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Hydrocarbon biotechnology offers environmentally friendly technical solutions that can be implemented to solve problems throughout the value chain of the fossil fuel industry. This book, Hydrocarbon Biotechnology: Challenges and Future Trends, presents an up-to-date view of hydrocarbon microbiology and biotechnology, presented by experts around the world with interest in how our expanding understanding of hydrocarbonoclast ecology and physiology can translate to better tools for bioremediation, oil recovery, bioupgrading of unconventional crudes, the development of biorefining technologies, and the production of hydrogen and electricity from hydrocarbon wastes. The common theme across the chapters in this book is an interest in how developing hydrocarbon biotechnologies may reduce our impact on the global environment. CONTENTS: About the Authors / Editors: Editors: Wael Ahmed Ismail, PhD Environmental Biotechnology Program, Life Sciences Dept., College of Graduate Studies, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain Wael Ismail is a Professor of Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnology, and the former director of the Biotechnology Program at the Arabian Gulf University. Having more than 25 years of research experience in the field of microbial biodegradation of hydrocarbons, Dr. Ismail received his BSc in Microbiology and Chemistry from Ain Shams University (Cairo-Egypt) and joined the Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute in 1994 to pursue his MSc in Petroleum Microbiology. He then moved to the Department of Microbiology at Freiburg University, Germany, to earn his PhD (funded by the German Research Foundation) under the supervision of Prof. Georg Fuchs. His PhD research was dedicated to the biochemistry and molecular biology of microbial degradation of aromatic compounds, with particular focus on the elucidation of unprecedented catabolic pathways (the hybrid pathways) for aromatic compounds degradation. During his postdoctoral training in the same group, he continued research on the aerobic and anaerobic degradation of aromatic compounds. In addition, he joined projects on the anaerobic degradation of cholesterol, where he contributed to the molecular and biochemical elucidation of previously uncharacterized catabolic pathways. In 2008, Dr. Wael was appointed as a Research Assistant Professor at the Center of Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA), where he worked with Prof. Derek Lovley. During that time, he conducted molecular biology studies on Geobacter sulfurreducens and Rhodoferax ferrireducens, key players in microbial fuel cells. Currently, his research focuses on biodegradation of crude oil and steroids, biosurfactants production and applications, biodesulfurization of diesel fuel, as well as biocatalytic upgrading of heavy oil and refinery residues. A major part of his research deals with the application of systems biology to advance the understanding of biochemistry and physiology of bacteria adopted in petroleum biotechnological processes. He works in close association with the oil and gas authorities and research institutes in Bahrain and Kuwait. He serves on the editorial and review boards of several international journals, and was a guest associate editor for a special issue on Petroleum Biotechnology in Frontiers in Microbiology. Jonathan Van Hamme, PhD Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada Jonathan Van Hamme is Professor of Microbiology and founding Director of the TRUGen Applied Genomics Laboratory, the only high-throughput sequencing facility in central British Columbia. He is an applied environmental microbiologist with over 25 years of experience in petroleum microbiology, industrial waste treatment, contaminant biotransformation, phytoremediation, analytical chemistry, proteomics and genomics, including bacterial genome sequencing, microbial community characterization, and eDNA detection of insects, plants and animals. He received an Honours BSc in Biology with a Chemistry Minor from the University of Waterloo in 1996, and a PhD in petroleum microbiology from the University of Waterloo in 2000. After three years with the National Resources Canada at their National Centre for Upgrading Technology, where he was leading the work on microbial biotechnologies for heavy oil upgrading, he joined Thompson Rivers University and established his own research program. Since that time, he has built a world-class molecular microbiology laboratory that includes equipment for aerobic and anaerobic microbiology, fermentations up to 40 liters, proteomics, high-throughput sequencing (Ion S5, Oxford Nanopore, Sanger), and stable isotope probing. With a major focus on environmental remediation of both organic and inorganic pollutants, he has a long history of academic and industrial collaborations in a wide range of fields (petroleum, agriculture, food, brewing, chemical). He is currently focused on uncovering the biochemical basis of bacterial per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) metabolism, as well as tracking SARS-CoV-2 in sewage. He served for ten years as an editor for Biodegradation and is currently an editor for the Canadian Journal of Microbiology. He collaborated with Dr. Ismail and others as a guest associate editor for a special issue on Petroleum Microbiology in Frontiers in Microbiology. |
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