Bioremediation of Emerging Contaminants

Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad is currently Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India in various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist in several international universities. Larry E. Erickson received doctorate in 1964 in chemical engineering from Kansas State University. He has been a member of the chemical engineering faculty at K-State since 1964. In 1967-68 he conducted research in biochemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and introduced courses in biochemical engineering and bioseparations at K-State. From 1985-2018, he has provided leadership for hazardous substance research at K-State. From 1989-2003, he was director of the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center, a consortium of universities with headquarters at K-State. In order to advance pollution prevention and improve environmental management, he introduced seminars in hazardous waste engineering, air quality, and sustainability. He has worked with more than 70 graduate students, coauthored more than 450 papers, traveled professionally to more than 25 countries, and participated in more than $50 million of funded research projects. In January 2015, he transitioned to emeritus professor of chemical engineering. He has been employed by Mobil Oil Company, ESSO Research and Engineering Co., Humble Oil and Refining Company. He has been a visiting faculty member at MIT, University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Pushchino, Russia, and Institute of Microbiology, Prague, Czech Republic. Dr. Abin Sebastian is working as assistant professor in the Department of Botany, St. Georges College, Aruvithura affiliated to Mahathma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He is expertise in ecophysiology of plants and environmental biotechnology. His studies pointed out the role of iron and iron transporters involved in detoxification of cadmium in rice plants. He synthesized magnetic iron nanoparticles that efficiently remove heavy metals from aqueous media, and ameliorate heavy metal stress in plants. He was awarded with outstanding student scholar award during IBC 2017, China, and received fellowship from DAAD, Germany and UGC, India for conducting doctoral and post-doctoral research. Dr Sailaja Elchuri completed her Doctoral studies in molecular regulation of light stress in C4 plants under eminent plant physiologist Prof V.S. Ramadas. Significant contribution included paper submission to volume dedicated to Prof Daniel Arnon. Completed post-Doctoral studies at Arizona State University examining UV light effects on canopy photosynthesis. Later studies included animal models of disease and nanotechnology at Stanford University. Recent focus has been to use one health approaches for Human, animal, and plant triad. She used Omic approaches and green Nanotechnology to study human disease progression and therapy for safer environment. She is reviewer for several journals in Omic studies and Nanotechnology. Published 55 papers in peer reviewed journals and 5 book chapters.

• Section 1: Bioremediation of emerging contaminants1. Remediation of emerging contaminants and pollutants: role of plants and microbial genetic engineering, omics and phytotech approaches2. Bioremediation of Strontium and manganese3. Microbiome and phytobiome for remediation of emerging contaminants4. Phytoremediation of cyanotoxinsSection 2: Pesticides, POP, PPCP, Explosives, radionuclides and toxic metal detoxification5. Persistent organics and pharmaceutical and personal care products6. Microbial Genetic Engineering Technologies for Remediation of Pesticides7. Transgenic approaches for heavy metal detoxification8. Use of transgenic plants and genetically modified bacteria for remediation of pharmaceutical contaminants in water9. Remediation of radionuclides10. Remediation of Pesticides11. Personal care products contamination, remediation: Focus on antibiotic resistance using machine learning and Omic approaches12. Environmental degradation of explosives using transgenic microbesSection 3: Plant Diversity for Remediation of Emerging Contaminants13. Environmental remediation of emerging contaminants using Brassicaceae14. Millets for remediation of contaminants emerging contaminants15. Transgenic Populus (poplars), Salix (willows) and Miscanthus for remediation of emerging contaminants16. Transgenic mulberry for remediation of emerging contaminantsSection 4: Biodiversity for remediation of Emerging contaminants17. Phycoremediation for detoxification of Herbicides18. Plant-microbe interactions in phytoremediation of soils containing emerging contaminantsSection 5: Genetic engineering and microbial applications for degradation/detoxification of Emerging contaminants19. Poly aromatic hydrocarbon degradation using genetically engineered microbes20. Transgenics and the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria of fresh water ecosystem21. Biochemical targets of genetic engineering for degradation of Herbicides22. Transgenic plants application and risks in Bioremediation of Emerging contaminants23. Synthetic biology approaches including aptamers for bioremediation of Emerging contaminants24. Microbial bio-desulfurization of crude oilSection 6: Physiological, biochemical, molecular and nanotechnological approaches for bioremediation of emerging contaminants25. Molecular and Nanotechnology approaches for Bioremediation of Emerging contaminants26. Recombinant microorganisms role in biodegradation of emerging contaminants27. Genes Used for Phytoremediation: The Atbor4 Gene for Boron remediation28. Physiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of remediation emerging contaminants29. Polyaromatic hydrocarbon degradation using genetically engineered microbes30. Plant Growth Regulators role in remediations of emerging contaminantsSection 7: Transgenic approaches for remediation of Emerging contaminants31. Transgenics and the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria of fresh water ecosystem32. Transgenic microbes for degradation of microplastics33. Transgenic plant technology for cleanup of emerging contaminants in wildlife habitat34. Transgenic tobacco for remediation of emerging contaminants35. Transgenic energy crops for remediation of Emerging contaminantsSection 8: Bioaccumulative and biotoxic Per- and polyfluorinated chemicals as Environmental nightmares36. Phytoremediation of Per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS): Progress and Challenges37. Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): Biotoxic and bioaccumulative wonder chemicals in the Environment: Degradation to remediationSection 9: Solutions for emerging contaminants in drinking and wastewater38. Modular solutions for managing drinking water emerging contaminants39. Genetical engineering approach for remediation of emerging contaminants in Industrial wastewater