Biological Sciences Session 3

[B-O3-05] Elucidating the Potential of Bacterial Biomarker Genes as a Monitoring Tool to Indicate Contamination in River Water due to Palm Oil Mill Effluent Final Discharge (C000029)

*Siti Suhailah Sharuddin¹, Norhayati Ramli¹, Mohd Zulkhairi Mohd Yusoff¹, Li Sim Ho², Nor Azlan Nor Muhammad³, Toshinari Maeda⁴ (1. Department of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia., 2. Sime Darby Technology Centre Sdn. Bhd., Sime Darby Plantation, Malaysia, 3. Centre for Bioinformatics Research, Institute of Systems Biology (INBIOSIS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia, 4. Department of Biological Functions Engineering, Graduate School Of Life Science and Systems Engineering, KYUTECH, Japan)

Keywords:biomarkers, environmental biomonitoring, gene expression, metatranscriptomics, POME, river water pollution