7^th International conference on Environmental Microbiology, Soil Microbiology & Microbial Biogeochemistry July 11-12, 2018 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The focus of my research is bacterial taxonomy and microbial physiology, Molecular mechanisms of gene expression and mutagenesis. I am also interested in studies of molecular microbial ecology including the genetic and the functional diversity of microbial communities. My third research interest on Microbial Genomics & Metagenomics involves in genome analysis of pure isolates and metagenomics from extreme conditions, reactors etc.

Andre Freire Cruz had focused on evaluation of soil microbial status as indicator of sustainability. He has worked with many agricultural soils, recently has concentrated on fruit orchards in Japan and other countries especially concerning on analysis of microbial growth and activity. He has used many methods to evaluate the soil biology, but actually most of the his researches are using metagenome analysis of bacterial and fungal genes and their relation with other soils properties.

Professor Yanchun Yan has her expertise in bioremediation of environmental pollution and passion in improving the health and wellbeing. Her research team has been focused on the bioremediation for more than twenty years, and they have isolated more than 60 strains of bacteria or fungi capable of degrading pesticides or environmental estrogen chemicals. The degradation characteristics of the strains and a number of genes or gene clusters encoding key enzymes were investigated. These researches provided significant resources of strains and genes for bioremediation, and lay theoretical foundation for the degradation mechanism of pollutants. Phthalic acid esters (PAEs) are widely used as plasticizers to improve the flexibility of plastic products. The PAEs have properties of carcinogenic and estrogenic, and are extremely difficult to be degraded under natural condition. The degradation mechanism of PAEs has been elucidating by mutants and spatial structure of the proteins recently.

Tetsushi Tanaka belongs to Computational Systems Biologoy Laboratory in Nara Institute of Science and Technology and have studied bioinformatics, especially microbiome analysis. He is also familiar with molecular biology and was graduated from Saitama University with a bachelor's degree in Science.