During abstract submission, contributions along the following themes will be especially solicited:
- Environmental biotechnology: discovering and applying recently discovered microbial physiologies
- Systems biology approaches (‘omics' and related) for assessing microbial communities in water engineering
- The ecology of antibiotic resistance genes in water engineering systems
- New microbial processes for resource recovery, carbon capture and resource efficiency
- Ecological frameworks for understanding microbial dynamics in water engineering applications
- Microbial ecology in aerobic granular sludge processes
- Pathogens and invasion in water engineering microbial communities: concepts and observations
- Algal Technology Driven water engineering operations
- New developments in microbiology of drinking water production and distribution
- Viruses in water engineering microbial communities: Prevalence and consequences
- Beneficial biofilms at membrane interfaces
- Biofouling and biocorrosion in engineered water systems
- Managing microbial communities: Full scale experiences
- Managing engineered biofilms: Real world experiences