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Extremophiles: Diversity, Adaptation and Applications

Diversity, Adaptation and Applications

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Bentham Science Publishers

The book “Extremophiles: Diversity, Adaptation and Applications” consists of fourteen chapters, of which, the first deals with the overview of all the major types of extremophiles and their mechanisms of adaptation to the respective extreme environments. The rest of the chapters, except the last one, focus mainly on the diversity of prokaryotes vis-a-vis the environmental conditions, mechanisms that the prokaryotes have adapted to live in such harsh environments, and applications of all the major types of extremophiles, including hyperthermophiles, psychrophiles, halophiles, acidophiles, alkaliphiles, xerophiles, oligotrophs, chemolithotrophs, anaerobes and other extremophiles. The last chapter is all about diverse biotechnological and industrial applications of different extremophiles leading to human welfare.

The book “Extremophiles: Diversity, Adaptation and Applications” will surely enrich the knowledgebase of the microbiologists who are doing fundamental-, or application-based research with the extremophiles. This will also ignite and inspire the mind of budding microbiologists of UG and PG level and will grow their interest on the basic microbiological research. This is recommended as a reference book for anyone interested in the field of research encouraging the readers to reach out to new boundaries of life and discoveries.

 

About the editors:

Dr. Masrure Alam is an Assistant Professor and former officiating Head of the Department of Biological Sciences, Aliah University, Kolkata, India. He had been associated with the West Bengal Education Services, GoWB, as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology in Bidhannagar College, Salt Lake, Kolkata. He has received his MSc and PhD degrees in Microbiology from The University of Burdwan and The University of Calcutta respectively. Dr. Alam has done his PhD and postdoctoral research in the Department of Microbiology, Bose Institute, Kolkata. His main area of research is microbial ecology and physiology. He has published more than 12 research papers in highly reputed scientific journals, such as Molecular Microbiology, Journal of Bacteriology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Proteomics, Microbiological Research, FEMS Microbiology Letters, PLoS One etc. He has also served as reviewer for many reputed journals.

Bipransh Kumar Tiwary is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Microbiology, North Bengal St. Xavier’s College, Rajganj, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. He received his M.Sc. degree in Microbiology. and Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology from the University of North Bengal, Siliguri, West Bengal. His main areas of research are biochemistry, medical microbiology molecular biology, Computer aided drug design, antimicrobials, quorum sensing in bacteria. He has published research articles in scientific journals such as Plos one, RSC Advance, BMC complementary and alternative medicine and Letters in applied Microbiology and one book. He has experience of teaching biochemistry and molecular biology for more than 10 years. He is reviewer of several reputed journals. He is Lifetime member of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), India and Microbiologists Society, India.

 

Keywords:

Extremophiles, Piezophiles, Polyextremophiles, Halophiles, Hyperthermophiles, Extremozymes, Thermophiles, Heavy metal resistant bacteria, Psychrophiles, Chemolithotrophs, Acidophiles, Radiation-resistant bacteria, Alkaliphiles, Applications of extremophiles, Anaerobes, Microbial adaptation, Xerophiles,Adaptation to extreme environments, Oligotrophs, Diversity of extremophiles.

 

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