George Wells Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Northwestern University Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles George Wells has not added a biography. If you are George Wells and would like to personalize this page please email our Author Liaison for assistance. Publications Meta-omic Profiling Reveals Ubiquity of Genes Encoding for the Nitrogen-rich Biopolymer Cyanophycin in Activated Sludge Microbiomes Frontiers in Microbiology. 2023 | Pubmed ID: 38033562 In a Quest for High-efficiency Mainstream Partial Nitritation-anammox (PN/A) Implementation: One-stage or Two-stage? The Science of the Total Environment. Jul, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 37086997 Intensity of Sample Processing Methods Impacts Wastewater SARS-CoV-2 Whole Genome Amplicon Sequencing Outcomes The Science of the Total Environment. Jun, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36871720 Partial Nitritation/Anammox and Biological Phosphorus Removal Integration in a Single Bioreactor Under Mainstream Conditions Bioresource Technology. Apr, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36754238 A Strategy for Fast Anammox Biofilm Formation Under Mainstream Conditions Chemosphere. Mar, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36702412 Effects of Feast-famine Nutrient Regimes on Wastewater Algal Biofuel Communities PloS One. 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36598899 Impact of Operational Strategies on a Sidestream Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (S2EBPR) Reactor in a Carbon Limited Wastewater Plant The Science of the Total Environment. Jan, 2023 | Pubmed ID: 36216061 Reduction and Discharge of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Chicago-area Water Reclamation Plants FEMS Microbes. 2022 | Pubmed ID: 37332512 Tailoring Polyvinyl Alcohol-sodium Alginate (PVA-SA) Hydrogel Beads by Controlling Crosslinking PH and Time Scientific Reports. Dec, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 36460678 Toward Mainstream Anammox by Integrating Sidestream Treatment Environmental Science & Technology. Aug, 2022 | Pubmed ID: 35849745 Layered Viscoelastic Properties of Granular Biofilms Water Research. Sep, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34256191 Role of Air Scouring in Anaerobic/anoxic Tanks Providing Nitrogen Removal by Mainstream Anammox Conversion in a Hybrid Biofilm/suspended Growth Full-scale WWTP in China Water Environment Research : a Research Publication of the Water Environment Federation. Oct, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 34038005 Insights into Nitrous Oxide Mitigation Strategies in Wastewater Treatment and Challenges for Wider Implementation Environmental Science & Technology. Jun, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33975433 Time to Act-assessing Variations in QPCR Analyses in Biological Nitrogen Removal with Examples from Partial Nitritation/anammox Systems Water Research. Feb, 2021 | Pubmed ID: 33279744 Pushing the Limits of Solids Retention Time for Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal: Process Characteristics and Accumulibacter Population Structure Water Science and Technology : a Journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research. Oct, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 33107855 Microbial and Viral Communities and Their Antibiotic Resistance Genes Throughout a Hospital Wastewater Treatment System Frontiers in Microbiology. 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32140141 Erratum to "Biomass Segregation Between Biofilm and Flocs Improves the Control of Nitrite-oxidizing Bacteria in Mainstream Partial Nitritation and Anammox Processes" [Water Res. 154 (2019) 104-116] Water Research. Feb, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 31835130 Soil Hydrology Drives Ecological Niche Differentiation in a Native Prairie Microbiome FEMS Microbiology Ecology. Jan, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 31626296 Author Correction: Global Diversity and Biogeography of Bacterial Communities in Wastewater Treatment Plants Nature Microbiology. Dec, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31728072 Viral Composition and Context in Metagenomes from Biofilm and Suspended Growth Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants Microbial Biotechnology. Nov, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31410982 Towards Mechanical Characterization of Granular Biofilms by Optical Coherence Elastography Measurements of Circumferential Elastic Waves Soft Matter. Jul, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31282532 Global Diversity and Biogeography of Bacterial Communities in Wastewater Treatment Plants Nature Microbiology. 07, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31086312 Microbial Immigration in Wastewater Treatment Systems: Analytical Considerations and Process Implications Current Opinion in Biotechnology. Jun, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31030172 Comammox Nitrospira Are the Dominant Ammonia Oxidizers in a Mainstream Low Dissolved Oxygen Nitrification Reactor Water Research. Jun, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30974288 Exploring Co-occurrence Patterns Between Organic Micropollutants and Bacterial Community Structure in a Mixed-use Watershed Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts. May, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30957808 Genome-centric Metagenomics Resolves Microbial Diversity and Prevalent Truncated Denitrification Pathways in a Denitrifying PAO-enriched Bioprocess Water Research. May, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30852315 Granular Activated Carbon Supplementation Alters the Metabolic Flux of Clostridium Butyricum for Enhanced Biohydrogen Production Bioresource Technology. Jun, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30826518 Biomass Segregation Between Biofilm and Flocs Improves the Control of Nitrite-oxidizing Bacteria in Mainstream Partial Nitritation and Anammox Processes Water Research. May, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30782552 Nondestructive Characterization of Soft Materials and Biofilms by Measurement of Guided Elastic Wave Propagation Using Optical Coherence Elastography Soft Matter. Jan, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30601536 Spatially Resolved Abundances of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and IntI1 in Wastewater Treatment Biofilms Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Mar, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30512194 Antibiotic Resistance Genes Show Enhanced Mobilization Through Suspended Growth and Biofilm-based Wastewater Treatment Processes FEMS Microbiology Ecology. Nov, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30239669 Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Biofilm Processes for Wastewater Treatment Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Nov, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30203144 Morphological Analysis of Pore Size and Connectivity in a Thick Mixed-culture Biofilm Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 09, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29777596 Antibiotic Resistance Genes Show Enhanced Mobilization Through Suspended Growth and Biofilm-based Wastewater Treatment Processes FEMS Microbiology Ecology. May, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29534199 Understanding Mechanisms of Synergy Between Acidification and Ultrasound Treatments for Activated Sludge Dewatering: From Bench to Pilot-Scale Investigation Environmental Science & Technology. Apr, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29518313 Metagenomics Reveals the Impact of Wastewater Treatment Plants on the Dispersal of Microorganisms and Genes in Aquatic Sediments Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Mar, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29269503 Antibiotic Resistome in a Large-scale Healthy Human Gut Microbiota Deciphered by Metagenomic and Network Analyses Environmental Microbiology. Jan, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29194931 Microbial Diversity in an Intensively Managed Landscape is Structured by Landscape Connectivity FEMS Microbiology Ecology. Oct, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28961974 Growth of Nitrosococcus-Related Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria Coincides with Extremely Low PH Values in Wastewater with High Ammonia Content Environmental Science & Technology. Jun, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28509546 Nitrosomonas Europaea Biofilm Formation is Enhanced by Pseudomonas Aeruginosa FEMS Microbiology Ecology. May, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28387799 Regional Synchrony in Full-scale Activated Sludge Bioreactors Due to Deterministic Microbial Community Assembly The ISME Journal. Feb, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 27996980 Microbial Activity Balance in Size Fractionated Suspended Growth Biomass from Full-scale Sidestream Combined Nitritation-anammox Reactors Bioresource Technology. Oct, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27347796 Considering Microbial and Aggregate Heterogeneity in Biofilm Reactor Models: How Far Do We Need to Go? Water Science and Technology : a Journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research. 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26540529 Towards Energy Neutral Wastewater Treatment: Methodology and State of the Art Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts. May, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24777396 Microbial Biogeography Across a Full-scale Wastewater Treatment Plant Transect: Evidence for Immigration Between Coupled Processes Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. May, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24553968 Long-term Outcome of Individuals with Pure Red Cell Aplasia and Antierythropoietin Antibodies in Patients Treated with Recombinant Epoetin: a Follow-up Report from the Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports (RADAR) Project Blood. Nov, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16099877 Quantifying Elastic Properties of Environmental Biofilms using Optical Coherence Elastography Evan Dieppa1, Hannah Schmitz2, Ziwei Wang3, Fabrizio Sabba4, George Wells2, Oluwaseyi Balogun1,2,3 1Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program, Northwestern University, 2Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Northwestern University, 3Mechanical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, 4Black & Veatch JoVE 66118 Environment
Quantifying Elastic Properties of Environmental Biofilms using Optical Coherence Elastography Evan Dieppa1, Hannah Schmitz2, Ziwei Wang3, Fabrizio Sabba4, George Wells2, Oluwaseyi Balogun1,2,3 1Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program, Northwestern University, 2Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Northwestern University, 3Mechanical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, 4Black & Veatch JoVE 66118 Environment
