Synergistic Approaches for Bioremediation of Environmental Pollutants: Recent Advances and Challenges

Dr. Riti Thapar Kapoor is Associate Professor in Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. Dr. Kapoor received her Ph.D from University of Allahabad and worked as post - doctoral fellow at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Dr. Kapoor has fourteen years of teaching and research experience and her area of specialization is environmental biotechnology, bioremediation, wastewater treatment and abiotic stresses. Dr. Kapoor has published 11 books and over 105 research papers in various journals of national and international repute. Dr. Kapoor has visited 8 countries for participation in different academic programmes. Dr. Kapoor has received prestigious travel award from Bill & Melinda Gates Research Foundation under CGIAR project for participation in International training programme held at International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Manila, Philippines in 2010. She is also recipient of DST travel grant for participation in International Conference held at Sri Lanka in 2013. Dr. Kapoor has been awarded with Teacher’s Research Fellowship from Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru in 2019. She has supervised and mentored a number of research projects sanctioned by different government funding agencies such as DAE, DST and UPCST etc. She has successfully supervised three research students for Ph.D. degree besides several (more than 80) masters and graduate students for their dissertation thesis.Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. 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, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis.

• 1. Conversion of wastes/biomass into biochar and its characteristics2. Removal of emerging contaminants in water/wastewater by biochar3. Application of biochar/microbes for wastewater treatment4. Biochar based water treatment system as a potential low-cost and sustainable technology for clean water provision5. Removal of pharmaceutical compounds from water and wastewater by biochar and microbes6. Role of biochar/microbes in the removal of organic and inorganic contaminants from wastewater7. Bioremediation of industrial toxins by biochar for environmental safety8. Application of biochar for soil remediation9. Biochar for remediation of soil heavy metal contamination10. Mechanism of removal of contaminants by modified biochar11. Mechanism of metal sorption by biochar/microbes12. Using biochar for remediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals and organic pollutants13. Efficacy of biochar in removal of pesticides from watershed system14. Synergistic approaches in the bioremediation of industrial effluents.