Bioremediation of Pollutants

Dr. Pandey featured in the world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University, United States. He is a leading researcher in the field of environmental engineering especially phytomanagement of polluted sites. His research focuses mainly on the remediation and management of degraded lands including heavy metal-polluted lands and post-industrial lands such as fly ash, red mud, mine spoil and others for regaining ecosystem services and supporting a bio-based economy with phytoproducts through the affordable green technologies i.e. phytoremediation/ phytorestoration. His research interest also lies in exploring industrial crop-based phytoremediation to attain bioeconomy security and restoration, adaptive phytoremediation practices, phytoremediation based biofortification, carbon sequestration in waste dumpsites, fostering bioremediation for utilizing polluted lands and attaining UN-Sustainable Development Goals. Recently, Dr. Pandey worked as a CSIR-Pool Scientist (Senior Research Associate) in the Department of Environmental Science at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India. Dr. Pandey also worked as Consultant at Council of Science and Technology, Uttar Pradesh, DST-Young Scientist in Plant Ecology and Environmental Science Division at CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute; Lucknow and DS Kothari Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Science at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow. He is a recipient of a number of awards / honours / fellowships, and a member of National Academy of Sciences India. Dr. Pandey serves as a subject expert and the panel member for the evaluation of research and professional activities in India and abroad for fostering environmental sustainability. He has published over 100 scientific articles/book chapters in peer reviewed journals/books. Dr. Pandey is also the author and editor of 7 books published by Elsevier with several more forthcoming. He is associate editor/editor/board member/ advisory board member of various international journals, and has also served as Guest Editor of prestigious international journals.

Dr. Vijai Singh is an Associate Professor and Dean (Research & Innovation) School of Science at Indrashil University, Rajpur, Mehsana, Gujarat, India. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, India and also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the Invertis University, Bareilly, India. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Synthetic Biology Group at the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Paris, France and School of Energy & Chemical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology (2009) from the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India. During his PhD, he has cloned, expressed and characterized hemolysin from Aeromonas hydrophila in Escherichia coli. He has extensive experience in Synthetic Biology including MAGE, small regulatory RNAs, pathway designing, CRISPR-Cas systems, and microfluidics. His research interests are focused on building novel biosynthetic pathways for production of medically and industrially important biomolecules. Additionally, his laboratory is working on CRISPR-Cas9 tools for genome editing. He has more than 9 years of research and teaching experience in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, microbiology, and industrial microbiology. He has published 76 articles, 40 chapters, 10 books and 2 patents. He serves as an associate editor, editorial board member and reviewer of a number of peer-reviewed journals. He is also a member of the Board of Study and Academic Council of Indrashil University and is the Member Secretary of Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) in the same University.