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Fabio Fava

Full Professor

Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering

Academic discipline: CHIM/11 Chemistry and Biotechnology of Fermentation

Head of Centro Interdipartimentale Alma Mater Institute on Healthy Planet (Alma Healthy Planet)

Publications

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Publications prior to 2004

Full peer-reviewed international papers published from 2001 to 2003

 

1) Fava F. , Di Gioia D. (2001) Soya lecithin effects on the aerobic biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyls in an artificially-contaminated soil”. Biotechnology & Bioengineering  72:177-184

This paper received the “best paper award 2001” from the American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS) (http://www.aocs.org/member/awards/am02awdwnrs.pdf).

 

2) Villarante, N.R., Armenante P.M., Quibuyen, T.A.O., Fava F., Kafkewitz D. (2001) Dehalogenation of dichloroethene in a contaminated soil: fatty acids and alcohols as electron donors and an apparent requirement for tetrachloroethene. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 55: 239-247

 

3) Di Gioia D., Bertin L., Fava F., Marchetti L. (2001) Biodegradation of hydroxylated and methoxylated benzoic, phenylacetic and phenylpropenoic acids present in olive mill wastewaters by two bacterial strains.  Research in Microbiology 152:83-93

 

4) Di Gioia D., Fava F., Bertin L., Marchetti L. (2001) Biodegradation of synthetic and natural occurring mixtures of mono-cyclic aromatic compounds present in olive mill wastewaters by two aerobic bacteria. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 55: 619-626

 

5) Bertin L., Majone M., Di Gioia D., Fava F. (2001) An aerobic fixed-phase biofilm reactor system for the degradation of the low-molecular weight aromatic compounds occurring in the effluents of anaerobic digestors treating olive mill wastewaters. Journal of Biotechnology, 87:161-177

 

6) Fedi S., Carnevali M., Fava F., Andracchio A., Zappoli S., Zannoni D. (2001) Biodegradative activities and hybridization analysis of fifteen aerobic bacterial strains isolated from a chronically polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contaminated site. Research in Microbiology 152:583-592

 

7) Fava F. , Piccolo A. (2002) Effects of humic substances on the bioavailability and aerobic biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyls in a model soil. Biotechnology & Bioengineering, 77:204-211

 

8) Fava F., Ciccotosto F.V. (2002) Effects of Randomly Methylated-  -Cyclodextrins (RAMEB) on the bioavailability and aerobic biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyls in three pristine soils spiked with a transformer oil. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 58:393-399.

 

9) Demnerova, K., Mackova M., Pazlarova J., Vosahlikova M., Novakova H., Jindrova E., Ryslava E., Macek T., Vrchotova N., Brenner V., Pavlu L., Totevova S., Kristoffer T., Focht D.D., Fava F., Di Gioia D., Marchetti L, Fletcher J.S., Leigh M.B., Kucerova P., Stiborova H., Mateju V., Sobotka M., Kastanek F., Kastanek P., Kasak L. (2002) PCB-Approaches to possible removal from the environment. In: (Eds. Reible D., Demnerova K.)  “Innovative Approaches to the On-Site Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sites”. NATO Science Series, IV Earth and Environmental Sciences- Vol. 15, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands . Pages 217-263

 

10) Di Gioia D., Barberio C, Spagnesi S., Marchetti L., Fava F. (2002) Characterisation of four olive-mill wastewater indigenous bacteria capable of aerobically degrading hydroxylated- and methoxylated-monocyclic aromatic compounds. Archives of Microbiology 178: 208-217

 

11) Zanaroli G., Fedi S, Carnevali M, Fava F, Zannoni D. (2002) Use of potassium tellurite for testing survival and viability of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 in soil microcosms contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Research in Microbiology 153:353-360

 

12) Fava F. , Di Gioia D., Marchetti L., Fenyvesi E., Szejtli J. (2002) Randomly methylated  -cyclodextrins (RAMEB) enhance the aerobic biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyls in aged-contaminated soils. Journal Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry  44, 417-421

 

13) Fava F. , Bertin L., Fedi S., Zannoni D. (2003) Methyl--cyclodextrin enhanced solubilization and aerobic biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyls in two aged-contaminated soils. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 81: 384-390.

 

14) Fava, F . Zanaroli G., Young LY. (2003) Microbial reductive dechlorination of pre-existing PCBs and spiked 2,3,4,5,6-pentachlorobiphenyl in anaerobic slurries of a contaminated sediment of Venice Lagoon (Italy). FEMS Microbiology Ecology 44: 309-318

 

 

15) Fava F ., Gentilucci S., Zanaroli G. (2003) Anaerobic biodegradation of weathered polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in contaminated sediments of Porto Marghera (Venice Lagoon, Italy). Chemosphere 53: 101-109

 

16) Baldi F., Pepi M., Fava F. (2003) Growth of Rhodosporidium toruloides strain DBVPG 6662 on dibenzothiophene crystals and orimulsion. Applied  Environmental  Microbiology 69: 4689-4696

 

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