Técnicas atuais na taxonomia bacteriana: utilização da genômica na taxonomia bacteriana; Utilização da metodologia de "Multilocus Sequence Analysis" - MLSA; Utilização da espectrometria de massa na identificação e classificação bacteriana.

Avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV): differential pathological and immunological profiles of two Brazilian variants.

2015

Apparent metabolizable energy from microalgae spirulina maxima for broiler chickens.

2016

Tetrastichus giffardianus on pupae of Anastrepha in Brazil.

2016

Broiler chicken ileal apparent digestibility of calcium and phosphorus from microalgae spirulina maxima.

2016

Genome-wide association studies reveal genomic windows and candidate genes related to fat deposition in chickens.

2016

Introdução, estabelecimento e adaptação de Bradirrizóbios simbiontes da soja em a solos brasileiros.

Rizóbios microssimbiontes da soja; Introdução de estirpes nos solos brasileiros; Adaptação das estirpes de B. japonicum / B. elkanii aos solos brasileiros; Competitividade das estirpes de B elkanii SEMIA 587 e 29 W; Competitividade das estirpes do sorogrupo SEMIA 566 de B. japonicum; Variabilidade nas estirpes de Bradyrhizobium após a introdução nos solos brasileiros; Transferência horizontal de genes entre estirpes inoculantes e rizóbios indígenas ou naturalizados nos solos brasileiros.

Identification of CNVs on the genome of Brazilian chicken lines.

2016