Relationship Between Microbes and the Environment for Sustainable Ecosystem Services, Volume 2. Microbial Mitigation of Waste for Sustainable Ecosystem Services

Table of Contents

1. Effect of pollution on sediments and their impact on the aquatic ecosystem2. Impact of Emerging Contaminants on Biological Wastewater Treatment Process3. The potential role of microbes in the treatment of contaminated water bodies: Current trends and Case Studies4. Microbial removal of triarylmethane dyes: a sustainable approach for the aquatic ecosystem services5. Role of Biofilms to Curb Contamination in Water Bodies6. Potential of Microbes for Degradation of Xenobiotics: With Special Focus on Petroleum Hydrocarbons7. Microbes as an effective tool to mitigate emerging pollutants8. Microbial strategies to address nano pollutants in the environment9. Removal of emerging pollutants from the environment through microbes10. Waste Management through Bioremediation Technology: An Eco-friendly and Sustainable solution11. In situ Bioremediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil12. Genetically modified microbes as an effective tool for sustainable solid waste management13. Indigenous microorganisms as an effective tool for in-situ bioremediation14. Role of Insect Microbiota in Decomposing Urban Waste15. Processing of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Enhanced Products

Authors

Jastin Samuel Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology, and leads the Waste Valorization Research Lab, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. Dr. Jastin Samuel (PhD) is working as Assistant Professor leading waste valorization research lab at Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. He has more than a decade experience in R&D. He has been an active part of DST, EU-DBT, and CSIR-funded projects. He was awarded the prestigious CSIR-SRF fellowship in Engineering (ENG42) in 2013. Along with his team, he has developed lab-scale mine wastewater treatment system for opencast mines at Orissa, India; established ETP tertiary treatment facility for two industries (sugar industry and distillery industry) with reuse and business proposition in Andhra Pradesh, India, that is, approved by CPCB; established a water treatment facility at Pondicherry in PPP mode with the State Government. He is presently working on pathway assessment and mitigation of Micro and Nano-plastics. He has been a member of review boards of various journals and conferences in India and abroad. Ajay Kumar Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, India. Dr. Ajay Kumar is currently working as an assistant professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India. Dr. Kumar recently completed his tenure as a visiting scientist from Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel. He has published more than 175 research, review articles, and book chapters in international and national journals. He serves as an associate editor for Frontiers in Microbiology and as guest editor for various journals such as Plants, Microorganisms, and Sustainability. Dr. Kumar has also edited more than 32 books with the leading publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley. Dr. Kumar's research experience is in the field of plant-microbe interactions, postharvest management, cyanobacterial biology, and so on. Joginder Singh Panwar Professor, Department of Botany, Nagaland University, Nagaland, India. Prof. Joginder Singh is a Professor in the Department of Botany at Nagaland University in India. Previously, he has worked as Young Scientist at Microbial Biotechnology and Biofertilizer Laboratory, Department of Botany, Jai Narain Vyas University in Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He is an active member of various scientific societies and organizations including, Association of Microbiologists of India, Indian Society of Salinity Research Scientists, Indian Society for Radiation Biology, and European Federation of Biotechnology. He has published extensively, including both journal papers and book chapters. He serves as a reviewer for many prestigious journals, including Current Research in Engineering, Science and Technology, Journal of Cleaner Production, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Pedosphere, Soil and Sediment Contamination, Symbiosis, International Journal of Phytoremediation, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Annals of Agricultural Sciences, Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and many more.