Biotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery

Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India. Dr. Inga Zinicovscaia is working as the Head of the Sector in the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. She has obtained her Doctor of Science degree from Moldova State University, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova on the study of the impact of some metals determined by neutron activation analysis on the quality of the environment. Her research interests include water and soil remediation, assessment of the air quality, nanotoxicology, waste management, evaluation of food quality, and radioecology. She has published 200 research papers in prestigious ISI journals (Elsevier, Springer, IWA, Taylor & Francis, and so on) as well as several book chapters and monography on wastewater bioremediation. She is also a section editor in several journals and project supervisor of more than 10 projects between Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and member states on different environmental subjects.Dr. Liliana Cepoi serves as the Director of The Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology at the Technical University of Moldova. Her expertise lies in the field of biotechnology, specifically focusing on microalgae and cyanobacteria. Her primary research interest centers around oxidative stress and its potential applications in biotechnology, particularly in remediation techniques for water contaminated with heavy metals. Dr. Cepoi’s work involves studying the bioaccumulation of pollutants through iterative processes utilizing cyanobacteria from the Arthrospira and Nostoc genera. She has authored 15 chapters in books published by prestigious scientific publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, and Wales and has coedited a book on the bioremediation of contaminated water. Additionally, Dr. Cepoi has contributed as an author and coauthor to numerous articles in scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. She holds more than 30 invention patents, which encompass various strains of microorganisms with biotechnological significance, their cultivation processes, and methods for quality control of biomass. Furthermore, she actively supervises doctoral students in the fields of biotechnology and ecology

• 1. Wastewater: Generation, Treatment options, Reuse and future of resource recovery2. Significance of biological approaches/bioremediaion of wastewater treatment over physico-chemical methods: A comparative analysis3. Role of bacteria in bioremediation of wastewater and resource recovery4. Recent trends of phyto-remediation for the wastewater treatment and resource recovery5. Role of bio-refineries in wastewater treatment and bio-energy production6. Bio-augmentation for heavy metal treatment present in wastewater7. Wastewater treatment and resource recovery through Rhizoremediation8. Bioremediation of pesticides present in water: State of art and future scope9. Role of fungi in wastewater treatment: Recent trends and mechanism10. Limitations and challenges of bioremediation approach: Alternative solutions11. Integration of bioremediation and physico-chemical methods for wastewater treatment and resource recovery12. Scope of bioremediation of wastewater for emerging water contaminants like pharmaceuticals, microplastics, antibiotics etc.13. Artificial wetlands construction for controlled bioremediation of wastewater14. Valorisation of wastewater treatment through bioremediation approach15. Sustainable wastewater treatment through micro-algae and other biotic community for bioenergy production16. Role of bioremediation of wastewater in sustainable development goals and circular economy17. Role of plants as bioindicators of water pollution and treatment of water contaminations18. Role of bryophytes as biomonitors and bioindicators of water pollution and as bioremediation tools19. Application of modern tools for the real time monitoring of bioremediation approach and its advantages20. Case studies on bioremediation of domestic/industrial wastewater for the elimination of heavy metals/emerging water contaminants/pesticides/ microplastics etc.21. Case studies on bioenergy production and wastewater treatment.22. Case study on the biopolymer production through wastewater treatment using biotechnology23. Feasibility of reuse of treated wastewater through bioremediation approach for domestic or industrial applications24. Industrial scope of recovered valuable resources, types and application: Technical and Economic feasibilities”.25. Future perspectives of wastewater treatment.26. Bioremediation for emerging organic pollutants (pesticides, dyes etc): Present and Future27. Role of biotechnology in the recovery of nutrients from wastewater