Biological Approaches to Controlling Pollutants, the latest release in the Advances in Pollution Research series, is a comprehensive guide on the most up-to-date biological methods for remediation of pollutants across a variety of industries, with consideration for the advantages, disadvantages and applications of each method. Considering the increasing levels of pollution and contaminated sites worldwide from high population growths and industrial expansion, the most recent advances in biological remediation techniques is an important field of study and one in which researchers need the most cutting-edge methodologies.
This book is a necessary read for environmental scientists, along with postgraduates, academics and researchers working in the area of environmental pollution. It will also be of interest to environmental engineers and any other practitioners who need to evaluate the latest advances in biotechnological control of pollutants.
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Table of Contents
1. Advances in Bioremediation: An introduction, applications and limitations 2. Advances in Microbial Management of Soils 3. Advances in Bioremediation in Wastewaters 4. Advances in Phytoremediation of Metal Contaminated Sites 5. Toxicological Effects of Uranium Contamination on Environment 6. Advances in Bioremediation of Health Hazards 7. Plastic Wastes Management and Health Hazards 8. Advances in Biodegradation and Bioremediation of Pesticides Contamination in Environment 9. Advances in Toxic metals contamination and its bioremediation 10. Advances in Dyes contaminations: Health Hazards, Biodegradation and Bioremediation 11. Advances in Bioremediation of Industrial Wastewater Containing Metal Pollutants 12. Advances in Microbial and Enzymatic Degradation of Lindane at Contaminated sites 13. Advances in Role of Microbial Cellulases in Paper and Pulp Industry 14. Advances in Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids Pollution in Soil, Water and It's Bioremediation 15. Advances in Bioremediation of Organometallic Pollutants: Strategies and Future Roadmap 16. Advances in Role of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Remediation of Environmental Pollutants 17. Advances in methodological approaches for Bioremediation 18. Advances in Bioremediation of biosurfactants and Biomedical Wastes 19. Aquaponics and Aquaculture water management
Authors
Sunil Kumar Associate Professor and Dean, Faculty of Biosciences, Institute of Biosciences and Technology, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow-Deva Road, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. Dr. Kumar received his Master in Biotechnology from the Devi Ahilya University, Indore, (India) in 2006 and his PhD in Biotechnology from Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India in 2011. After receiving his PhD he joined Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the year 2011 and worked for one year. He moved to UNESCO-Regional Center for Biotechnology, Faridabad, Haryana (India) and joined as Postdoctoral Fellow in a DBT-Welcome Trust project in 2012 and worked on "Understanding Salmonella-mediated alternations in host SUMOylation: implications in infection and inflammation�. From here he got trained in infection biology and continued his work in this area. He is also working on molecular immunological aspects of different Neurological Diseases.He joined Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Barabanki (UP) as an Assistant Professor in the year 2013 as a founder member of Faculty of Biotechnology. He is currently an Associate Professor and Dean, Faculty of Biosciences, Institute of Biosciences and Technology at the Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Dr. Kumar has received "Outstanding Researcher and Academician Award� twice in 2018 and 2019 from Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University for his best contribution in research and academics. He has also received International Travel Grant from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Department of Science and Technology (DST) Government of India, New Delhi (Three times 2010, 2015 and 2018) and from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi in 2010 for presenting his research work at Malaysia, London and Croatia.
He has supervised 20 B. Tech, 20 M. Sc. one M. Phil and one PhD Biotechnology projects during his career in Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University. Two of his B. Tech Biotechnology students have received INSA-Summer Research Fellowship under his direct supervision.
He is the Life Member of "Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), "Society for Biotechnologists (India)�, "Indian Society of Human Genetics�, "National Academy of Biological Sciences�, "Asian Neurogastroenterology and Motility Association�, "Uttar Pradesh Academy of Science�, and "International Society for Development and Sustainability�. He is also the Executive Council Member of "Society for Biotechnologists (India)�.
Dr. Kumar has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles, ten book chapters and edited five books for Springer/Elsevier/Bentham. His works have been published in several leading journals including American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Journal of Gastroenterology Hepatology, Digestive Diseases and Science, Clinical Therapeutics, Microbial Pathogenesis, Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, etc.
Dr. Kumar is the associate editor of the journals "Current Molecular Pharmacology� and "Current Signal Transduction Therapy� and serves as an editorial board member and reviewer of more than 6 international journals including International Journal of Microbiology Research, Current Biotechnology, Anti-Inflammatory & Anti-Allergy Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, The Natural Products Journal, and Current Molecular Pharmacology.
Dr. Kumar has recently received "Visiting Scientists Fellowship� from "The Indian National Science Academy (INSA)� New Delhi, India. He has active International collaborations from University of Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia), Jozef Stefan Institute, and Faculty of Biotechnology and Microbiology, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and University of Porto, Portugal. He is also working in active collaboration with Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, and Center of Biomedical Research, Lucknow and National Institute of Technology, Raipur (Chhattisgarh) India. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University, Pakistan. Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi is Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology from Zhejiang University, China. Dr. Hashmi's research interests are analytical chemistry and the development of treatment technologies to control environmental and industrial pollution. He also has expertise in developing environmentally sustainable and feasible technologies including bioremediation, using innovative microbes and genes, plants, and microcosms. He has edited seven books, 14 book chapters, 80 original research articles and is currently series editor of two environmental contaminant book series. Dr. Hashmi is also an Associate Editor of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences. Dr. Hashmi is Member of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, International Toxicology Society, HEC and PSF Research Grants Committee, and has been awarded a KANS Prize in OIC countries by MUSTAFA Science and Technology Foundation.
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