Sustainable Waste Management

Professor Olga N. Demina is a renowned expert in plant biodiversity and ecosystem conservation. She served at Southern Federal University from 1985 to 2013, leading research on the vegetation of the Don River and Caucasus regions. In 1996, she became Head of the Laboratory of Biodiversity and Protected Natural Areas, and in 2012, she was appointed Director of the Botswana branch of SFedU. She currently serves as a professor at Karachay-Circassian State University.

Biodiversity,Conservation,Biology,Ecology and Evolution,Conservation,Ecology,Climate Change, Ecosystem,Ecology Species Diversity,Invasive Species Plant Ecology Biodiversity Monitoring Biodiversity & Conservation Immunology Community Ecology Vegetation

Mr. Regmi holds Masters degrees of Science in Civil Engineering (1986) from Ukraine with Honours and in Environmental Engineering (2002) from Institute of Engineering, the Tribhuvan University of Nepal.  He has authored many research papers published in International Journals and is current reviewer of Journals and conference papers.

Mr. Regmi has been developing the newest tools and technologies to save water and renewable energy; he is also an international visiting scholar on ways to tackle climate change issues since 2003. He also teaches the Russian language.

Bruna Marmett holds a B.Sc in Nutrition and a M.Sc. in Health Science. Currently, she is a Ph.D. researcher of the Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (Brazil). Her research is focused on the health effects of air pollution, environmental monitoring, exposure to air pollutants during physical exercise, oxidative stress, inflammation profile, and DNA damage. She had experience in areas of nutrition and experimental physiology, including dietary supplementation, food behavior, and cardiovascular diseases.

Oxidative Stress Biomarker, Cytotoxicity, Reactive Oxygen Species

Bulent ICGEN received his MSc. and PhD. in Biotechnology at Middle East Technical University (METU) of Ankara in 1994 and 2000, respectively. He conducted two-year-post-doctoral research at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering Research Unit of University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. In 2008, he became an Associate Professor and took up a faculty position at Kirikkale University (KU) till 2012. Since then, he has been a faculty at METU in the Department of Environmental Engineering. Meanwhile, as a visiting faculty, he visited Princeton University (PU) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) in 2011 and 2015, respectively. His interests lie in the fascinating and often complex array of processes taking place in microbial environment and the behaviour of the microorganisms under different environmental conditions. He particularly enjoys looking at systems from environmental and microbial biotechnology perspective, trying to tease out the key relationships between consortiums. He likes using molecular biological methods to investigate the occurrence and distribution of bacteria in the environment in order to provide direct information on community structure for variety of environmental and industrial applications. His team focuses on microbial biotechnology, with a recent focus on environmental genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics.

Environmental sustainability through bioremediation of contaminated environments Bacterial degradation & transformation & detoxification of xenobiotic compounds Structural and functional diversity of microbial communities in contaminated environments Molecular genetic tools to assess the effects of microbial treatment on anthropogenic chemicals Biomonitoring of waterborne pathogens & toxic metals & drug resistance genes as contaminants Biomarkers & bioindicators & DNA probes & FISH for in situ microbial activity monitoring Metabolic engineering & catabolic genes & biocatalytic applications for pollutant degradation Biotechnological processes for aerobic & anaerobic waste treatment Environmental genomics & metabolomics & transcriptomics & proteomics