Email: donova@ibpm.pushchino.ru

Prof. Marina Donova is the Head of Laboratory of Microbiological Transformation of Organic Compounds at the G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry & Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia; a member of Presidium of Russian Microbiological Society. She had got her DSci (Biology) level in 2007. Her fields of research interests comprise all aspects of steroid conversions by microorganisms including discovery of novel biocatalysts capable of performing known and rare reactions, isolation and identification of novel metabolites with potent therapeutic effects, investigation of metabolic pathways, regio- and stereospecific microbial hydroxylation of bile acids, generation of engineered strains with improved biocatalytic possibilities, physical chemical aspects of steroid bioconversions, development and scaling up of the biotechnologies. The competence and qualification of Dr.Donova is confirmed by over 100 peer reviewed papers (with three extended reviews), one monograph, 10 national patents and more than 100 conference papers with regard to steroid bioconversions.

Transformation of Organic Compounds

Email: brunorocha@unifor.br; brunorocha747@gmail.com

Prof. Bruno Rocha da Silva, Graduated in Dentistry from the Federal University of Ceará (2010). Master Degree in Biotechnology from the Federal University of Ceará (2013). PhD in Biotechnology by the Northeast Network of Biotechnology - RENORBIO linked to the Federal University of Ceará (2016). Currently is Professor of the Dentistry department at the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR) and the Biomedicine course at Mauricio de Nassau University.

Immunology; Microbiology; Oral Surgery; Periodontics; Finite Element Method; and Biotechnology.

Email: giri@genomixbiotech.com

Professor Rathnagiri Polavarapu, Ph.D., is an NRI for 35 years and Adjunct Professor, Emory University (USA), Presently, he is the president & CEO of Genomix Biotech Inc., (USA), Genomix CARL (a public private partnered company with AP govt), Genomix Molecular Diagnostics Pvt Ltd (India). He obtained Ph.D., degree from Madras University in Biochemistry and has been doing biomedical research and developed several rapid diagnostic kits, vaccines and therapeutics for animal and human healthcare in USA. He has obtained several funded projects from DBT, US Army, CDC and trained hundreds of young scientists worldwide and received “Best Talented Biotechnologist award” from APBP and several national and international awards in Biotechnology and human and animal healthcare fields. He is Co-author of more than 60 research papers and several books and patents. He has guided more than 20 Ph. D., students and developed more than 100 diagnostic kits, vaccines and therapeutics for human and animal healthcare. Present research focus is to help farmers at resource limited areas to support the livestock productivity through biotechnology, gene editing.

Genetics

Email: chmyck@ccu.edu.tw

Dr. Yung-Chih Kuo is a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University. His research interests are focused on biomaterials, nanomedicine, drug delivery system, tissue engineering, blood–brain barrier, cancer therapy, stem cell differentiation, nerve regeneration, spinal cord injury treatment, stroke treatment, and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease therapy, biophysics, and colloid and interface science. In these fields, he has authored or coauthored more than 140 SCI journal papers, more than 10 book chapters and several patents. He is a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), an honor member of Phi Tau Phi Society, a life member in various academic Societies including American Nano Society, European Atherosclerosis Society, Asia-Pacific Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering Society, Asian Federation of Biotechnology, Asian Biotechnology Directory, Taiwanese Society of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Institute of Engineers, Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, Biochemical Engineering Society of Taiwan, and Taiwan Biomaterials and Controlled Release Society. He won Prof. Yen-Ping Shih Paper Award in 2017, Best Paper Award in 2016 and 2008, Prof. Tsai-Teh Lai Award in 2015, Special and Talented Scholar Award in 2013-5 and 2017, Outstanding Research Award in 2013, and Young Scholar Award in 2003. He is also an associate editor of J. Taiwan Inst. Chem. Eng. and an editorial board member in 12 journals, and has been invited as an organizing committee member of many international conferences, a manuscript reviewer for over 100 journals (top reviewer of the Journal of Physical Chemistry (American Chemical Society)), an external reviewer for academic awards, research grants, faculty recruitments and promotions, and financial support of hosting international symposiums, and an advisory board committeeman of international conferences and symposiums.

Biomaterials, nanomedicine, drug delivery system, tissue engineering, blood–brain barrier, cancer therapy, stem cell differentiation, nerve regeneration, spinal cord injury treatment, stroke treatment, and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease therapy, biophysics, and colloid and interface science

Email: pratima.micro@aiimsrishikesh.edu.in

Dr. Pratima Gupta is currently working as Professor & Head department of Microbiology and and Dean Research at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. She acquired her MBBS degree from Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College ,Kolkata in the year 1992. She completed her MD (Microbiology) from Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College , AMU in the year 1995. She has done her Fellowship in HIV Medicine from MAMC, New Delhi and Certificate Course on HIV/AIDS and Family Education from IGNOU. She is the member of National Academy of Medical Sciences and Fellow, Academy of General Education 2015- Manipal Academy of General Education, Manipal. She has conducted research on a wide range of subjects like HIV, STI/RTI,Dengue, Scrub typhus hospital infection control, antibiotic resistance, biocide resistance and viral hepatitis. She has around 100 international and national publications in peer reviewed journals. She is a resource faculty for Uttarakhand for HIV, STI/RTI. She has guided more than 20 MD/MS and PhD Thesis.

Her Research interest include microbiology, infection control, antibiotic resistance, biocide resistance and viral hepatitis.

Email: rajucshah@gmail.com

"Raju Shah is a Medical Director of the Ankur Institute of Child Health and is a former Professor and Head of the department of Paediatrics at the GCS Medical College, both in Ahmedabad, India. He obtained his MBBS in 1970 and an MD in paediatrics in 1974 from the B. J. Medical College in Ahmedabad and trained in vaccinology at the International Vaccine Institute in Korea in 2005. He has been awarded Honarary FRCPCH(UK) in July 2015.President of the Paediatric Association of SAARC from 2005 to 2008, Professor Shah was also Chairman of both the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) National Task Force on Safe Injection Practices(2005-7) and of the IAP Task Force on Children of Urban Poor(2005-7). Dr Shah was National President of Indian Academy of Paediatrics in year 2005 and also a Chairman of Immunization Committee of IAP for the years 2005 and 2006. He was Convener of the Immunisation committee from 1988 to 1993. He was a Chairman of Infectious Disease Chapter from 2001 to 2003 and was founder secretary from 1997 to 2001. Professor Shah’s has conducted many research activities which include primary immunisation responses to the DPT+Hib and pentavalent DPT+HBV+Hib vaccines, the response to cough suppressive formulas in URI in children, Varicella antibodies in populations of different ages, Immune response to Varicella vaccine and immune responses to IPV in children. He is an examiner of MBBS, MD (Ped) and DCH degrees at various universities in India as well as for MRCPCH(UK) and he has contributed to many training modules about a standardization of Office Practice, rational antibiotic practices, adolescent care, HIV/AIDS, safe injection practices, diarrhoea management and RTI management. He was Executive Editor of the Textbook of Paediatrics (IAP, 3rd Edition) and Editor of the Guidebook on Immunisation (IAP, 2006). Professor Shah has also written three books on immunisation and infectious diseases and has contributed chapters to many books on different aspects of paediatrics. He was sitting on the Editorial Board of Indian Pediatrics, Paediatrics Today and the Indian Journal of Paediatrics. The winner of numerous oration awards including Hon Surg Cmde Late Dr. Shantilal C. Sheth Oration of IAP in Pedicon 2015. Professor Shah as a Speaker has delivered more than 500 guest lectures at many national, international and state level conferences and CMEs. . Dr Shah has conducted many Dialogue sessions on Immunization and infectious diseases at various national level conferences. Dr Shah has published more than 50 articles in the peer reviewed journals

Paediatrics Infections, Immunisation

Email: Refat.sadek@med.psu.edu.eg; egyrefat@gmail.com

Refat Sadeq, from Egypt who has been on microbiology over 37 years. he has started and graduated in Zagazig Faculty of Medicine for M.Sc. and Ph.D. , then started to research articles reaching more than 80 articles, many of which have been published in international scientific journals, and he has reviewed over 100 edits on different journal sites. He is a Featured Author, for books in Medical Microbiology and Immunology for both medical students and nurses. He also assisted in building many units in his department but the favourite one was that of Virology and Molecular biology. He loves how to help junior doctors in his department to solve their scientific problems. His advice to new contributors is to take your time to get to know all the tools and to invest your energy and be sure that success will happened.

Microbiology

Email: saratov@reaviz.ru; pfzabrodsky@gmail.com

Professor Dr. Pavel Francevich Zabrodskii: Student, Mil. Med. Akad., Leningrad, Russia, 1968-1974, PhD, 1981; postgrad.Mil. Med. Akad., 1982; M.D., Mil. Med. Akad., St. Peterburg,Russia, 1991. Heard physiological lab.Ministry of Defense, Orenburg, USSR, 1974-81; instr. Mil. Med. Akad., Leningrad, 1981-83; Mil. Med. Institute, Saratov, Russia, 1988-91, docent Mil. Med. Institute, Saratov, Prof., 1991- 1992, chief toxicologist in Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, 1987; Prof. full, head dept. toxicology, 1992-2000; head dept. toxicology Saratov Military Institute of Biological and Chemical Safety, 2000 -2009; head dept. toxicology Saratov State Medical University, 2009-2012; head dept. pharmacology Saratov Medical University "REAVIZ", Russia, 2012-; chief toxicologist, Saratov, 1986-1992. Developed a direction - "Immunotoxicology xenobiotics and pharmacological correction postintoxication immunodeficiency states ". The founder of scientific school in the field of immunotoxicology xenobiotics. In 1987 he discovered the phenomenon of "cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway". Author: First Aid by Poisoning of Tech. Liquids, Saratov, 1985; Military Toxicology and Radiology, textbook, Moscow, 1992; Postintoxication Immunodeficiencies, Saratov, 1992, Toxicological and Radiological Aspects of Medical Catastrophes, Saratov, 1993, Immunomodulate Properties of Chemicals and Drag, Saratov, 1998, General Toxicology, Moscow, 2002; Immunotoxicology of Xenobiotics, Saratov, 2007;.Immunotoxicology of Organophosphorus Compounds, Saratov, 2016. The papers (articles) - more 300, basic papers look in PubMed. Served with Russian mil., 1968-2000, Colonel of medical service; Recipient Excellent Pub. Helth award Ministry of Helth, USSR, 1987, award for "impeccable service" in the Armed Forces of the USSR I, II, III degrees, 1979-1989; award for "participant of liquidation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident", 1990; Order of Courage award President of Russian Fedn., 1998; award for excellence in military service, Ministry of Defense of the USSR, 1992; award "For merits in the destruction of chemical weapons of the I degree", 2006; award "For contribution to chemical disarmament, 2011; award "Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation, 1996; Mem. Soc. Toxicology of Russian Fedn. (chmn. 1986-2000), Soc.Immunotoxicology of Russian Fedn.(chmn. 1991-), Acad. Mil. Sci.of Russian Fedn., Acad. Nat. Sci. of Russian Fedn., N. Y. Acad. Sci.

Radiology, Immunotoxicology xenobiotics

Email: Yehia.mahmoud@science.tanta.edu.eg; yehiamah@gmail.com

Prof. Yehia A.-G.Mahmoud, Graduated in Science from the Tanta University Faculty of Science, Botany Department (1986). Master Degree in Microbiology from the Tanta University, Faculty of Science (1992). PhD in Mycology and Biochemistry by joint supervision between Tanta University and Virginia Polytechnic and State University (USA). Currently is Professor of the Botany Department (Microbiology Section) Faculty of Science, Tanta University, Egypt

Prof. Yehia A.-G. Mahmoud Research interest includes Pathogenic microorganisms (Yeast); Microbiology; Bioremediation; Molecular biology; Antimicrobial compounds; and Biotechnology

Email: shamsm@modares.ac.ir

Prof. Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi is working in Department of Mycology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University. She acquired her Ph.D. in medical mycology at Tarbiat Modares University on 1999. She has over 19 years of research experience in the field of Microbiology, biochemistry, Nano biotechnology and Pharmacology and published more than 70 research articles in internationally peer reviewed journals. She is serving as a reviewer for many reputed group of journals in global journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical research

Prof. Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi is working on identification and purification of antifungal agents from natural sources (including plants and organisms) and their molecular aspects. My team involved in evaluation of inhibitory effects of natural compounds on growth of pathogenic and toxigenic fungi at cellular and molecular levels. We investigate on Identification and purification of fungal growth antagonistic compounds and study on the mechanism of action of antifungal compounds by antifungal susceptibility testing (NCCLS methods and so on), electron microscopy, enzymes and protein production in fungi, toxin production and the expression of some major gene that involved on fungal pathogenesis.

Email: recepkesli@gmail.com

Dr. Kesli graduated from Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine in 1994. He had microbiology specialist title in 2001, associate professor degree in 2012, professor degree in 2017 at Selcuk University, School of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology. Dr. Kesli published book, and wrote chapters in national and international books. He attended many international congresses and symposiums (more than fourty) presented many abstracts (more than one hundred and fifty) and also presented many speeches. Dr. Kesli also published many articles in international SCI/SCIE and national journals (more than seventy) He has h index 10. Dr Kesli has many editorial duties as editor in-chief, associate editor and editorial board member in different international journals. Dr. Kesli has two scientific awards (one international and the other one is national) Dr. Kesli completed more than 20 scientific research and RD projects.

Dr. Kesli Research interests includes Molecular Microbiology, Hepatitis C virus, Helicobacter pylori, Anaerobic bacteria, Brucella spp., Microbiota, and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD, Fecal-Derived Microbiota Transfer)

Email: abdelkrim.berroukche@univ-saida.dz ; kerroum1967@yahoo.fr

Prof. Abdelkrim Berroukche, Researcher-teacher and lecturer in Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Saida University, Algeria, 2007-till now. Head of research team “Valorization of Plant Sources” since 2017; researcher-member at Laboratory of Vectorology and Anticancer Therapeutics, UMR8203-CNRS-University Paris-Sud-Gustave Roussy-Paris-Sacley University, France, since 2018. Head of research project “Protective effects of Algerian medicinal plants against toxicity of certain heavy metals as cadmium, copper and chrome in occuptionel field” approved by CNEPRU (National Commission for the Evaluation of University Research Projects), Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Algeria, since 2016. Member of Algerian Society of Nutrition (ASN), since 2012. He started his career in secondary education, 1990-2006; He got his PhD, Sidi-Bel-Abbes University, 2012; Magister degree, Sidi-Bel-Abbes University, 2006, in cell biology, Oncology; Bachelor from Oran University, 1985; He has contributed in 3 research projects, attended more than 50 international and national conferences, supervised and still supervising 21 Master and 6 PhD theses. He has 30 publications and contributed in 3 books. Peer-reviewer in several scientific journals.

Prof. Abdelkrim Berroukche research work focuses on the extraction of essential oils, preparation of plant alcohol extracts, purification and identification of bioactive compounds from aromatic and medicinal plants and assessment of antibacterial activities of polyphenols, tanins, flavonoids extracted from essential oils and plant aqueous extracts.

Email: dwijraj.bhatta@microbiotu.edu.np; indwijabhatta@yahoo.com

Dr. Dwij Raj Bhatta, Professor of microbiology at central department of microbiology, Tribhuvan University Kathmandu Nepal is an internationally renowned scientist and microbiology professor and recognised PhD guide. Eucation: He obtained PhD (microbiology) from University of Pune, Maharashtra,India, and MSc (Microbiol), from Tribhuvan University Nepal, Professional achievements: At present Prof. Bhatta is holding the position of Professor of microbiology at Tribhuvan university, He was a faculty member since 1994. 25 years of academic career, guided 7 PhD research. and supervised more than 90 M. Sc. Dissertation research Students, taught courses on bacteriology, immunology and environmental, microbiology courses to more than 500 MSc microbiology students.publications: More than 100 full length research article in peer reviewed indexed journal related to bacterial drug resistance, virology,imunology and microbiology Academic administrator : Currently he has been holding key position of Registrar of The Far western University: Member secretary of the University senate, Executive council and Academic council, Examination board chairman of The Far western University (2016-2019).

Dr. Dwij Raj Bhatta, Research interests includes bacterial drug resistance,virology and HIV,Rabies virus, Salmonella, Antimicrobial compounds, Bacteriophage, General microbiology

Email: Mazenn@tu.edu.sa; dr.mazen.ma@gmail.com

Dr. Mazen Almehmadi, Professor of human immunity, Taif University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is an honorary research fellow of university of Liverpool United Kingdom, member of British society of Immunology. He has a bachelor’s in medical sciences from Umm Al-qura university, master and PhD in human immunity from Liverpool university the UK. He has many published original articles in the field of human immunity in well-known journals like Immunology, Cytokine and Transplant infectious disease. He supervised and trained more than 20 students with their graduation thesis. He is a former deputy of clinical laboratory science department and awarded several local prizes for his development work in academic education. He has been teaching clinical immunity, clinical microbiology, and infection control for more than 10 years. Regarding his technical expertise Dr Mazen has well known expertise in tissue culture, flow-cytometry, cells sorting by FACs aria, microarray, RT-PCR, PCR and ELISA. He has two training certificates for operating FACs-Aria IIIa sorter from BD-Belgium and Dubai. Dr Mazen currently is leading two teams of research in the field of HPV and cervical cancer, and the effect of high-altitude on human immune system. He is also a participant in other research projects that study the infection of kidney transplant patients, stem cells, development of cancer immunotherapy and type-1-diabetes.

Dr. Mazen Almehmadi research interests are infection immunology including the study of T-cells, NK cells, kidney transplant infection. Cancer research including study of HPV-related cancers and the effects of human immune system. High-altitude research including their effect of immune-response.

Email: ansari_mi@lkouniv.ac.in; ansari_mi@hotmail.com

Dr. Mohammad Israil Ansari is presently working as Professor at Department of Botany, University of Lucknow, India. Dr. Ansari graduated and post-graduated from Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India and doctoral degree from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad, India. Dr. Ansari has carried out doctoral research work at Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow. Dr. Ansari is Academia Sinica Fellow from Government of Taiwan. He has more than 26 years of research and teaching experience with more than 60 research papers, several books, book chapter, review articles, Ph.D., post-graduate summer projects as well as funded research projects to his credit. Dr. Ansari has been associated with Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan and Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2000-2007). Dr. Ansari had made significant contribution in field of Molecular Biology of Leaf Senescence, Dehydration Stress, Red Rot Disease of Sugarcane and Nanotechnology. Presently Dr. Ansari is working on GABA-Transaminase gene that play very important role in leaf senescence process and Role of Nanotechnology in plant stress conditions. Dr. Ansari is editorial board member of several International Journals as well as member of several Academic Board/Faculty Board/Board of Studies/Research and Development bodies. Dr. Ansari has delivered several invited lecture at national and international level.

Dr. Ansari interests are Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Physiology, Stress Physiology, Nanotechnology, Post-harvest and Agricultural Biotechnology.

Email: miroslava.kacaniova@uniag.sk; kacaniova.miroslava@gmail.com

Prof. Miroslava Kačániová, PhD. works in Department of Microbiology for last 20 years and last five years she working in Rzeszow University, Poland. She had obtained professor degree in Biotechnology in 2013. She works in different sciences and education projects in the field of microbiology, food microbiology and molecular biology. She is author of several articles published in reputed journals with impact factor. She has many citations. Awards for research and development activities: 2007- Dean´s award for publications, 2009 - Rector`s award for the best scientific article, 2010 - awarded Dean´s honorable mention for the publications, 2013 - awarded Dean´s honorable mention for research and publications, in year 2017 honorable mention from L Oreal and Unesco. Her work is published in indexed journals. She is reviewer of CC journals. She is guarantee and teacher of subjects for I., II., III., degree of study: Bacteriology, Microbiology and parasitology, Food microbiology, Introduction of systematic bacteriology, Predictive microbiology in food industry, Applied microbiology in food industry, Biochemical and molecular methods in microbiology. She teaches subjects in Slovak language and in English. Under her direction 40 bachelors, 109 engineers and 7 doctoral works were successfully defended. She attended many fellowships abroad: University of Michael Hernandéz in Alicante, Spain, University of Rzeszow, Poland, Latvia University of Agriculture, Jeglava, Latvia, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic and others. She is member of the commission for doctoral study in the study program: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, member of the Scientific Council FBFS SUA in Nitra, member of the habilitation and inauguration committees, member of the management of FBFS SUA in Nitra till January 2019, member of the commission EFSA European Food safety Authority, editorial board member: Trakya University Journal of Science, Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie – Sklowska, section zootechnica, Animal Science and Biotechnologies. Gastro, reviewer VEGA, KEGA, APVV, editor and founder of scientific journal: Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences. She was Academic Senate member: 2004-2006, 2006-2010 and chairman of the Academic Senate in 2010, national contact in 7. RP for Slovakia, Bio 2008-2011. From March 2011 till October 2016, she was vice-dean for International Affairs, ECTS and Public Relations, FBFS SUA in Nitra and she was responsible person for ECTS and foreign relations till January 2019.

Prof. Dr. Miroslava Kačániová Research activities are focused on microbial analysis of food, effect of biologically active and natural compounds, focusing on the mechanisms of effects of these compounds on animal digestive system in vivo and in vitro, antimicrobial resistance of bacteria isolated from food, antimicrobial activity of natural compounds on different types of microorganisms, identification of microorganisms with mass spectrometry.

Email: dalip.kakru@sharda.ac.in; dkkakru@yahoo.co.in

Dr Dalip K Kakru is working as Professor Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences & Research, & is Dean, School of Allied Health Sciences, Sharda University, Greater NOIDA, UP. Formerly, he worked as Professor & Head, Deptt of Microbiology, SKIMS, & Principal, College of Paramedical Sciences Srinagar, Kashmir, India. He got his MBBS degree from Govt. Medical College, Srinagar, University of Kashmir (1980) & MD (MICROBIOLOGY) from Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences(1992). He is a Member of “Expert Working Group (EWG) on National Programme on Surveillance of viral Hepatitis” Ministry of Health, Government of India, & has been Vice-chairman of Hospital infection Control committee SKIMS, Convener: committee for antibiotic policy, J & K state. & PI/Nodal officer: State Viral Research & Diagnostic laboratory, ICMR/DHR. He has handled scientific projects (National & International) on Leptospirosis & Tuberculosis (ICMR); MRSA (SKIMS); Hepatitis (NCDC); Viral hemorrhagic Fevers (CDC, USA & NIV Pune); Capacity Building & Strengthening of Hospital Infection Control (CDC, USA & AIIMS, New Delhi); Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (ICMR / DHR). He is a Member of : IAMM (Indian association of medical microbiologists); ARTIST (Antibiotic resistance testing international support team), Sweden; American Society for Microbiology, USA; ISID (International society of Infectious diseases), USA & IDSI (Infectious diseases society of India), India. He is on the panel of various scientific publications as Member of editorial boards (Journal of Microbiology and Related Research) & Review Committees (Journal of Medical Sciences, SKIMS; J K Practitioner, GMC, Srinagar; Canadian Journal of Microbiology; Journal of Laboratory Sciences; Journal of Applied Biological Research; Archives of International Surgery; Annals of Clinical Pathology. He has guided more than fifty five MD, PhD, and MSc. Students & has over fifty publications in journals of repute.

Prof (Dr) Dalip K Kakru has special interest in Antimicrobial resistance, Viral Hemorrhagic fevers & Molecular diagnostics in infectious diseases.

Email: a.zekri@uaeu.ac.ae

Professor A.Y. Zekri received his B.Sc., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California. He has spent more than two decades in the petroleum industry. Professor Zekri worked as a consultant to the management committees of Waha Oil Co., and Agip Oil Company. He has authored and/or co-authored more than 90 papers on new developments and technical issues in the areas of improved oil recovery, flow through porous media, and environmental aspects of petroleum production, petroleum contracts, and Enhanced Oil Recovery. He has edited and refereed technical papers in widely respected journals. Prof. Zekri has completed a number of research projects in the area of IOR/EOR to UAE and International Petroleum Industries. Prof. Zekri served as a Director of Petroleum Science and Engineering Program at UAEU 2006-2010. Professor Zekri is currently working as Coordinator of Oil and Gas Technologies, Emirates Center for Energy and Environment Research and Professor of petroleum engineering at the United Arab Emirates University.

