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Environmental Engineering and Management Journal Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology in the frame of the Knowledge-Based Bio and Green Economy Bologna, April 10-12, 2012 Conference Abstracts Session 1. Advances in biodegradation of organics and inorganics, phytoremediation and mycoremediation Sub-session 1.1. Bacterial biodegradation of organics and inorganics Sub-session 1.2. Microbial biodegradation assessment and improvement Sub-session 1.3. Phytoremediation & mycoremediation Session 2. Organic waste multipurpose biorefineries for the conversion of high environmentally impacting matrices and effluents into bio-based chemicals, materials and fuels Sub-session 2.1. Food processing and agro-industrial waste biorefinery Sub-session 2.2. Organic waste and effluent biorefinery Session 3. Biological transformation of conventional and biobased polymers in the environment Session 4. Innovative approaches and tools for the tracking and bioremediation of emerging pollutants in soils, sediments and groundwaters Sub-session 4.1. Detection and biodegradation of emerging pollutants Sub-session 4.2. Research and innovation in the ex-situ and in situ microbial remediation of contaminated soils, aquifers, sediments and marine habitats Session 5. Nanomaterials for biotreatments and nanoparticle impacts on the environment Session 6. Wastewater valorisation, bioremediation, purification and reuse Session 7. Microbial fixation of CO2 and other climate change inducing gases in soils and via biotechnological processes Session 8. Exploitation of microbes from non-conventional (arid environments, deep sea, etc) and contaminated habitats Sub-session 8.1. Microbial community management in biotechnological processes, aquifer natural attenuation, and in cultural heritage protection/restoration Sub-session 8.2.Industrial exploitati on of microbes from deep seas, arid/contaminated environments Session 9. FP7 funded projects in the area of environmental biotechnology