WORK PACKAGE 2

About WP2

Systems design, assembly and modelling

Objectives:

• to design, test and assess the bioremediation efficiency of systems based on the rational assembly of biologics at laboratory scale using real contaminated matrices from the Nymphe sites;

• to characterize all microbial biologics obtained in WP1 and the microbiome metacommunities of each system;

• to model the microbiome metacommunities of each system;

• to design, test and validate model-derived microbiome modulation strategies and modulators for the systems’ improvement.

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Description of work:
WP2 will exploit combinations of biologics selected in WP1 and further improved in WP3 to develop and test, on the laboratory scale, systems addressing the bioremediation of real contaminated industrial and agricultural soils, GW, aquifer sediment, hyporheic zone and WWmatrices from the Nymphe sites (Task 2.1).

WP2 will also characterize (Task 2.2) the microbial biologics obtained in WP1 and the microbiome metacommunities of the systems and will model the latter (Task 2.3) to enable the systems’ upgrading and further improvement with modelderived microbiome modulation strategies and modulators (Task 2.3).

Systems’performance indicators (e.g., pollutant removal rate, accumulation of biodegradation intermediates or products, stability over time, etc.) collected in WP2 will provide information to WP3 for further improvement of the biologics, and to WP4 for the selection of systems ready to be tested on a larger scale and under real conditions in the Nymphe sites.