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Environmental Microbiology

Jesús González López (PI)

Professor

I-1736-2015

0000-0003-0457-5453

jgl@ugr.es

PHONE NUMBER

+34-958-244 170

Other group members

Concepción Calvo Sáinz

Professor

Clementina Pozo Llorente

Professor

Belén Rodelas González

Professor

Belén Juárez Jiménez

Associate Professor

Maximino Manzanera Ruiz

Associate Professor

Elisabet Aranda Ballesteros

Assistant Professor

Alejandro González Martínez

Postdoc, Research Assistant

David Correa Galeote

Postdoc

Jessica Purswani

Postdoc

Research lines

  • Microbial ecology in advanced wastewater treatment systems (MBR, anammox, aerobic GSBR) and microbial fuel cells
  • Biological treatment of subterranean water
  • Waste valorization: production of microbial bioplastics and surfactants
  • Bioremediation of xenobiotics from soil and water, including petroleum-derived PAH. Isolation and characterization of bacteria and fungi able to degrade xenobiotics. Rhizoremediation
  • Dry environments and anhydrobiosis. Isolation and characterization of bacteria producing xeroprotectants

Representative publications

  • González-López J, González-Martínez A (eds) (2021) Nitrogen Cycle: Ecology, Biotechnological Applications and Environmental Impacts. CRC Press.
  • Manzanera M (2020) Dealing with water stress and microbial preservation. Environ Microbiol (in press) (doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15096).
  • Robledo-Mahón, Gómez-Silván C, Andersen GL, Calvo C, Aranda E (2020) Assessment of bacterial and fungal communities in a full-scale thermophilic sewage sludge composting pile under a semipermeable cover. Bioresour Technol 298: 122550 (doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122550).
  • Gallardo-Altamirano MJ, Maza-Márquez P, Montemurro N, Rodelas B, Osorio F, Pozo C (2019) Linking microbial diversity and population dynamics to the removal efficiency of pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) in an anaerobic/anoxic/aerobic (A2O) system. Chemosphere 233: 828-842.
  • Maza-Márquez P, Castellano-Hinojosa A, González-Martínez A, Juárez-Jiménez B, González-López J, Rodelas B (2019) Abundance of total and metabolically active Candidatus Microthrix and fungal populations in three full-scale wastewater treatment plants. Chemosphere 232: 26-34
  • Purswani J, Guisado IM, Coello-Cabezas J, González-López J, Pozo C (2019) Social microbial inocula confer functional stability in a methyl tert-butyl ether extractive membrane biofilm bioreactor. Environ Pollut 244: 855-860.
  • Robledo-Mahón T, Silva-Castro GA, Kuhar U, Jamnikar-Ciglenečki U, Barlič-Maganja D, Aranda E, Calvo C (2019) Effect of composting under semipermeable film on the sewage sludge virome. Microb Ecol 78: 895-903.
  • Camacho-Morales RL, García-Fontana C, Fernández-Irigoyen J, Santamaría E, González-López J, Manzanera M, Aranda E (2018) Anthracene drives sub-cellular proteome-wide alterations in the degradative system of Penicillium oxalicumEcotox Environ Safe 159: 127-135.
  • Castellano-Hinojosa A, Maza-Márquez P, Melero-Rubio Y, González-López J, Rodelas B (2018) Linking nitrous oxide emissions to population dynamics of nitrifying and denitrifying prokaryotes in four full-scale wastewater treatment plants. Chemosphere 200: 57-66.
  • García-Fontana C, Narváez-Reinaldo JJ, Castillo F, González-López J, Luque I, Manzanera M (2018) A new physiological role for the DNA Molecule as a protector against drying stress in desiccation-tolerant microorganisms. Front Microbiol 7: 2066 (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.02066).
  • Mtibaà R, Olicón-Hernández DR, Pozo C, Belbahri L, Nasri M, Mechichi T, González-López J, Aranda E (2018) Degradation of Bisphenol A by different thermo-tolerant ascomycete strains isolated from arid soils. Ecotox Environ Safe 156: 87-96.
  • Robledo-Mahón T, Aranda E, Pesciaroli C, Rodríguez-Calvo A, Silva-Castro GA, González-López J, Calvo C (2018). Effect of semi-permeable cover system on the bacterial diversity during sewage sludge composting. J Environ Manag 215: 57-67.
  • Vílchez JI, Niehaus K, Dowling DN, González-López J, Manzanera M (2018) Protection of pepper plants from drought by Microbacterium 3J1 by modulation of the plant’s glutamine and α-ketoglutarate content: a comparative metabolomics approach. Front Microbiol 9: 284 (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00284).
  • Purswani J, Romero-Zaliz RC, Martín-Platero AM, Guisado IM, González-López J, Pozo C (2017) BSocial: Deciphering social behaviors within mixed microbial populations. Front Microbiol 8: 919 (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00919).
  • Silva-Castro GA, Rodríguez-Calvo A, Laguna J, González-López J, Calvo C (2016) Autochthonous microbial responses and hydrocarbons degradation in polluted soil during biostimulating treatments under different soil moisture. Assay in pilot plant. Int Biodeterior Biodegradation 108: 91-8.
  • Vílchez JI, García-Fontana C, Román-Naranjo D, González-López J, Manzanera M (2016) Plant drought tolerance enhancement by trehalose production of desiccation-tolerant microorganisms. Front Microbiol 7: 1577 (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01577).
  • Reboleiro-Rivas P, Martín-Pascual J, Morillo JA, Juárez-Jiménez B, Poyatos JM, Rodelas B, González-López J (2016) Interlinkages between bacterial populations dynamics and the operational parameters in a moving bed membrane bioreactor treating urban sewage. Water Res 88: 796-807.

Grants

  • Aranda Ballesteros E, Manzanera M (IPs) (2018-2021) Eliminación de contaminantes emergentes de lodos de depuradora mediante compostaje y bioaumento con microorganismos nativos para la obtención de enmiendas bioseguras de suelos. MINECO. CTM2017-84332-R.
  • Fernández Ondoño E, González López J (IPs) (2018-2020) Transferencia de un método para el control de la erosión en el olivar (TRAMCE). Junta de Andalucía. Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo Rural. Grupos Operativos de la Asociación Europea de Innovación. GOP3I-GR-16-0004.
  • González-López J (IP) (2017-2020) Demonstration project for groundwater treatment with an innovative system based in aerobic granular technology. ECOGRANULARWATER. Programa LIFE-Environment and Resource Efficiency, Unión Europea. LIFE16ENV/ ES/000196.
  • Manzanera M (IP) (2018-2020) Recuperación de tierras secas para agricultura por irrigación bacteriana. MINECO EXPLORA CIENCIA. CGL2017‐91737‐EXP.
  • Manzanera M, Aranda Ballesteros E (IPs) (2020-2023) Recuperación de tierras de secano para cultivos de regadío mediante consorcios microbianos (Generagua). Junta de Andalucía- Fondos FEDER. P18-RT-976.

Relevant methods

  • Methods in molecular microbial ecology: PCR / RT-PCR, qPCR / RT-qPCR, fingerprinting, biocomputing of massive parallel sequencing data (Illumina)
  • Latest generation technologies in HPLC
  • GC-MS technologies
  • Bioreactor at lab scale and real-scale for wastewater treatment

Collaborations with other national and international research groups

  • Gary Andersen (University of California at Berkeley, EEUU)
  • Eulogio Bedmar (EEZ, CSIC, Granada)
  • Masimiliano Fenice (University of Tuscia, Italia)
  • Anuska Mosquera (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España)
  • Riku Vahala (Department of Built Environment, University of Aalto, Finlandia)