Microbial (de)halogenation of chlorinated compounds
An increasing body of literature indicates that many chlorinated organic compounds are susceptible to microbial degradation. Also the number of publications covering biologically-mediated halogenation is increasing rapidly.
Prof. Dr. Jim Field received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (USA), Department of Agronomy (Soil Science), in 1981 and 1983, respectively. In 1989, he received his Ph.D. on the topic of paper industry wastewater treatment from the Wageningen Agricultural University (The Netherlands), Department of Environmental Technology. After a two year post-doc at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), Department of Chemical Engineering, he returned to the Wageningen Agricultural University to assume a post as researcher at the Division of Industrial Microbiology, Department of Food Technology and Nutritional Sciences. He then moved in 2001 to the University of Arizona, where he is Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering. One of his main research topics is the natural production of organohalogens by fungi.
From 2001 to 2005, Prof. Jim Field has provided Euro Chlor with a quarterly update of the published scientific literature reporting on the microbial dehalogenation/halogenation of key chlorinated compounds. Fifteen issues are available below:
