Content (Syllabus outline)
The concept of environmental quality. Feasibility of physic-chemical environmental technologies. Self-cleaning capacity of soils and water bodies. Aerobic and anaerobic degradation of organic compounds. Microbial transformations of recalcitrant organic compounds. Bioavailability and bio-magnification of pollutants Environmental monitoring of microorganisms: abundance, activity, diversity. Environmental metagenomics: a tool for environmental biomining of novel biocatalysts. Biological wastewater treatment. Natural attenuation of soils and waters: sampling and monitoring.
Plant stress and plant application in phytotechnology: phytostabilization, phytovolatilization, phytoextraction, phytodegradation. Beneficial ryzosphere: microbial inoculums, mycorhizae, bio-pesticides and biological control, nitrogen fixation, symbiotic entophytes. Soil and groundwater bioremediation; biostimulation, bioaugmentation. Aerobic and anaerobic technologies. Biotechnology of waste recycling: composting and anaerobic digestion of organic wastes, desulfurization of gypsum and coal. Biofilters. Microbial biomining. Use of microorganisms in crude-oil production. Biological CO2 sequestration, biomass and bio-fuels production.
Prerequisites
Requirements for enrolment:
- Student has to be enroled in the MSc program of Biotechnology.
Terms of Prerequisites:
- Basic knowledge of mathematics, statistics, chemistry, biochemistry, genetics or microbial genetics, physiology or microbial physiology is required.
- Mandatory presence at tutorials and seminars.