Emerging Contaminants in Food and Food Products

Sesan Abiodun Aransiola is a Ph.D holder in Environmental Microbiology in the Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria. He obtained his first degree (B.Tech) and Master Degree (M.Tech) from the same department in 2009 and 2014 respectively. He has demonstrated his research expert in the production of vermicasts from vermicoposting (Vermitechnology) of organic wastes to assist plants in the remediation of polluted soil with heavy metals. Currently, he is a Lecturer at the Department of Microbiology, University of Abuja, Nigeria. His area of interest is Environmental Microbiology with research area in phytoremediation, vermicomposting, biosorption and bioremediation of soil contaminated environment. He is an award winning researcher and has over 70 publications including book chapters, research and review articles of good international repute with high impact factors. He has co-edited scientific books of global interest which include microbial biotechnology for bioenergy (Elsevier). Ecological interplays in microbial enzymology, vermitechnology: economic, environmental and agricultural sustainability, prospects for soil regeneration and its impact on environmental protection (Springer). Microbial biofilms – applications and control, marine greens: environmental, agricultural, industrial and biomedical applications (CRC Press) with many more in the process. Also, he worked to the rank of an assistant chief scientific officer at Bioresources Development Centre, National Biotechnology Development Agency, Nigeria where he was involved in the uses of vinasse (a by-product of ethanol) as bio-fertilizer to reclaim polluted soil for agricultural purposes. Abiodun is a member of Nigerian Society for Microbiology and American Society for Microbiology. Rasaq Olajide Akinsola is a postdoctoral scientist training under the T-32 prostate cancer program at the Department of Medicine, the division of Haematology and oncology Cedars Sinai Medical Centre Los Angeles California. He obtained his first degree in Microbiology from the Federal University of Technology Minna Niger State with First Class Honours in 2013. Where he was supervised by Professor Olabisi Peter Abioye and submitted a thesis in the field of environmental microbiology in fulfilment of his bachelor’s degree. He proceeded to Monash University for his Ph.D. under the Monash merit scholarship where he worked on improving E. coli vector for gene delivery with potential applications in DNA vaccination and cancer gene therapy. He has several articles in reputable journals and has presented his work at international conferences. His area of interest includes environmental microbiology, gut microbiomes, gene delivery, vaccination, and cancer research. Olabisi Peter Abioye is a professor of environmental microbiology at the Department of Microbiology, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria. He graduated in this same Department in the year 2002 with first-class honors and was retained as a lecturer. He obtained his Master’s Degree (M.Tech) in 2006 from this school before proceeding for his Ph.D. program at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and completed this degree in 2011. His research interest includes environmental microbiology/biotechnology, and bioremediation of environment contaminated with both organic and inorganic pollutants. He has been a lecturer since 2002 at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria, and has since taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has supervised numerous students at different levels of degree and has vast administrative experience. He has more than seventy publications, including chapters in books, conference proceedings, peer reviews and research papers. He has served as an external examiner in number of Universities both nationally and internationally and belongs to many professional societies. Naga Raju Maddela received his M.Sc. (1996–1998) and Ph.D. (2012) in Microbiology from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapuramu, India. During his doctoral program in the area of Environmental Microbiology, he investigated the effects of industrial effluents/insecticides on soil microorganisms and their biological activities and he is working as Faculty in Microbiology since 1998, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. He worked on Prometeo Investigator (fellowship received from SENESCYT) at Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Ecuador during 2013-15, received ""Postdoctoral Fellowship"" (2016–2018) from Sun Yat-sen University, China. He also received external funding from ""China Postdoctoral Science Foundation"" in 2017, internal funding from ""Universidad Técnica de Manabí"" in 2020. He participated in national / international conferences, and presented research data in China, Cuba, Ecuador, India and Singapore. Currently, he is working as a Full Professor at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Portoviejo, Ecuador. He has been actively publishing scientific articles, books (authored and edited) and chapters since 2007. As of now, he published 80 articles, 15 books and 30 book chapters.