Prof. Zekri Research interests are of improved oil recovery, flow through porous media, and environmental aspects of petroleum production, petroleum contracts, and Enhanced Oil Recovery

Email: afoffa@hotmail.com; afafahmedkhedr@gmail.com

Prof. Afaf Khedr, DR. (Doctor of Philosophy in Veterinary Medical Sciences (Bacteriology, Immunology, and Mycology). microbiological department. Faculty of veterinary medicine. Cairo University. She was born in Egypt in January 1971. She was gained the Master degree of microbiology (Evaluation of A Combined Living avirulent Vaccine for Fowl Cholera and Newcastle Disease Virus) from Cairo Unv.1998, and PhD. Of microbiology (Application of New Technology for Preparation of Fowl Cholera Vaccine). She is a renowned scientist and distinguished academician with 27 publications. She works as Chief Researcher (Professor of Microbiology and Immunology) Specialized in: Microbiology. She is playing a role in updating of Egyptian protocols for Evaluation of bacterial poultry vaccine in Central laboratories for Evaluation of Veterinary Biologics (CLEVB). She Acts as a Trainer for the Afro-Asian students and postgraduates on different activities related to veterinary biologics. She has experience in the application, uses, auditing, Implementation of ISO 17025. She is associated as Reviewer in online journals and Membership of Professional Associations. She participated in MENA Regional Biorisk Management Symposium. Sep. 2017. She is a member of research team of the protective efficacy and Immunogenicity of DNA vaccine coding for H5 gene of avian influenza virus (H5N1) 2008-STDF project, and also in the NIAID Influenza Genome Sequencing Consortium.2013.With participation of JCVI/CLEVB, Cairo/NCBI, and National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH, Bethesda, and MD20894 USA which all data of Egyptian isolates of avian influenza sequencing (2008-2012) submitted in Gene Bank.

Prof. Afaf Khedr Research interest are Veterinary Public Health, microbiology, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Diagnosis of infectious diseases , Bacteriological approaches, Virology approaches, DNA vaccine preparation and Biosafety & Biosecurity approaches.

Email: mmnassar2002@yahoo.com; mamdouh@sci.cu.edu.eg

Professor Mamdouh Nassar was born Cairo. He graduated a bachelor’s degree from Biology (Zoology, Botany, and toxicology) Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Receive his M.Sc. degree in from the same University. Ph.D degree (Channel system) between University of Maryland College Park (USA) and Cairo University. He spent many studies for field of sleeping sickness and Malaria diseases of vectors Stomoxys calcitrans and Anopheles in USDA Florida , Jazan and Jeda. Staff member program (Visitor exchange),University of Maryland College Park, USA

Prof. Dr. Mamdouh Ibrahim Nassar Research interest are Bee Venom therapy of Anti-Amoebiasis Diseases. Anti-tumor studies by effect of Bee Venom. New Novel chemicals and Biological activities. Environmental safety and Biohazards. Bioinformatics and biostatistics for Environmental Biology.

Email: daspathology@gmail.com

Dr. Subhashish Das is a professor of pathology at Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Kolar. He has undergone special training on cytological techniques at St. John Medical College, Bangalore He has several publications to his credit and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. He has been awarded “Best Faculty Award” for the year 2018 and also been felicitated for his outstanding contribution in the field of Pathology. He has also being awarded “Excellence in Research” for the year 2019 Awarded Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) Fellowship for 2017 at PSGFAIMER Institute, Coimbatore. 2. Awarded Asian Association Transfusion Medicine (AATM ) Fellowship for 2017 at National Blood Centre-Sri Lanka.

Prof. Dr. Subhashish Das field of interest includes Medical Education, Immunohematology and Cytopathology.

Email: rachidi.med1@yahoo.com

Dr. Mohammed Rachidi received his PhD/ Doctorate Degree in Human and Molecular Genetics (with High Honors) at the prestigious ''Pasteur Institute'' (Paris, France), in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Genetics headed by the Professor François JACOB (Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine), where he studied the Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms underlying Brain Morphogenesis, Visual System development, CaMKinases & Biological Clock Function in Drosophila. Dr. Rachidi extended these Molecular Genetics works to Functional Genomics at Pasteur Institute and at Center National of Research Scientific CNRS and played key fundamental roles in different collaborative research projects with prestigious laboratories in Europe, Japan & United States. Remarkably, Dr. Rachidi collaborated with the Professor Michael ROSBASH (Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 2017) in the Molecular Mechanisms of 2 genes involved in Circadian Clock. Dr. Rachidi published with Professor ROSBASH this important work in the EMBO Journal Entitled : ''A New Gene encoding a putative Transcritpion Factor Regulated by the Drosophila Circadian Clock''. Postdoctoral training & Assistant Professor with Professor Nicole LeDOUARIN at the prestigious ''College De France'' & Institute of Cellular & Molecular Embryology (Paris), Dr. Rachidi studied some Chicken & Xenopus molecules acting in Bone Morphogenetic Protein BMP signaling pathways and identified their Mouse & Human homologs involved in differentiation of specific domains of neuronal progenitors, in cerebellum development and Joubert syndrome (a form of cerebellar ataxia). These experiences of Dr. Rachidi in the Molecular Genetics and in several Animal Models were extended to Human Molecular Genetics of Down syndrome (DS) & to Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms underlying Brain morphogenesis of Trisomic & Transgenic Mouse Models of DS and also of numerous stages of Embryonic & Fetal DS patients to elucidate the Neurogenetic Basis of Functional alterations Associated with Mental Retardation. Director of Research in Human Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine University Paris 5 (France), with High Honours for Notable Scientific Research Contributions, Breakthroughs & Discoveries in Drosophila & Mouse & Human Molecular Genetics & Neurosciences, Dr. Rachidi has vast experiences with different Research Interests in Modern Molecular Genetics, Neuroscience & Biomedical Research

Dr. Rachidi has vast experiences with different Research Interests in Modern Molecular Genetics, Neuroscience & Biomedical Research, to name a few : Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms underlying Brain Morphogenesis, Visual System, Biological Clock, Synaptic Protein Targeting, Synaptic Plasticity, CaMKII & CAMGUK/MAGUK, Learning and Memory. Functional Genomics & Mechanisms controlling Transposition at Cell Cycle. Transcription, Protein Translation & Virus-Like Particle Formation. Bone Morphogenetic Protein BMP signaling pathways, Mouse and Human Homeobox Genes, Cell Fate Determination and Differentiation, Neuronal Progenitors in Cerebellum development and Joubert syndrome. Trisomy 21, Intellectual Disability, Candidate Genes, Expression studies, Genotype-Phenotype Associations, Trisomic and Transgenic Mouse Models of Down syndrome, Neurogenetic and Neurocognitive Basis of Functional Impairments Associated with Intellectual Disability. Drosophila & Mouse & Human.

Email: nmderaz@yahoo.com

Professor Dr. Nasrallah M. Deraz received B. Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Chemistry (Solid State, Surface Chemistry and Catalysis) in 1990, 1996 and 1999, respectively, from College of science, Zagazig University, Egypt. However, he received B. Law in 2005 from College of Laws, Zagazig University, Egypt. He joined Physical Chemistry Department, Laboratory of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt, since 1992 till now. He was awarded a Post- doctoral fellowship to Institute of Materials Science, Structure Research, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. He joined Chemistry Department, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, since 2009-2013. Deraz has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals. However, he has seven patents registered in the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research. Deraz has supervised on various M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses in Egyptian universities. He is reviewer and member of editorial board for different scientific societies and international scientific journals. In addition, Deraz’s papers had cited in many papers in different journals.

Professor Deraz's researches focus on various aspects of advanced nanomaterials, surface chemistry and catalysis for industrial and environmental applications.

Email: chamarih@chem.cmb.ac.lk; chamari3@yahoo.com

Prof Chamari Hettiarachchi obtained BSc Honors (Botany) in 1996 from University of Colombo and PhD (Molecular Biology & Biochemistry) (2003) from (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (2004 -2006) and Visiting Scientist at Department of Biological and Environmental Science, (2011-2012) University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her specialization is in Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Microbiology and she has more than thirty publications in indexed international journals in the area of her specialization. She is a recipient of SUSRED award 2013 on the supervision and conducting of postgraduate research degree and presidential awards 2008 & 2015. At present she is attached to the University of Colombo as a Professor in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.

Research Interests are Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.

Email: christopher.robin.bryant@gmail.com, chris.r.bryant@umontreal.ca

Prof. Christopher R. BRYANT is Adjunct Professor, Geography, at the University of Montreal, Québec, Canada and also at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. From 1970 to 1990 he was Professor of Geography at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and from 1990 to 2014, Professor of Geography at the University of Montreal. His doctoral thesis was undertaken at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1967-1970. His thesis involved analyses of agricultural development around Paris, France. His research received a large number of research grants and contracts. So far, he has published 123 articles in scientific journals, 175 chapters in books, 35 books and monographs, 27 major reports to various agencies and governments, 64 other publications as well as well as 25 book reviews, and has made 572 presentations at conferences and colloquia. He was Editor of the Canadian Journal of Regional Science for 14 years. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of several journals. He is currently Associate Editor of the journal Ecological Indicators. He has been director or co-director of 28 PhD students who have completed their degrees and over 80 Master’s students.

Prof. Bryant’s research interests include agricultural development, healthy food production, sustainable agricultures, other economic sectors and rural communities, land use planning, strategic development planning for communities and different economic sectors, adaptation to climate change and variability, resilience building for communities faced with flooding and climate change and variability, and other environmental issues.

Email: shorouk2002os@yahoo.com; rasha.ahmed@science.bsu.edu.eg

Dr. Rasha Rashad Ahmed is a professor of molecular cell biology in Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Egypt, having over 50 publications and supervised 30 Master and Ph. D Thesis. She has published an e-book entitled "Antimicrobial and antitumor substance(s) produced by Actinomycetes" and is an editor in-chief, editor and/ or a reviewer of many esteemed journals. She is also a member in many scientific organizations and attended many conferences and special and general training workshops. She participated in the following funded projects: A PI of the projects "The role of TNF-α and ammonia in hepatic fibrosis experimentally-induced by thio-acetamide in male albino rat" and "Assessment of the improvement efficacy and mechanisms of action of citrus peel extracts and flavonoids in experimentally-induced arthritis". A Co – I of the project "Assessment of the maternal rat exposure to lithium on the development of hypothalamus-pitutary-thyroid axis of their neonates" and a member of the projects entitled "Therapy of type 1 and 2 Diabetes mellitus with stem cells and adult somatic cells trans-differentiated into pancreatic–cells by direct reprogramming" funded from Beni-Suef University Research Center, "Effect of certain natural products on diabetic wounds in rats" "Search for novel anti-carcinogenic algal constituents targeting the initiation, promotion and progression of chemical hepato-carcinogenesis in experimental animals", “"Search for novel anti-hyperglycemic and anti-hyperlipidemic plant and algal constituents affecting the mediators of insulin resistance in experimental obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus".

Prof. Dr. Rasha Rashad Ahmed Mahmoud research focuses on exploring the toxic effects of some microbes, food additives and nano-materials and the use of stem cells and natural products in treatment of certain diseases such as diabetic wounds, epilepsy, cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, hypo- and hyperthyrodism, Rehumatoid arthritis, liver failure.....etc in different experimentallyinduced models. Moreover, she tested the antitumor activity of actinomycetes on different normal and tumor cell lines and the effect of certain natural products on certain microbe-related diseases.

Email: ishtiaq80262@yahoo.com; mqadery@kau.edu.sa; ishtiaqmq@yahoo.com

Dr. Ishtiaq Qadri completed his PhD from the Imperial College of Science and Technology London UK (1989) and carried out postdoctoral training from the University of California San Francisco, CA and University of Colorado-Denver, CO, US (1989-1994) . He served as faculty in the UC Denver, CO, USA. Currently, he is a Professor at the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Qadri has published over 200 peer reviewed research articles and is the recipient of over 33 international R & D grants covering numerous areas of investigations which were funded from the National Institute of Health USA, American Liver Foundation, Colorado League of Cancer, US-State Dept, Bio-Safety Engagement Program of US, Pasteur Institute of France, KACST, WAQF and DSR, KAU, Jeddah KSA.

Prof. Dr. Ishtiaq Qadri research is focused on the broad areas of Dengue viruses, viral hepatitis and associated hepatocarcinoma. He has also been enthusiastically involved in the study of cellular adaptive responses

Email: marie.dibua@unn.edu.ng; essuju@gmail.com

Prof. Dibua, Uju Marie Esther, is a Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria, with a Ph.D in Medical Microbiology. She has more than 19 years of teaching and research experience in medical, clinical, pharmaceutical Microbiology and ethnomedical research. Her contributions to science have provided insight into some response measures, prevention and control strategies of a number of infectious and non-infectious disease agents. She is an esteemed authority in infectious disease research, including; HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STDs), tuberculosis (TB), diseases of poverty including malaria, filariasis and other parasitic infestations. She was the first in Nsukka to elucidate the predisposing socio-cultural and socio-economic predisposing risk factors to HIV/AIDS, as well as the co-infectivity of HIV and atypical Mycobacteria, and the co-infectivity of HIV and Chlamydia trachomatis. She has successfully supervised over 400 students at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and is a recipient of several national and international awards including the esteemed Third World Academy of Science (TWAS)/ German Research Foundation (DFG) awards, and has numerous high impact factor journals to her credit.

Research interest of Prof. Dr. Uju Marie-Esther Dibua includes infectious disease research, including; HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STDs), tuberculosis (TB), diseases of poverty including malaria, filariasis and other parasitic infestations.

Email: sharmabi@yahoo.com

Dr. Bechan Sharma is presently working as a Professor and Ex-Head, Department of Biochemistry, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India. He has completed his higher education such as B.Sc. (Honours)-1980; M.Sc. (Biochemistry)-1982 and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (1988) from BHU-Varanasi. The areas of his research interest include Molecular Biology of HIV/AIDS, Tropical Diseases (Filariasis/Malaria), Drug design and development and Biochemical Toxicology. He has received number of Awards/ Honors and successfully completed numerous important Academic/ Administrative Assignments. He has thirty years of teaching / research experience. He has carried out several research projects and published over 200 research papers including book chapters, molecular methods in peer reviewed International and National Journals of repute. He has one US patent on HIV-1 genome structure based antiHIV-1 drugs design to his credit. He has supervised 18 PhDs and six PDFs. He is member/life member of several national/international scientific societies and attended numerous symposia/conferences in India and abroad. He is Chief-Editor/Associate Editor/Executive Editor and Member Editorial Board of over 130 peer reviewed International and National Journals. He has been acting as honorary reviewer for over 150 International/National scientific journals. His 4 books have been published by International publishers and 2 are in print. He has worked as a visiting scientist in USA for over three years and visited different labs at Italy, France, Iran, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Germany and Brazil to conduct different collaborative research projects related to Molecular Virology and Drug resistance. Prof. Sharma has been awarded with ICMR’s Senior Scientist Fellowship 2014-15 in Biomedical Sciences under Indo-USA joint research programme to work at NIEHS-NIH,NC, USA with Prof. Samuel Wilson on DNA repair. Recently Prof. Sharma has been included as a member in World Virology Society-Sweden and in an Indo-Japanese research initiative towards eradication of HIV/AIDS in India. Prof. B. Sharma is a Fellow of Academy of Environmental Biology (AEB) and Bioved Research Society (BRS).

The areas of Dr. Bechan Sharma research interest include Molecular Biology of HIV/AIDS, Tropical Diseases (Filariasis/Malaria), Drug design and development and Biochemical Toxicology

Email: zhaobin835@nwafu.edu.cn; zhaobin835@126.com

Prof. Bin Zhao, Professor of College of Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, is an internationally renowned scientist and a well known distinguished academician with 260 publications and 9 books. He is associated as Editor and Member of many online journals. He has constructed virtual placenta for understanding the placental interactions between mother and fetus by in-silico. He aimed to develop mathematical models with important physiological parameters involving immune response for antibody rhythms by using the circadian, infradian and ultradian rhythms of IgY antibody from his earlier experimental findings. His present study is designed with microbiology.

Prof. Bin Zhao's Research interets are Epidemiology of zoonoses, Medical microbiology, Ecology of mycotic pathogens

Email: nsofang2008@yahoo.com; edwardokey@aksu.edu.ng

Dr. Edward Ntui Okey, a Professor of Plant Science is an international scholar haven schooled and taught in Universities within and outside Nigeria. He is accredited with 31 publications and 2 books. He has supervised over 10 MSc and PhD students in Nigeria. He established the role of Peroxidase, Polyphenoloxidase and Phenylalanine Ammonia-lyase in Phytophthora canker resistance in Cocoa. Prof Okey is also accredited with identifying salicylic acid as a majorfactor in the resistance of cacao to Phytophthora palmivora. His reports on the use of plant extracts in the control of a number of crop (Manihot esculentus, Citrus sinences, Capsicum chinensis, Diascorea sp etc) have contributed immensely to the management of microbial diseases on these crops in the Southern part of Nigeria. Prof Okey also developed an optimization protocol for the production of biodiesel from nonedible seeds of Delonix negra. As Dean of Faculty, He was developed Science curriculum in the Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences, Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeria. Prof Okey is a community developer. He is the founder and President of the Caribbean African Association of Barbados, a non-profit, non- governmental organization with the objectives of developing strong and sustainable linkages between African and the Caribbean in the areas of Education, Trade and Culture. In 2004 he was honored as “EXAMPLER“ for the principle of Umoja (Unity) by the Government of Barbados.

Prof Okey research interest is Pharmacognosy which deals with the use of natural products in the control of fungal and bacterial diseases of plants and animals.

Email: almazini95@gmail.com

Academic researcher at ministry of education /republic of Iraq since 2007. Medical Microbiologist and taught of biology at high school . he has Bachelor degree of Life Sciences (Microbiology) university of Basra/Iraq (2003-2004).He has master degree in Microbiology (Medical Mycology) university of Basra/Iraq in (2013) and PhD Medical Microbiology university of Basra/Iraq and Chongqing Normal university/China (2017). He is member of the Iraqi Society of Molecular Genetics. He holds a research fellowship at Chongqing Normal University/China in 2016. Lecturer in the college of Science, University of Basra for the practical immunity and microbiology during the years from 2014 to 2015. Holds a patent in 2017 from the Iraqi ministry of planning. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Education. He has supervised 15 researches in microbiology, immunology, molecular genetics and pathology.

Dr. Mazin Saleem Research interets are microbiology, Public Health, Medical microbiology, Epidemiology, Diagnosis of fungal infections, mycology and genetic diagnosis of disease.

Email: starafder2007@yahoo.com; starafder2007@bsmmu.edu.bd; starafder2018@gmail.com

Dr. Shirin Tarafder is Professor of Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Bangladesh, strong professional with a Master of Philosophy in Medical Microbiology from Institute of Postgraduate Medicine and Research. She is an experienced teacher of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and teaches Medical Immunology, Molecular biology, Mycology and Bacteriology for more than 30 years. Her other expertise is conduction, management and supervision of research project; supervision and guide of thesis and dissertations of postgraduate courses. Prof. Tarafder’s expertise is on Clinical Immunology and Molecular biology . She launched Flow cytometry immunophenotypic diagnosis of Leukemia, Lymphoma, Primary immunodeficiency disorders (PID), Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) for the first time in Bangladesh. She is working in collaboration for autologous stem cell therapy; also working on application of different types of PCR to see the chromosomal abnormalities in different diseases. Professor Tarafder is working in collaboration with Coordinated Research Project of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease by ApoE genotyping . She has done advanced researches on Tuberculosis : Diagnosis of MTB from sputum sample by LAMP assay ; Detection of MDR-TB, Pre-XDR-TB and XDR-TB by Multiplex Real time PCR ; Detection of different strains of MTB by 24 loci MIRU-VNTR analysis in MDR-TB, Pre-XDR-TB and XDR-TB patients. Her other researches are on Rickettsiae, Legionela, Toxoplasma etc. She has published over 31 articles in peer-reviewed reputed International and national medical journals. She also has international affiliations. She is Member of Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE), Editorial board member and Reviewer of many reputed international medical journals. Prof. Tarafder attended international conferences as speaker.

Prof. Shirin Tarafder’s current Research interests are on Flow cytometry immunophenotypic diagnosis of Lymphoma, Leukemia, Primary immunodeficiency disordres ; Stem cell ; Cytogenetic studies; advance researches on Tuberculosis .

Email: maria.llobatbordes@uchceu.es; lolallobat@hotmail.com

Dr. Llobat obtained a degree in biology at the University of Valencia (2003) to subsequently obtain the "Master of Science in Animal Breeding and Reproduction Biotechnology" by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2009), where he completed his PhD obtaining the qualification of outstanding Cum Laude in his doctoral thesis (2012). Subsequently, he completed two years of postdoctoral stay at the Center for Biological Research (CSIC). He has published several scientific articles and has participated through a large number of communications in national and international conferences. He held the position of Head of the Scientific Area of the Sanitary Research Institute La Fe. Since 2016, she has collaborated with the European Union as an expert evaluator of research projects within the H2020 program. Currently, she is a professor of genetics at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the UCH-CEU and is part of the research group on Pathophysiology of Reproduction. She is associated as Editor and Member of many online journals

Prof Lola Llobat research interests are Veterinary Health, Genetics (quantitative, population and molecular) applied to the pathology (microbiological, mainly) and Reproduction in all species

Email: ng.hay@hcmuaf.edu.vn

Prof. Nguyen Hay, who is currently working for the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Nong Lam University – Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has been recognized as a well-known researcher in the agricultural engineering field with more than 90 publications on reputable journals and conferences, and 5 books. He has served in the editorial board of several local and international journals. He has also organized and chaired many international conferences, which are in cooperation with University of California, Davis-US, University of Queensland-Australia and many other prestigious universities, on some important issues in the world including sustainable agriculture and environment, advanced plasma technology and applications – agriculture and biotechnology by plasma, agricultural and bio-system engineering. Prof. Hay supervised over 70 students at master and PhD level. He has got many leading projects from both Vietnamese government and international institutions; and has achieved a substantial number of research awards. He is also a member of several state organizations regarding the field of agricultural engineering. Prof. Hay has attended many training courses in agricultural engineering in many foreign countries. Throughout his research career, he has built up the relationship with a huge number of international scholars and universities around the world. His typical studies are Study on Designing and Manufacturing a Radio-Frequency Generator Used in Drying Technology and Efficiency of a Radio Frequency-Assisted Heat Pump Dryer in Drying of Ganoderma Lucidum; Thermal Diffusivity, Moisture Diffusivity, and Color Change of Codonopsis Javanica with the Support of the Ultrasound for Drying; and Effects of different drying techniques on drying characteristics and quality of dried Moringa Oleifera leaves.

Research Interests of Prof. Dr. Hay Nguyen are Agricultural Product – Food Processing and Preservation Engineering (post-harvest technology: drying of agricultural, forestry, aquatic products and herbal medicine). AI, digital technology application in agricultural, industrial production. Agricultural Engineering. Heat and Refrigeration Engineering – Technology

Email: tcv_bt@vignan.ac.in; venki_biotech327@yahoo.com

Prof. T.C.Venkateswarulu is serving as Professor & Deputy Head, Department of Bio-Technology, Vignan’s Foundation for Science Technology & Research (Deemed to be University), Andhra Pradesh, India. He is an expert in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioprocess Optimization and is also a known academician. He published 60 research articles in International and National journals and Co-edited 01 book. He guided 50 students at B.Tech, M.Tech. and Ph.D level in India. He received the ‘Young Scientist Award’ from Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences and also received the certificate of outstanding performance from the governance of Vignan’s Foundation for Science Technology & Research (Deemed to be University). He served as Reviewer for reputed journals and also received the outstanding reviewing award certificate from Elsevier.

