Advances in Environmental Biotechnology

Chapter 1. Introduction to Environmental Biotechnology.- Chapter 2. Measurement of Environmental Pollution: Types and Techniques.- Chapter 3. Need For the Advanced Technologies for Wastewater Treatment.- Chapter 4. Perspectives of Bioreactors in Wastewater Treatment.- Chapter 5. Bioremediation Technologies for the Removal of Pollutants.- Chapter 6. Bioremediation Technologies for Decolorization of Effluent.- Chapter 7. Bioremediation of Tannery Wastewater.- Chapter 8. Sustainable Environmental Biotechnology.- Chapter 9. Application of Nanotechnology in the Environment Biotechnology.- Chapter 10. Biofertlizers and Biopesticides: Eco-friendly Biological Agents.- Chapter 11. Approaches to Agro Industrial Solid Waste Disposal and Bioenergy Generation.- Chapter 12. Role of Genetically Modified Microorganisms in Heavy Metal Bioremediation.- Chapter 13. Agriculture Biotechnology.- Chapter 14. Recent Advances in Phytoremediation Technology.- Chapter 15. Microbial Flora and Biodegradation of Pesticides: Trends, scope and Relevance.- Chapter16. Biosensors: A Tool for Environmental Monitoring and Analysis.

Dr. Raman Kumar is working as Associate Professor in Department of Biotechnology, Maharishi Markendeshwar University, Mullana (Ambala), Haryana, India Since 2011. He has also worked as Senior Research Fellow, Division of Soil and Crop Management, Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, India from 2007 to 2010.  He has experience of about 10 years in the field of Teaching and Research in the area of Microbial and Environmental Biotechnology. He has published more than 30 publications in Various National and International Peer Reviewed Journals. He developed many bacterial and fungal strains for removal of heavy metals from wastewater. His current research areas are Bioremediation and Biodegradation of toxic pollutants, Pesticides and azo dyes using microbial consortium from the industrial Effluents, Mechanism involved in the heavy metal bioremediation. 

Dr. Anil K. Sharma is a full Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology with about 15 years of Teaching and Research experience after PhD. He did his doctorate from PGIMER Chandigarh (Year 2000) in the field of Medical Biotechnology. He worked as a Senior Research Scientist and a Post Doctoral Research Fellow (Molecular biology) in the Microbiology and Immunology Department at UIC College of Medicine Chicago, IL,USA for about 7.5 years. He has more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals of national and international repute with a cumulative impact factor of his publications around 115. He has won many prestigious awards and accolades in his career. In 2000, He was felicitated with a MGIMS Young Scientist Award from Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBI) while in 2013 he won the Bharat Excellence Award from FFI, New Delhi, India for his research accomplishments in basic sciences. His research interests are diverse ranging from understanding the metal regulation in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, drug resistance, cancer biology, nanomedicines to