🌱 The 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 (TowaRds Agroecological farmiNg Systems for innovATION and sustainability) is officially underway! Partners met at #IAMO (Germany) for the kick-off meeting. From USC, we lead WP3: modelling agroecological transitions, ecosystem services & cereal value chains. @cretus.usc.gal

PhD Candidate #AndreaPenedo presented her work at the latest BioGroup seminar. Her research combines process simulation, life-cycle assessment & mathematical optimization to identify sustainable olive pomace valorization strategies within the #AGRILOOP project. 🫒🌱 @cretus.usc.gal #CircularEconomy

Andrea Penedo and Isaac Leis has participated in the “𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗼-𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆: 𝗠𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹”, held in Yunnan (China), to explore bioeconomy and sustainable resource valorisation with an international community of young scientists. #Agriloop

📍BioGroup researchers are presenting their latest research at the 11th International Conference on Engineering for Waste and Biomass Valorisation.Towards Sustainable Transition (July 7–10, A Coruña) @cretus.usc.gal @usc.gal

🎓Congratulations to Brais Vázquez on the successful defense of his PhD thesis, entiled “𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘯𝘰-𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺” supervised by Prof. Almudena Hospido and Ángeles Val

🏆Congratulations to #PabloEspada on receiving the 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 at the @ad19-valencia2026.bsky.social for his work "Effect of Organic Loading Rate on Antibiotic Resistance Genes Fate During Anaerobic Digestion of Cow Manure" carried out in the framework of #NUTRITIVE project #HorizonEurope

📢 Impressive participation of #BioGroup researchers at @ad19-valencia2026.bsky.social, with up to 20 current and former members attending the congress and presenting their work through workshops, oral and poster and keynote presentations. 👏👏Amazing! @usc.gal @cretus.usc.gal

🥳 BioGroup's participation at @ad19-valencia2026.bsky.social kicks off with the workshop “𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝘅𝘆𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁”, chaired by @miguelmauricio.bsky.social & @alberteregueira.bsky.social @usc.gal @cretus.usc.gal

Today, #PabloEspada (Xunta de Galicia Research Fellow) delivered the BioGroup seminar focused on the antimicrobial resistance fate during manure anaerobic digestion as a part of his work within the #NUTRITIVE Project #HorizonEurope. @usc.gal @cretus.usc.gal

🎓Congratulations to Matías Rivadulla on the successful defense of his PhD thesis, supervised by Prof. JMGarrido and F.Omil, focused on developing treatment strategies to improve the removal of contaminants of emerging concern in centralised and decentralised wastewater systems. @usc.gal

#JoséRamónLorenzo presented “Differences in Community Composition and Carbon Assimilation Pathways in Saline and Non-Saline Phototrophic Mixed Cultures” at the 11th Workshop of the #PurpleGain #COSTAction in Thessaloniki, focused on the potential of purple phototrophic bacteria for resource recovery

Entrevista a #AdriánAgraso en @gciencia.bsky.social sobre o traballo que está a desenvolver no marco do no proxecto #IReWater, no que analiza por primeira vez a pegada ambiental do cultivo de lúpulo en Galicia. 🌱💧 #BioGroup @usc.gal www.gciencia.com/medioambient...

O cultivo de lúpulo en Galicia, baixo análise: un estudo cuantifica por primeira vez a súa pegada ambiental

Un equipo da USC sitúa o elevado consumo de auga no centro do debate sobre o lúpulo e aposta por repensar a súa xestión

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👏Parabéns a @sindofeijoo.bsky.social polo ingreso como académico numerario na Real Academia Galega de Ciencias #RAGC, na sección de Ciencias Técnicas. Un recoñecemento á súa traxectoria e á súa contribución á investigación en sustentabilidade e enxeñaría ambiental. 🌍🔬

O investigador predoutoral #BraisVázquez impartirá mañá o seminario do BioGroup "Assessing the End-of-life of bioplastics: from laboratory to life cycle assessment" 📆 27/02/26 🕜 13:30 - 14:00 📍Aula Proxectos, ETSE

🐟 O @cretus.usc.gal demostra a viabilidade de valorizar os efluentes das industrias láctea e conserveira de peixe mediante fermentación anaerobia A tese de Tamara Casero realizouse no @biogroup.usc.gal 🗞️ www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...