Prof. T.C. Venkateswarulu, Research interests are Bioprocess optimization, production of enzymes and probiotics, Identification and characterization of bioactive molecules.

Email: rqari2002@yahoo.com; rashidaqari.bukc@bahria.edu.pk

Dr. Rashida Qari, Professor, Bahria University, Karachi Campus, Pakistan from November 2018 to date, Dr. Qari was the Director of Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Karachi, Pakistan from April 2010 to 2018, has thirty two years teaching and Research experience as Marine Scientist, Above fifty research publications, Most of them are published in different peer review journals, Three monograph are under preparation, Eighty popular scientific articles published in daily newspaper (Jang, Hurriat and Jisarat) and monthly magazine (Science Digest, Shabistan, Jadeed Science, Baqai Sahat) and twenty Islamic articles published in daily newspaper (Jang and Hurriat) and monthly magazine (Mahrab- Member, Turjuman Ahla Sunnat, Mehromah and Ilham), fully Contribute and participate in preparation of BS 4-years and MS/Ph.D curriculum of Marine Science, Editorial Advisory Board member of Acta Scientific Microbiology Journal, India August 2018 to date: Journal of Environmental Research and Development, India” 2010 to 2012; Journal of Science, University of Karachi from 2016 to 2018, Botanica, Magazine of Botany Department University of Karachi (1981), Associated with different organizations and Societies, Life Time Member of Society of Economic Geologists and Mineral Technologists (SEGMITE), All Pakistan Association of Oceaners, Alumnae , University of Karachi; Reviewer board member of “Journal of shipping and ocean engineering” Dec 2013 to Date and Pakistan Aquaculture and Fisheries Society, Member Executive of Karachi University Officers Welfare Association (1998-1999), Principal investigator of Six marine project, Many research honarium achieved, many courses of Biology, Marine Sciences and Marine Biology taught, Above two hundred International and national conferences attended and participated. Providing continuous support in identifying marine resource and issues especially marine pollution.

Dr. Qari research interests are Marine Science, Marine Chemistry, Marine Pollution and Marine Environment

Email: reddysir4861@gmail.com

Prof. (Dr.) K. Rajeshwar Reddy is a dynamic, modern and new generation microbiologist, with an innate creative interest towards biochemistry. At present he is serving Universal College of Medical Sciences, Bhairahawa, Nepal as a Professor and Head of the Department of Microbiology and possesses 32 years of continuous teaching experience in teaching Microbiology to MBBS, BDS, Nursing, Public health, Pharmacy, and Medical Laboratory technicians. He has done Master’s Degree in Medical Microbiology from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka. He obtained his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana State, for his research on “Dermatophytoses and Antifungal Susceptibility Studies”. He has obtained his Master’s degree in Education (M.Ed) from Karnataka State Open University and been awarded Gold Medal for obtaining state first rank. He has done research on “Attitudes of MBBS students towards Medical Profession”, an area pertaining to the field of Medical Education. He has been the Chairman of Research & Publications Committee and Faculty Development program at Gandaki Medical College, Pokhara, Nepal. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Gandaki Medical College-Nepal (J-GMC-N) and currently the Associate Chief Editor of Journal of Universal College of Medical Sciences (J-UCMS). In addition, he is also the of Editorial Board member of indexed journals ‘Annals of Pathology and Internal Medicine (APALM)’ and ‘Annals of Applied Biosciences’ published from New Delhi, India.

Research Interest of Prof. Dr. Rajeshwar Reddy are Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry

Email: dr.salehrabeh@hotmail.com

Dr. Saleh A. Rabeh Professor of Microbiology in National Institute of Oceanography &Fisheries(NIOF),Egypt, is an internationally renowned scientist and a well -known distinguished academician with 44 publications and some chapters in the international books. He received his BSc.(1987), MSc.(1993) and Ph.D.(1996) degrees from Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt. He is associated as Editor and Member of many online journals. Prof. Rabeh supervised some MSc. and Ph.D. students at different Universities in Egypt. He has achieved research experiences throw some projects in field of Microbial Ecology and Biotechnology. He has launched the under graduate programme of Biology for first time in College of Sciences, Jouf University, KSA. Very recently, he became the head of Lake and Freshwater Division in NIOF, Egypt.

Prof. Dr. Saleh Ahmed Rabeh Ibrahim has achieved research experiences throw some projects in field of Microbial Ecology and Biotechnology

Email: ghazarpa@yahoo.com; ghazarpa@mail.ru

Prof. Petros Ghzaryan, Scientific director of Armenian Hematology Center, Head of the Department of Chemistry and Medical Biochemistry of “Haybusak” University, RA., is a prominent scientist and honored academician with more than 470 publications and two textbooks and monographs. He is a deputy editor of the journal “Blood” (since 2005), editor-in-response of “Pharma” (since 2010). He is the Editor and member of many online journals. Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Academician of International Ecological Academy, Academician of the Academies of Natural Sciences (2008), Academician of Medical –Technical Sciences of Russian Federation (2009), Academician of the European Natural Sciences (2010), Member of the American Association of Chemists, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and etc., Professor Ghazaryan developed and proposed methods for hemoblastosis diagnosis. “Petamcin A” antifungal drug is a medicine created by him and implemented in practice now.

Prof. Petros Ghazaryan research interests are Medical biochemistry, Microbiology and Hematology.

Email: amitbansal2010@gmail.com; amit.bansal@live.mercer.edu

Prof. Dr. Amit Bansal has completed his MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Temple University and PhD at Mercer University, School of Pharmacy and currently working at Perrigo, USA. His research work at Mercer University is focused on the development and evaluation of nanoparticulate vaccine as delivery vehicle thereby, achieving sustained release of the vaccine with the aid of biodegradable polymers. He has prior research experience in the formulation development of immediate and modified release dosage forms, chemical modification of polymers and on the permeability of anticancer drugs across blood brain barrier (BBB). He has published 4 first authored research papers, a short mini review, and has been the co-author of one review article and two book chapters.

Solid Oral Dosage Form, Vaccine Formulation, Polymer Chemistry, Solid Dispersion, Blood Brain Barrier Permeability

Email: gyans.shekhawat@gmail.com; gyans34@yahoo.com

Prof. (Dr.) G.S. Shekhawat’s research involves various aspects related to Plant Biotechnology, molecular biology and stress physiology. He also studies biochemical aspects of medicinal and aromatic plant species and there in vitro propagation and conservation, specifically rare and endangered plants of Indian Thar Desert. Prof. Shekhawat completed his PhD from University of Rajasthan, and since then continuously engaged in research; initially started as a CSIR Post Doc Fellow, BOYSCAST fellowship and worked at University of South Florida, USA. Dr Shekhawat has also been awarded by INSA International Exchange Fellowship, Young Research Award, Professor YS Murthy Gold medal award by Indian Botanical Society. He has also completed several research projects funded by several national and international funding agencies. Prof. Shekhawat has published several books and more than 65 research papers/articles in journal of international repute. Presently Prof (Dr.) Gyan Singh Shekhawat is working on Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), Nitric oxide (NO) signaling in plants and in vitro production of medicinally potent metabolites

Plant Biotechnology, Stress Physiology, Secondary Metabolites, Nano-Biotechnology

Email: abdelazeem.algammal@gmail.com; immunologist222@yahoo.com

Prof. Dr. Abdelazeem Mohamed Algammal works as Associate Professor of Bacteriology, Immunology and Mycology. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt. He is an expert and has many international publications in the fields of Molecular biology, Microbiology and Immunology. He had completed his Ph.D. about "Molecular typing of exotoxins genes in S. aureus isolates". He is a certified Entrepreneurship trainer from the International Labor Organization as well as a trainee at the One Health Training Program at Duke Health Institute, Duke University, NC, USA. He is a scientific reviewer at many international high ranked journals such as; Phytotherapy Research, Journal of Applied Microbiology, letters in Applied Microbiology, Medical Science Monitor, Journal of Apicultural Research, and Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

Molecular biology, Bacteriology, Immunology, Mycology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Antimicrobial resistance.

Email: jpngbolua@unikin.ac.cd; ngbolua@gmail.com

Dr Koto-te-Nyiwa Ngbolua is Full Professor of Molecular biology and Biochemistry at the University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is the Rector of the University of Gbado-Lite (Nord-Ubangi Province) in Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Molecular sciences-Ethnopharmacology-Biodiversity

Email: sherinmahfouze@yahoo.com; sherryamin.sa @gmail.com

Sherin Amin Mahfouze is Professor in Genetics and Cytology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Division, National Research Centre from 2006 to now. Sheobtained a M.Sc degree in 2003 in Plant virology from Ain Shams University and a Ph.D degree in Plant Virology in 2009 from Ain Shams University. She obtained on a Postdoctoral grant in University of Delhi, South Campus, India. Also, she has attended several international conferences symposium and workshops in Portugal, Germany, China, India, Hungary, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt. She is a member of the editorial board of five international journals. He has also served as editor for an international book project entitled (Outline of Biotechnology) and (Plant virus and its relationship to humans) and published by Lap Lambert Academic. She also serves as a reviewer for 25 international journals. In addition, she serves as referee for international projects. She member in international and national scientific committees. She obtained on awards from National Research Centre, She has supervised M.Sc and Ph.D theses.

Plant viruses, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Genetic Engineering

Email: sufianzaheer@gmail.com; sufian.zaheer@gov.in

I am currently working as Professor, at VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital. I am MD in Pathology with a keen interest in Academic and Research work since my early school days. Since my early days in Medical school, I am actively involved in research. I am MBBS and MD in Pathology, from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, India. I am actively involved in research work, which include various aspects of tumor Pathology and patho-physiology of various infectious and non-infectious diseases. I have attended several national and international conferences and have quite a few research publications to my credit (108 Publications). . My expertise includes strong technical skills in Histopathology, Cytopathology, Frozen Section, Immunohistochemistry, ELIZA, PCR, FISH, Flow Cytometry etc. . I am also very keen in research work and data evaluation. I also have sound knowledge of computers

Histopathology, Cytopathology, Infectious Pathology

Email: ekladiou@hotmail.com; adel.ekladious@nt.gov.au

Professor Ekladious is a senior consultant in general and acute medicine , He is an international examiner for the Royal College of Physician in Ireland and Local examiner for the Australasian college of Physician, he published widely in BMJ and IGM RACP ,he was involved in providing recent guidelines for acute assessment unit for few hospital in Australia , he also introduced the interdisciplinary medical round for complex medical problems in UWA

stroke, chronic hepatitis, general neurology, general hepatology, pulmonary hypertension, hepato pulmonary syndrome , Porto pulmonary hypertension, rare diseases

Email: narendra.r.chopra@gmail.com; narendrachopra@segi.edu.my

Narendra Kumar Chopra has completed his master’s degree M. D Internal Medicine from “Maharaja Sayajee Rao University” Baroda, India in the year 1986.Subsequently he has completed his Fellowship in Tropical Medicine from Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene London (U. K) in the year 1989.He was also awarded WHO Fellowship in the year 1990 in Leprosy, infectious diseases in countries of South East Asia &Africa. He has also received young scientist Melville Christian Memorial Award and Gold medal at national level in the year 1995 for research in the field of leprosy. He was also awarded Rastriya Gaurav Award by Vice President of India in the year 2002 for outstandind contribution in the field of Infectious diseases. He was also selected in the team by World Health organization for action program for elimination of leprosy in the year 2003.He has published more than 40 research papers in peer reviewed national &International journals. He had worked as Associate Professor and Head Medicine in AIMST University in Bedong Kedah State Malaysia from May 2013 to May 2015. Presently he is working as Clinical Professor and infectious diseases Consultant in the Faculty of Medicine SEGI University, Clinical Campus, Hospital Sibu (Sarawak State) Malaysia since January 2016.He is also actively involved as Editorial Board of Journal; of Human Virology & Retrovirology from USA and in Editorial Board of “International Journal of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Open Access Peer Reviewed International Journals. He had given keynote talk on: “Study of HIV status in 400 STD cases” in the 8th Edition International Conference on Infectious Diseases organized by EuriSciCon London (U.K) held in London from 7& 8 June 2018. He was Moderator and had keynote address on “Past Present & Future Status of HIV/AIDS global pandemic problem in the world” in 12th Edition International Conference on Infectious Diseases held at Rome Italy23&24 April 2019.My field of interest is “New emerging Infectious diseases COVID 19, Zika, Ebola, HIV & AIDS. He is also editorial board member of CPQ Medicine, “Advances in Infectious Diseases & Therapy U.S. A and “ MEC International Journal of Clinical Case Studies & Reports” from London U.K

Infectious Diseases: HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, COVID-19, pneumonia, influenza Leptospirosis, dengue fever, malaria, melioidosis, Zika and sexually transmitted diseases

Email: hahemaid@yahoo.com; Info@drc.gov.eg

Hemaid I. A. Soliman is Professor in molecular genetics, graduated from Genetics and Genetic engineering department, Zagazig University, Egypt in 1993. He worked for Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI), Egypt from 1993-2000 and the Genetics and Crop Plant Research Center IPK- gatersleben-Germany from 2001-2003 date. From 2004- 2007 he worked in Molecular plant virology Lab. at Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI), Egypt, Since 2007, he became the researcher and Head of Tissue Culture and Biotechnology Center of Desert Research Center (DRC), Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Egypt. Now he has published more than 30 international papers, he has received numerous awards; in 2007 for the best Ph.D. nominated by the Egyptian Genetics Association, in 2010 for the use of biotechnological studies and tissue culture in raising the productivity of horticultural crops with special emphasis on fig, banana , tomato, medicinal and aromatic plants, in 2012 for the best study carried out on fig (ficus carica L) for that year nominated by the International Information Technology, in 2013 for the best research study on apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) for African Journal of Biotechnology.

Plant Genetic Resources

Email: abdelalem2011@yahoo.com; abdelalem2011@gmail.com; abdelalem2011@agr.sohag.edu.eg

B.Sc. in Plant Protection, 2002, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt 3. M.Sc. in Agriculture science, 2007, Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt Ph.D in Plant Protection (Economic Entomology), 2011, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt. PH.D. title: “Studies on Certain Ectoparasites Associated with Some Farm Animals and their Control Professor of Agricultural Zoology Assistant in Plant Protection Department), Faculty of Agriculture, New Campus (ElKawamel), Sohag University, New Sohag City, Sohag,, Egypt 23/1/2017

Agricultural Zoology

Email: rkupadhya@yahoo.com

Prof. Ravi Kant Upadhyay completed Ph D degree in Insect Biochemistry Research on the Topic "Cholesterol absorption in locusts" in Dec. 1997 from University of Delhi under joint registration with National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi. 110067. His thrust area of research is cholesterol metabolism in insects, mainly role of cholesterol binding proteins in cholesterol transport and absorption. At present he is working on purification of animal toxins, its toxicity determination and neutralization by using polyclonal antibodies in animal models since last 20 years. Seven students have been awarded Ph. D under his supervision. Seven more students are doing their research work for obtaining Ph. D degree working in different areas of interest i.e. control of garden and forest termites by using different plant based formulations; purification of animal toxins and production of polyclonal antibodies and evaluation of antimicrobial action of plant natural products in vitro cultures. At present he is working in the capacity of Professor in Department of Zoology, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, and Gorakhpur and providing his services regularly since 2001. His academic capabilities can be well gauged by the more than 177 international publications covering 58 different international journals and 3 book chapters, delivered more than 27 invited lectures at seminars and conferences. He has collaborations and interactions with distinguished academicians, experts and leaders in scientific research. He has successfully completed three research projects sponsored by different Government agencies. UGC sponsored major research project “Production of polyclonal antibodies against animal toxins by using natural and synthetic toxin peptides”. CSIR sponsored major research project “Characterization and immunocytochemical localization of cholesterol binding proteins”. UGC sponsored major research “Antibacterial and antifungal activity of certain plant essential oils and their major constituents against drug resistant pathogens. Presently, he is on editorial board member of more than 94 international journals, and editor in chief of one journal. He is assisting international scientific community in creative writing and involved in production of high quality research papers. He is also subject expert for designing U.P. state syllabus for U.G. and P. G. classes under NEP.

Immunology, Biochemistry and control of pathogens and insects by using natural products

Email: hcvural@gmail.com;hvural@erbakan.edu.tr

Prof. Hasibe VURAL Born in Konya, Turkey, in 1972. Graduated (master and PhD) in Molecular Biology at Institu of Gebze High Technology University and TUBITAK-MAM GMBAE in Kocaeli, Turkey. Full Assis.Prof.Dr. at Selcuk University, Hasibe Cingilli VURAL. Main research topics are: Studies on synthesis and characterization of DNA ligands and vectors, on G-quadruplex interactive compounds as telomerase inhibitors, on new lipids and liposomes, molecular modeling for drug design and plant, animal or human, microorganism, tissue, blood, hair, forensics etc. and organic materials isolated from archaeologic remains. Furthermore, mDNA, mtDNA, RNA, protein anda DNA studies etc. Spectroscopic studies of the interactions between the synthesized ligands and different DNA structures. In Environmental Chemistry: new techniques for the characterization of atmospheric particulate matter, detection of PCB-carboxylic acids in seawater, new methods for the inertization of hazardous waste products. Her current research interests include pattern recognition in forensics, biology, molecular biology, archaeometry, pharmaceuticals, medicine, environment and using data obtained from chromatography, spectrophotometric analysis, electrophorosis, RT-PCR, DNA and protein sequence analysis and biopharmaceutical and food analysis. Currently, She is manager in the Archaemetry and Biotechnology Labrotory

Research interests are Molecular Biology, Cell Molecular Biology , Genetics Recombinant , Recombinant DNA Technology, Molecular Genetic, Cancer Molecular Biology, Gene Expression

Email: reddy4861@gmail.com; depmicrobiology@ucmc.com.np

Prof. (Dr.) K. Rajeshwar Reddy is a dynamic, modern and new generation microbiologist, with an innate creative interest towards biochemistry. At present he is serving Universal College of Medical Sciences, Bhairahawa, Nepal as a Professor and Head of the Department of Microbiology and possesses 33 years of continuous teaching experience in teaching Microbiology to MBBS, BDS, Nursing, Public health, Pharmacy, and Medical Laboratory technicians. He has done Master’s Degree in Medical Microbiology from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka. He obtained his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana State, for his research on “Dermatophytoses and Antifungal Susceptibility Studies”. He has obtained his Master’s degree in Education (M.Ed) from Karnataka State Open University and been awarded Gold Medal for obtaining state first rank. He has done research on “Attitudes of MBBS students towards Medical Profession”, an area pertaining to the field of Medical Education. He has been the Chairman of Research & Publications Committee and Faculty Development program at Gandaki Medical College, Pokhara, Nepal. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Gandaki Medical College-Nepal (J-GMC-N) and currently the Associate Chief Editor of Journal of Universal College of Medical Sciences (J-UCMS). In addition, he is also the of Editorial Board member of indexed journals “Journal of Infectious diseases & Microbiology”, ‘Journal of Clinical Immunology & Microbiology’, ‘Annals of Pathology and Internal Medicine (APALM)’ and ‘Annals of Applied Biosciences’ published from New Delhi, India, and Editor-in-Chief of ‘European Medical Journal (EMJ) of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases’ published from London, UK. He is an author of nine text books in the field of Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry. He has several research publications in the field of Medical Microbiology and Medical Education, published in reputed indexed Journals. In addition, he has written several Editorial Articles published in Journal of Gandaki Medical College-Nepal (J-GMC-N), and Journal of Universal College of Medical Sciences (J-UCMS).

Bacteriology, Immunology, Virology, Mycology

Email: mykola@twarda.pan.pl

prof. Mykola Ovcharenko is a professor of Biology at the Pomeranian University, Slupsk, Poland and prof. of Parasitology at Institute of Parasitology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. He received her B.S. from Kiev State University and her Doctor degree from Institute of Zoology Academy of Sciences Az SSR, before eventually becoming scientist at Institute of Hydrobiology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kiev. After ten-year career as a research scientist there, Dr. Ovcharenko becomes scientist position at Institute of Parasitology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He returned to Kiev In 1997 where he was accepted a senior research scientist at Institute of Hydrobiology and (from 2003) Institute of Zoology, Kiev, Ukraine After obtaining of Habilitate Doctor Degree in W. Stefański Institute of Parasitology PAS Dr. Ovcharenko returned to Poland where she accepted a tenure positions at Institute of Parasitology and Pomeranian University. In addition to teaching dr Ovcharenko is a regular contributor to research projects and supervisor of young scientist’s. He currently works with his team on parasitological consequences of biological invasions of hydrobionts. Dr. Ovcharenko resides in Slupsk, Poland.

His research has focused primarily on understanding the role of microparasites in colonization of water resources by alien species. He is also investigate the morphology and ultrastructure of microsporidia, myxosporidia and other organisms previously classified as Protozoa. Comparative studies of the results of molecular diagnostics and classical methods of research are the priority areas of his recent research

Email: azam.bolhassani@yahoo.com; A_bolhasani@pasteur.ac.ir

Azam Bolhassani is a Professor at Department of Hepatitis and AIDS, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran. Her special topic focused on vaccine development against viral diseases (e.g., HPV, HIV and HCV infections) such as DNA vaccine, protein/peptide vaccine, live vaccine, VLP vaccine and cell-based vaccine. The use of immunotherapy and chemotherapy against HPV-related cancer or other viral infections, and also improvement of vaccination strategies using different adjuvants and delivery systems especially heat shock proteins, nuclear proteins and cell penetrating peptides are her interests and activities in recent years. She has over 150 peer-reviewed publications.

Vaccine design against HIV, HCV and HPV infections; Immunotherapy and chemotherapy; Delivery system and Nanoparticles; Adjuvants

Email: duarte.phe@gmail.com; phelipe.duarte@kroton.com.br

Professor at the Universidade de Cuiabá, campus Primavera do Leste/MT. Veterinarian from the Universidade da Região da Campanha (URCAMP), campus Alegrete/RS, specializing in Health Surveillance, and One Health: Animal, Human and Environmental, both from the Centro Universitário Internacional (UNINTER). Currently, he is master's student at the Post-Graduate Program in Animal Bioscience (PPGBA) of the Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), in the area of Morphophysiology, Animal, Human and Environmental Health, and a line of research in One Health. He has experience in the field of veterinary medicine, with an emphasis on preventive veterinary medicine, one health, animal health and microbiology.

Virology, Microbiology, Veterinary; Zoonoses

Email: kh_timotius@ukrida.ac.id

Professor in Microbiology and Biochemistry, and PhytoMedicine and Graduated from GÓ§ttingen University, Germany (Dr.rer.nat. Microbiology, Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry)

Antimicrobial, antibiofilm, antiqourum sensing, antienzymes, skin microbiome, gut microbiome, plasmid, gene polymorphisms, extrachromosomal DNA, microbe interaction

Email: ravichandran.23324@lpu.co.in

Dr. S. Ravichandran is currently working as Professor in Department of Chemistry at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab(INDIA). He completed his Ph.D. in 2006 from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai (Tamilnadu) and M.Sc. from Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. He has qualified in GATE with a score of 95 percentile conducted by Ministry of Human Research and Development in the year 1998. He has 17 years of Research experience and published 121 International papers. He has published 5 Textbooks and received Bharat Shiksha and Life Time Education Excellence National awards from Global society in New Delhi. His area of research work are: Synthesis of Mannich and Schiff bases with metal ions like Cu(II), Co(II), Ni(II) and Zn (II). Structural characterization using spectroscopic techniques like UV-Vis., IR, 1H NMR, CV, Chromatography and EPR. His current interest is to focus on the development of novel greener methodology for a Sustainable Development.

