Webinar title: Microscopic Analysis of Biofilm Formation Process

Speaker: Prof. Liu Xianwei

Time: Oct 27, 2024 (Sunday) 14:00

Venue: Room 200, New Environmental Building

Inviter: Sheng Nan, Dai Jiayin

Abstract:

Biofilm is a kind of microbial aggregation formed by microbial aggregates encapsulated by microbial extracellular polymers. Understanding the process of biofilm formation can not only help us understand the function of biofilm, but also encourage us to develop biofilm regulation methods, which can improve the efficiency of wastewater treatment processes. The report describes the research progress related to biofilm formation, metabolism and water quality warning from the aspects of analytical methods, instrument development and mechanism analysis.

About the speaker:

Dr. Liu Xianwei is a Professor at the CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China. He is a recipient of the National Outstanding Youth Fund and the National Excellent Youth Science Fund, and has received grants from the National Program for Introducing Overseas High-level Talents Youth Project. He has also received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of China. In 2021, Dr. Liu was awarded the inaugural Gold Medal for Young Scientists of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences, and Outstanding Graduate Student Supervisor Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. In recent years, Dr. Liu has published over 80 SCI articles in Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chem, Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Science and Technology.