International Conference and Expo on Water Microbiology & Novel Technologies July 18-19, 2016 Chicago, Illinois, USA

Prof. Miklas Scholz, cand ing, BEng (equiv), PgC, MSc, PhD, CWEM, CEnv, CSci, CEng, FHEA, FIEMA, FCIWEM, FICE, Fellow of IWA holds the Chair in Civil Engineering at The University of Salford. He is the Head of the Civil Engineering Research Group. Prof. Scholz has shown individual excellence evidenced by world-leading publications, postgraduate supervision and research impact. His main research areas in terms of publication output are as follow: treatment wetlands (19%), integrated constructed wetlands (ICW, 14%), sustainable flood retention basins (SFRB, 7%), permeable pavement systems (7%), decision support systems (6%), ponds (5%) and capillary suction time (6%). About 46% and 45% of his research is in water resources management and wastewater treatment, respectively. The remaining 9% are in capillary processes and water treatment. currently Professor in Civil Engineering, Chair in Civil Engineering and Head of the Civil Engineering Research Group, School of Computing, Science and Engineering, College of Science and Technology, The University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester M5 4WT, England, United Kingdom

His research has led to the incorporation of findings into national and international guidelines on wetland and sustainable drainage systems. The greatest impact has been made in the area of ICW in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England. Prof. Scholz contributed to the design guidelines of wetland systems as a research consultant. The guidelines assist designers and managers in all aspects of ICW planning, design, construction, maintenance and management. Moreover, specific guidelines were written for ICW used by farmers to treat farm yard runoff in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and Ireland. These guidelines are specifically mentioned in national legislation.

He received his doctoral degree in 1977 from the Vienna University of Technology. From 1987 to 2012 he served as full professor at the Institute for Water Quality, Resource and Waste management at Vienna University of Technology, from 1994- 1998 as dean of the faculty of Civil Engineering and from 2004 to 2010 as vice chair of the senate. He was member of the Board of Directors of IWA for many years, chair of the IWA publishing committee until September 2014, since 2008 he is a IWA Distinguished Fellow . Actually he is president of IWA for the period 2014 to 2016.

His research field on municipal and industrial waste water treatment focused on biological process development from lab scale to full scale plant design and operation. His research on river basin management focused on the role of point and diffused nutrient sources on surface and ground waters. Teaching focused on basic and advanced education in Water Quality Management and doctoral programs. Another key aspect was the enhancement of continuous flow of knowledge and experience from reserach to full scale operation (professional training) together with the Austrian Water and Waste Association

Jingrang Lu is a biologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati, Ohio. His research work focuses on the molecular method development and detection of pathogenic bacteria in water, using transcriptomic, metagenomic and genomic analysis and host animal model, and to assess water quality and pathogenic risks. He holds a PhD in microbial ecology and a MS in zoology. He has over 60 peer reviewed publications. His main interests are to apply molecular approaches to applied environmental microbiology and public health researches.

Microbiology

Prof. Malka Halpern is is an Environmental Microbiologist at the University of Haifa. She has completed her PhD from Haifa University, Israel and her postdoctoral studies from Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Her main interests are the ecology of waterborne pathogens and in particular Vibrio cholerae, Aeromonas and Legionella, Plant-bacteria interactions and Bacterial taxonomy. She has published more than 49 papers in reputed journals.

Noreddin received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of the Pacific, California and received research training as a visiting scholar at the Department of Medicine, Stanford University. He had postdoctoral fellowship (Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Antimicrobials), Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba followed by an American College of Clinical Pharmacy postdoctoral fellowship (Infectious Diseases). Dr. Noreddin’s research interest includes Pharmacoklinetic/Pharmacodynamic modeling of anti-infective and anti-cancer therapy, clinical simulation and Monte Carlo analysis and bacterial resistance in biofilm studies. Dr. Noreddin has outstanding records of scientific and academic accomplishments with multiple research funding, numerous publications in highly prestigious journals and various presentations in both national and international conferences. He served as a scientific reviewer for the NIH as well as other national and international research institutions.

Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic modeling of anti-infective and anti-cancer therapy Clinical simulation and Monte Carlo analysis Bacterial resistance in biofilm studies Cancer epigenetic studies Minority health care studies

Zhou has authored more than 420 publications, with total citations of > 20,000 and H-index of 76 based on Google Scholar, 65 based on Web of Science. More than 50 papers were published in the high profile journals, namely Science (3), Nature Climate Change (1), PNAS (8), Nature Review in Microbiology (2), Nature Communications (1), mBio (6), Ecology Letters (1), PLoS Genetics (1), PLoS Pathogens (1), and The ISME Journal by Nature Publishing Group (30). One of his papers, published in 1996, is among the 20 most cited papers (>2,300 times) in the history of Applied and Environmental Microbiology since 2008. Invited Talks. Since 1995, 410 talks were given for university seminars and international conferences in various countries, with more than 300 talks since last 10 years, including an ASM Divisional lecturer, and Australia Society for Microbiology Visiting Speaker for cruise lectures to various institutions, and Special keynote talk at Chinese Academy of Sciences under the special seminar series, \"Sciences and China\". Funded Projects Since moving from Oak Ridge National Lab to OU (2006), Dr. Zhou has had 32 projects in genomics and microbial ecology, and has received a total funding of >$27M.

Dr. Zhou established a Fellowship at the School of Environment, Tsinghua University, with main purposes to recognize excellent graduate students in microbial ecology and environmental science at Tsinghua University, and possibly award young microbial ecologists across China. Dr. Zhou also initiated the establishment of Global Water Microbiome Consortium (GWMC) as a platform to facilitate international collaboration and communication on research and education on global water microbiome studies

*Dr. Mahmoud currently holds the position of a professor in the department of parasitology in the University of Cairo since 2004. Her field of specialization is Fish Parasitology. She joined as an Assistant Lecturer from 1990 to 1994. Lecturer of Parasitology since 1994. Assistant Professor of Parasitology since Sept.1999. Prof. of Parasitology since 2004.She had received her MVSc (Parasitology, fish parasites) in 1990 and PhD (Parasitology, fish parasites) from Cairo University in 1994. **She is the chair and member of the following commitees & associations: *Charing in the project of Biotechnological control of ticks in Egypt ( from 1995-1996). *Charing in the project of Geographical imfomation systems (GIS) and control of snail borne diseases. *Member of the Egyptian Vet. Med. Assoc. *Member of the zoological society A. R. Egypt. Member of fish committee of the general organization for veterinary services, Egypt.(G.O.Vet.S.) *Member of the fish committee for the solution of Lake Naser fish helminth problems in G. O. Vet. S. Egypt. *Attemptin a training course on fish Parasites in General Authority for Fish Resources Development 2002. *Member of the Egyptian Society of Veterinary Parasitology. *Member of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology. *Charring in the Project Comparative study of Lime Borreliosis Vectors/ Pathogenesis (Egyptian/US Project # 930312. from 1999-2002). *Member of the Egyptian Society of Environment and Aquatic Animal Health. *Head of the Egyptian society of parasitology and pathology of aquatic organisms. *Editor in Oceanography journal. *Member of the organization committee of Oceanography conference 2013 and 2014.

Fish Parasitology