Meet the editors

For the past 32 years, Prof. Sadık Dincer has been involved in teaching, research, and academic work in numerous distinguished universities in Turkey. Currently, he is working at Cukurova University, Biology and Biotechnology Departments, Adana, Turkey. His manuscripts and book chapters have been published in national and international journals and his works has been cited 897 times. To date he has trained twenty-five MSc

and eleven PhD students. He received the Technology Development Award from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) in 2013 and a national study patent in 2019. His research is focused on bacteriology, microbial ecology, industrial biotechnology, and microbial genetics.

Melis Sümengen Özdenefe received her BSc in Biology from Cukurova University, Turkey, in 2009. She obtained an MSc and PhD in Biology from Cukurova University in 2011 and 2014, respectively. During her MSc studies she attended Anhalt University, Germany, for six months as an international exchange student (Erasmus) in 2010–2011. In 2014, she began work as a doctor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Near East Univer-

sity, North Cyprus. In August 2016, she became an assistant professor. Her teaching and research interests include industrial microbiology, bacteriology, biotechnology, enzymology, and microbial ecology. Her research areas include enzymes and biosurfactants, which are produced from various bacteria and fungus for industrial applications, the production and characterization of bacterial enzymes and bacteriocins, antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of various plant structures, multiple antibiotic resistance, and heavy metal resistance in Gram-negative bacteria.

Afet Arkut Özyapici received a BSc and PhD in Biology from Cukurova University, Turkey, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. During her postgraduate studies, she attended Anhalt University, Germany, for six months as an international exchange student (Erasmus) in 2010–2011. In 2013, she began working as a doctor in the Health Sciences Faculty at Cyprus International University. In March 2014, she became an assistant professor. Dr. Özyapici

has been working as head of the Department of Social Work and vice dean of the Health Sciences Faculty at Cyprus International University since 2016 and 2017, respectively. Her teaching and research interests include microbiology, bacteriology, microbial ecology, hospital infection, hygiene, and sanitation.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Jixiang Yang*

in Clinical Settings

*and Mohsin Khurshid*

**Preface XIII**

Biofilm in Wastewater Treatment **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

Inhibition of Biofilm Formation **33**

**Chapter 3 35**

**Chapter 4 57**

**Chapter 5 69**

**Chapter 6 85**

Biofilm in Moving Bed Biofilm Process for Wastewater Treatment *by Shuai Wang, Sudeep Parajuli, Vasan Sivalingam and Rune Bakke*

Effect of Heavy Metals on the Biofilm Formed by Microorganisms

Natural Compounds Inhibiting *Pseudomonas aeruginosa* Biofilm

Formation by Targeting Quorum Sensing Circuitry *by Julie Carette, Amandine Nachtergael, Pierre Duez,* 

*by Angela Di Somma, Antonio Moretta, Carolina Canè,* 

Approaches for Modeling Anaerobic Granule-Based Reactors

Innovative Strategies for the Control of Biofilm Formation

*by Aqsa Shahid, Maria Rasool, Naheed Akhter, Bilal Aslam, Ali Hassan, Sadia Sana, Muhammad Hidayat Rasool* 

*Mondher El Jaziri and Tsiry Rasamiravaka*

Inhibition of Bacterial Biofilm Formation

*Arianna Cirillo and Angela Duilio*

from Impacted Aquatic Environments *by Lívia Caroline Alexandre de Araújo and Maria Betânia Melo de Oliveira*
