Microbial Action on Hydrocarbons

Microbial Consortia and Biodegradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Marine Environments.- Biosurfactants in Improving Bioremediation Effectiveness in Environmental Contamination by Hydrocarbons.- Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon in Seawater: Oil Spill Plume Modelling Approaches.- Hydrocarbon Degradation Assessment: Biotechnical Approaches Involved.- Microbes and Petroleum bioremediation.- Microbial Degradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons: Technology and Mechanism.- Biosurfactant Enhanced Petroleum Oil Bioremediation.- Modeling Applications in Bioremediation of Hydrocarbon Pollutants.- Biodegradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) by Microbes Isolated from the Marine Sponge Biemna fortis (Topsent 1897) .- A Comprehensive Review on the Bioremediation of Oil Spills.- The Small-Scale Microbial Processes for Remediation of Sediments Contaminated with Hydrocarbons.- Enzyme Activities in Contaminated Soil with Hydrocarbons.- Microbial Degradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons.- Microbial Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon: An Overview.- Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbons in the Ecosystem.- Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbons in the Environment: An Overview.- Plant-Microbe Association for Bioremediation of Hydrocarbon Substrates.- Bioaugmentation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon in Contaminated Soil : A Review.- Petroleum Microbiology under Extreme Conditions.- Microbial Degradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons: An Overview.- Oil Spill Removal by Mycoremediation.- Treatment of Oily Waste Water Using Hydrogels.- Biosurfactants Produced by Microbacterium sp., isolated from Aquatic Macrophytes in Hydrocarbon-Contaminated area in the Rio Negro, Manaus, Amazonas.- Novel and Cost Effective Technologies for Hydrocarbon Bioremediation.- Role of Filamentous Fungi to Remove Petroleum Hydrocarbons from Environment.- Petroleum Biodegrading Property of Microbial Consortia from a contaminated site.- The Role of Microbes towards Biodegradation of Hydrocarbons.-

Dr. Vivek Kumar is an Associate Professor at the Himalayan School of Biosciences, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Jolly Grant, Dehradun, India and is leading the Plant-Microbe-Interaction and Microbial Ecology research group. He obtained his masters and doctoral degrees from CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana, India. He is an editor and reviewer of several respected international journals. He has published over a hundred research papers, book chapters and review articles. He has also authored one practical manual and edited several books with Springer Nature. Dr. Kumar also served as a microbiologist for eight years at the Department of Soil and Water Research, Public Authority of Agricultural Affairs & Fish Resources, Kuwait. He has been credited with the first reporting and identification of Pink Rot inflorescence disease of the date palm in Kuwait caused by Serratia marcescens. He has also organized a number of conferences/workshops as convener/ organizing secretary.

Dr. Kumar's research areas include environmental microbiology, plant-microbe-interactions, and bioremediation. In 2002 he was awarded 'Young Scientist Award' in 'Agricultural Microbiology' by the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI).



Dr. Manoj Kumar is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Centre for Life Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India and is leading the Plant Developmental Biology research group. Hepursued his PhD in Plant Biotechnology at the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University and was then awarded two consecutive postdoctoral fellowships: i) DBT-PDF from IISc Bangalore in 2005 and then NRF-PDF from University of Pretoria. His research interests focus on plant biotechnology and he is affiliated with Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam. Until recently, he was a coordinator of the Bio-resource Chapter (Northern India) and served on the editorial boards of five international journals.