Green Chemistry, Environmental Science, Coordination Chemistry, Bio-inorganic Chemistry

Email: fowzy_2008@yahoo.com

Prof. Montaser F Abdel-Monaim Chief Researcher (Prof Dr.) Plant Pathology Research Institute - Agricultural Research Center from 26/6/2019 until now. More than 46 research papers in the field of pesticide alternatives in the control of plant diseases have been published in high impact journals Attending more than 15 international conferences in the field of plant diseases and agriculture Member of several editorial boards of international journals

Rsearch interests are Plant Pathology , Fungal Diseases , Bacterial Diseases , Induce Resistance , Biological control

Email: ahmadiqbal8@yahoo.co.in; Iazilli786@gmail.com

prof. Iqbal Ahmad is a senior Professor at the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, India. He graduated from Aligarh Muslim University and worked at the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow (1989-1994) for his doctoral thesis. He later joined The Himalaya Drug Company, New Delhi as a Research scientist. He has played a pioneer role in framing academic curriculum and research in the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, AMU since 1995 till date. He has also been associated with Department of Biology, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al- Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as Visiting Professor in the year 2016 and 2020. In addition to his departmental responsibility he is also Coordinating the Undergraduate, B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture and Post graduate, MSc (Ag) Agronomy programmes at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, AMU, Aligarh.

His major works are in the area of Applied Microbiology, Environmental and Agricultural aspects of Microbial diversity and bio-prospection and also includes Microbial Ecology, AMR, Quorum sensing, Biofilms based PGPR, Mixed biofilms and use of natural and synthetic products including nanoparticle as anti-infective agents.

Email: ao_adejuwon@yahoo.ca; info@atibauniversity.edu.ng

Distinguished Research Professor Adekunle Odunayo Adejuwon, Ph.D., D.Sc. h.c.; M.D. h.c.; NAS; Past RAS : Distinguished Research Professor Adekunle Odunayo Adejuwon, Ph.D., D.Sc. (honoris causa), M.D. (honoris causa), NAS; Past RAS is a Professor of Microbiology (Microbial Physiology and Metabolism – Microbial Enzymology) and Honorary Doctor of Medicine. He is a Distinguished Research Professor with Dr. V.A. Tsygankova, Ph.D., Sci.Dr. (Member, the National Academy of the Sciences of Ukraine), V.P. Kukhar Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of the National Academy of the Sciences (NAS) of Ukraine, Ukraine, East Europe. He is an Expert Reviewer and International Referee with the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU). He is also Member, European Science Foundation (ESF) of the European Union (EU). Professor Adejuwon is a Biomarker Expert. He is a National Consultant for UNICEF at Kiev, Ukraine, East Europe. He is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO)/The United Nations (UN) Volunteer (UNV) Team. Professor Adejuwon is a Research Professor and Expert at Onfrontiers, New York, USA and Expert Research Consultant at Lynx Global, United States of America. He was a Research Professor and Collaborator with Professor Marina Donova, Ph.D., D.Sci. of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Professor Adejuwon is a member of the following academic bodies: Life Member of the British Mycological Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Phytopathological Society, the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (Societas Physiologiae Plantarum Scandinavica), the American Chemical Society and the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He is an affiliate member of: BIOBIO SEURA Societas Biochemica, Biophysica et Microbiologica Fenniae, The Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS), The Belgian Society for Microbiology, The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) and The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria. Professor Adejuwon is an editorial board member of a number of academic journals. He has attended and contributed to scores of conferences, seminars, workshops and webinars

Research Interests: Microbial Enzymology, Antibiotics, Medicinal Plants Research

Email: hasnia.ziar@univ-mosta.dz; hasnia_hasni@yahoo.fr

Prof. Hasnia ZIAR has been working at the Department of Food Science at the University of Mostaganem since 2007. (Algeria). In 2015, she earned a PhD in Human Nutrition from the University of Mostaganem. She has been a full professor since December 8th, 2022. Prof. ZIAR has extensive research experience with human-derived beneficial bacteria such as lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria. Her research interests include the bioavailability of probiotics and post-probiotics as functional molecules in human anti-obesity, anti-allergy, and anti-inflammatory therapies.

Research interests are: Lctic Acid Bacteria; Synbiotics, Prebiotics; Probiotic Bacteria; Human milk microbiota; Food Microbiology and Safety; Nutrition and Dietetics

Email: abhishek10209@davuniversity.org; sunny_0999walia@yahoo.co.in

Dr. Abhishek Walia is currently working as an Assistant Professor cum Coordinator in the Department of Microbiology. He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D in Microbiology from Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni, Solan (HP). He got Inspire Fellowship from DST, Govt. of India and Gold Medal awarded by Himotkarsh Sahitya Sanskriti Avam Jan-Kalyan Parishad, Una. He published 40 research articles including review articles and book chapter of international repute in peer reviewed journals like Springer, Willey, Hindawi, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis etc.

The field of Industrial and Environmental Microbiology particularly in the area of extracellular enzyme production for application in various industries and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria and biocontrol agent for the plant growth promotion and biocontrol against phytopathogenic fungi.

Email: ajar@eternaluniversity.edu.in; ajarbiotech@gmail.com

Dr. Ajar Nath Yadav is currently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Akal College of Agriculture, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. He obtained his doctorate degree in Science (Microbial Biotechnology) in 2016, jointly from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India. He has made pioneering contributions in the area of Microbial Biotechnology; Microbial Biodiversity; Microbial Ecology; Plant-Microbes Interaction; Agricultural Microbiology; Environmental Microbiology and Beneficial Probiotic Microbes for agriculture and Human Health. In his credit 61 Publications [28 Research papers, 09 Review articles, 14 Book chapters, 06 Popular articles, 01 Patent and 02 Technical reports] in different reputed international, national journals and publishers with 439 Citation, h-index-12 and i10-index 16 (Google Scholar). He has published 84 abstracts in different conferences/symposiums/workshops. He has presented 16 papers presentation in national and international conferences/symposiums and got 06 best paper presentations Award, including Young Scientist Award (NASI-Swarna Jyanti Purskar). He has contributed in organizing 06 conference/workshops. In his credit >6300 microbes (Archaea, bacteria and fungi) isolated from diverse sources and >500 potential and efficient microbes deposited at culture collection National Bureau of Agricultural research Institute, Mau. He has deposited 2386 nucleotide sequences to NCBI GenBank databases: in public domain. Niche-specific microbes from extreme environments were reported as specific bio-inoculants (Biofertilizers) for crops growing in normal and diverse abiotic stress conditions. Dr. Yadav and group have developed technology for screening of archaea for phosphorus solubilization for the first time. He is Editor/associate editor/reviewer of different international/national journals including Nature-Scientific Reports, Microbial Ecology; Plos One, Frontier in Microbiology, EC Microbiology, Springer plus, Annals of Microbiology, Advance in Microbiology and Biotechnology. He has lifetime membership of Association of microbiologist in India, Indian Science Congress Council, India and National Academy of Sciences, India.

Microbial Biotechnology; Microbial Biodiversity; Microbial Ecology; Plant-Microbes Interaction; Agricultural Microbiology; Environmental Microbiology and Probiotic Microbes for agriculture and Human Health 1. Microbial Biotechnology with implications in agriculture and environment 2. Plant-microbes Interaction 3. Microbe-mediated tolerance to abiotic stress in plant 4. Developing farmer and eco-friendly technologies 5. Bioprospecting of microbial molecules

Email: ibrarkhan1984@uop.edu.pk

Dr.Ibrar Khan was was born in a small village of District Mardan, Pakistan, known as Babuzai. He got his intermediate examination certificate (FSc) from one of the prestigious colleges of the world i.e. Islamia college, Peshawar, Pakistan. He did his PhD in Biotechnology in 2011 from the Centre of Biotechnology and Microbiology, University of Peshawar. Currently He was working as an Assistant Professor in the Centre since September, 2012.

Dr.Ibrar Khan Reserach interest in Microbiology and Biotechnology

Email: sarikagupta@banasthali.in; sarika.ashish@gmail.com

Dr. Sarika Gupta is currently working as Senior Assistant Professor at the Banasthali Vidyapith, Banasthali, Rajasthan, India. She is serving as a fellow in Association of Indian Science Congress Association and Association of Microbiologists of India. She is currently in charge of ongoing scholarly project from DST-SERB, Government of India. Form last 16 years she is actively engaged in teaching, training and research. Her research interests are in the area of medical microbiology, molecular biology and plant biotechnology. Dr. Gupta is also coordinating as an integral part of organizing team of various biotechnology program in collaboration with various Government funding agencies as DST, DBT, ISCA, MSME, RMOL etc. She has various publications in journals of national and international repute. She has presented paper at various national and international platforms. She has completed her Ph.D. in Seed Technology and Microbiology from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. She is serving as a fellow in Association of Indian Science Congress Association and Association of Microbiologists of India. She is currently in charge of ongoing scholarly project from DST-SERB, Government of India. She is also actively involves execution of a wide range of laboratory investigations for Pharmaceutical Biology, Molecular Biology, Medical Microbiology, Food Microbiology with aim to collaborate with Researchers, Academicians, Clinicians & Industrialists.

Dr. Sarika Gupta research focuses on working with microbial communities for industrial implications through bioaccumulation and bioaugmentation approaches for the mitigation of hydrocarbon/dyes in the ecosystem. She is also engaged in exploring the unexplored potentials of plants possessing enormous capabilities for being used against fungal keratitis, dermatitis, dental caries and enteric infections. Determining the mechanism of action of the potent herbal conjugates is an interesting domain to elucidate the presence of some specific functionally active clusters.

Email: microbiology@kpcmedicalcollege.com ; dranindyadas20@gmail.com

Dr. Anindya Das, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology of KPC Medical College & Hospital, West Bengal University of Health Science, India. As a Medical Doctor he is specialized in Clinical Microbiology, Serology and Immunology. He earned his Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery (MBBS) degree from Calcutta Medical College, University of Calcutta, India and completed his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from Gauhati Medical College, SSD University of Health Science, India. From 2007 to 2013 he worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Physiology of KPC Medical College, West Bengal University of Health Science, India. He is an affiliate member of ‘Microbiology Society’, member of ‘World Society for Virology’ (WSV), associate member of ‘British Infection Association’ (BIA). He has published a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and authored a book entitled- “Combined Serological Tests are more useful in Rheumatoid Arthritis” published by Scholars’ Press, OmniScriptum. He is also a member of Editorial Boards of International peer reviewed scientific journals such as ‘EC Microbiology’, ‘CPQ Microbiology’

Dr. Anindya Das Reserach interests includes Microbial Genetics, Immunology and HIV infection and Evolutionary Microbiology regarding Origin of life in microbial protocell.

Email: mostafa.norizadeh@beun.edu.tr; mostafa_noorizadeh@yahoo.com

Assistant Professor Dr Mostafa Norizadeh Tazehkand has completed his master at the age of 24 years and completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from Cukurova University of Turkey. His branch is Biotechnology. He has published more than 25 national and international articles and so starts as Assist. Prof at Bulent Ecevit University of pharmaceutical science. He has been serving as editorial board member of 12 international journals and he is one of reviewer board memberships in 8 international journals. He can speak 4 languages (English, Turkish, Persian and azeri). He is married and doesn’t has any children.

Dr. Mostafa Norizadeh Tazehkand Research of interest are Biotechnology, Recombinant DNA technology such as vaccine or drug production, Toxicology, Cancer,

Email: mallii@ksau-hs.edu.sa; Malliia@ngha.med.sa

Dr.Israa A. Malli, assistant professor of microbiology, College of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdul-Aziz University for health sciences (KSAU-hs), Jeddah; Saudi Arabia, a well known distinguished academician. Dr.Malli earned her bachelor degree from Medical Laboratory Sciences at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah; and supported by King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-hs), in Jeddah, she pursued a Master's in Biotechnology from the Catholic University of America (CUA), Washington, D.C. With additional support from the Saudi Arabian culture Mission (SACM), she joined Howard University in Fall-2012. Continuing her academic excellence, she earned a doctoral degree from the Department of Microbiology by December-2017. Dr.Malli is well associated as Editor and Member of countable online journals. She teaches Microbiology and Immunology to medical students. Moreover, Dr.Malli is coordinating the medical research block and have guided over ten students at the medical school level in Saudi Arabia. Dr.Malli elucidated for the first time the role of Scaffold Protein, RACK1, to regulates HIV-1 mediated Virus Translation.

Dr. Malli Research interests are antiretroviral therapeutics, the role of microbiology in Public Health, Medical Microbiology, Epidemiology of disease, disease outbreak, Multidrug resistance pathogens.

Email: rajesh.mbu@gmail.com

Dr. Rajesh Kumar is a microbiologist and holds a doctorate degree in Dairy Microbiology from National Dairy Research Institute (ICAR), Karnal, India; a first class Masters degree in Microbiology from Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, India; and also possesses a Bachelors degree in Biology from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Merrut, India. He has also completed his ICMR-Post-Doctoral research from National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR), Hyderabad, India. He has qualified ICAR-NET 2014, 2015, 2017 & 2018 in Agricultural Microbiology. He has gained more than seven years experience in microbiology, probiotics, molecular biology and r-DNA technology research, and approximately 05 years of experience in environmental monitoring etc. He has worked on: i) bacterial (aerobic/microaerophilic/anaerobic) enumeration, isolation, propagation and identification; ii) designing of novel microbiological and enzymatic/colorimetric assay methods; iii) in vitro and in vivo assessment of probiotics for its survival under GI transit and cholesterol lowering attributes; iv) PCR and RT-qPCR assays, molecular cloning, heterologus expression and purification of recombinant proteins, FPLC-Affinity (Ni-NTA); v) neutraceuticals, functional foods, microencapsulation. In addition, he is experienced in environmental monitoring of eutrophic rivers and lakes. He is presently working as: i) Deputy Assistant Director in Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, India; ii) Officer in-charge of Filling Section of New DPT GMP Facility of CRI, Kasauli; and Officer in-charge of Bottling and Central Sterilization Media Sections of CRI, Kasauli. He is also engaged in teaching and guiding of M.Sc Microbiology students in CRI, Kasauli. He is a life-time member of the Probiotic Association of India. Dr. Rajesh Kumar has published seven research articles and two review papers in reputed Impact International Journals. Besides, he has published 02 book chapters in books published by International Publisher. He has also delivered oral and poster presentations in various international conferences and received best poster presentation awards twice.

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Research interest includes Probiotics; Lactic Acid Bacteria; rDNA Technology; Microbiology – Agricultural/Dairy/Oral; Molecular biology; DPT Vaccine.

Email: iramliaq@hotmail.com

Dr. Iram Liaqat is serving as Assistant Professor at Govt. College University, Lahore, Pakistan. She is a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (Pb), Pakistan and part of her research work was accomplished at The Sheffield University, UK. Afterwards she moved to Australia where she did postdoc at University of Western Australia, Australia via Endeavour awards. On her return to Pakistan she joined Lahore university of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan as postdoc fellows. She has participated more than 60 national and international conferences and authored 27 publications alongwith four book chapters in peer reviewed international and national Journals. She has served as a faculty member in Punjab University, “The University of Lahore” ,“COMSATS Sahiwal”, “Lahore College for Women University” and University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. Pakistan. Member of Editorial Board of “International Journal of Aquaculture and Fishery Sciences since 2016. She is an editorial board member for journals like, International Journal of Research in Health Science, SM Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders and reviewer of Journals including Bioresource Technology (Elsevier), Current Microbiology (Springer), African Journal of Agricultural Research (ISI Indexed Journal) and external examiner in various universities in Pakistan.

Molecular biology, Microbiology, Biofilms, Bacterial motility, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics. Dental biofilm, dental tubing bacteria

Email: durgeshsinha4@gmail.com

Dr. Durgesh Sinha, female, did Ph. D (Applied Mathematics), M. Sc. (Mathematics), B. Sc. (Mathematics honors) in 2000, 1996, and 1994 respectively from Vinoba Bhave University, Jharkhand, India. Apart from this she did M. Sc. from Civil and Environmental Engineering department, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA in 2008 to enhance skill on Applied sciences. Since 2008, she started teaching at Temple University (2008), Rowan College at Burlington County (2009), Strayer University (2010), Community College of Philadelphia (2014), and Mercer County Community College (2014) till current as an Adjunct Assistant professor. She published three papers in reputed Journal Scientific Reports (Nature), and J Immunol. Tech. Infect. Disease in 2016, and 2018.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Durgesh Nandini Sinha involved in research of Computer virus and infectious diseases modeling

Email: luigi.santacroce@uniba.it

Dr. Luigi Santacroce is currently working as Assitant Professor of Microbiology and Clinical microbiology at the University of Bari, Italy, and Visiting Professor at foreign Universities. He is also Director of the Nursing degree course of Bari and Coordinator of the Erasmus+ program for the School of Medicine of Bari. He acquired his MD degree from School of Medicine and Surgery of Bari in the year 1990. He is Specialist in Cardiac Surgery and in Digestive Surgery. Starting from 2005 is formerly Researcher of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, and from 2006 is Medical Consultant at the University Hospital of Bari. He is the member of American Society for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (ASCLS), of the Australian and New Zealand Society of History of Medicine (ANZSHM), President of the Scientific Committee of the International Humanitarian Noble Academy (IHUNA), and member of the Scientific Committee of the “Teresa & Luigi De Beaumont Bonelli” for cancer research. He has conducted microbiological research on a wide range of subjects, in particolar on nutraceuticals, H. pylori, human microbiota, periodontal pathogens. He has more than 80 international and national publications in peer reviewed journals, and a lot of oral communications at National and International events. He has guided more than 50 degree MD, DDS, and health professions thesis.

Dr. Luigi Santacroce Research interest include microbiology, human microbiota in health and disease, infection control, regenerative medicine (including stem cells), history of medicine.

Email: FarsianiH@mums.ac.ir

Dr. Hadi Farsiani , Assistant professor of Department of Microbiology and Virology, School of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, is an scientist with 15 publications. Dr Hadi Farsiani guided over 15 students at DVM, MVSc, MSc and Ph.D. level in Iran.

Asst Prof. Dr. Hadi Farsiani research interests include antibiotic resistance mechanism in bacteria, production of subunit vaccines against bacterial infection (especially Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and Helicobacter pylori pathogenesis.

Email: jinibiotech@gmail.com

Dr. D. Jini completed her Masters in Biotechnology from Malankara Catholic College, Mariagiri in India, and obtained Ph. D. from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India. She has published more than 20 international peer reviewed research papers in National and International conferences and journals with more than 550 citations. (https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=x-gqMBkAAAAJ&hl=en).

Dr. D. Jini's Research Interest includes Plant endophytic Microbiome; Molecular Biology, Plant genomics and Metagenomics Data Analysis

Email: owais01m@gmail.com

Dr. Mohammad Oves is an Assistant Professor at Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies of King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. (Microbiology) from Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has more than five years research experience on the different environmental related research project like SWINGS (Safeguarding Water Resources in India with Green and Sustainable Technology) International FP-7 funded project of the European Union) and green synthesis and application of nanoparticles in water treatment and antimicrobial studies funded by ICMR and CSIR funding bodies of the Indian government. He has published more than 80 scientific papers, including original research articles, review articles, and book chapters in various international publishers. He has also gained more than 2400 citations on Google scholar. His interest in various aspects and application of Microbiology coupled with Environment, Nanoscience, and Biomedical Sciences. He is intensely involved in research activities focusing on Environmental and Medical Microbiology, Nanotechnology, Heavy metals bioremediation and Antimicrobial microbial activities of newly synthesized drugs and nanomaterials. He awarded three times travel bursary international award for Awaji Infection Immunity Forum, Japan. He is life time Member of Association Microbiology of India and International Society for Infection diseases.

His Research Interest interests gollowing: • Green synthesis of nanomaterials for antimicrobial and anticancer activities • Newly synthesized chemical compounds antimicrobial activities • Detection of functional microbial diversity for bioremediation & other application • Testing of plant growth enhancing properties of microbes for crop improvement • Heavy metals toxicity in plants and microbes"

Email: anuragyadav123@sdau.edu.in; anuragyadav123@gmail.com

Dr.Anurag Yadav working in capacity of Assistant Professor (Microbiology) in S.D. Agricultural University, S.K. Nagar, Gujarat. He is engaged in microbial research since 1999 and teaching M.Sc. Microbiology and Biotechnology since 2002. His career is goals is crop improvement by "mycorrhizosphere tailoring", bioremediation, mass VAM culturing, screening of potent of PGPR strains. He have published more than 25 research papers and books chapters of national and international repute.

Microbiology, Biotechnology

Email: bahareh.nowruzi@srbiau.ac.ir ; bahare77biol@yhaoo.com

Asst. Prof. Dr. Bahareh Nowruzi is Assistant Professor in molecular biology of cyanobacteria at Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. She has lots of experience with isolation and cultivation of microalgae, molecular taxonomy of microalgae and other molecular methods, and experience with analyses of bioactive compounds using LC-MS and HPLC. She is the first author on more than 20 published papers in international journals and also 2 books. She Spent 6 months as sabbatical leave at Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, University of Helsinki, P. O. Box 56, Viikki Biocenter, Viikinkaari 9,FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland and as Visiting Assistant Professor at Microbial Culture Collection (MCC) and National Centre of Cell Science, Pune. She works on bioactive compounds of cyanobacteria, isolation with with LC-MS and purification with HPLC. She obtained some experience on Molecular Biology (DNA or RNA extraction, PCR, PCR Sequencing, Cloning, Protein Expression and purification, N -15 labeling and Amino acid analysis). Moreover, she worked on the amplification and sequencing of structural genes, functional genes and also performed exhaustive DNA fingerprinting of cyanobacteria. She has also worked on understanding various bioinformatics software’s related to phylogeny and molecular evolution. In addition, I was selected by a three-member International Phycological Congress Fund Financial ‎Assistance Committee to receive financial support 10th International Phycological ‎Congress, Orlando, Florida 32821-8007 USA, 4-10 August 2013‎. Morover she id one of the Editorial Board member of Microbial Bioactives journal on section of Natural bioactive compounds from Cyanobacteria. She is curator of herbarium ALBORZ With lots of cyanobacteria samples at the Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran respectively.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Bahareh Nowruzi research interests are in the areas of molecular biology and ecophysiology ‎of cyanobacteria especially analysis of bioactive compounds of Nostocales ‎‎(cyanobacteria)‎ with LC-MS and purified with HPLC. Her recent research ‎focuses on the amplification and sequencing of structural genes and functional ‎genes for identification of cyanobacteria and performing exhaustive DNA ‎fingerprinting for molecular phylogeny of the heterocystous cyanobacteria.

Email: sulbha@purdue.edu

Dr. Sulbha Choudhari is currently working as a Bioinformatician in Bioinformatics Core at Purdue University, USA. She completed her doctoral degree in Computational and Integrative Biology from Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University, USA in 2015. Her doctoral research was focused on studying sequence biases in comparative metagenomics while investigating glacial metagenome. In addition to her computational background she has a profound knowledge of molecular biology and microbiology due to her prior work in these fields. She is involved in the next-generation sequencing data analysis of model and non-model organisms. She has experience in data analysis from various bioinformatics application like RNASeq, genome and transcriptome assembly, metagenomics, SSR, SNP and CNV detection.

Next generation sequencing data analysis, metagenomics, RNASeq analysis, 16S analysis

Email: gmahajan@himedialabs.com

Dr. Girish B Mahajan is currently associated with HiMedia Laboratories Pvt Ltd, Vice-President; Microbiology. Prior to it he was with OmniActive Health Technologies, Piramal Enterprises Ltd and couple of other biotech companies as Consultant. He has past professional experience in renowned organizations like Piramal Enterprises, Uni-Lever, Hoechst and Johnson & Johnson. He is an active member and mentor of American Society for Microbiology (ASM) & Association of Microbiologists in India (AMI), Fellow of Society of Applied Biotechnology-India, member of board of studies and visiting faculty of many premier schools of biotechnology, Alumni of ICT and referee & editorial member for International journals. He has 11 patents and 78 International and national scientific publications, many national & international collaborations/joint venture coordination experiences on his credentials. He has guided 25 post graduates dissertation projects. He completed the Doctorate in Microbiology from Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT, former UDCT)-Mumbai and developed a very cost effective way of production of a High-value chemical from micro-algae. He has been honored with several prestigious awards “AMI-Louis Pasteur Award-2013”, “OPPI Scientist Award-2012”, "ISCB award of appreciation for Industry Scientist-2012, in the area of Drug Research", “Eminent Biotechnologist-2010” and “ICT- Lupin Visiting Fellowships for Bioprocess Technology: 2011-2012” by ICT. He has been also working as scientific counselor for some schools and colleges for Biotech and microbiology profession. Currently his research interests are hydrocolloids, Biosimilar, selective media and diagnostic kits development. He has wandered many extreme natural ecological niches of India in search of new microbial resources to discover new antibiotic leads towards betterment of mankind.

