Microbial Bioremediation & Biodegradation

Maulin P. Shah (Mr.), currently Chief Scientist & Head - Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India, received his Ph.D. (2002-2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. He has served as an Assistant Professor at Godhra, Gujarat University in 2001. He is a Microbial Biotechnologist with diverse research interest. A group of research scholars is working under his guidance on the areas ranging from Applied Microbiology, Environmental Biotechnology, Bioremediation, and Industrial Liquid Waste Management to solid state fermentation. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, He is very interested in genetic adaptation processes in bacteria, the mechanisms by which they deal with toxic substances, how they react to pollution in general and how we can apply microbial processes in a useful way (like bacterial bio reporters). One of our major interests is to study how bacteria evolve and adapt to use organic pollutants as novel growth substrates. Bacteria with new degradation capabilities are often selected in polluted environments and have accumulated small (mutations) and large genetic changes (transpositions, recombination, and horizontally transferred elements). His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependent and cultivation independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification and Genetic Engineering of high impact of Microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. He has more than 200 research publication in highly reputed national and international journals. He directs the Research program at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar. He has guided more than 100 Post Graduate students in various disciplines of Life Science. He is an active Editorial Board Member in more than 150 highly reputed Journal's in the field of Environmental & Biological Sciences. He was Founder Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation and Biodegradation (2012-2014) as well as Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2012-2014) (Science and Education Publishing, USA). He is also serving as a reviewer in various journals of national and international repute. Recently, he has been awarded as a Young Biotechnologist Medal by Biotechnological Society of Nepal". He was Associate Editor in Microbiome (Bio Med Cent), BMC Microbiology (Springer Nature), Currently he is an Advisory Board in CLEAN-Soil, Air, Water (Wiley), Editor in Current Pollution Reports (Springer Nature), Editor in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology (Springer Nature), Editor in Environmental Technology & Innovation-ELSEVIER, Editor in Current Microbiology-Springer Nature, Editor in Journal of Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment-Taylor & Francis, Editor in Ecotoxicology (Microbial Ecotoxicology)- Springer Nature, Associate Editor in Geo Microbiology (Springer Nature). He is editor-in-Chief in three reputed journals. He has edited 15 books in the area of Waste Water Microbiology. Chapter 1. Bioremediation Approaches for Pulp and Paper Industry Wastewater Treatment: Recent Advances and Challenges.- Chapter 2. Microbial remediation of Heavy Metals.- Chapter 3. Dyes: effect on environment and biosphere and their remediation constrains.- Chapter 4. Microbial Bioremediation and Biodegradation of Hydrocarbons, Heavy Metals and Radioactive Wastes in solid and waste waters.- Chapter 5. Advancement of omics: Prospects for bioremediation of contaminated soils.- Chapter 6. Microbial biotransformation of hexavalent chromium Cr(VI) in tannery wastewater.- Chapter 7. Bio-remediation: A Low-Cost and Clean-Green Technology for Environmental Management.- Chapter 8. Microbial Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal-care Products from Wastewater.- Chapter 9. Extremophiles; A powerful choice for bioremediation of toxic oxyanions.- Chapter 10. Conventional and non-conventional biodegradation technologies for agroindustrial liquid wastes management.- Chapter 11. White Rot Fungi: Nature's Scavenger.- Chapter 12. Nanobioremediation: An emerging approach for a cleaner environment.- Chapter 13. Bioelectrochemical system for bioremediation and energy generation.- Chapter 14. Ligninolysis: Roles of Microbes and their Extracellular Enzymes.- Chapter 15. Biosorption of heavy metals by Cyanobacteria: potential of live and dead cells in bioremediation.- Chapter 16. Bioremediation of pharmaceuticals in water and wastewater.- Chapter 17. Bioremediation Of Saline Soil by Cynobacteria.- Chapter 18. Advancement in treatment technologies of Biopharmaceutical Industrial effluents.- Chapter 19. Marine Bacteria- A Storehouse of novel compounds for biodegradation.- Chapter 20. Energy-efficient anaerobic ammonia removal: from laboratory to full-scale application.- Chapter 21. Microbial degradation of natural and synthetic rubbers.