Harnessing Microbial Potential for Multifarious Applications

Chapter 1: The use of seaweeds in the development of biodegradable packaging - recent progress for a future plastic-free.- Chapter 2: Microbial biosensors for environmental quality monitoring: Recent advances and future outlook.- Chapter 3: Exploring Microalgae for Vegan Therapeutic Compounds: Unveiling the Potential of Vegan Pharmaceuticals.- Chapter 4: Microbial Pigments as Vegan Colors for Food and Pharmaceuticals: A sustainable Approach.- Chapter 5: Exploring Microbes for Biofuels Production and Wastewater Treatment: An Eco-friendly Approach.- Chapter 6: Manganese Contaminant: In-situ Advancement in Microbial Assisted Remediation Approach.- Chapter 7: Unleashing Microbial Avengers.- Chapter 8: Greener approach towards sustainable green plastics.- Chapter 9: Zero-waste processes utilizing microbes.- Chapter 10: Cyano-metabolites: Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biotherapeutics.- Chapter 11: Microbial remediation technologies for hazardous metals in soil, sediments, and water.- Chapter 12: Bioplastic: Unravelling the Sustainable approach for petroleum plastic.- Chapter 13: Biodegradable plastics: Environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum products.- Chapter 14: Microbial Remediation Technologies for Mining Waste Management.- Chapter 15: Biosensor: application in environmental management.- Chapter 16: Role of plastic degrading microorganisms in microplastic contaminated natural environments.- Chapter 17: Novel uses of fungi in products and services.- Chapter 18: A Review of the Biotic Conversion and Diminution of 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene TNT by the Bacterial Breakdown and the Interaction of Duo.- Chapter 19: Cellulases from psychrophilic and psychrotropic microorganisms and its potential applications.- Chapter 20: Biofuel Production from Microbial Sources: Advances and Challenges.- Chapter 21: Biohydrogen: Harnessing the Power of Microbes as an Alternative Fuel.- Chapter 22: Microbial communities for plastic waste remediation.

Dr. Kiran Bala: Dr. Kiran Bala is working at IIT Indore. She received her master's and Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences in 2003 and 2007, respectively. She has received various fellowship and awards, such as the DBT Women Scientist Award, Dr. D.S. Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellow Award, DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellow Award and DST Early Career Research Award. In 2022, she got INYAS (Indian National Young Academy of Sciences) membership for the next five years. Recently, she has been elected as core committee member of INYAS for two years. She has more than 65 papers published in journals of international repute. Currently, her research group consists of 10 Ph.D. students, 2 postdoc fellows, and few dissertation students. Dr. Bala's research is broadly focused on the development of an integrated technology which takes nutrients from wastewater and carbon dioxide from industrial flue gas and gives us biofuels, a renewable source of energy. She is member of scientific bodies like BRSI andISEES, etc. She is the editorial board member of  the journal "Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews"- 2023 and also Guest Editor of Journal RSC Advances for special issue "Environmental Electrochemistry for Industrial Wastewater Treatment (2023).

 Dr. Tonmoy Ghosh: Dr. Tonmoy Ghosh is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Water and Wastewater Technology, Durban (IWWT Durban). Dr. Ghosh received his PhD from the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR). Prior to joining IWWT Durban, Dr. Ghosh was a National Post Doctoral Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Indore. He has also worked at CSIR-Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, India and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India. Dr. Ghosh mainly works in the field of microalgal biotechnology for alternative fuels and niche chemicals. His research interests lie in unravelling the effect of chemical modulators on microalgal and