Microbial Technology for Health and Environment

Dr. Pankaj Kumar Arora is currently an Assistant Professor and DBT-Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellow at the Department of Microbiology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow, India. Dr. Arora is also an Editorial Board Member for the journal Scientific Reports, an Associate Editor for the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, and an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE. He is the recipient of several national awards and fellowships including a Young Botanist Award and Dr. Y. S. Murty Medal from the Indian Botanical Society. His major focus area is environmental microbiology, and is currently investigating the biodegradation and bioremediation of various xenobiotic compounds including nitrophenols, chlorinated nitrophenols and indole. He has published a total of 36 papers in respected journals, two edited books and has eight years of teaching and research experience at national and international institutes.

• Chapter 1: Microbial peroxidases and their unique catalytic potentialities to degrade environmentally-related pollutants.- Chapter 2: Microalgal Technology: A promising tool for waste water remediation.- Chapter 3: Microbial remediation for Waste Water Treatment.- Chapter 4: Quorum Quenching for Sustainable Environment – Biology, Mechanisms, and Applications.- Chapter 5: Antitumoral microbial products by actinomycetes isolated from different environments.- Chapter 6: Microbe-Assisted Phytoremediation in Reinstating Heavy Metals-Contaminated Sites: Concepts, Mechanisms, Recent Advances, and Future Perspectives.- Chapter 7: Bioprospecting and biotechnological applications of microbial endophytes.- Chapter 8: Applications of microorganisms in agriculture.- Chapter 9: Rhizobacteria vs. chelating agents: tool for phytoremediation.- Chapter 10: Effective and sustainable solid waste management in India-A Challenge.- Chapter 11: Rhizospheric Treatment of Hydrocarbons containing Wastewater.- Chapter 12: Metabolism of nitroaromatic compounds by microbes and study of chemotaxis toward these compounds.- Chapter 13: Potential of thallophytes in degradation of dyes in Industrial effluents.- Chapter 14: Microbial Metabolism of Organophosphates: Key for Developing Smart Bio-remediation Process of Next Generation.