Microbial Nexus for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment

Vineet Kumar is currently a National Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences at the Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India. He got his M.Sc. (2008) and M.Phil. (2012) in Microbiology at Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India. Subsequently, he earned his Ph.D. (2018) in Environmental Microbiology from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (A Central) University, Lucknow, India, focusing on the treatment of distillery effluent in two step treatment system, towards environmental sustainability. Sunil Kumar is a well-rounded researcher with more than 22 years of experience in leading, supervising, and undertaking research in the broader field of Environmental Engineering and Science with a focus on Solid and Hazardous Waste Management. Dr. Kumar is a graduate in Environmental Engineering and Management from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He completed his Ph. D. in Environmental Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His primary area of expertise is solid waste management (Municipal Solid Waste, Electronic waste etc.) over a wide range of environmental topics including contaminated sites, EIA, and wastewater treatment. Pradeep Verma is working as Professor in the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences at Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India. He is a well-rounded researcher with more than 21 years of experience in leading, supervising, and undertaking research in the broader field of bioprocess and bioenergy production from lignocellulosic waste with a focus on waste management. He earned his PhD in Microbiology from Sardar Patel University Gujarat, India in 2002. His research area of expertise involves microbial diversity, bioremediation, bioprocess development, lignocellulosic and algal biomass based biorefinery. Sartaj Ahmad Bhat is working as JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher at the River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India in 2017. His research interests focus on vermicomposting treatment of various solid wastes, especially for investigations on fate and behavior of emerging pollutants during biological treatment of organic wastes.

• 1. Enhancing microbial cooperation within the microbial nexus-based system2. Microbes in membrane technologies: Prospects for sustainable wastewater treatment3. Strategies for tuning microbial community from anaerobic digestion to remove emerging pollutants4. Energy-water-waste nexus for sustainable wastewater and development5. Recent advances in conventional and modern waste treatment approaches6. Contributions of biodegradation and biotransformation by microbial nexus in advanced pharmaceutical wastewater treatment7. Recovery of value-added materials from wastewater: Developments, challenges, and opportunities in the developing countries8. The intervention of microbial enzymes in wastewater management: An update9. Microbial nexus in effluent treatment plant: Trends and perspectives10. Microbial nexus for circular economy and climate change: Recent advancement in bioelectrochemical systems and future opportunities11. Microbial technologies: Effectiveness and feasibility viewpoint12. Linear to circular economy for sustainable wastewater treatment13. New trends in wastewater recycling, treatment, management14. Decrease the contaminant load of compounds present in whey by using microorganisms capable of generating microbial cellulose15. Unveiling the prospects of high throughput microbial biotechnology in the effective management of wastewater16. Strategies for emerging compounds removal through microbial niche tuning17. Use of microbial nexus system high Andean areas: Effectiveness and feasibility for wastewater treatment