Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology

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

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

"Water is life!" All active cellular systems require water as the medium and solvent of their metabolic activities. Hydrophobic compounds and structures, which tend to exclude water, though providing inter alia excellent sources of energy and a means of biological compartmentalization, present problems of cellular handling, poor bioavailability and, in some cases, toxicity. Microbes both synthesize and exploit a vast range of hydrophobic organics, especially petroleum oil hydrocarbons and industrial pollutants, and the underlying interactions not only have major consequences for the lifestyles of the microbes involved, but also for biogeochemistry, climate change, environmental pollution, human health and a range of biotechnological applications. The aim of this handbook is to be the definitive resource of current knowledge on the diverse and multifaceted aspects of these interactions, the microbial players, and the physiological mechanisms and adaptive strategies characteristic ofthe 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 Lipidologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Kohlenhydrate
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Mikrobiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: Hydrocarbons, Oils and Lipids: Diversity, Properties and Formation
Volume 2: Microbiology Utilization of Hydrocarbons, Oils and Lipids
Volume 3: Microbes and Communities Utilizing Hydrocarbons, Oils and Lipids      Volume 4:Consequences of Microbial Interactions with Hydrocarbons, Oils and Lipids
Volume 5: Experimental Protocols and 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'.