Wells Lab

Excited to announce a new collaboration with the University of Michigan and Argonne National Lab. We are going to put methanogens to work to recover bioenergy from organic waste streams. PhD student Dan Stockard will be leading our group's laboratory efforts for...

We are currently seeking postdoc applications to support research in nitrogen recovery from wastewater starting in fall/winter 2021 on an NSF-funded project. The candidate will work at the interface of bioprocess engineering, environmental microbiology, and...

Denitrifying PAO and GAO cooperation - new paper published! Denitrifying phosphorus accumulating organisms (often abbreviated to DPAOs) are a promising group of microbes for resource efficient nitrogen and phosphorus removal. Yubo Wang and Han Gao examined the...

Congrats to 2nd year PhD candidate Stefanie Huttelmaier on receiving the NSF GRF award!

Nutrient removal and recovery review Our newest publication is out now in ACS ES&T Engineering, titled "Systematic Evaluation of Emerging Wastewater Nutrient Removal and Recovery Technologies to Inform Practice and Advance Resource Efficiency", the result of a...

George co-chairs the WEF Nutrient Removal and Recovery Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota (https://www.wef.org/nutrients/) Thanks to all contributors for a terrific...

Congratulations to Dr. Morgan Petrovich on completing her Ph.D.!  Morgan’s thesis is entitled “Metagenomics-Guided Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance and Production Genes, Mobile Genetic Elements, and Viruses in Wastewater Treatment Bioreactors”.  Morgan will be...

George and Fab present work at the AEESP conference in Tempe, AZ

Qiteng Feng defends his masters thesis on “Community structure and oxygen affinity of ammonia and nitrite oxidizing bacteria in mainstream nitrifying and nitritation-anammox bioreactors.”  Congratulations, Qiteng!

Alex Rosenthal, Han Gao, Jamie LaVergne, and George Wells present work from the Wells research group at WEFTEC 2017 in Chicago, IL George presents new results on DPAOs and the CANDO+P process for energy recovery from waste nitrogen at the AWRA on “Cutting Edge...