30. Technically and industrially important processes


30.1 Bioremediation
  • The ecology of waste water treatment systems.
  • Bioremediation with microbes.

30.2 Mining with microbes: The "Rock-eaters"
  • Microbial mechanisms in copper and gold mining; large scale industrial applications.
  • Bioremediation of metal-polluted soils and sediments; economic aspects
  • Metal recovery from industrial wastes using microorganisms
  • Biological treatment of solid wastes; case studies: fly ash, galvanic sludge, electronic waste

30.3 Industrial applications
  • Therapeutic agents from microbially produced metabolites.
  • Application of microbes with artificially modified genes (GMO).
  • Genetic and biochemical stability of process bioreactors.
  • Biosensors to study microbial interactions on a microscale.

30.4 Medial applications
  • Thearapeutic agents from microbially produced metabolites.
 
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