George Wells

Research interests

Publications

• Insights into Nitrous Oxide Mitigation Strategies in Wastewater Treatment and Challenges for Wider Implementation

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c00840

• Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

  Nature Sustainability · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00605-2

• Microbial and Viral Communities and Their Antibiotic Resistance Genes Throughout a Hospital Wastewater Treatment System

  Frontiers in Microbiology · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00153

• Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

  Nature Microbiology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0426-5

• Comammox Nitrospira are the dominant ammonia oxidizers in a mainstream low dissolved oxygen nitrification reactor

  Water Research · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.03.060

• Biomass segregation between biofilm and flocs improves the control of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in mainstream partial nitritation and anammox processes

  Water Research · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2018.12.051

• Genome-centric metagenomics resolves microbial diversity and prevalent truncated denitrification pathways in a denitrifying PAO-enriched bioprocess

  Water Research · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.02.020

• Nitrous oxide emissions from biofilm processes for wastewater treatment

  Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-018-9332-7

• Metagenomics Reveals the Impact of Wastewater Treatment Plants on the Dispersal of Microorganisms and Genes in Aquatic Sediments

  Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02168-17

• Understanding Mechanisms of Synergy between Acidification and Ultrasound Treatments for Activated Sludge Dewatering: From Bench to Pilot–Scale Investigation

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b00310

• Growth of Nitrosococcus -Related Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria Coincides with Extremely Low pH Values in Wastewater with High Ammonia Content

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b00392

• Antibiotic resistome in a large‐scale healthy human gut microbiota deciphered by metagenomic and network analyses

  Environmental Microbiology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14009

• Regional synchrony in full-scale activated sludge bioreactors due to deterministic microbial community assembly

  The ISME Journal · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.121

• Impact of coexistence of flocs and biofilm on performance of combined nitritation-anammox granular sludge reactors

  Water Research · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2014.09.036

• Towards energy neutral wastewater treatment: methodology and state of the art

  Environmental Science Processes & Impacts · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c4em00069b

• Nitric oxide and nitrous oxide turnover in natural and engineered microbial communities: biological pathways, chemical reactions, and novel technologies

  Frontiers in Microbiology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00372

• General and rare bacterial taxa demonstrating different temporal dynamic patterns in an activated sludge bioreactor

  Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-012-4002-7

• Nitrogen removal with energy recovery through N 2 O decomposition

  Energy & Environmental Science · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1039/c2ee22487a

• Fine-scale bacterial community dynamics and the taxa–time relationship within a full-scale activated sludge bioreactor

  Water Research · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2011.08.006

• Three-Dimensional Carbon Nanotube−Textile Anode for High-Performance Microbial Fuel Cells

  Nano Letters · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1021/nl103905t

• Combined niche and neutral effects in a microbial wastewater treatment community

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1000604107

• Ammonia‐oxidizing communities in a highly aerated full‐scale activated sludge bioreactor: betaproteobacterial dynamics and low relative abundance of Crenarchaea

  Environmental Microbiology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01958.x

• Occurrence of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea in Wastewater Treatment Plant Bioreactors

  Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00402-06

• Tissue Adhesive Versus Suture Wound Repair at 1 Year: Randomized Clinical Trial Correlating Early, 3-Month, and 1-Year Cosmetic Outcome

  Annals of Emergency Medicine · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0196-0644(98)70061-7

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