Algae-Mediated Removal of Prevalent Genotoxic Antibiotics: Molecular Perspective on Algae-Bacteria Consortia and Bioreactor-Based Strategies
Authors (first, second and last of 9)
Collection
Recent perspectives into the removal of persistent organic pollutants using microbial consortium
Synthetic pollutants are increasing into the environment due to huge applications. These pollutants mainly include antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, phenolics, microplastics and many pharmaceuticals. The residual concentration of these chemicals were found enhanced in soil and water environments in recent decades. Synthetic pollutants caused severe toxic effects into the living systems. The microbial approaches were found effective for the removal of such toxic chemicals from the environment. Microbial removal of the toxic chemicals is an engineered process that applies the bacteria, fungi and algae to treat contaminated soil and water surfaces. In the last five decades, bioremediation technologies have been found effective for the treatment of hazardous waste. It is the application of the bacterial, fungi and algae for the cleaning up of the contaminated areas in the most economical and environmentally friendly manner.
The application of microbial bioremediation needs to be understood in depth with high-throughput research in the modern era. The reason to develop such smart technologies is continuous synthesis and increments of the new chemicals. Therefore, there is a constant need to discover new bioremediation methods to treat the contaminated environments. In addition, the application of indigenous microbial cultures increased due to the less energy and input required. Application of microbial strains can be utilized for the cleaning of the environment, sustainable developments, and resource recovery. Therefore, in this collection we would like to present the research on the bioremediation of the synthetic pollutants, which is the need of time. We are calling for research papers that can open new horizons for the application of microbial cultures in bioremediation.
The collection will cover the topic but not limited to the following:
1. Microbial bioremediation technologies developed to clean-up the contaminated sites
2. Isolation, identification and characterization of microbes and their potential abilities to degrade toxic pollutants
3. Autochthonous and allochthonous microbial consortium and their degradation capabilities of multi-pollutants
4. Applied omics approaches involved into the degradation of the toxic pollutants
5. Microbial engineering for the removal of the toxic chemicals from the environment
6. Novel metabolic pathway involved into the remediation of the synthetic pollutants
Editors
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Dr. Muthusamy Govarthanan, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
Dr. Muthusamy Govarthanan received his Ph.D. in Environmental Microbiology. He specializes in treatment and remediation, environmental microbiology, environmental biotechnology, microbial community analysis, nanoparticles and its biological applications, anaerobic digestion, and bioinformatics analysis. He currently works as a Research Professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering, Kyungpook National University in South Korea.
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Dr. Rujira Dolphen, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
Dr. Rujira Dolphen is an Assistant Professor at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi in Thailand. She specializes in treatment of wastewater containing heavy metals/ organic and inorganic substances by using adsorption process, absorption process and phytoremediation, phytoremediation of wastewater/soil containing heavy metals/organic and inorganic substances, constructed wetland combined with microbial fuel cells for wastewater treatment and electricity generation, and light-emitting plants with bioluminescent bacteria.
