Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology

2. Printing.
ISBN: 978-3-540-77584-3
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, 4699 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 8781 g

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of microbial interactions with the major forms of hydrocarbons, oils, and lipids in or entering the biosphere. It is the definitive resource on the physiological mechanisms and adaptive strategies characteristic of the microbial lifestyle that plays out at hydrophobic material: aqueous liquid interfaces.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGenity, Terry

de Lorenzo, Victor

Meer, Jan Roelof van der

Weitere Mitwirkende

Timmis, Kenneth N.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Kohlenhydrate
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Mikrobiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Lipidologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME 1: HYDROCARBONS, OILS AND LIPIDS: DIVERSITY, PROPERTIES AND FORMATION

Part 1 Diversity and Physico-Chemical Characteristics, Part 2 Formation and Location, Part 3 Transfer from the Geosphere to Biosphere, Part 4 Environmental Chemistry, Part 5 Biochemistry of Biogenesis, Part 6 Genetics of Biogenesis , Part 7 The Microbes (Section Editor: Terry Mcgenity), Part 8 Methanogenic Communities

VOLUME 2: MICROBIAL UTILIZATION OF HYDROCARBONS, OILS AND LIPIDS

Part 1 Introduction: Theoretical Considerations, Part 2 Biochemistry of Aerobic Degradation , Part 3 Biochemistry of Anaerobic Degradation, P art 4 Enzymology , Part 5 Genetics (the Paradigms) (Section Editor: Victor De Lorenzo), Part 6 Functional Genomics (the Paradigms) (Section Editor: Victor De Lorenzo), Part 7 Cellular Ecophysiology: Problems of Hydrophobicity, Bioavailability , Part 8 Cellular Ecophysiology: Uptake, Part 9 Cellular Ecophysiology: Problems of Solventogenicity, Solvent Tolerance, Part 10 Cellular Ecophysiology: Problems of Feast or Famine

VOLUME 3: MICOBES AND COMMUNITIES UTILIZING HYDROCARBONS, OILS AND LIPIDS

Part 1 The Microbes (Section Editor: Terry Mcgenity), Part 2 Microbes Utilizing Non-Hydrocarbon Components of Fossil Fuels, Part 3 Microbial Communities Based on Hydrocarbons, Oils and Fats: Natural Habitats, Part 4 Microbial Communities Based on Hydrocarbons, Oils and Fats: Anthropogenically-Created Habitats

VOLUME 4: CONSEQUENCES OF MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS WITH HYDROCARBONS, OILS AND LIPIDS

Part 1 Introduction , Part 2 Applications: Organics Degradation, Part 3 Applications: Biomonitoring, Part 4 Applications: Fuel Production , Part 5 Applications: Chemicals Production, Part 6 Global Consequences of the Consumption and Production of Hydrocarbons, Part 7 Human-Animal-Plant Health and Physiology Consequences of Microbial Interactions with Hydrocarbons and Lipids , Part 8 The Future

VOLUME 5: EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS AND APPENDICES

Part 1 Study Systems (Section Editor: Jan Roelof Van Der Meer), Part 2 Analytical Procedures (Section Editor: Jan Roelof Van Der Meer), Part 3 Microbiology and Community Procedures (Section Editor: Jan Roelof Van Der Meer), Part 4 Biochemical Procedures (Section Editor: Jan Roelof Van Der Meer), Part 5 Genetic and System Procedures (Section Editor: Jan Roelof Van Der Meer), Part 6 Application Procedures (Section Editor: Jan Roelof Van Der Meer), Part 7 Appendices

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth Timmis read microbiology and obtained his Ph.D. at Bristol University. He undertook post-doctoral training at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Yale and Stanford, at the latter two as a Fellow of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. He was then appointed Head of an Independent Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, then Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine. Thereafter, for almost 20 years, he was Director of the Division of Microbiology at the National Research Centre for Biotechnology (GBF)/now the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI). He is currently Head of the Environmental Microbiology Laboratory at the HZI and Professor of Microbiology at the Technical University Braunschweig. Professor Timmis has worked for more than 30 years in the area of environmental microbiology and biotechnology, has published around 400 peer reviewed original research papers in international journals, and is an ISI Highly Cited Microbiology-100 researcher. His group has worked for many years, inter alia, on the biodegradation of oil hydrocarbons, especially the genetics and regulation of toluene degradation, pioneered the topic of experimental evolution of novel catabolic activities, discovered the new group of marine hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria, and initiated genome sequencing projects on bacteria that are paradigms of microbes that degrade organic compounds (Pseudomonas putida and Alcanivorax borkumensis). He is Fellow of the Royal Society, Member of the EMBO, Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, Recipient of the Erwin Schrödinger Prize, and Scientific Advisory Board Member of leading research institutes. He founded the journals 'Environmental Microbiology' and 'Microbial Biotechnology'.