Antimicrobial agents, Bioactive compounds from microbial sources, Microbiology projects related to fermentation, waste water treatment, hydrocolloids, Biosimilars, specialised media design and diagnostic kits development

Email: myjinadu@yahoo.com; fmceblag@yahoo.com; farida.jinadu@gmail.com

"Dr. Munirah Yewande JINADU was born to the Emiabata family of Lagos, Nigeria. She is a widowed mother of three children. She has over thirty years postgraduate experience as a physician having earned her MBBS degree at the famous University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Training for her specialty; public health was at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Dr. Jinadu’s career has been in the federal (national) service of Nigeria, particularly in medicine. She has held several positions including national programme coordinator for control of four parasitic diseases. She has served as Nigeria’s chief epidemiologist and also recently as CEO/Medical Director of Nigeria’s busiest Federal Medical Centre. Dr. Jinadu is well travelled. She has been involved in field activity in twenty three out of the thirty six states of Nigeria and has attended official events in over fifteen countries"

Medical Parasitology & sociology of HIV infections

Email: jayesh@sun.ac.za; jjahire@gmail.com

Dr. Jayesh J. Ahire is a Postdoc researcher in the department of Microbiology, and Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa. He received Ph.D. Microbiology in the field of probiotics and its biogenic metabolites (2013) from North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India. Dr. Ahire has 5 years of research experience in Microbiology and Nanotechnology. He has published 22 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited book on probiotics. In addition to research, Dr. Ahire serving as a reviewer for peer-reviewed international journals like Journal of Infection & Public Health, Journal of Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, Archiv der Pharmazie, Process Biochemistry, Biocatalysis & Agricultural Biotechnology and Journal of Molecular Structure etc.

Dr. Ahire’s professional interests are in the area of probiotics and antimicrobial proteins, nanofiber mediated delivery of drugs and or antimicrobial compounds to prevent biofilm and or infections of drug resistant bacterial strains.

Email: makshoof.ahmad@iub.edu.pk; maqshoof_ahmad@yahoo.com

Dr. Maqshoof Ahmad did his Ph.D. in Soil Science (Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry) from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. He has also won Post-Doctoral Research Training at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics, University of Hohenheim, Germany; jointly fund by The University of Hohenheim and the AVRDC- the World Vegetable Center, Taiwan. He has five (07) years of research and teaching experience. He is also life member of Soil Science Society of Pakistan and served as member of the Executive Council of Soil Science Society of Pakistan for the session 2011-2012. Dr. Maqshoof has received a number of national and international research trainings from world known organizations. Ten post-graduate scholars also have completed their dissertation work under direct supervision of Dr. Ahmad. He is among the reviewers panel of a number of International Research journals including Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Acta Physiologia Plantarum, Microbial Ecology, Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Scientia Hort., Soil & Environment and many others. Dr. Ahmad has experience in stress agriculture, microbial ecology, plant-microbe interactions, and solid waste management. He is author of five book chapters and 41 research papers in highly reputed International Journals with total impact factor of more than 35. He has completed three research projects and currently working in 4 research projects funded by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, EFS-UAF, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA and the world vegetable center, Taiwan. In acknowledgement of his services, Dr. Ahmad has been awarded the research productivity award by Pakistan Council of Science and Technology, Government of Pakistan. He may be contacted at maqshoof_ahmad@yahoo.com or makshoof.ahmad@iub.edu.pk

Microbial Ecology, Agricultural Sciences, Scientia Hort., Soil & Environment and many others.

Email: senthilkumar.pa@ktr.srmuniv.ac.in

Dr. P.Senthilkumar is currently working as an Associate Professor in the department of Genetic Engineering at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. He acquired his Ph.D degree from UPASI Tea Research Institute, Valparai, Tamilnadu in the year 2012. He has Post Doctoral experience at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad and Tamilnadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. He has received SRF Fellowship from National Tea Research Foundation, Kolkata and Post Doctoral Fellowship from DBT, Govt. of India. He is a member of Indian Science Congress Association. He has conducted research on a wide range of Plant Environmental Interactions. His work on tea plant interaction with Pestalotiopsis theae is notable. He has around 15 international and national publications in peer reviewed journals. He has reviewed several research articles for many peer reviewed journals. He has conducted many national and international level conferences and workshops for the benefits students and budding researchers. He has guided more than 20 B.Tech and M.Tech Thesis.

His research interests include Plant Environmental Interactions, anticancer and antidiabetic activity of various medicinal plants, gene mining for biotic and abiotic stress tolerant genes in plants, bioremediation.

Email: nkumar@kuk.ac.in

Dr Neeraj K Aggarwal is presently working as a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra, India. He is having more than 11 years of teaching experience of post graduation classes. He has guided 13 Ph.D research students and presently two students are working under his guidance. He has obtained his MSc and Ph.D in Microbiology from CCS Haryana Agricultural University Hisar .He is gold medallist and has been awarded prestigious S R Vyas gold medal of CCS Haryana Agricultural University for being best microbiological research worker. He has more than 100 publications to his credit including research papers, reviews and book chapters in various journals of national and international repute. He also authored a popular text book “Introduction to Biotechnology” for B Tech Students and one edited book “Microbiology and Biotechnology for a sustainable environment”.

Dr Aggarwal has focussed his research areas around microbial biotechnology for different metabolites, molecular genetics and biological control agents. His lab is engaged in utilization of different industrial wastes for some value added products like bioplastics. He and his team is also involved in exploitation of different agricultural residues of lignocellulosic nature for bioethanol production. Different medicinal plants were also screened for their antimicrobial potential and other health benefits.

Email: gkhoder@sharjah.ac.ae

Dr. Ghalia KHODER has earned her phD in Proteomic Microbiology at Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Poitiers, France in 2008 and her MSc. in Physiology, Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Poitiers, Faculty of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, France in 2005. Her main research interest are H. pylori biomarkers predictive of gastric cancer and MALT-lymphoma using an innovative technique : Protein Chip technology and SELDI-TOF-MS. During her post-doctoral research at Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at United Arab University, Dr. Ghalia khoder has gained experience in the field of gastric stem cells and gastric epithelial cells as main host of H. pylori. Currently, she is interested in studying the potential roles of probiotics in the management of gastric diseases such as gastric ulcer and gastric cancer as well as the effects of probiotics on H. pylori and biofilms. Another field of her research interests is the antibiotic resistance pattern of H. pylori in UAE. Dr. Ghalia Khoder is currently working as an Assistant professor at the College of Pharmacy, department of pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical technology, University of Sharjah since 2015. She has worked previously for 5 years as an Assistant professor at College of pharmacy at al Ain university and was in charge of the biomedical department.

H. pylori, Proteomic biomarkers, Gastric diseases, Gastric epithelial cells, Probiotics, Antibiotic resistance, SELDI-TOF-MS and Protein Chip Technology.

Email: avijit@cuh.ac.in

Dr. Avijit Pramanik has done BSc (Ag.) Hons from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, India in 1999 then Joined G B Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India for MSc (Microbiology) with ICAR (Indian Council of Agriculture Research) junior research fellowship (JRF). After passing MSc (Microbiology) in 2001 he has worked as JRF at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India with CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial research) NET-JRF fellowship. He did his PhD in microbiology from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tuebingen, Germany in 2006. After that he did his first Postdoctoral in University of Pittsburgh for 9 months before coming back to Tubingen, Germany at Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology at the same capacity. There he worked for more than five years then came back to India to join as an Assistant Professor in the DAV University, Jalandhar, India during 2013. He continued working there till February 2016, after which he joined the present role as Assistant Professor in the department of Microbiology in the Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, India.

Microbial Physiology and Metabolism; Bacterial Iron Homeostasis; Bacterial Membrane Transport Systems; Bacterial genetics and Molecular biology.

Email: kamalbiotech.yadav@gmail.com

Dr. Kamlesh Kumar Yadav has been awarded with Doctor of Philosophy in Biotechnology from the Jiwaji University, India. He completed their Ph.D. research work from Defence Research Laboratory (DRDO), Tezpur, Assam and published several research paper and book chapters in highly reputed scientific journals. He also presented their research work in several national and international conferences. He holds a first class honors degree in Biotechnology from CCS University, India, Masters Degree in Biotechnology from Jiwaji University, India. Presently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in Biotechnology and Microbiology Department, Noida International University, Greater Noida, India. He has over seven year’s research experience in different field of microbiological/ biotechnological. This includes an experience of midgut microbiota of mosquitoes and its application in prevention of vector-borne diseases like dengue, chikungunya, and malaria. Apart from this, he has also work experiences in the various projects related to human and plant microbial pathogens. He is the life member of various scientific societies including National Academy of Vector Borne Disease, Indian Science Congress Association, Association of Microbiologist of India and Asian PGPR Society of Sustainable Agriculture. Additionally, he is an editorial board member of several reputed journals. He also worked as a reviewer of various journals and provides their service for the publication of many manuscripts.

Insect’s microbiota; Vector-borne disease; Application of microbiota; Medical microbiology- bacterial and fungal pathogens of plant and human infections.

Email: rtian@ou.edu

Dr. Tian Renmao, With a background of experimental biology and a foreground of computational biology, He was a microbial ecologist who is good at studying microbial function and evolution using genomics and metagenomics technologies. He got his PhD degree from University of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the experiences of both experimental work and bioinformatics analysis have assisted him to solve problems in projects and go far in biological research. He has been doing researches in microbial community in environments from soil to groundwater, from coast to Mariana trench, from free-living to holobiont. Now he is working in University of Oklahoma, and there is something more exciting he was doing: extending the frontiers of novel microbial phyla discovery.

Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Genomics, and Microbial Ecology and Evolution. He is doing extensive studies on the ecology, function and evolution of microbes in environments of seawater, marine sediment, marine animal (e.g. sponge and coral), groundwater and soil etc. using Next Generation Sequencing technology. He also interested in developing pipelines for Bioinformatics analysis such as 16S rRNA and ITS gene amplicon sequence, genomic sequence analysis, and metagenomic sequence analysis.

Email: nehas.pf.che17@itbhu.ac.in; sri.neha10may@gmail.com

Dr. Neha Srivastava is currently working as Post-doctorate fellow in Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India. She has published more than 25 research articles in the in peer reviewed journals of SCI impact factor and have 02 patents. She has many popular social scientific articles in reputed newspapers and has 11 potential deposited microorganisms in her credit. PhD in Biotechnology from Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering, SHIATS, India in 2016 in the area of bio-energy. She has been received 06 Young Scientist Awards. Presently, she is working on bio-process technology and bio-fuels production (Microbial screening and enzymes; production and enhancement, bio-hydrogen production from waste biomass, bio-ethanol production).

Microbial Enzymes; Bio-energy study and Bio-ethanol Production.

Email: mcycon@sum.edu.pl

Dr. hab. Mariusz Cycoń is currently working in the Department of Microbiology and Virology affiliated to School of Pharmacy with the Division of Laboratory Medicine at the Medical University of Silesia, Poland. He acquired his PhD hab. in Biological Sciences - Environmental Microbiology at the University of Silesia, Poland in February 2014, Ph.D. in Medical Sciences - Medical Biology at the Medical University of Silesia, Poland in December 2006 and MSc in Biology - Biotechnology of Plants and Microorganisms at the University of Silesia, Poland in July 2006. Dr hab. Cycoń has experience in different areas of modern environmental microbiology and biotechnology, to name a few: degradation of the organic compounds, bioremediation processes, microbial community structure of contaminated soils, optimization of degradation processes of chemicals, etc. He has so far published more than 30 research articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals (e.g. Frontiers in Microbiology, Chemosphere, Applied Soil Ecology, Journal of Environmental Management, International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, Journal of Environmental Sciences, Ecotoxicology). Dr hab. Cycoń is a member of the editorial board of 17 journals (e.g. Applied Soil Ecology, Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology). He has so far reviewed more than 400 articles for 75 high-rated journals (e.g. Journal of Hazardous Materials, Bioresource Technology, Chemosphere, PLoS ONE, Journal of Environmental Management, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Applied Soil Ecology, Biodegradation, Ecotoxicology).

Environmental microbiology; Environmental biotechnology; Microbial activity, diversity and community structure of soils contaminated with organic pollutants (pesticides, antibiotics, NSAIDs); Microbial degradation of organic pollutants; Bioremediation of contaminated soils; Antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.

Email: dalia.ashour@med.tanta.edu.eg; ashourdalia@yahoo.com

Dr. DS Ashour is currently working as assistant professor in Department of Medical parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt. She acquired her MD in medical parasitology at University of Tanta on 2009. Dr. Ashour has over 15 years of research experience in the field of Medical Parasitology. She has so far published more than 22 research articles in internationally peer reviewed journals. She is serving as associate editor in MERIT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES, Editorial board member in Research and Reviews Research Journal of Biology, EC Microbiology and SCIREA Journal of Medicine and Reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals.

Medical Parasitology, Immunomodulation and immunotherapy, Immunomodulation of Trichinella spiralis, new molecular targets in Schistosoma mansoni treatment, pathogenesis of different parasites e.g. schistosoma and Trichinella, parasite interactions as Giardia with Toxoplasma, effect of different drugs on Trichinella spiralis, TLRs signaling in parasitic infections and Trichinella in particular.

Email: jaas820703@yahoo.com

Dr. J.A.A.S. Jayaweera is currently working in department of Microbiology, affiliated to Faculty of Medicine and allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. He acquired his MPhil in medical virology at University of Peradeniya on 2016. Dr. Jayaweera has over 6 years of research experience in the field of Microbiology, biochemistry, Nanobiotechnology and complementary and alternative medicine biostatistics. He has so far published more than 15 research articles in internationally peer reviewed journals. He is serving as a reviewer for many reputed group of journals in Global journal of Medical research and BMC antimicrobials and infection control. Further, he is an honorary editor in Annals of clinical immunology and microbiology journal.

MRSA bacteremia and outcome, Establishment of Urethral flora in patients with CKDu, Prevalence of MRSA among medical students, Childhood acute viral respiratory tract infections, Novel antiviral effects, Antibacterial effects of plant extracts and synthetic compounds, Medicinal value of traditional rice varieties, Health benefits of Meditation, Health benefits of exercise, Hypoglycemic effects of traditional drug formulas and fracture healing effects of traditional herbal formulas.

Email: haider.mousa@uobasrah.edu.iq

Dr. Haider Abdul-Lateef Mousa was Obtained Bachelor degree in Medicine and Surgery on 1987 in which the rank of graduation was within the top ten out of the 138 graduated students of the Medical College, Basrah, Iraq. House Officer for 15 months at Babylon Teaching Hospitals, Ministry of Health, Iraq, including duties in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Orthopedics with scheduled Emergency Department duties at all these five medical branches. Demonstrator, general practitioner, Assistant lecturer, and lecturer at the college of Medicine, University of Basrah, Iraq, for 15 years. Specialist physician of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Ministry of Health, Tripoli, Libya, for two years. Specialist physician of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Waha oil company clinics for 14 years. Having thirty-six scientific medical publications which were published in Iraq, United Kingdom, USA, Germany, World Health Organization (Switzerland), Belgium, Austria, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Japan, and India. Assigned as Editor, Guest Chief Editor, Member of Editorial Board, and Reviewer at several international medical journals. The prominent personal achievement has been selected by Marquis Who's Who, which is comprised of the top 3% of the professionals in the world.

Infectious Diseases; Medical Microbiology; Burns; Dermatology; Bone Infections; Occupational Medicine; Environmental Health; Alternative Medicine; Epidemiology and Internal Medicine.

Email: hcyraorsh@microbiology.uni-mysore.ac.in; hcyrao@gmail.com

Dr. H.C. Yashavantha Rao is an accomplished Microbiologist. He is working as Senior Researcher at Microbial Drugs Laboratory, Department of Studies in Microbiology, Manasagangotri, University of Mysore, India. He obtained his Masters degree in Microbiology from Department of Studies in Microbiology, University of Mysore, India. He is working in the field of biodiscovery of polyketide anti-infective drugs from endophytic fungi and actinomycetes. He has published many scientific research articles in international peer reviewed journals. He has also published book chapters, serves as Editor in reputed journals and bagged several awards from different organizations. His areas of research are multidisciplinary, which are as but not limited to: Bioprespecting of Microbial endophytes, Natural products chemistry, Microbial genomics, Nano biotechnology, Management of infectious diseases and multidrug resistant pathogens.

Biodiversity of Medicinal Plants, Biodiscovery of Natural products, Chemical and biological interactions, polyketide anti-infective drugs from endophytes, Biodiversity, Microbial genomics, Management of infectious diseases and multidrug resistant pathogens, Nano biotechnology.

Email: cinzia.giagulli@unibs.it; cinziagiagulli@gmail.com

Dr. Cinzia Giagulli obtained in 1997 the Biological Science degree and then completed PhD in “Molecular and Cellular Biology and Pathology” at Verona University. In this period she worked on signal transduction pathways which control integrin activation by chemokines during leukocyte recruitment, a process involved in supporting the antimicrobial response, but also in the pathogenesis of several human diseases, such inflammation, autoimmune, allergic and vascular diseases, transplant rejection and cancer. She continued postdoctoral studies at Verona and Brescia University School of Medicine studying in particular “Cellular Biology and Proteomic Analysis in System Biology”. In 2011 she obtained the Specialization in Microbiology and Virology and at the moment is responsible of molecular diagnostic of viral and bacterial infections in the Microbiology Laboratory of Civil Hospital Campus (Brescia). At present, as scientist in Microbiology and Clinic Microbiology at the University of Brescia, she’s studying virus/host interactions and, in particular, the biological activity on HIV-1 matrix protein p17 and its variants on immune cells and their role in HIV-1 pathogenesis. Recently, she is involved in research projects aimed to understand by structure-function studies how mutations in the p17 amino acid sequence are linked to B cell growth and tumorigenesis and by phosphoproteome studies the signaling cascades responsible of this effect. He has published more than 36 papers in peer-reviewed journals and serves as an editorial board member for diverse Journals.

The complex host/pathogens interactions and determine the involvement of chemokines and chemokine receptors in the pathogenesis of inflammatory and infectious diseases as well as in cancer.

Email: medipesh@gmail.com

Dr. Dipesh Dhakal completed his Ph.D in Biochemistry from Department of Life Science and Engineering, Sun Moon University, South Korea in 2016. His doctoral research was focused on study of biosynthesis of a secondary metabolite from Nocardia spp, elucidation of biosynthetic mechanism and development of novel derivatives. From March 2016, he is appointed as Research Professor at Sun Moon University, South Korea and involved in teaching as well as mentoring students in their research. Over the last several years, he is working on developing molecular biological tools for engineering microbial cell factories (Escherichia coli and Actinomycetes) for production and engineering of natural products. His research team utilizes versatile metabolic engineering approaches and synthetic biology tools for designing optimized pathway for production of native and structurally diversified natural products utilizing native, engineered or heterologous hosts. These natural products can be effective lead for drug discoveries. He is also interested on developing novel antibacterial agents using nanotechnology. Currently, his prime focus of research is on coalition of chemical and biological techniques for application of cross-border approaches for ailment of different disease conditions.

Microbial secondary metabolites biosynthesis, production and structural modifications, Biological activities of natural products, Nanotechnology based development of antibacterial agents, Chemo-Bio approach for drug discovery.

Email: mitesh.dwivedi@utu.ac.in

Dr Mitesh Kumar Dwivedi gained PhD (2013) from The M.S. University of Baroda, India, a top-ten placed Indian university; M.Sc. (Microbiology) from University of Mysore, Karnataka; Employed as a Senior Research Fellow at the M.S. University of Baroda (2011); Gained All India rank of 32/1232 in Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Eligibility Test (CSIR-NET) (Life Sciences) for lectureship in 2011; Appointed as Assistant Professor (2014), C.G. Bhakta Institute of Biotechnology, Uka Tarsadia University, India. Dr. Dwivedi is the author of 34 peer-reviewed articles (12 as first author), many in high impact factor journals, and several being highly cited as they reported significant discoveries in the field. The quality of his research has been evident by his h-index=15. He has also contributed highly cited reviews and book chapters as well. Dr. Dwivedi is Principal Investigator on DST-SERB and GUJCOST funded projects. Dr. Dwivedi is currently supervising one Ph.D student and has supervised 33 Master’s (M.Sc.) students for their project work. Dr. Dwivedi is recipient of national and international awards including Early Career Research Award (2017) from DST-SERB, New Delhi; Young Scientist Award from HGM ICG-2013 Conference, Singapore; the HUGO Young Scientist Travel Award from Human Genome Meeting-2011, Dubai and the Best Poster Award from International Symposium on “Molecular medicine” (MOLMED-2011), India. He has also received the Highest Impact Factor Publication Award in the years 2011, 2012 & 2013 from The M. S. University of Baroda, India. He has served as a Guest Associate Editor of ‘Frontiers in Genetics’ and as a Lead Guest Editor of Journal of Immunology Research. He is serving as the Editorial Board Member of ‘Journal of Pharmacy and Applied Sciences (JPAS)’ and ‘Biotechnological Research’. He has been an Invited Reviewer of reputed International Journals: ‘British Journal of Dermatology’; ‘Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology’; ‘Dermatology Research and Practice’; ‘International Journal of Genetics’; ‘Immunology Letters’ and ‘Rheumatology International’. He served as Joint Organizing Secretary and Convener in organizing international conferences (2017, 2014) at Uka Tarsadia University, India.

Dr. Dwivedi’s research has focused for over 10 years on the aetiology and pathogenesis of vitiligo- a skin depigmenting disorder, with particular reference to the autoimmune, and genetic basis of Vitiligo. In addition, his expertise in immunogenetics has led him to explore the immunogenetic basis of other autoimmune diseases such as Rheumatoid arthritis and Thyroidism as well. His current research interests also include investigation of the role of beneficial microbes-Probiotics in amelioration of autoimmune conditions and investigation of bioactive compounds of microbes for medical use.

Email: neeman101@gmail.com

Dr. Neema Negi is Researcher in the Department of Molecular Biology, Umea University, Umea, Sweden. Dr. Neema Negi graduated from the Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi where she investigated HIV-specific T-cell response by interferon-γ enzyme-linked immunospot assay and flow cytometry. She is working to decipher the interactions of proteins involved in somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination in mouse splenic B cells. She has the experience in genome wide localisation of proteins by ChiP sequencing, multicolour flow-cytometry, imaging flowcytometry, HIV immunopathogenesis, immunological assays, proliferation assays and analysis of transcriptome.

Flow Cytometry: Immunophenotyping of T-cell surface markers and measurement of intracellular cytokines, analysis of proteins interactions by proximity ligation assay, genome wide localisation of proteins by ChiP sequencing, characterisation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and T regulatory cell population, mouse corneal allo-transplantation and T-cell adoptive transfer, analysis of mouse and human MSC.

Email: dr.amjadkhan@pkli.org.pk; dramjadkhan77@gmail.com

Dr. Amjad Khan is currently working in Pakistan Liver and Kidney Institute and Research center, Affiliated with the government of Punjab, Pakistan. Dr. Khan has over 5 years of Research background in the field of Epidemiology, Microbiology, biostatistics and Biotechnology. Dr. Khan has so far published more than 25 research articles in peer reviewed journals. He is serving as a reviewer and editor for many reputed group of journals in International Journals.

Molecular Epidemiology of novel viral viruses. Epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious diseases. Investigation of outbreaks. Microbiological techniques for the identification of epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases. Use of microbiology and biotechnology for the control and prevention of different transboundary disease tracking and rate of infection determination.

