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Overview

Gavin Collins is affiliated with the National University of Ireland, Galway in Ireland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, focusing on numerous subfields such as Pollution, Building and Construction, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction

Gavin Collins has contributed to various research articles over recent years, notably:

  • Granular biofilms: Function, application, and new trends as model microbial communities, 2020, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
  • Carboxylic acids production and electrosynthetic microbial community evolution under different CO2 feeding regimens, 2020, Bioelectrochemistry
  • Unifying concepts in methanogenic, aerobic, and anammox sludge granulation, 2023, Environmental Science and Ecotechnology
  • Microbial strategies driving low concentration substrate degradation for sustainable remediation solutions, 2024, npj Clean Water
  • Impacts of metal stress on extracellular microbial products, and potential for selective metal recovery, 2023, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Their frequent collaborators reflect a network of active research partnerships, including Umer Zeeshan Ijaz, Simon Mills, Piet N.L. Lens, Anna Christine Trego, and Vincent O'Flaherty.

Gavin Collins publishes regularly in several journals, notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Environmental Science and Ecotechnology
  • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Best Publications

  • Aerobic denitrification in permeable Wadden Sea sediments.

    Hang Gao;Hang Gao;Frank Schreiber;Gavin Collins;Gavin Collins;Marlene Mark Jensen;Marlene Mark Jensen

  • DNA extraction method affects microbial community profiles from soils and sediment

    Cora Carrigg;Olivia Rice;Siobhán Kavanagh;Gavin Collins

  • DESMAN: a new tool for de novo extraction of strains from metagenomes

    Christopher Quince;Tom O. Delmont;Sébastien Raguideau;Johannes Alneberg

  • Microbial community structure and methanogenic activity during start-up of psychrophilic anaerobic digesters treating synthetic industrial wastewaters.

    Gavin Collins;Adele Woods;Sharon McHugh;Micheal W. Carton

  • Simultaneous nitrate and phosphate removal from wastewater lacking organic matter through microbial oxidation of pyrrhotite coupled to nitrate reduction

    Ruihua Li;Liam Morrison;Gavin Collins;Aimin Li

  • Reactor performance and microbial community dynamics during anaerobic biological treatment of wastewaters at 16–37 °C

    Sharon McHugh;Micheal Carton;Gavin Collins;Vincent O'Flaherty

  • Psychrophilic and mesophilic anaerobic digestion of brewery effluent: a comparative study.

    Sean Connaughton;Gavin Collins;Vincent O’Flaherty

  • Development of microbial community structure and actvity in a high-rate anaerobic bioreactor at 18 °C

    Sean Connaughton;Gavin Collins;Vincent O’Flaherty

  • The Microbiology and Biochemistry of Anaerobic Bioreactors with Relevance to Domestic Sewage Treatment

    Vincent O’Flaherty;Gavin Collins;Thérèse Mahony

  • Low-temperature anaerobic digestion for wastewater treatment.

    Rory M McKeown;Dermot Hughes;Gavin Collins;Thérèse Mahony

  • Nanostructured pyrrhotite supports autotrophic denitrification for simultaneous nitrogen and phosphorus removal from secondary effluents

    Yan Yang;Tianhu Chen;Liam Morrison;Sean Gerrity

  • Psychrophilic methanogenic community development during long-term cultivation of anaerobic granular biofilms

    Rory M McKeown;Colm Scully;Anne-Marie Enright;Fabio A Chinalia;Fabio A Chinalia

  • Long-term, high-rate anaerobic biological treatment of whey wastewaters at psychrophilic temperatures.

    Sharon McHugh;Gavin Collins;Vincent O’Flaherty

  • Anaerobic biological treatment of phenolic wastewater at 15–18 °C

    Gavin Collins;Clare Foy;Sharon McHugh;Thérèse Mahony

  • Low-temperature anaerobic biological treatment of solvent-containing pharmaceutical wastewater.

    Anne-Marie Enright;Sharon McHugh;Gavin Collins;Vincent O’Flaherty

  • Long-term (1243 days), low-temperature (4–15 °C), anaerobic biotreatment of acidified wastewaters: Bioprocess performance and physiological characteristics

    Rory M. McKeown;Colm Scully;Thérèse Mahony;Gavin Collins

  • Quantitative and qualitative analyses of methanogenic community development in high-rate anaerobic bioreactors.

    Katarzyna Bialek;Jaai Kim;Changsoo Lee;Gavin Collins

  • Anaerobic biological treatment of phenol at 9.5-15 °C in an expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB)-based bioreactor

    Colm Scully;Gavin Collins;Vincent O’Flaherty

  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis of methanogenic communities in mesophilically and psychrophilically cultivated anaerobic granular biofilims.

    Joe O'Reilly;Changsoo Lee;Gavin Collins;Fabio A. Chinalia

  • Anaerobic treatment of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol in an expanded granular sludge bed-anaerobic filter (EGSB-AF) bioreactor at 15 °C

    Gavin Collins;Clare Foy;Sharon McHugh;Vincent OFlaherty

  • Effect of sulfate on low-temperature anaerobic digestion.

    Pádhraig Madden;Abdul M. Al-Raei;Anne M. Enright;Fabio A. Chinalia

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent O'Flaherty
Vincent O'Flaherty University of Galway
Piet N.L. Lens
Piet N.L. Lens University of Galway
Christopher Quince
Christopher Quince University of Warwick
Changsoo Lee
Changsoo Lee Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Marcel M. M. Kuypers Max Planck Society
Gaute Lavik
Gaute Lavik Max Planck Society
Dirk de Beer
Dirk de Beer Max Planck Society
Jukka Rintala
Jukka Rintala Tampere University
Xinmin Zhan
Xinmin Zhan University of Galway
Joel E. Kostka
Joel E. Kostka Georgia Institute of Technology

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