Microbial Applications Vol.1

Dr. Vipin Chandra Kalia is presently working as Chief Scientist at Microbial Biotechnology and Genomics, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi. He is a Professor of Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Delhi. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Genetics from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He has been elected as: (1) Fellow of the Association of Microbiologists of India (FAMI), (2) Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), and (3) Fellow of National Academy of agricultural Sciences (FNAAS). His main areas of research are microbial biodiversity, genomics, and evolution, bioenergy, biopolymers, antimicrobials, quorum sensing, and quorum quenching. He has published 101 papers in scientific journals such as (1) Nature Biotechnology, (2) Biotechnology Advances, (3) Trends in Biotechnology, (4) Critical Reviews in Microbiology, (5) Bioresource Technology, (6) International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, (7) PLoS ONE, (8) BMC Genomics, (9) Gene, and (10) Annual Review of Microbiology. His works have been cited 3558 times with a h index of 31 and an i10 index of 66. He has edited 3 books: Quorum sensing versus quorum quenching: A battle with no end in sight (2015, Springer India), Microbial Factories Vol 1 and 2 (2015). He is presently the editor in chief of the Indian Journal of Microbiology and Editor of (1) PLoS ONE, (2)Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology (Korea), (3) Applied Biochemistry & Biotechnology (USA), (4) International Scholarly Research Notices (Energy), (5) Dataset Papers in Science (Microbiology), and (6) Journal of Molecular and Genetic Medicine. He is a life member of the following scientific societies: (1) Society of Biological Chemists of India (2) Society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, India; (3) Association of Microbiologists of India; (4) Indian Science Congress Association; (5) BioEnergy Society of India, and (6) the Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI). He is also a member of the American Society for Microbiology. Dr. Prasun Kumar is a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, INDIA. He has worked as a Research Fellow at Microbial Biotechnology and Genomics, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi. His main areas of research are Microbial biodiversity, Bioenergy, and Biopolymers. He has published 19 papers in Scientific journals such as (1) Biotechnology Advances, (2) Bioresource Technology, (3) International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, and (4) Microbial Ecology. He has authored 4 book chapters. His works have been cited 490 times with an h index of 14 and an i10 index of 17. He is a life member of the following Scientific societies: (1) Association of Microbiologists of India; and (2) Indian Science Congress Association. He is serving as Editor to: (1) International Journal of Clinical & Medical Allergy (IJCMA) [US] and (2) Insight Medical Publishing Journals [UK].

Part. I.Bioremedation.- 1. Phycoremediation: An eco-friendly approach to solve water pollution problems.- 2. Microbial conversion of waste and surplus materials into high-value added products: The case of biosurfactants.- 3. Oil biodegradation.- 4.Bacterial decolourization, degradation and detoxification of azo dyes: an ecofriendly approach.- 5.Biological significance of degradation of polyhydroxyalkanoates.- 6. Microbial Biofouling: A possible solution to treat harmful microorganisms in ship ballast water.- Part II. Bioenergy.-  7. Xylanase- from paper to fuel.- 8. Microbial Fuel Cell technology: Technical challenges and Economic fusibility.- 9. Biohydrogen production: Integrated approaches to improve the process efficiency.- 10. Valorization of olive mill by-products towards sustainable biofuels and bio-based products.- 11. Algal biotechnology: the potential future fuel and prospects.- Part III. Future Perspectives.- 12. New Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS): Mining for genes andthe potential of extremophiles.- 13. Impact of Next Generation Sequencing technology in plant microbe interaction study.- 14. An overview of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies to study the Molecular Diversity of Genome.- 15. Marine polyextremophiles and their biotechnological applications.