Email: ppchaudhary@ntu.edu.sg; luckypgi@gmail.com

Dr. Prem Prashant Chaudhary, after completing his PhD from India in 2012, He Joined Dr. Rulik’s group at Palacký University in Czech Republicto carry out his first postdoctoral training in the area of molecular diversity of methanogens habitating freshwater sediments in collaboration with Max Plank Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany. After this assignment Prem went to join Dr. Brugere’s group at University of Auvergne in France as a Postdoctoral Fellow, where he was a part of a team who cultured the second pure isolate of methanogen i.e. Methanomethylophilus alvus belonging to the newly discovered order of methanogen i.e.Methanomassillicoccales from human GIT. After finishing this assignment, he went to join as Research Fellow with Dr. Schmidt’s group at Department of Internal Medicine at University of Michigan and worked on different aspects of human gut microbiome with a focus of increasing butyrate production after resistant starch supplementation in human subjects. Also he studied,how the presence of methanogens affects the metabolism in the human gut. Dr. Prem has an extensive experience in implementing molecular biology and anaerobic microbiology techniques to study gut microbiome. Dr. Prem’s current work at Nanyang Technological University,Singapore involves studying various aspects of human gut microbiome and altering the human microbiome for the improvement of human health. In his free time, Prem enjoys travelling to new places and spending time with his family.

Anaerobic Microbiology; Methanogens; Gut Microbiome; Molecular Biology and Metagenomics Data Analysis.

Email: shahmp@beil.co.in

Dr. Maulin P. Shah, currently Chief Scientist & Head – Industrial Waste Water Research Lab, Division of Applied and Environmental Microbiology Lab at Enviro Technology Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, He is very interested in genetic adaptation processes in bacteria, the mechanisms by which they deal with toxic substances, how they react to pollution in general and how we can apply microbial processes in a useful way (like bacterial bioreporters). One of our major interests is to study how bacteria evolve and adapt to use organic pollutants as novel growth substrates. Bacteria with new degradation capabilities are often selected in polluted environments and have accumulated small (mutations) and large genetic changes (transpositions, recombination, and horizontally transferred elements). His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis. His major work involves isolation, screening, identification and Genetic Engineering of high impact of Microbes for the degradation of hazardous materials. He has more than 200 research publication in highly reputed national and international journals. He is an active Editorial Board Member in more than 200 highly reputed Journal’s in the field of Environmental & Biological Sciences. He was Founder Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation and Biodegradation (2012-2014) as well as Journal of Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2012-2014) (Science and Education Publishing, USA). He is Associate Editor in BMC Microbiology (Springer Nature), Advisory Board in CLEAN-Soil, Air, Water (Wiley), Editor in Current Pollution Reports (Springer Nature), Editor in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination & Toxicology (Springer Nature), Editor in Environmental Technology & Innovation-ELSEVIER, Editor in Current Microbiology-Springer Nature, Editor in Journal of Biotechnology & Biotechnological Equipment-Taylor & Francis, Editor in Ecotoxicology (Microbial Ecotoxicology)- Springer Nature.

General Microbiology, Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Waste Water Microbiology, Fermentation Microbiology, Molecualr Microbiology, Biochemical Engineering, Molecular Genetics, Cellular Microbiology, Bio-Remediation, Bio-Degradation, Environmental Toxicology.

Email: geeta2301@pu.ac.in

Dr. Geeta Gahlawat is presently working as project scientist at DIHAR, DRDO, India. She obtained his Ph.D. degree from Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. During PhD, she has worked on the project entitled "Microbial production of Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) and its copolymers". She has more than 8 years of experience in fermentation and microbial technology along with bioreactor operation and their maintenance. She has systematically built a firm foundation of bioprocess engineering fundamentals to optimize any fermentation processes. She has published eleven papers in peer reviewed International Journals and presented five papers in International conferences. She has also published one book on topic ''Polyhydroxyalkanoates Polymers-Production strategies'' in Springer Nature.

Research Interests of Dr. Geeta Gahlawat are Bioprocess development and optimization of value added products, Production of microbial exopolysaccharides and polyhydroxyalkanoates, Synthesis of nanoparticles for medical uses

Email: safaei.mohsen@razi.ac.ir; mohsen_safaei@yahoo.com

Dr. Mohsen Safaei is currently working in the department of nanobiotechnology, affiliated to Razi University, (Kermanshah, Iran). He received his Ph.D in nanobiotechnology in 2017 from the Razi University, where his research focused on antimicrobial and anticancer properties of nanobiocomposites. He has over 10 years of research and teaching experience in the area of nanobiotechnology, nanotechnology, microbiology and research methodology. Dr. Safaei has more than 25 peer-reviewed journal articles, in the areas of nanobiotechnology and biology. He is serving as a reviewer for some reputed journals such as Biological trace element research, Toxicological and environmental chemistry, Journal of applied animal research and etc.

Dr. Mohsen Safaei research interests include characterization and application of bionanocomposite, advanced nanofabrication and characterization of nanobiomaterials, bioremoval of metal using nanostructures, mechanism of the antimicrobial activity of nanostructures.

Email: Swaraj.Rajkhowa@icar.gov.in; swaraj.rajkhowa@gmail.com

Dr. Swaraj Rajkhowa has joined Agricultural Research Service (ARS) as Scientist in the year 1999. He did his Ph.D. from Assam Agricultural University in the year 2005. He did his Post Doctoral studies from internationally reputed institutes like Cornell University, New York, USA and University of California, Irvine, USA where he has learned advanced molecular tools like MLST, SLST, SNP and DNA Microarray technology. His area of interest is molecular epidemiology and molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases of animal origin including diseases of zoonotic significance. He has been actively involved in diagnosis and management of livestock diseases since last 16years and particularly on porcine diseases since last 9 years. He has published more than 95 research papers in peer reviewed national and international journals of repute, acted as reviewer of several national and international journals and external examiner of both M.V.Sc. and Ph.D. students of SAUs.

Molecular Epidemiology; Molecular Diagnostics; Infectious diseases of Animal Origin and Zoonotic Diseases

Email: neeta.mathuria@cadilapharma.co.in; mathuria_25@yahoo.co.in

Dr. Neeta Mathuria, Objective of her life is to use my scientific thinking to the best of her ability combined with perseverance, so as to contribute to organisation’s growth and goal, as well as to attain her professional goal. She strongly believe to complete task within framed timeline with accuracy. Her achievements are such as about fifteen International Research Articles have been published in esteemed Journals with good impact factors. She attended many national and international conferences and symposiums and delivered presentations on her research work. Her two presentations are awarded first prize. During Ph.D. the title of thesis was “Evaluation of eco-friendly antioxidant in amelioration of Aflatoxin-Induced toxicity in mice” Work was carried out on “Evaluation of eco-friendly antioxidants in amelioration of aflatoxin-induced toxicity” under UGC sponsored scheme of Major Research Project under Principal investigator Prof. R. J. VERMA, Department of Zoology, Gujarat University, Gujarat, India. She enrolled and designated as “Life time member” of society of Toxicology, (STOX), India. She recognised as reviewer for two esteemed journals. Presently working as study director for various toxicology safety studies. Serving as a scientist in the conduct of assigned nonclinical CRO and research studies of moderate to high complexity, to include study management, interpretation and reporting of study data, and assuring the regulatory compliance of assigned projects. Her essential duties are such as functioning independently as study director in the direction and execution of assigned studies in compliance with GLP regulations. Participate in and coordinate all phases of study planning with all related departments. Generate high quality study plans, amendments and reports. Review, interpret, integrate and present data in regulatory compliance. Execute sponsor communication and interact for well planning and performance of study. Provide technical and scientific guidance to research staff. Perform all other related duties as assigned by the management.

Zoology; Toxicology; Pre-clinical and Pharmacology.

Email: leonardo@hc.uftm.edu.br; leonardo.euripedes@ebserh.gov.br; leonardoeuripedes@gmail.com

Dr. Leonardo Euripedes Andrade-Silva graduated in Biomedicine by the Triangulo Mineiro Federal University (UFTM) (2005), Master of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases by UFTM (2008) and Doctor of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases by UFTM (2014). Currently, he works in mycology laboratory and clinical pathology service of UFTM. He has experience in the microbiology and clinical analysis areas, with emphasis on mycology, mainly in the following areas: infectious and parasitic diseases, evaluation of virulence factors, cryptococcosis, candidiasis, antifungal susceptibility tests, identification of filamentous and yeasts fungi by classical and molecular methods, PCR, PCR RFLP, RAPD, PCR-fingerprinting, phylogenetic analysis and multilocus sequencing typing. He published 17 papers and tree papers submitted how collaborator

Infectious and Parasitic Diseases; Evaluation of Virulence Factors; Cryptococcosis; Candidiasis; Antifungal Susceptibility Tests; Identification of Filamentous and Yeasts Fungi by Classical and Molecular Methods; PCR; PCR-RFLP; RAPD; PCR-Fingerprinting; Phylogenetic Analysis and Multilocus Sequencing Typing.

Email: hodbiotech@mahendraarts.org; t_selvankumar@yahoo.com

Dr. Selvan Kumar have 19 years of teaching, research experience and specialized in Microbial Technology, Immunology, Nanoparticle and nano carbon synthesis, Drug development, Carbon sequestration and Drug delivery, Stress Biology and Bioenergetics. For his credit, He have published 52 research articles in National and International Journals and submitted 38 microbial nucleotide sequence data bank submitted in NCBI. Now acting as Co-ordinator of the Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure in Higher Educational Institutions (DST-FIST) supported by Department of Science & Technology with 30 lakhs (2014-2017) and received financial assistance for project by UGC. This fund is to upgrade the sophisticated instrumentation facility of PG Science Departments of the college. He have submitted Project proposals in the field of Nanotechnology based on dye stuff removal from dye polluted water, Isolation novel peptides from marine forms, development bacterial pigment based on Photovoltaic Solar cells to DBT, DST and BRNS.

His Research Interest includes Microbial Technology, Immunology, Nanoparticle and nano carbon synthesis, Drug development, Carbon sequestration and Drug delivery, Stress Biology and Bioenergetics

Email: mingxuguan@gmail.com

Dr. Mingxu is a Senior Technical Advisor in research and development, SinoVet Inc. Prior to May 2016 he worked in virology bioprocess, R&D., Pfizer Inc., in Michigan. He was responsible for validation of vaccine bioprocess development, cell suspension technique and technical transfer. He received Pfizer Individual Performance Awards in 2010 to 2015 since joining Pfizer Inc. in 2009. Prior to joining Pfizer, Mingxu has 12 plus years of vaccine research and development experience in Merck Inc. He was responsible for project proposals, experimental design, data analysis, study reports, vaccine development and license application. Mingxu holds a doctoral degree in medicine and a master degree in medical virology from China Medical University. He taught medical students in Microbiology and Immunology as a tenure-track faculty position for 11 years. He spent 8 years as a post-doctoral research fellow in medical schools, medical centers and government laboratories (CDC) in Italy, Canada and the United States. He won National Research Awards, National Institutes of Health (NIH) during his post-doctoral years. Mingxu was the first to discover “Human herpes viruses -6 infection in heart transplantation recipients” and “The impact of HIV and EBV co-infection in human T and B cells”. He wrote a great deal and currently served as a member of editorial board and peer reviewer for several medical journals. Mingxu is a full Member of American Society for Microbiology since 1992.

His research interest includes Microbiology and Immunology

Email: bs11h2mm@leeds.ac.uk

Hussaini Majiya received his first degree in Microbiology from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. His second degree in Biotechnology and PhD Biomedical Sciences were in the UK at the University of Leeds. He is affiliated to the Department of Microbiology, IBB University, Lapai, Nigeria, where he taught virology, immunology, microbial genetics, industrial microbiology and food microbiology. Thus far, he has published 4 papers and given 2 oral presentations at international conferences. His objective in life is excellent performance through dedication, hard work, honesty, team playing and willingness to serve on dynamic and result oriented research projects. His main aim as a young scientist is continuous research and development of platforms at the life science/environmental/physical science interface for application in addressing real-world problems. Being an enthusiastic person, also coupled to his background, he has interest in Microbiology and virology especially antimicrobial agents, photodynamic inactivation of viruses, molecular biology and biotechnology. His PhD (Biomedical Sciences) as well as first (BSc. Microbiology) and second (MSc. Biotechnology) degrees have given him a solid training and personal development experience in generic and transferable skills and attitudes. He has an integrated and critical understanding of research principles and methodologies in the Biosciences, and have developed critical skills, both qualitative and quantitative, in the interpretation of data. During his studies, he received training in a range of practical molecular and cellular biology skills that are of broad relevance to many fields in Biology. He is happily married with children.

Photodynamic inactivation of enteric viruses, sustainable low cost water disinfection, antimicrobial agents and phage therapy

Email: karamc28@ivri.res.in; virusshield@gmail.com

Dr. Karam Chand is Working as Scientist at ICAR- Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Mukteswar, India. He obtained my MVSc. and Ph.D in Veterinary Virology from IVRI, Izatnagar and he also received awards such as Young Scientist Award, 2016, best paper presentation 2012 and poster presentation awards 2016 by different organizations. He have guided and Co-guided 4 M.V.Sc. students and published more than 35 research papers in peer-reviewed Journals, book chapters, popular article and e-publications. Regarding research, he developed an indirect ELISA kit, Sandwich ELISA kit, competitive ELISA, LAMP etc. to screen bluetongue virus antigen and antibody and also standardized one step real time RT-PCR for detection of bluetongue virus. He also organized various training programs on, application of modern biotechnological technique in molecular biology research, bluetongue sandwich ELISA for detection of bluetongue virus antigen in cell culture and clinical material. He is maintaining more than 70 isolates of bluetongue virus repository under ICAR-All India Network Program on Bluetongue (AINP-BT). At present, he is working on various projects related to Bluetongue disease diagnosis and control which have been funded by several organizations like ICAR and DBT. He also served as a Peer reviewer of different international journals. He also serving as a member of Institute Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC), life member of Indian virological society (IVS) and Indian Association of Veterinary Microbiologists, Immunologists and Specialists in Infectious Diseases (IAVMI).

The current areas of research are development of modern diagnostic tools for blue tongue disease diagnosis, identification of virus serotype and molecular characterization of bluetongue virus (BTV), for disease control programmme.

Email: malj@berkeley.edu; joyabrata2006@gmail.com

Dr. Joy did his master (M.Tech) in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, India (2013). During his master time, he did his specialization in Environment Biotechnology and worked on biohydrogen synthesis from carbon monooxide. Joy obtained his PhD in Environmental Technology from UNESCO-IHE, Netherlands (2016) as an Erasmus mundus joint doctoral fellow (Environment Technologies for Contaminated Solids, Soils and Sediments; ETeCoS3). As part of program, he also carried out his part PhD research at various universities including Université Paris-Est, France and Leiden University. He has also been awarded with COST Fellowship (Feb’2016), a short-term research scientific mission grant (STSM, COST action ES1302, supported by Horizon 2020 European Union) and worked at University of Limoges, France. Currently he is a postdoctoral research fellow at Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, University of California, Berkeley and working on Selenium biogeochemistry. As a young researcher, his understanding of biotechnology has become deeply rooted in the fundamentals of wastewater treatment and application of bioreactors in environmental engineering Bioremediation and Bio-recovery of valuable metals, Geomicrobiology, metal-microbe interactions, industrial microbiology etc.

His specific research interests are: Environmental Biotechnology, Environmental Nanotechnology, Wastewater treatment, Bioremediation and Bio-recovery of valuable metals, Nano-ecotoxicology, Fate and speciation of nanoparticles in natural environment, Geomicrobiology and Biogeochemistry.

Email: dsumbria@utk.edu; dsumbria@utk.edu

Dr. Deepak Sumbria (born 9 September 1984) had completed his graduation and post graduation (PG) for College of Veterinary Sciences, Indira Gandhi Agricultural University is an agricultural university located in Raipur (Chhattisgarh), India. During his PG he has performed many in-vitro trials on predacious fungi (Duddingtonia flagrans and Verticillium chlamydosporium). After that he has completed his PhD (Veterinary Parasitology) from College of Veterinary Sciences, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University is a veterinary university in Ludhiana, Punjab, India and worked on Theileria equi prevalence. He has published 20 researches, 8 review articles in many national and international journals along with 9 gene bank submissions and 1 popular article. He has got two times best poster awards, and has 12 abstract in various national and international symposium, moreover he has also completed various short term courses including a Brazil tour and a China tour. He has written over one book, two book chapters and 2 manuals. He has more than 2 year and 6 months experience in research and teaching, at present He is a tutor with the Post- Graduate Institute of Veterinary Education & Research (PGIVER), Jaipur, India for B.V.Sc & AH course.

Egg parasitic and larvicidal fungi in-vitro trials; PCR; ELISA; IFAT; Real time PCR; MASP diagnostic techniques.

Email: srivastava.neelabh@gmail.com

Dr. Neelabh becoming an eminent scientist in the field of drug designing against the prevalent mycological diseases is the aim of my life. My present focus is on learning the recent techniques related to drug designing and development and utilizing them to produce efficient broad spectrum drugs against the fungi. My passion is to enter the new paradigm of peptidomimetics and produce antifungals that are free from side effects envisioning the zenith of drug designing i.e. tailors made or personalized drugs.

Mycology, Biotechnology,Drug designing, antifungal drug susceptibility

Email: waithakanj@yahoo.com; waithakanj@gmail.com

Dr. Paul Njenga Waithaka was born in Elburgon in Nakuru County in Kenya. He went to Mianzini Primary school (1985-1992) and later proceeded to Michinda secondary school (1993-1996). In the year 1999 he was enrolled for a diploma in Agricultural Education and Extension in Egerton University (1999-2004). He later proceeded to obtaining his bachelor’s degree (BOTA/ZOOL/CHEM) in the same University (2005-2007). In the year 2011, he joined Kenyatta University for his MSc. majoring in microbiology which he successfully completed in July 2004. Currently, He is a PhD (Microbiology) student in the final year in the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He has worked as a teacher in several schools including Michinda secondary school, Blessed valley education centre and St. Joseph's secondary schools. In addition, Paul is a renowned lecturer in several Universities in Kenya where he lectures General microbiology, Microbial physiology, mycology, virology, and pathogenic microbiology.

Dr. Paul Njenga Waithaka Research interest includes General microbiology, Microbial physiology, mycology, virology, and pathogenic microbiology.

Email: ps.alam@psau.edu.sa; alamprez@gmail.com

Dr. Pravej Alam completed his Ph.D in Biotechnology from Department of Biotechnology from Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University) New Delhi, India in 2012. Dr. Alam did his doctoral research basically focused on biosynthesis of a secondary metabolite production in plant and microbes. After 2012, he has awarded Dr. D.S. Khothari Postdoctoral fellowship award by UGC- Govt. of India. From 2012-2015, he served as Assistant Professor (Guest) at Biotechnology Department, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi., India involved in teaching as well as their research. In 2015, he has finally joined as Assistant Professor, Biology department, college of science Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia., Last one decades he is working on genetic engineering on biosynthesis of secondary metabolites production in microbes as well as in plants.

Functional genomics of microbes for production of secondary metabolite production. Bioinformatics. Plant and microbial biotechnology (based on heterologous approach)

Email: rajhanssanjay@gmail.com

Dr. Sanjay Gokhale is known for his work in Drug Trials and Clinical Research Projects. He completed residency in General Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology from B. J Wadia Institute of Child Health. There he worked as Registrar in Pediatrics and Neonatology for almost two years. During this period he had opportunity to examine about 10,000 neonates and more than 3000 patients in Indoor Section. With such massive experience he joined Rajhans Hospital- Emergency Clinic- at Saphale about 150 kilometers north of Mumbai city. Though a doctor with very astute clinical sense; he continued his research activities. He received Scholarship from ‘International Bio Pharmaceutical Association’ for a formal training in ‘Clinical Research and Drug Trials’ (2008), and he was nominated by Global Health Council [USA] for ‘International Best Practice Award’ for Social and Academic workHe has authored numerous publications in various national and international journals, and is also an active Reviewer for several reputed journals. He has showcased his work in various International Conferences.Recently with his co-workers he completed various Epidemiological and Active Interventional Research Projects about Vitamin-D. These appeared in different International Journals. He is working presently about Neonatal Blood Transfusion and Maternal Blood to her Newborn Baby. Few papers related to this subject are already available on Pub-Med

Dr. Sanjay Gokhale research interests include Drug Trials and Clinical Research, Neonatal Blood Transfusion and Genetic Defects, Birth Defects.

Email: rikesh.cdri@gmail.com

Rikesh Kumar Dubey is a Ph.D Scholar at Microbiology Division in CSIR- Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India. He obtained his Master degree in Applied Microbiology from Banaras Hindu University,Varanasi, India. He has done his undergraduate and postgraduate degree both in the field of microbiology. He has published scientific research articles in international peer reviewed journals. He is serving as Editorial Panel member of internationally reputed journal EC Microbiology and EC Proteomics and Bioinformatics. He also writes scientific articles in science magazines to make science popular among people. His areas of research are multidisciplinary involves molecular biology, microbiology, cell signaling and drug development. Currently, he is involved to find out the role of mitochondria in mycobacterial infection. He is also working on virulence factor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis which helps to establish successful infection in the host macrophages and also promotes its growth and intracellular survival. He has also attended several national and international conferences and meetings with his current area of interests.

Microbial Genetics; Mitochondrial Biology; Identification of the Target and Host-pathogen Interaction

Email: Editor@pimr.org.in; ramana_20021@rediffmail.com

"Dr. Venkataramana Kandi Completed his Masters in Medical Microbiology from Faculty of Medicine, Manipal University in India, and registered for PhD from Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences, India and obtained PhD by publication from ASU (America). Elected as Member (MAMS) of National Academy of Medical sciences (NAMS) for the year 2017. He is a Member of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists (LM 1919) and Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI) (AMI/LM-465/2013).He was accepted as a Member Asian Council for Science Editors (ACSE) (2015). He Published 5 books. He have presented and published more than 130 scientific research papers in National and International conferences and journals with more than 600 citations. (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=cbBUvuQAAAAJ).

Anaerobic Microbiology; Methanogens; Gut Microbiome; Molecular Biology and Metagenomics Data Analysis

Email: chivestizah@gmail.com

Mr Sylvester Chibueze Izah is a Ph.D student at Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Nigeria. He holds M.Sc in Applied Microbiology (Distinction) (2014/2015 session) and B.Sc Biological Sciences (Microbiology) (Second Class upper division) (2011/2012 session) from Niger Delta University. Between 2012 till date, Mr. Sylvester Izah has an impressive research and publication record in the field of Applied Biological Research including Bioenergy, Toxicology, Environmental Biotechnology and Pollution studies, Applied Microbiology viz: Environmental, Food, Pharmaceutical and Industrial Microbiology. Mr Izah has over 140 publications in both international and national journals. Before now, Mr Izah research interest focus on Bioenergy and Environmental Biotechnology. But currently his research is tending toward Toxicology, Food Microbiology, Public Health and Risk assessment

Toxicology, Food Microbiology and Risk Assessment, Public Health, Environmental Biotechnology

Email: swati.ojha@bsu.rcb.res.in; swatiojha05@gmail.com

Dr. Swati Ojha is currently working as Scientist (Bioprocessing Engineering/ Pharma Biotechnology/ Toxicology) at Biosafety Support Unit, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. She acquired her Doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in the year 2014. She completed her Masters in Biotechnology from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra in the year 2006. She has won many awards and fellowships. After completing her doctorate, she was awarded a Fast Track Project sanctioned by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. She was awarded a research associateship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India. After her Masters she has cleared many national level entrance exam; Junior Research Fellowship conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology. She has done a certificate course on Intellectual Property from World Intellectual Patent Organization (WIPO). She is a life member of The Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI). She has conducted research in the field of Green Chemistry, Biochemistry, and whole cell based synthesis of valuable compounds. She has many international and national research article publications in peer reviewed journals. She has also authored book chapters in international and national level books

Her Research Interest include Green Chemistry, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Whole cell catalysed Synthesis, Biotransformation.

