Advances in Yeast Biotechnology for Biofuels and Sustainability

Dr. Achlesh Daverey is working as an Assistant Professor in School of Environment and Natural Resources at Doon University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He has completed his M. Tech. in Bioprocess Technology from Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) Mumbai, India in 2006 and Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), Assam, India in 2011. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Institute of Environmental Engineering at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan before joining Doon University. He is serving as Editorial Board Member of SN Applied Sciences (Springer) and Review Editor for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers in Environmental Science and Frontiers in Microbiology journals. His area of research includes biological wastewater treatment, anammox, phytoremediation of contaminated soil and water, waste valorization, and bioprocess design and optimization. Dr. Daverey has published 32 research papers in various internationally reputed journals and contributed 7 chapters in edited books (published by Elsevier, Springer, McGraw-Hill, American Society for Civil Engineers). Dr. Kasturi Dutta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. Her recent research focused on the production of industrial and therapeutic enzymes from low-cost industrial wastes or by-products, and the production of biodiesel from microbial lipids by utilizing wastes and wastewater. Dr. Dutta has published > 25 research papers and book chapters in peer-reviewed international journals (SCI/SCOPUS indexed) and edited books. She has served as guest editor for various journals such as International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation (Elsevier); Biocatalysts and Agriculture Biotechnology (Elsevier); Ecotoxicology (Springer), SN Applied Sciences (Springer); and Environmental Quality Management (Wiley). Dr. Dutta has also organized two international conference of a biannual conference series “International Conference on Bioprocess for Sustainable Energy and Environment”. Dr. Sanket Joshi is currently a Professor at the Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University, Rajasthan, India. He has academic teaching and research experience of about 16 years, and industrial R&D experience of about 4 years in India and Oman. While working in Indian pharma companies, he undertook several turnkey projects. His current research interests encompass energy (In-situ/ex-situ microbial enhanced light/heavy oil recovery; chemical enhanced oil Recovery; biofuels), microbial products (biosurfactants, biopolymers, R&D and scale-up), and environmental bioremediation (crude oil pollution; analysis, mitigation and control of souring by Sulfate reducing bacteria; HPAM contaminated sites). He has about 125 scientific publications in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and two books to his credit. He is an Academic/Associate Editor for: Frontiers in Microbiology, PeerJ, Ecotoxicology (Springer), Petroleum Science and Technology (Springer), Biotech (Springer), and Open Biotechnology Journal; guest editor for Frontiers in Microbiology, Sustainability, Scientifica, and Open Biotechnology Journal. Teresa Gea is a full Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her research combines applied research with a more exploratory facet, searching for new bioconversion processes for the development of the circular bioeconomy. Without abandoning composting and anaerobic digestion processes, her activity evolved into a new research line in solid-state fermentation, with the aim of obtaining a greater recovery of organic waste, beyond compost and biogas. She has studied the production of hydrolytic enzymes, biopesticides and biosurfactants using different microbiological approaches. She has published > 60 papers and her h-index is 26, with >2100 citations, and an average over 250 citations / year in the last 3 years. She has participated in 9 national projects, a European H2020 project, and in numerous contracts with companies and administrations. She has been teaching on Environmental Technology, Sustainability, Bioremediation, Waste Management, and Chemical Engineering for more than 20 years.

Part I: Yeast Biotechnology for the Sustainable Production of Value-Added Products 1. Past, present, and future of yeast engineering 2. Engineered yeasts for biofuel production and platform chemicals 3. Engineered yeasts for lignocellulosic bioethanol production 4. Metabolic engineering of yeast for advanced biofuel production 5. Engineering of non-conventional yeasts for biofuel production 6. Oleaginous yeasts: phylogenetic diversity and strain selection for biodiesel production 7. Waste valorization for biodiesel production by oleaginous yeast 8. Engineered yeast for the hydrolysis of algae: a potential alternative feedstock for biofuel production

Part II: Wild and Engineered Yeasts for Value-Added Products, Environmental Sustainability, and Sustainable Agriculture 9. Yeasts for the production of value-added products, environmental clean-up and sustainable agriculture 10. Cleaner production of biosurfactants from yeasts 11. Biotechnological approaches to enhance the production of fungal enzymes in yeasts 12. Cleaner production of industrial acids from yeast biotechnology 13. Engineered yeast for the production of bioplastics 14. Yeast biomass as adsorbent for pollutants remediation 15. Biodegradation of azo dyes by yeasts 16. Bioremediation of oil-contaminated soil by yeast bioaugmentation 17. Engineered yeasts as biocatalyst for pesticide degradation 18. Bioremediation of heavy metals using yeasts 19. Engineered yeast as hyperaccumulator for heavy metal recycling and environmental clean-up 20. Yeasts as biofertilizers and biocontrol agents for sustainable agriculture 21. Yeast-plant interactions for phytoremediation of contaminated soils 22. Role of genetically engineered yeast in plastic degradation