2.2 Extracellular polymeric substance (EPS): the ubiquitous, multifunctional microbial biopolymer
Chair: dr. M. Cristina Gagliano and dr. Inez Dinkla, Wetsus
• Isolation of bacterial membrane-associated EPS and their health effects in the intestine, prof. Marthe Walvoort , University of Groningen, Department of Chemistry
• The importance of EPS in shaping soil water, dr. Pascal Bernard, ETH Zürich, Dep. Of Environmental Systems Science, Switzerland
• EPS from wastewater treatment aggregates and their correlation with micropollutants, dr. Daniela Mesquita, University of Minho · Centro de Engenharia Biológica, CEB, Portugal
• Production and application of mixed culture EPS from wastewater treatment, dr. Carlos Contreras Davila, Wetsus/Paques