Email: docal@ankara.edu.tr; drduygunil@hotmail.com

Dr. Duygu Öcal is graduated in Ankara University Faculty of Medicine (2007) as MD and she is graduated in Ankara University Faculty of Medicine (2015) as microbiology expertise. She is currently working in department of Microbiology, affiliated to University of Health Sciences Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital Ankara, Turkey. She has published 10 researches, 2 review articles in many national and international journals. She has got five times poster awards (oral and poster) in various national and international symposium. She is a member of scientific advisory board of Journal of Immunology and Clinical Microbiology and a member of editorial board of Insights in Head and Neck Cancer and Annals of Burns and Trauma.

Dr. Duygu Öcal reasearch of interest includes Microbiology, epidemiology, outcome, Staphylococcus aureus, antimicrobial resistance, carbapenemase, biofilm, biofilm treatment, wound infections,PCR, multiplex PCR, PFGE, genetic polymorphism.

Email: oxide_5@rediffmail.com

Dr. Sanchita Roy received her bachelor degree with honors in Physiology (human physiology) and master degree in Physiology (with Biochemistry) from University of Calcutta, India. She received PhD degree from Jadavpur University, India in Life science and Biotechnology, research area focused on environmental microbiology. After successful postdoctoral training at Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA she is currently full time research faculty (Research Associate) at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 2016.

Dr. Sanchita Roy research interest include Microbiology, molecular biology, immunology, HIV, DNA damage repair, Genome editing CRISPR, cancer biology, biochemistry.

Email: kunal@pau.edu; kunal_pau@yahoo.co.in

Dr. Kunal has received his PhD in 2014 from Thapar University, Patiala (Punjab, India). He is currently working as Post Doctoral Research Associate at Department of Soil Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (Punjab, India). The research interests include soil microbial diversity studies, plant-microbe interaction studies, nutrient use efficiency in crop plants, role of mesophiles/ extremophiles in bio-remediation, microbial interactions with industrial wastes and concrete composites, and metal - leachate analysis. He acted as the member of Scientific Committee of 13th Students Science Conference (Poland) in 2015; Students’ Science Conference 2016 (Poland) and EKO-DOK 2017, 2018 (Poland). He is serving as editorial board member of American Journal of Plant Biology (USA); peer review board member of Biotechnological Research Journal (India) & expert reviewer for journals like Agronomy Journal (American Society of Agronomy), Science of the Total Environment (Elsevier), Archives of Agronomy & Soil Science (Taylor & Francis), Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier), ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (American Society of Civil Engineers), African Journal of Environmental Science & Technology (Academic Journals), International Journal of Medicine and Public Health (Wolters Kluwer) and, International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (Inderscience Publishers). He has authored 45 research, conference articles and book chapters. He is a member of Indian Science Congress Association (Kolkata, India), Association of Microbiologists of India, Honorary Life Membership of Asian PGPR Society of Sustainable Agriculture (Auburn, USA), International Association of Advanced Materials (Sweden) and, Society of Chemical Industry (London, UK).

Research Interest of Dr. Kunal includes Microbial Technology, Biotechnology, Environmental Sciences.

Email: dr.morsy@gmail.com

Dr. Mahmoud El Morsy Graduated from faculty of Pharmacy Tanta University 2003. He worked at ministry of health, kingdom of saudi arabia as drug information and critical care clinical pharmacist as well clinical pharmacy director in a private hospital in jedda. He did master Degree in clinical pharmacology 2012.He got American Board in Critical Care Pharmacy 2015 and in Pharmacotherapy 2012

Dr. Mahmoud El Morsy Research Interests includes Infectious disease, Microbiology, Critical care, Toxicology and Hospital General Pharmacotherapy

Email: shantiks@rediffmail.com

Dr. Laishram Shantikumar Singh is currently working as Scientist, Microbial Biotechnology at Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, Sikkim Centre, DBT, Govt. of India, Gangtok, Sikkim, India. He holds graduate and post graduate degree in Microbiology from Bangalore University, Bengaluru, India and received PhD degree in Microbial Biotechnology from Dibrugarh University, India through research at CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat, Assam, India. He has worked on many government grant projects. He has received several awards and recognitions for his academic and research achievements, including Group Technology Award 2009 given by DRL, DRDO. Dr. Singh has over 15 years of research experience in the field of Microbiology, Biotechnology, Microbial Bioprospecting, After Ph. D. he has worked at University School of Biotechnology in GGSIP University, Delhi and also at corporate R & D sectors of Tata Tea Research Centre in APPL, Jorhat, Assam. He had taught Microbiology and Biotechnology courses as lecturer at Brindavan College, Bangalore University & Microbiology course as visiting faculty at CAEPHT, CAU, India. He has more than 15 research papers/book chapters publish in National and International Journal of repute & presented articles in many National and International conferences. He has published many research data in NBCI Genbank database. Many students have carried out M.Sc. dissertation projects as well as summer trainings under his guidance. He serves as a reviewer for many reputed journals including African Journal of Biotechnology, African journal of microbiology research, Pharmaceutical Biology, Medical Sciences, Indian journal of experimental biology, Journal of Basic Microbiology, World Journal Microbiology and Biotechnology, Fresenius Environmental Bulletin (FEB), Educational Research and Essays. He is also the Managing Editor of special Issue of frontiers in Biosciences 2018, as well as editorial member of many journal such as SciFed Journal of Immunology, Aperito Journal of Bacteriology, Virology and Parasitology; SciFed Journal of Flu Science; SciFed Journal of Virology. At present 2 JRFs are working for their PhD work in his laboratory and two project Assistants.

Dr. Laishram Shantikumar Singh's research interest includes Microbial Diversity, Bioprospecting, Bioactive compound and antimicrobial agents from actinomycetes, endophytes, Biopesticides and plant pathogens crops, Plant endophytes relation, Fight against drug resistant and opportunistic pathogens, Antimicrobial potential of medicinal plants, Chemical Ecology of Endophytes, Chromatographical analysis of secondary metabolites of microbial origin.

Email: trantienanhvimaru@gmail.com

Dr. Tien Anh Tran works as a Researcher, Lecturer at Faculty of Marine Engineering, Vietnam Maritime University, Haiphong city, Vietnam. He has got Ph.D degree at School of Energy and Power Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China. During time of research working, he has published about 08 papers for international journals, conference proceedings. He has jointed to write a chapter of book: Low Carbon Technology and Economic. He has reviewed for some papers of Journals: Ship and Offshore Structures" and "Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability. Moreover, he has joined as an organization member of The 3rd International Conference on Go Green will be hold in Manila, Philippines on March, 2018. His field concentrates on energy efficiency of ships, optimal operations for ships, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, green shipping, bio energy, etc.

Dr. Tien Anh Tran's research interest includes Sea environmental protection, Marine engineering, Marine diesel engine, Global warming potential, Coastal research, Ocean engineering, etc.

Email: hana.kareem@garmian.edu.krd; hana.baghdad@gmail.com

Dr. Hana Kareem Maikhan has been awarded with Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology\ Mycology from Baghdad University, Iraq. She completed her Ph.D. research work in Molecular Research Laboratory in Biology Department\ University of Garmian, Kurdistan of Iraq and published several research papers in scientific journals. She also presented her Ph.D. Research work as a book in LAMBERT Academic Publisher. She holds a first class honors degree in Microbiology from Baghdad University, Iraq. She also holds an excellence degree in M.Sc. in Immunology from Baghdad University, Iraq. She holds the first class with excellence degree in B.Sc. in general biology \ University of Baghdad. Presently, she is working as a lecturer in Biology Department, University of Garmian, in Kurdistan of Iraq. She has over seven year’s research experience in different field of Mycology\ Microbiolog/ biotechnology and Immunology.

Dr. Hana Kareem Maikhan research interest includes Fungal diseases, Pathogenic fungi, Probiotics, Microbial diseases and Immune diseases.

Email: sadaf11hasan@gmail.com

Dr. Sadaf Hasan has done her PhD from Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University (India), where she worked on dental biofilms and the development of anti- biofilm agents. She has studied in vitro as well as in vivo effects of anticariogenic compounds on inhibition of cariogenic potential of Streptococcus mutans. She proposed active fractions of different medicinal plants as therapeutic anti- biofilm candidate against virulence properties of Streptococcus mutans including the formation of dental biofilm. She has also, successfully developed a novel synergistic combination, which demonstrated to be an improved treatment strategy against dental caries. This combination inhibited the bacterial pathogenesis by upsetting different genes and bacterial enzymes involved in regulatory network of the bacteria, leading to suppression of virulence pathways of Streptococcus mutans. Dr. Sadaf Hasan have published her research work as first author in journals of international repute including PLoS One, BMC Microbiology, Future Medicine etc. Precisely, her independent research has endowed her with a strong insight into understanding the molecular mechanisms of biofilms. Currently, Dr. Sadaf Hasan is employed as a postdoctoral fellow under WOMEN SCIENTIST SCHEME, working on multidrug resistance (MDR) bacterial biofilms associated with indwelling medical devices (IMDs) in Critical Care Setup. They are aiming to develop therapeutic anti-biofilm materials/ coatings that can modify the surface properties of medical devices. This will lead to enhanced inhibition of bacterial adhesion resulting in unsuccessful biofilm formation, hence eventually circumventing fatal infections.

Dr. Sadaf Hasan’s Research interest includes Medical/ Clinical Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Oral Biology, Dental caries, Oral Biofilms, Antibiotic resistance, Anti- bacterial activity of Herbal medicine, Medicinal plants

Email: rajeev.shah77643@paruluniversity.ac.in; dr.rajeevrshah@gmail.com

Rajeev Ramanlal Shah has passed his post graduate from MS University, Vadodoara. He got his doctorate from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat. He has been teaching medical microbiology as well as looking after clinical microbiological laboratory since more than two decades. He had even conducted one research project on “Anaerobic infections in obstetric and gynaecological practice” long back. He was interested more in immunology, virology and especially in HIV. Also interested in research work and publication. Till date he published about 13 research papers, in all of them except two he has been first as well as corresponding author. He even selected as member of Editorial Board in one internal journal- World Journal of Pharmaceutical and life sciences. He has given his services as reviewer in many articles of medical microbiology in various journals. Recently he is serving in Parul Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Vadodara as a Head & Professor in Microbiology Department.

Dr. Rajeev Ramanlal Shah Research interest includes Immunology; Microbiology and Virology especially in HIV

Email: Karthikeyanrengasamy@wustl.com; karthikelectro@gmail.com

Dr. Karthikeyan Rengasamy is Post-doctoral scientist in Department of Biology, Washington University in St Louis, USA. Dr. Karthik have received his Ph. D in chemistry (2013) in the field of bioelectrochemical systems (e.g., Microbial fuels cell, Bioelectrochemistry, and Biosensors) from Central electrochemical research Institute (CSIR-CECRI, Govt. of India), Karaikudi, India. He has acquired experience in characterization of electrogenic biofilms using various electrochemical analytical techniques to understand microbial electron transfers. Currently, Dr. Karthik is working on various noval aspects of photo(light)sensitive microbial interaction with charged electrodes or photobiocathodes. He is performing experiments on both applied and basic research projects. For example, microbial electrosynthesis from CO2, modified electrodes, microfluidic electrochemical cells for understanding the direct microbial electron transfer, etc. He has published about 25 research articles in international peer reviewed journals, and three book chapters in his research career at India, Hong Kong, and USA. He is an active reviewer from various journals such as World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology(WIBI); Iranian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (IJCCE); Environmental technology(ET); Chemical Data Collections (CDC); International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT); Frontiers in microbiology; Energies

Dr. Karthikeyan Rengasamy Research interests includes Microbial electron uptake of phototrophs; Microbial fuel cells; Microbial electrolysis and synthesis cells; Microfabrication of bioelectrochemical sensors; Microfluidics; Fundamental microbial electrochemistry; Bio- electrochemical remediation of groundwater and petroleum pollutants; Nanomaterial synthesis; Biocathodes developments; Modified electrodes for biosensors.

Email: jbhojwani2005@gmail.com

Dr. Jyoti Bhojwani, is presently a Faculty of Genetics/Bioinformatics/ Principal Investigator of the M.Tech Research Programs (Bio-Informatics) at University of Indore, India. She obtained her B.Sc.(Bachelors degree) in Biological Sciences/Chemistry/Physics, M.Sc.(Master’s degree) in Life-Sciences, and Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) at School of Life-Sciences, University Of Indore. She pursued her post-doctoral ventures at Max-Planck Institute For Biophysical Chemistry (FRG), University Of California-Irvine and University Of Pittsburgh (USA). Currently, her projects mainly focus on translational-research and extrapolation of basic developmental mechanisms from model-systems like fruitfly (Drosophila) to human. Apart from this, her thrust areas of research interest include; Cancer Biology, Stem-Cell Biology and Homeotic-Gene Regulation. She is keen on studying in details the genetic factors, which presumably aid in understanding of mechanism by which “cancer stem cells” function in transforming a tissue from normal to cancerous states. Her research has a motive to further facilitate the perception of stem cell potential/mechanistic in areas of Regenerative Medicine, Translational Research and Anti-cancer therapy. Being involved in Clinical informatics, her students are also training a Cancer model and a Stem cell model, deploying Systems Biology approach and other Gene Networking Bio-Informatics tools. This novel area of research will hopefully lead to further understanding the tipping of balance from a stem cell/normal cell to a transformed cancer cell. Owing to her immense interest in science journalism and writing potential, she is now on the editorial board of several International Journals. Her Specialties Include: Research/Teaching/Mentoring/Science-Journalism

Dr. Jyoti Bhojwani, Research interests includes Gene Regulation and Evolution/ Homeosis, Cancer Research, Stem Cell Biology, Bioinformatics in Biology, Drosophila/fruitfly model system, Cancer genetics

Email: rajesh.mbu@gmail.com

Dr. Rajesh Kumar is a microbiologist and holds a doctorate degree in Dairy Microbiology from National Dairy Research Institute (ICAR), Karnal, India; a first class Masters degree in Microbiology from Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, India; and also possesses a Bachelors degree in Biology from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Merrut, India. He has also completed his ICMR-Post-Doctoral research from National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR), Hyderabad, India. He has qualified ICAR-NET 2014, 2015, 2017 & 2018 in Agricultural Microbiology. He has gained more than seven years experience in microbiology, probiotics, molecular biology and r-DNA technology research, and approximately 05 years of experience in environmental monitoring etc. He has worked on: i) bacterial (aerobic/microaerophilic/anaerobic) enumeration, isolation, propagation and identification; ii) designing of novel microbiological and enzymatic/colorimetric assay methods; iii) in vitro and in vivo assessment of probiotics for its survival under GI transit and cholesterol lowering attributes; iv) PCR and RT-qPCR assays, molecular cloning, heterologus expression and purification of recombinant proteins, FPLC-Affinity (Ni-NTA); v) neutraceuticals, functional foods, microencapsulation. In addition, he is experienced in environmental monitoring of eutrophic rivers and lakes. He is presently working as: i) Deputy Assistant Director in Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, India; ii) Officer in-charge of Filling Section of New DPT GMP Facility of CRI, Kasauli; and Officer in-charge of Bottling and Central Sterilization Media Sections of CRI, Kasauli. He is also engaged in teaching and guiding of M.Sc Microbiology students in CRI, Kasauli. He is a life-time member of the Probiotic Association of India. Dr. Rajesh Kumar has published seven research articles and two review papers in reputed Impact International Journals. Besides, he has published 02 book chapters in books published by International Publisher. He has also delivered oral and poster presentations in various international conferences and received best poster presentation awards twice.

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Research interests includes Probiotics; Lactic Acid Bacteria; rDNA Technology; Microbiology – Agricultural/Dairy/Oral; Molecular biology; DPT Vaccine.

Email: hyatmahmud2546@yahoo.com.hk; mhyat81@gmail.com

Dr. Hyat Mahmud is an Additional Deputy Director (Crop) in Department of Agricultural Extension (Bangladesh Civil Service: Agriculture cadre), of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh since April 25, 1994. Dr. Mahmud graduated from Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh and obtained his Master of Science degree in Plant Pathology in the Department of Plant Pathology, Bangladesh Agricultural University. He achieved his Doctor of Philosophy degree (Research field, Biological control, Seed pathology and molecular plant pathology) in 2016 from BAU. He has published more than 24 papers in reputed national and international journals that have been cited over 24 times, and his publication H-index is remarkable. He has been serving as a reviewer of reputed many international Journals. In addition to this, he received a good number of professional trainings in-country and overseas to enhance professional, research and administrative competence for the Department of Agricultural Extension, and project development for sustainable agriculture, development project work, and also have excellent inter-personal and research skills developed over the last twenty four years. He is working on Bipolaris oryzae for sequencing gene in observing variation over the years with Dr. M. Delwar Hossain, BAU, Mymensing.

Dr. Hyat Mahmud Research interest includes Bio-control, Molecular plant pathology and gene sequencing of fungi; Bioassay of microbes, detecting changes in molecular characterization of fungus, and Genome analysis

Email: jess@kvasu.ac.in

Dr. Jess Vergis is Assistant Professor in Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pookode of Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Wayanad, India. Dr. Jess received his Masters and Doctoral degree from ICAR- Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly. He worked on enteric bacterial pathogens with special reference to Enteroaggregative E. coli. He has experience in microbiology and molecular biology

Dr. Jess Vergis Research interests includes Antimicrobial Resistance; One Health; Biofilm; Molecular Epidemiology

Email: parul.thapar@yahoo.com

Dr. Parul Thapar (born 20 December 1989) had completed her graduation from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India and post-graduation (PG) form Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India. During her graduation, she has performed microbiological and biochemical examinations for isolating Escherichia coli from sewage water and then extracting its plasmid. During her PG she has performed microbiological and biochemical examinations for isolating Pseudomonas spp. from fresh produce and determining its antimicrobial resistance against certain antibiotics (penicillin, chloramphenicol and gentamicin). After that she has submitted her PhD (Dairy Science and Technology sp. Dairy Microbiology) from School of Agriculture, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India and worked on Bacteriocin production and characterization from Lactic acid bacteria for food and biomedical applications. She has published 3 researches, 1 review article in many national and international journals and 1 popular article in Science reporter magazine. She has received Young Scholar and Young Achiever’s awards, and has 7 abstract in various national and international conferences. She has more than 3 years experience in research, at present she is Senior Research Fellow for a CDC project on preventing antimicrobial resistance to control hospital infections at Department of Lab Medicine, Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Centre- All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Dr. Parul Thapar Research interests includes Microbiological and biochemical techniques; DNA extraction and PCR

Email: mauriceling@gmail.com; computer.in.science@gmail.com

Dr Maurice HT Ling is a Research Assistant Professor at the Perdana University School of Data Sciences (PU-SDS). He obtained his BSc(Hons) in Molecular and Cell Biology from The University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2004; and BSc in Computing from the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, in 2007; before obtaining his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from The University of Melbourne, Australia; in 2009. He is a bioinformatician who is currently working on looking at evolutionary biology and various aspects of life. His main techniques are through experimental evolution and simulations, such as artificial life simulation, to access evolutionary perspectives; and using existing published data. He has developed computational algorithms as part of this research. He has a diversity of other interests, including professional and social aspects of science and education; and studies this area using autoethnographical and autobiographical methods.He co-founded Python User Group (Singapore), and is instrumental in inaugurating PyCon Asia-Pacific as one of the 3 major Python conferences worldwide, together with PyCon US and EuroPython. On the commercial side, he co-founded the first synthetic biology startup in Singapore, AdvanceSyn Pte. Ltd., as Director (Technology); as well as the Principal Partner of Colossus Technologies LLP, Singapore. In his free time, he likes to read, enjoy a cup of coffee, writing his personal journal, or philosophizing on various aspects of life.

Dr Maurice HT Ling Research interests such as artificial life simulation, to access evolutionary perspectives; and using existing published data. He has developed computational algorithms as part of this research. He has a diversity of other interests, including professional and social aspects of science and education; and studies this area using autoethnographical and autobiographical methods

Email: raada.almusawi@uokufa.edu.iq; raadbiology@yahoo.com

Dr. Raad Abdulabass Hamza Al Harmoosh, Ph.D. in Microbiology and M.Sc. in Immunology. I am a lecturer at the University of Kufa, Iraq. Have a number of works in microbiology and immunology and I have planned to future works in these areas.

Dr. Raad Abdulabass Hamza Al Harmoos Research interests includes Microbiology; Immunology; Microbial Contamination Treatment; Epidemiological diseases; Molecular Biology; Microbial Ecology.

Email: debadattaouat@gmail.com

Mr. Debadatta Sethi is now pursuing Ph.D. by availing Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship (RGNF-JRF) in Department of Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. He has qualified ICAR -NET in 2015 and 2016I and CSIR-JRF in 2016. He have published 12 research articles in reputed national and international journals, 9 popular articles, and members of 6 professional societies, published one objective book “Soil Science” and is recipient of prestigious Young Scientist Award from National Environmentalists Association, Ranchi, India in the year 2018.

Mr. Debadatta Sethi research interests are Biological Nitrogen fixation, Carbon sequestration, Microbial diversity in rhizosphere, effect of nutrient and climate on rhizobacteria & PGPR

Email: dr.gautampatra@yahoo.co.in; cvscaizawl@gmail.com

Dr Gautam Patra, Assistant professor (SG) has been working at Central Agricultural University (CAU), Imphal, Manipur since 2001. He has more than 18 years of teaching and research experience. He has published more than 50 articles in national and international journals and he is also the author of one book. He completed his undergraduate at BCKVV, West Bengal during the year of 1992 and thereafter he joined at IVRI, bareilly, UP for post graduate study. He completed PG in the year of 1994 before joining as Veterinary surgeon in West Bengal state government. He has seven years field experience. He was the recipient of University merit scholarship and IVRI junior fellowship during UG and PG studies. He joined as Assistant Professor, CVSc&AH, Selesih, Aizawl, Mizoram in the year of 2001 and subsequently he got permission to pursue PhD program in the year of 2012. He completed his PhD in Veterinary Parasitology in the year of 2015. He guided one MVSc student and was the co-guide of three MVSc students. He is expert in the field of molecular and immunological work.

Dr Gautam Patra has research interest in molecular biology and immunology.

Email: subhasree.ray@ril.com; roysubhoshree@gmail.com

Dr. Subhasree Ray is the ‘Corporate Dietitian’ of Reliance Industries Limited, heading the corporate nutrition department of the organization across India. She is a PhD scholar of Ketogenic Diet with 8 years of experience in Nutrition science and Medical Nutrition Therapy. She has worked with Govt. of India in eradication of child malnutrition for 2 years. She is a public speaker of Nutrition, health, wellness and lifestyle management. She has authored 17 scientific research articles in various national and international journals. She has also presented her research work in 18 conferences, workshops and seminars. She has received ‘Young Researcher Award’ for her research in probiotic and HIV. She is an advisor for many organizations and companies dealing with food and nutrition as their major component. She is the reviewer and editorial board member of two reputed international journals and one national journal. She is the lifetime member of Indian Dietetic Association, Nutrition Society of India and Probiotic Association of India.

