1st Edition
Heavy Metals in the Environment Microorganisms and Bioremediation
This book serves as a knowledge bank for researchers and graduate students in microbiology, chemistry, and environmental sciences, among others. It focuses on heavy metal in the environment and describes methodologies to immobilize and mobilize heavy metals. It also provides case studies which may be of particular interest to persons in industry.
INTERACTION METAL(OID)S-MICROORGANISMS
Microbial Communities and the Interaction with Heavy Metals and Metalloids; Impact and Adaptation
María Alejandra Lima, María Sofía Urbieta and Edgardo R. Donati
Mechanisms of Bacterial Heavy Metal Resistance and Homeostasis: An Overview
Pallavee Srivastava and Meenal Kowshik
Microbial Metalloproteins-Based Responses in the Development of Biosensors for the Monitoring of Metal Pollutants in the Environment
Elvis Fosso-Kankeu
Exploration and Intervention of Geologically Ancient Microbial Adaptation in the Contemporary Environmental Arsenic Bioremediation
T. Paul and S.K. Mukherjee
STRATEGIES OF BIOREMEDIATION
Bioaccumulation and Biosorption of Heavy Metals
Ana Belén Segretín, Josefina Plaza Cazón and Edgardo R. Donati
Heavy Metal Bioprecipitation. Use of Sulfate-Reducing Microorganisms
Graciana Willis and Edgardo R. Donati
Bioleaching Strategies Applied to Sediments Contaminated with Metals. Current Knowledge and Biotechnological Potential for Remediation of Dredged Materials
Viviana Fonti, Antonio Dell’Anno and Francesca Beolchini
Innovative Biomining: Metal Recovery from Valuable Residues
Camila Castro and Edgardo R. Donati
The Challeges of Remediating Metals Using Phytotechnologies
Sabrina G. Ibañez, Ana L. Wevar Oller, Cintia E. Paisio, Lucas G. Sosa Alderete, Paola S. González, María I. Medina and Elizabeth Agostini
BIOREMEDIATION OF RELEVANT METAL(LOID)S
Bioremediation of Arsenic using Bioflocculants and Microorganisms
K. A. Natarajan
Bioremediation: A Powerful Technique for Cadmium Removal from the Environment
Abhishek Mukherjee
Process Oriented Characterization in Bioleaching Co–Cu Minerals
Guy Nkulu and Stoyan Gaydardzhiev
Lead Resistant Mechanisms in Bacteria and Co-Selection to other Metals and Antiobiotics: A Review
Milind Mohan Naik, Lakshangy S. Charya and Pranaya Naik
Mercury Toxicity: The Importance of Microbial Diversity for Improved Environmental Remediation
Mohammed H. Abu-Dieyeh, Haya Alduroobi, Kamal Usman and Mohammad Al-Ghouti
FIELD APPLICATIONS
Potential Application of an Indigenous Actinobacterium to Remove Heavy Metal from Sugarcane Vinasse
Verónica L. Colin, Macarena María Rulli, Luciana Melisa Del Gobbo and María Julia del Rosario Amoroso
Bioremediation of Polluted Soils in Uranium Deposits
Stoyan Groudev, Plamen Georgiev, Irena Spasova and Marina Nicolova
Macrophyte Role and Metal Removal in Constructed Wetlands for the Treatment of Effluents from Metallurgical Industries
María Alejandra Maine, Hernán R. Hadad, Gisela A. Di Luca, María de las Mercedes Mufarrege, and Gabriela C. Sánchez
Biography
Donati Edgardo is a full time Professor at National University of La Plata, Principal Researcher from CONICET, and the Head of CINDEFI (Institute of Applied Biotechnology belonging to CONICET and UNLP). He has a PhD in Chemistry from National University of La Plata. His areas of expertise are biomining, bioremediation, prokaryotic extremophiles in geothermal and mining zones.
He has been the Coordinator of Environmental Technology Council (ANPCYT) for 5 years and he has participated as an expert in many scientific commisions. He has published more than 100 papers in biotechnology, 40 papers in science education, 6 books, more than 30 chapters in different books, and presented more than 200 communications at international and national conferences. He has supervised several PhD, master, and degree theses. He has been invited for numerous lectures at conferences in different countries and has been the scientific leader for several national and international projects. He is an associate editor for various international journals, has participated in international evaluation of projects and theses, and has reviewed manuscripts for several international scientific journals.
