Environmental Microbiology & Biotechnology Conference 2012

EMB2012 aims to explore the major advances, frontiers and applications of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology in the modern area of the knowledge-based bio and green economy.

In particular, the conference will focus on the sustainable decontamination of polluted habitats, water resource purification and reuse, biofixation of climate change-inducing gases and the production of biobased chemicals, materials and fuels from biowaste or/and via the exploitation and management of novel microbes from non conventional or impacted habitats.

These are aspects of modern Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology which should enable this forum to address several of the major “Agenda Europe 2020” priorities and to contribute to build up a more sustainable and competitive knowledge-based economy in Europe and in the Partner Countries.

Main Topics

• Advances on biodegradation of organics and inorganics, phytoremediation, mycoremediation
• Biomonitoring and bioremediation of emerging pollutants
• Research & Innovation on in-situ and ex-situ biotreatments and on aquifer, sediment, seawater and wastewater bioremediation and reuse
• Biotransformation and impacts of nanomaterials and biopolymers in the environment
• Organic waste multipurpose biorefineries
• Biofixation of CO2  in soils and via bioprocessing
• Exploitation of microbes from non-conventional, stressed or contaminated environments

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Conference Chair:


Prof Fabio Fava, University of Bologna, EFB, SusChem Italy
fabio.fava@unibo.it