Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology

Chapter 1. Algal biofuel: A sustainable approach for fuel of future generation.- Chapter 2. Microbial and biotechnological advancement in biogas production.- Chapter 3. Role of thermophiles in production of aviation biofuels: fueling the future.- Chapter 4. Bacterial mediated depolymerization and degradation of lignin.- Chapter 5. Microbiology of bioelectrochemical system.- Chapter 6. Application of biotechnology in oil and gas industries.- Chapter 7. Aquatic microbial oxygenic phototrophs: A short treatise on diverse applications and the future biofuel scenario.- Chapter 8. Bioinformatics: a new insight tool to deal with environment management.- Chapter 9. Development of modern tools for environmental monitoring of pathogens and toxicant.- Chapter 10. Interactions of environmental risk factors and genetic variations: Association with susceptibility to cancer.- Chapter 11. Sequestration of carbon dioxide by microorganism and production of value added product.- Chapter 12. Environmentalinteraction and impact on the life span of stem cells.- Chapter 13. Pharmaceuticals: An emerging problem of environment and its removal through biodegradation.- Chapter 14. Metabolism of dioxins and dioxins like compounds, its regulation and toxicological pathways.- Chapter 15. Film based packaging for food safety and preservation: issues and perspectives.- Chapter 16. Biotransformation: Basics and applied perspectives.

Dr. Anoop Singh holds a Ph.D. in Botany (2004) and is currently a Scientist at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. Before joining DSIR, he worked at the Technical University of Denmark; University College Cork, Ireland; The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India; Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi; Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India; and VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, India. He has participated in several international conferences and has published more than 50 research articles in scientific journals (h-index 27, citation 6937) as well as two edited books with Springer. Dr Singh is a member of various scientific communities and is serving as an editorial board member and reviewer for a number of journals. His research focuses on sustainable agriculture; waste management through agriculture; the utilization of industrial, agricultural, and household waste for eco-friendly energy production; renewable energy; and life cycle assessment (LCA).

Dr Shaili Srivastava is an Associate Professor at Amity School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Amity University Haryana. She holds a master's and Ph.D. from G.B. Pant University of Agric. & Technol. with specialization in Microbiology and Biotechnology. Before joining Amity she worked as lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research focuses on waste water treatment, degradation of PAH, remediation of heavy metals, microbial sequestration of CO2, biofuel and biosurfactant production, genomics and proteomics in CO2 sequestration and value added products formed by microorganisms. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia and has been a speaker at various international conferences. Dr Shaili has published 28 research papers in respected international journals, as well as one book and 8 book