Today, the PhD Candidate #SaraMartínez delivered the BioGroup seminar on the application of partial nitritation/anammox processes in the treatment of livestock waste, as a part of her PhD, focused on slurry treatment within the #NUTRITIVE Project. @usc.gal @cretus.usc.gal

Hoy #AlbertoFraile y #AlmudenaHospido participan en Seminario Final del proyecto #Ruraltxa! presentando sus avances en la integración de los servicios ecosistémicos en el marco del ACV. @usc.gal @cretus.usc.gal

📘 Onte @sindofeijoo.bsky.social estivo na #TendaUSC asinando exemplares do seu libro "As arestas da sustentabilidade". 👉 O libro propón unha viaxe polas múltiples caras do desenvolvemento sostible: como vivimos, que consumimos e como falamos da sustentabilidade. @usc.gal

🎓Hoxe #TamaraCasero defendía a súa tese de doutoramento industrial “Towards the industrial-scale valorization of food industry effluents into volatile fatty acids” dirixida polos Prof. #MartaCarballa e #MiguelMaurcio da @usc.gal @cretus.usc.gal e a Dra. Celia Castro de #CETAQUA Moitos Parabéns!

🎓Hoxe acompañamos ao noso compañeiro o investigador #JuanIglesias na defensa da súa tese "Short and medium chain carboxylate production from lignocellulosic biomass" dirixida polos Prof. #MartaCarballa e #MiguelMauricio. Moitos Parabéns! @cretus.usc.gal @usc.gal #Cell4Chem

🥇 1º Premio dos premios #ÍCARUS para #JorgeGonzález-Rodríguez polo seu traballo de tese “Conceptual design, operation and scale-up of photocatalytic processes integrating magnetic nanocomposites for the removal of micropollutants in wastewater” 👏👏👏

🔝Alta participación do #BioGroup na 7th IWA International Conference on Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment (#ecoSTP) celebrada en Estocolmo do 23 ao 26 de xuño: presentacións orais, poster, organización dun workshop e 2 premios en comunicacións orais! 👌👏👏 @cretus.usc.gal @usc.gal

Hoxe a investigadora predoutoral #SaraGarcía impartía o seminario do BioGroup sobre o modelo de fermentación e as estratexias operativas que emprega para optimizar o proceso e a produción de ácidos graxos de cadea media (AGCM). 📆 20/06/25 🕜 13:30 📍Aula Proxectos, ETSE

👩‍🔬 O equipo investigador #CarlotaUcha, #BraisVázquez e #SaraMartínez achegarán á cidadanía o proxecto PRETENACC (valorización de residuos graxos para producir biopolímeros) no #SantiagoEnVivo 📍 Alameda de Santiago 📅 Sábado 7 (10:00-14:00) 📅 Domingo 8 (10:00-12:00)

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🔬♻️ Esta fin de semana CRETUS estará no #SantiagoEnVivo! presentando o #PRETENACC, unha (bio)tecnoloxía que transforma aceite usado en bioplásticos usando bacterias! Ven a visitar o contedor cheo de ciencia da @usc.gal @cretus.usc.gal, @igfae.gal e @citius.gal. #RedeCIGUS #FondosEuropeos #BioGroup

🎓Acompañamos á investigadora #SilvanaQuitón na defensa da súa tese sobre a biotransformación de antibióticos nos procesos de tratamento de augas residuais. Tese dirixida polos Prof #FranciscoOmil, #AndreasSchaeffer e Dra #SoniaSuárez. #Nowelties @usc.gal #RWTHAachenU @cretus.usc.gal

Significant participation of #BioGroup researchers at the IWA Resource Recovery Conference 2025 in Leeuwarden (May 19-23) #IWARR2025. @cretus.usc.gal @usc.gal biogroup.usc.es/content/sign...

A investigadora predoutoral #CarlotaVijande imparte hoxe o seminario do BioGroup no que falará das comunidades microbianas presentes nas EDAR capaces de degradar o PET e as enzimas responsables deste proceso. 📆 22/05/25 🕜 13:30 - 14:00 📍Aula Proxectos, ETSE

🔊New article open access ETI @elsevierconnect.bsky.social “Lignin as a renewable resource for bio-oil & oligomers production. An environmental perspective” A nice collaboration @usc.gal @cretus.usc.gal 🇪🇸 #AgriculturalUnvAthens #AristotleUnivThessaloniki 🇬🇷 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lignin as a renewable resource for bio-oil and oligomers production. An environmental perspective

The depletion of fossil resources and climate change is already a fact that entails a great concern among the population. Efforts to search for renewa…

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A investigadora predoutoral #RaquelFariñas presentará no próximo seminario de investigación o seu traballo sobre a extracción de polifenois do bagazo de mazá e o seu potencial uso como axentes antimicrobianos naturais 📆 25/04/25 🕜 13:30 - 14:00 📍Aula 4, ETSE

O 15 e 16 de abril, @sindofeijoo.bsky.social, impartirá 'Despilfarro alimentario e pegada ambiental dos alimentos' no Programa Universitario de Maiores da @usc.gal 'Camiños de coñecemento e experiencia'. @cretus.usc.gal