Dr Maria Grassino

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology

m.grassino@uq.edu.au

Featured projects	Duration
Waste-to-Profits: Technologies for nutritionally advantaged feeds Meat & Livestock Australia	2018–2022

Publications

Journal Articles (5)

Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Grassino, Maria, Hülsen, Tim and Batstone, Damien J. (2025). Effect of light intensity and wavelength on carotenoid profiles in mixed cultures of purple phototrophic bacteria. Bioresource Technology, 432 132603. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2025.132603

Bai, Xue, Grassino, Maria and Jensen, Paul D. (2023). Effect of alkaline pre-treatment on hydrolysis rate and methane production during anaerobic digestion of paunch solid waste. Waste Management, 171, 303-312. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2023.08.027

Grassino, Maria, Batstone, Damien J., Yong, Ken W. L., Capson-Tojo, Gabriel and Hülsen, Tim (2022). Method development for PPB culture screening, pigment analysis with UPLC-UV-HRMS vs. spectrophotometric methods, and spectral decomposition-based analysis. Talanta, 246 123490, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123490

Capson-Tojo, Gabriel, Batstone, Damien J., Grassino, Maria and Hülsen, Tim (2022). Light attenuation in enriched purple phototrophic bacteria cultures: implications for modelling and reactor design. Water Research, 219 118572, 118572. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118572

Capson-Tojo, Gabriel, Batstone, Damien J., Grassino, María, Vlaeminck, Siegfried E., Puyol, Daniel, Verstraete, Willy, Kleerebezem, Robbert, Oehmen, Adrian, Ghimire, Anish, Pikaar, Ilje, Lema, Juan M. and Hülsen, Tim (2020). Purple phototrophic bacteria for resource recovery: Challenges and opportunities. Biotechnology Advances, 43 107567, 107567. doi: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2020.107567

Thesis

Grassino, Maria (2023). Resource recovery using mixed purple phototrophic bacteria for carotenoid production. PhD Thesis, Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/949d21e