Dr Fabio Alexandre Chinaglia
Lecturer in Environmental Biotechnology
Location: Building 40, Cranfield campus
E: chinalia@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2794
Sustainable Systems
Current activities
- Development of new tools to sustain engineered biological treatment plants.
- EA-funded project related to Landfill gas
- Teaching and supervision of MSc and PhD students
- Course director of the MSc programme in Innovation Design for Sustainability.
Clients
- Environment Agency
- Southern Waters
Background
Dr Fabio Alexandre Chinaglia started his scientific career as a Research Assistant studying the feasibility of assessing microbial species succession within aerobic batch bioreactors treating textile wastewater as a means to predict treatment performance and effluent toxicity. He obtained an MSc in Ecology and Natural Resources studying the effect of urban wastewater and sewage discharges on river sediments under different levels of contamination. He successfully secured research funding to carry out his PhD in Environmental Microbiology at Aberdeen University focusing on the investigation of ecological impact and biodegradation kinetics effects of different concentrations of naphthalene and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) applied to natural microbial communities of distinct river sediments of NE-Scotland.
As a post-doc he joined the Civil Engineering School of Sao Carlos (EESC/USP), where he had the opportunity to intensify his studies in wastewater treatment, bioprocesses and distinct aerobic/anaerobic bioreactor designs. Later, as senior researcher at NUI-Galway, he has successfully applied cDNA fingerprinting and mRNA quantification to characterize active microorganisms in methanogenic consortium. Therefore, Fabio has been involved in identifying, quantifying and differentiating the influence of chemical constraints and significant microbial shifts that affect bioremediation and treatment performances of aerobic and anaerobic bioreactors at different temperatures ranges and at distinct redox potentials.
In addition, Fabio has lectured for several years in the subjects of Microbiology, Ecology and Genetics & Evolution in the Department of Biology at Parana University, Brazil. He also contributed in administrative positions such as the coordination of the BSc course in Biological Sciences and as Programme Officer of several projects. At Cranfield, Fabio's activities will be focusing on the development of new tools to sustain engineered biological systems and he is acting as Course Director for the postgraduate programme in Innovation and Design for Sustainability (IDFS).
Selected publications
- Joe O'Reilly, Changsoo Lee, Gavin Collins, Fabio Chinaglia, Thérèse Mahony, Vincent O'Flaherty. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of methanogenic communities in mesophilically and psychrophilically cultivated anaerobic granular biofilims. Water Research, In Press, 2009
- Changsoo Lee • Jaai Kim • Fabio Alexandre Chinaglia, Seung Gu Shin • Seokhwan Hwang. Unusual bacterial populations observed in a full-scale municipal sludge digester affected by intermittent seawater inputs. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol, In Press, 2009.
- Daniel, L. M., Pozzi, E., Foresti, E. Chinaglia, F.A. Removal of ammonium via simultaneous nitrification-denitrification nitrite-shortcut in a single packed-bed batch reactor. Bioresource Technology 100: 1100-1107, 2009.
- McKeown, R.M., Collins, G., Chinaglia, F.A., Mahony, T., O’Flaherty, V. Low temperature anaerobic biotreatment of priority pollutants. Water Science and Technology 57: 499-503, 2008
- Chinaglia, F.A.; Paton, G.I.; Killham, K.S. Physiological and toxicological characterization of an engineered whole-cell biosensor. Bioresource Technology, 99: 714–721. 2008.
- Chinaglia, F.A; Regali-Seleguin, M.; Correa, M. 2,4-D Toxicity: Cause, Effect and Control. Invited Review. Terrestrial and Aquatic Environmental Toxicology, 1(2), 24-33. 2007.