Dr. Subhasree Ray Research interests are Medical nutrition therapy, corporate wellness, corporate nutrition, life style disorders, public health nutrition, paeditric nutrition, food microbiology, clinical nutrition, nutrigenomics, diabetes management, sports nutrition, nutrition education, occupational health, ketogenic diet, modified atkin’s diet, Paleolithic diet, food technology, probiotics & prebiotics and mindful eating

Email: shivaji.jadhav@lilacinsights.com; scientistshivaji@gmail.comDepartment of Molecular Oncology

Dr Shivaji K Jadhav completed his graduation in Microbiology and Post graduation in Biotechnology from Karnataka University and further he completed PhD in Biochemistry (Molecular HIV Virology) from University of Mumbai and He has carried out his molecular Virology research at National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health [NIRRH] a premier Indian Council of Medical Research, (ICMR) Institute in Mumbai. Presently he is working at Lilac Insights Private Limited as Scientific Officer – F in Department of Molecular Oncology and the lab is fully equipped with state of art of facility to carry out Onco Molecular test Panels for Haematological malignancies and Solid Tumors with advanced sequencing technologies, Before Joining Lilac, Dr Shivaji was working at Head of Laboratory Operations at Mapmygenome and Co.Head of Infectious Disease at Sandor Life sciences. He has also worked as Senior Scientist C at NIMR, Indian Council of Medical Research, (ICMR ) Goa in project “Malaria Evolution in South Asia” funded by National Institute of Health and International Centre of Excellence for Malaria Research, (ICEMR) National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases (NIAID) USA. He has worked with team of scientists at NIMR on Vectors, infection rate, vector competency and host Pathogen interaction in malaria. He has been awarded with Prestigious Fogarty International HIV/AIDS Training and Research Fellowship programme from National Institute of Health, USA, He has been trained in Advance Molecular Virology techniques, HIV Drug Resistance, True Gene Sequencing and Mucosal Transmission of HIV and genetic diversity at Boston School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School,USA. He was mentored under the guidance of Dr Deborah Anderson and Dr Manish Sagar

Dr. Shivaji K Jadhav has total fourteen years of experience in the area of Molecular Diagnostics, Virology and Infectious Diseases; He has been awarded with thirteen International young Scientist Awards, Global Health, International Travel grants and Scholarships

Email: a26813@dbeb.iitd.ac.in; s.kapooriitd@gmail.com

Dr. Kapoor received his PhD in Cancer Nanotechnology in 2017 from Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBME), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He obtained his Master’s degree in Microbiology and Bachelors in Industrial Microbiology from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India. Previously, he worked at Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, where he worked on optimization of various parameters for mass production of recombinant lipases. Later, he was appointed as Laboratory Officer (quality control) in the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Govt. of India where his job profile involved quality control of food products according to various Indian Standards. Presently, he is working in the Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) in the area of Microbiology and has an experience of more than ten years. He has published peer reviewed research articles in journals of International repute.

Dr. Kapoor Research interests include Screening, Isolation and Characterization of microorganisms producing therapeutic metabolites, Production of microbial biopolymers at small scale, Antimicrobial activity of metallic nanoparticles, Testing of food products for screening of potential pathogenic microorganisms and bacterial mitigation.

Email: pramod.prasad@icar.gov.in; pramoddewli@gmail.com

Dr. Pramod Prasad is associated with wheat rust research programme. He ha conducted population biology studies of Puccinia graminis tritici and Puccinia triticina from South Asia, contributed in decoding the genomes of 15 pathotypes of Puccinia triticina, sequencing of the genome of three pathotypes of Puccinia striiformis (46S119, 31 & K), contributed in deciphering the molecular basis of leaf rust resistance gene Lr24 mediated leaf rust resistance in wheat and identification and characterisation of ten new pathotypes {46S117, 110S119, 238S119, 110S84, 110S247, 7S0 and 6S0 (Indian Phytopathology 69(4s): 178-85); 111S68, 79S4, and 79S68 (Indian Phytopathology 70(3): 307-314)} of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici and two new pathotypes (107-1 and 20-1) of Puccinia triticina. Currently, he is working at ICAR-IIWBR, Regional Station, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh on population biology and molecular basis of host-pathogen interaction in wheat and barley rusts

Dr. Pramod Prasad Research interests includes Population biology and molecular basis of host-pathogen interaction in wheat and barley rusts.

Email: sabatier.jm1@libertysurf.fr; sabatier.jm1@gmail.com

Dr. Jean-Marc SABATIER is a Director of research at the French CNRS, with PhD and HDR degrees in Biochemistry and Microbiology. He headed several academic research teams (CNRS, INSERM and University), as well as a combined academic-industry research laboratory devoted to the engineering of therapeutic peptides (ERT62, Marseilles, France). He was also a Director of Research for several French private companies as well as a Canadian public company. He acts as a Consultant for top pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies. Dr. Sabatier works in the field of animal toxins. He so far contributed to several books in toxinology and virology, and more than 160 scientific articles, 180 communications, and 53 patents in both biology and chemistry. He is a member of 52 Editorial Boards of scientific journals, such as ‘Peptides’, ‘Molecules’, ‘Antibiotics’, and the ‘Journal of Biological chemistry’. He also reviewed articles submitted for publication in 87 international journals and acts as an expert for numerous institutions (ANR, CEA, CNRS, MRC, ISF, BARD, AIRD, IPT, Pasteur Institutes, Ville de Paris, Region Languedoc-Roussillon, Fondation Arthritis, etc.). He won the ‘Citizen of the Year Award’ from the Nouvel Economiste (1994) for his work on antivirals. He is a member of a dozen scientific societies, such as the ‘American Peptide Society’ (charter member), ‘European Peptide Society’, ‘American Society for Microbiology’, ‘Biochemical Society’ and ‘New-York Academy of Sciences’.

Dr. Jean-Marc SABATIER Research interests are antimicrobials, antibacterials, antivirals, drug design, peptide and protein engineering, toxinology.

Email: parthapratim44@yahoo.com; parthakalita@gmail.com

Mr. Partha Pratim Kalita has been working with Department of Biotechnology, Assam down town University for the last eight years. He has an academic carrier with throughout first class grade. He has 10 no of national and international research paper into his credit and one book chapter with ISBN no. His research interest mainly focuses on cancer biology, CADD and medicinal plants. He has guided 10 postgraduate and 20 graduate students. Mr. Kalita was the recipient of Late Binod Kumar Agarwal PhD Research Grant by Cancer Research Foundation and BBCI. He has developed one software for finding restriction enzymes cut site.

Mr. Kalita research interest are computer aided drug designing, cancer biology, identification of antimicrobial plants and analysis of heavy metals on fish.

Email: shresthajeevan3@gmail.com; g106030520@mail.nchu.edu.tw

Dr. Jeevan Kumar Shrestha, young microbiologist and molecular plant breeder, completed Master’s degree in Public health microbiology from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He has published scientific research papers and a book chapter in renowned publications. He has isolated low-density polyethylene degrading Bacillus spp. from the soil from a landfill site. Currently, he is working as a researcher in the lab of genetics and genomics in National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan. He was awarded the research grant by the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS).

Dr. Jeevan Kumar Shrestha’s research interests are microbiology and plant pathology, genetics and molecular biology, and plant breeding.

Email: mahmoud-nasr@alexu.edu.eg; mahmmoudsaid@gmail.com

Dr. Mahmoud Nasr (born in December 1983) has more than ten years of specialization in environmental engineering. A strong academic background in infrastructure, sanitary engineering and environmental studies, supports his experience. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, as well as, a design lead at a consulting office. He has an in-depth capability as team-leader, design lead and projects coordinator for water and wastewater treatment plants. He has a specific practice with all aspects of environmental studies, wastewater collection & treatment and reuse, water management and networks design, water supply, water plants operation and maintenance, background analyses to conceptual studies, master plans and projects economic research. In 2006, B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Alexandria University; 2010, M.Sc. Sanitary Engineering, Alexandria University; 2013, Exchange Ph.D. student, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology; 2014, Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Egypt - Japan University of Science and Technology; 2015, Post-Doc Fellow, Institute of water and wastewater Technology, Durban University of Technology; 2016-now Assistant research scientist, Texas A&M University.

Dr. Mahmoud Nasr Research interests include Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry; Business; Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Computer Science; Earth and Planetary Sciences; Energy; Engineering; Environmental Science; Genetics and Molecular Biology; Management and Accounting; Social Sciences

Email: as.sarpal@ocsindia.co.in; sarpal.as2@gmail.com

Dr. A S Sarpal is an expert with 40 years of diverse experience in the different disciplines of Analytical Sciences of development and characterization of petroleum and related products, catalysts, polymers and biofuels (biodiesel and renewable diesel from vegetable oils, microalgae and yeast). He has completed his master degree (Hons) in chemistry in 1974 from Punjab University, Chandigarh, India, and Ph.D degree in analytical chemistry in 1980 from GNDU, Amritsar, India. He has a strong aptitude and passion in unraveling mystery in chemistry by the application of sophisticated analytical techniques such as FT NMR, FTIR, Gas & Liquid chromatography (GC, GC-MS, HPLC), X-Ray Techniques (XRD & XRF), Electron spectroscopy (TEM, SEM, ESCA) and metal analyses (ICAP, ICP-MS, AAS). He joined R&D centre of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., India (Fortune 'Global 500' listing) in 1977 and worked in various research position from 1977 to 2011, and superannuated in the capacity of General Manager He has special interest and in-depth knowledge in the applications of multipulse NMR Techniques (300, 400, 500, 600, 800 MHz). Molecular dynamic studies of lubricant systems for structure-property correlation (viscosity-temperature and viscosity- pressure properties) and additive-additive interaction by NMR and IR techniques have been acclaimed as an effective tool for the development of efficient lubricants. He was responsible for providing analytical research support to the key projects of IndianOil such as development and quality up -gradation of fuel range products (Euro III-V), biofuels, specialty products, lubricants including high viscosity index base stocks and high performance additives, polymers and petrochemicals, refinery catalysts and feed stocks for various refinery processes. He has developed new 50 analytical methods, written 200 internal technical reports and published 141 research papers in the reputed journals and conference proceedings. He has also worked at University of Illinois in 2011on a project on biofuels from algae biomasses. He completed research project on study of biodiesel potential of algae and yeast biomasses, and vegetable oils by analytical techniques in the capacity of research fellow and team leader at the Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (INMTRO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from April 2012 to October 2015. During his research tenure at INMETRO, he developed innovative analytical methods, which proved cost effective and rapid analytical tools for the screening of microalgae strains for the enhancement of biomass and lipid productivity, and monitoring cultivation process for biodiesel and nutritional potential. He is a recipient of National Petroleum Management for Creativity & Innovation Program - Award of excellence, and PCRA energy conservation award for exemplary work in energy conservation, and many best paper presentation awards. Awarded Wolff Kishner Research Award in Analytical Chemistry for the year 2015, Award of excellence, by International Agency for Standards and Rating, USA.

Dr. A S Sarpal Research interests include Analytical sciences of development & characterization and solution provider of petroleum and related products, catalysts, polymers and biofuels (biodiesel and renewable diesel from vegetable oils, microalgae and yeast)

Email: a.khapre@neeri.res.in; abhishek.khapre@yahoo.in

Mr. Abhishek Khapre is working as Senior Research Fellow at CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur. He has completed M. Tech in Biotechnology from VIT University, Vellore and has joined Ph.D. program at CSIR-NEERI under AcSIR scheme. He represented India for the joint IndoSwiss-Nepalese project for the sustainable rural development. He is also associated to of Kathmandu University (KU) as Research Associate at Technical Training Centre (TTC). Currently, he is engaged in various projects in solid waste management domain. Besides of this, he has published 8 Research Papers in SCI journals and 2 book chapters with total impact factor of 14.24, H-index of 3 and 35 citations (Google Scholar).

Mr. Abhishek Khapre major research interests includes a wide range of fields which includes, Environmental Bioengineering, Bioremediation, Phytoremediation, Environmental Bio-sustainability, Waste Management, Bio-energy production, Water Sanitation and Hygiene, etc

Email: ibondoc@uaiasi.ro; bondoc_mv@yahoo.com

Dr. Ionel BONDOC, Current workplace and position: University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Iasi (ROMANIA), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Public Health Department, Assoc. Prof., DVM, MSc, VPD, PhD; Work experience (experience in teaching and research): 26 years; Head of Research and Teaching Units: Control of Products and Food of Animal Origin; Food Safety; Control and Quality Assurance of Food; Inspection and Veterinary Sanitary Law; 9 Books, of which 3, indexed by CAB International and Web of Science Core Collection; Published and/or communicated total works (scientific papers): 101; Scientific papers indexed in International Databases: total 70, of which 43 as single author, first author or scientific coordinator; Scientific papers published in International Databases indexed journals (Veterinary Bulletin, CAB International Publishing Databases, HeinOnline and others) – 53; Scientific papers indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, Categories – Food Science and Technology and Veterinary Sciences: 17, of which as the single author 16; Scientific Coordinator of Veterinary Theses (Veterinary Degree), Engineering Degree and Dissertation Papers: 119; Awards: EUROINVENT 2015, Silver Medal for the handbook: Control of products and food of animal origin. Universitary Textbook, 1st ed., ”Ion Ionescu de la Brad” Publishing, Iasi, ISBN 978-973-147-139-6, 531 pages. Awards: EUROINVENT 2016, Gold Medal for the handbook: Foundations of veterinary sanitary and food safety legislation. Treatise, Vol. 1, 1st ed., ”Ion Ionescu de la Brad” Publishing, Iasi, ISBN 978-973-147-162-4, 645 pages. Awards: EUROINVENT 2016, Gold Medal for the handbook: Foundations of veterinary sanitary and food safety legislation. Treatise, Vol. 2, 1st ed., ”Ion Ionescu de la Brad” Publishing, Iasi, ISBN 978-973-147-174-7, 572 pages. Awards: PUBLONS 2018, Top Reviewers for Assorted* (Peer Review Awards Top 1% in Field) – September 2018. PhD Degree in Technology and Veterinary Sanitary Expertise; Scientific research contracts/grants: 25 (annual and multiannual);

Dr. Ionel BONDOC Areas of expertise/fields of competence: Food Quality; Food Safety; Veterinary Sanitary Legislation; Food Law; Continuing Veterinary Education; Quality Assurance of Food; Food Fraud Detection; Food Adulteration; Food Technology; Food Biotechnology; Meat Inspection; Zoonoses; Foodborne Diseases; Emerging Diseases; Veterinary Public Health.

Email: mahmoud-nasr@alexu.edu.eg; mahmmoudsaid@gmail.com

Dr. Mahmoud Nasr (born in December 1983) has more than ten years of specialization in environmental engineering. A strong academic background in infrastructure, sanitary engineering and environmental studies, supports his experience. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, as well as, a design lead at a consulting office. He has an in-depth capability as team-leader, design lead and projects coordinator for water and wastewater treatment plants. He has a specific practice with all aspects of environmental studies, wastewater collection & treatment and reuse, water management and networks design, water supply, water plants operation and maintenance, background analyses to conceptual studies, master plans and projects economic research. In 2006, B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Alexandria University; 2010, M.Sc. Sanitary Engineering, Alexandria University; 2013, Exchange Ph.D. student, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology; 2014, Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Egypt - Japan University of Science and Technology; 2015, Post-Doc Fellow, Institute of water and wastewater Technology, Durban University of Technology; 2016-now Assistant research scientist, Texas A&M University.

Dr. Mahmoud Nasr Research interests includes Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry; Business; Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Computer Science; Earth and Planetary Sciences; Energy; Engineering; Environmental Science; Genetics and Molecular Biology; Management and Accounting; Social Sciences

Email: mailto:chauhan.anubhav2@gmail.com

Dr Anubhav Chauhan, a resident of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India completed his schooling from the prestigious Bishop Cotton School, Shimla. He commenced his medical career in year 2004 after completing M.B.B.S from Dr Rajindra Prasad Government Medical College, Tanda, Himachal Pradesh. Dr Chauhan completed his post-graduation in Ophthalmology from Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla in 2014. He is presently working as Senior Resident, Department of Ophthalmology at Dr Yashwant Singh Parmar Government Medical College, Nahan, Himachal Pradesh. In his short career as an ophthalmologist, Dr Chauhan has been actively engaged in a lot of research work and has more than 60 scientific international and national publications /presentations to his credit plus he has reviewed more than 100 manuscripts received from various international journals. He has also been on panel as one of the reviewers for the prestigious

Dr. Anubhav Chauhan research interests Cornea especially corneal ulcers and ectasias, uveitis, retina with special mention of retinal vascular disorders, neuro ophthalmology.

Email: cn.umeaku@coou.edu.ng; chimeaku@yahoo.com

Dr. Umeaku, Chinyelu Nkiru, a Senior Lecturer Department of Microbiology, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli, formerly Anambra State University, Uli, Nigeria, is an internationally renowned scientist and a well-known distinguished academician with 38 publications and 4 books. She is associated as Editor and Member of many online journals. Dr. Umeaku has guided over 169 students at undergraduate, M.Sc., and Ph.D. levels in Nigeria. She has developed Antiplasmodial drug from medicinal plants, using Plasmodium bergheri induced malaria in mice models. She elucidated the antibacterial activities of Vernonia amygdalina, Ocimum gratissimum and Garcima kola. In her study of Helicobacter pylori, she compared the detection methods in individuals suffering from stomach ulcers. She carried out outstanding researches on the effect of temperature and moisture on the hatchability of intestinal helminthes eggs. Dr. Umeaku studied Trichomonas vaginalis and Candida albicans in pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Onitsha metropolis. Under Environmental Microbiology, she has characterized rhizosphere microorganisms associated with crude oil environment and used them to remediate the environment. She has conducted outstanding studies on the bacteriological quality of drinking water in parts of Anambra State with Salmonella typhi being highly implicated. Under Food Microbiology, Dr. C. N. Umeaku has been able to produce edible milk from plant, Treculia africana. She has also worked on the Public health implication of ready-to-drink yoghurt and ready-to-eat meat. Dr. Umeaku has attended conferences both internationally and locally including the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM), Berlin, Germany. She enjoyed the Federal government scholarship award for her research studies, she has obtained several research grants including TETFUND IBR (twice). Dr. Chinyelu Umeaku has given several public lectures including representing the Vice Chancellor at ATPS and being a guest speaker at the Federal House of Assembly, Abuja, Nigeria.

Dr. Chinyelu Umeaku research interest are Medical Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Parasitology, Medical Mycology, Microbial Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Email: mkcduru@rhemauniversity.edu.ng; kelechukwuduru@gmail.com

Dr. Majesty K.C. Duru, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Sciences (Biochemistry Unit), Rhema University, Nigeria. He is the Head of Biochemistry programmes in the institution. He holds a Ph.D in Environmental Biochemistry and Toxicology. He is a member of Nigerian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NSBMB), Nigerian Environmental Society of Nigeria (NESN), Chemical Society of Nigeria (CSN), Nutritional Society of Nigeria (NSN) and Institute of Cooperate Administration, Nigeria (ICA). He has over 70 published articles, and two textbooks to his credit. He has attended over 35 scientific conferences with over 39 conference papers presented and their abstracts duly published. He has also been a recipient of different awards amongst which are “the award of a Role Model in Biochemistry” from National Association of Biochemistry Students (Imo State University Chapter, Nigeria), and the award of best Biochemistry Research (World Championship 2018; Evaluation of nutritional, anti-nutritional and some biochemical studies on Pleurotus squarrosulus (Mont.) singer using rats’ published by African Journal of Biochemistry Research) from International Agency for Standards Ratings.

Dr. Majesty K.C. Duru, research interests are in the areas of Environmental/Nutritional Biochemistry and Toxicology.

Email: sunnyigmc85@gmail.com; panshu88@gmail.com

Dr. Mandeep Tomar, a resident of Nahan district Sirmour Himachal Pradesh, India completed his schooling from prestigious Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Nahan,H.P. India in 2002.He commenced his medical career in 2009 after completing his M.B.B.S. from Indira Gandhi Medical College Shimla Himachal Pradesh.Dr.Tomar completed his post graduation in Ophthalmology from Indira Gandhi Medical College Shimla in 2013.He did his senior residency in Ophthalmology from Dr. Rajender Prasad Government Medical College Tanda Himachal Pradesh from 2015 to 2018.In May 2018, he passed DNB Ophthalmology (Diplomate in National Board) examination at Banaras Hindu University,Varanasi, India. At present he is working as a medical officer in the department of ophthalmology at Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar Government Medical College Nahan Himachal Pradesh.Dr.Tomar has attended various national and international conferences and has delivered various talks in North zone ophthalmological society of India conference 2017 and Himachal Pradesh ophthalmological society conference 2018. In June 2018,he attended World Opthalmology congress in Barcelona Spain,where he surgery” and “ocular firecracker injuries”. In his short tenure as an ophthalmologist, Dr. Tomar has approximately 20 national and intenational publications to his credit.Dr.Mandeep is active member of editorial board in E cronicon open access journal and Acta Scientific ophthalmology journal.

Dr. Mandeep Tomar Research interests includes lens and cataract surgery,ocular surface diseases,anterior segment,vitreoretinal surgeries.

Email: S.yousefnia@sci.ui.ac.ir; Saghar_yousefnia@yahoo.com

Dr. Saghar Yousefnia, researcher and leader of cancer group in royan institute of Isfahan, Iran, has 5 publications and 1 book. She is associated as reviewer in some journals. she guided 10 students at MSc and Ph.D levels. she is credited to isolate breast cancer stem cells from breast cancer cell lines and tissues and study on effect of herbal medicine and designed drugs on malignant features of breast cancer stem cells in Royan institute of Isfahan.

Dr. Saghar Yousefnia is interested in researching on cancer cells, cancer stem cells, cancer diagnostic, cancer treatment and signaling pathways they involved in therapy resistance and tumorigenesis in both cellular and molecular levels.

Email: victor.araujo.15@ucl.ac.uk; victor@sarah.br; victorlage@me.com

Dr. Victor Lage de Araujo, works as physician at The SARAH Network of Rehabiliaation Hospitals - Salvador/BA, Brazil (http://www.sarah.br/en-us/), where he acts as Infection Control Professional, clinical Pathologist (Laboratory Medicine) and educator (Continuous Medical Education) fot the Clinical Laboratory. He has obtained a Master of Sciences in Evidence-Based Healtcare at The University College London in November 2018 (UCL, https://www.ucl.ac.uk). He is International Fellow of the College of American Pathologists, (CAP, http://www.cap.org). In Brazil, he has obtained the Board Specialty in Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine, and is a member of the Brazilian Society for Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine (http://www.sbpc.org.br). He has obtained the graduate specialties of Clinical Chemistry, Hemotherapy (transfusional therapy), and Infection Control Specialty. He is a polyglot, speaking native Portuguese (Br), and currently internationally certified (by http://www.alte.org standards), respectively, on the following foereign languages: English (C2), Spanish and French (C1), German (B2). Currently learning Dutch and Russian (pending certification). He works also as a probono medical translator, and is trained in the use of Cloud-Based Translation Tools (Memsource, WordFastAnywhere, SmartCat etc). Hee is currently enrolled in the MA Education at the UCL

Dr. Victor Lage de Araujo research areas of interest include Laboratory Diagnosis: Clinical Chemistry, Immunology, Microbiology and Infection Control, Transfuaiional Therapy, Organic Fluid Analysis, Quality Control; Evidence-Based Healthcare; and Epidemiology.

Email: mn.shaheen@nrc.sci.eg; m_nrc2007@yahoo.com

Dr. Shaheen has completed his Ph.D. at the age of 31 years in the field of virology from Al-Azhar University, Egypt. He works as an associate professor and a leader of environmental virology group at National Research Center, Dokki, Egypt. Shaheen has ten years’ experience in the field of virology. Dr. Shaheen has published several articles in reputed international journals and conferences as well as he is PI and member in several research projects. Dr. Shaheen has been awarded two short term visit as Ph.D. fellow at Slovak Medical University in the Slovak Republic and National Institute for Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) in India. Also, he awarded two postdoctoral fellowships at Padua University in Italy and Liege University in Belgium. In addition, Dr. Shaheen is an editorial board member for several international peer reviewed journals

Dr. Shaheen is interested in viral epidemiology, antiviral research, virus-cell interaction, viral pathogenesis and immunity.

Email: vertikasingh4@gmail.com

Ms. Vertika Singh holds a Master’s degree in Zoology from Banaras Hindu University. She is presently pursuing Ph.D. from Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Banaras Hindu University. Her research interest is based on understanding the genomic imbalances (Deletions/ Duplications) in human infertile patients. She elucidated for the first time that the DNA repair pathway is compromised in testis of infertile azoospermic men. She has published her work in various reputed journals such as, DNA repair (2019), Human Reproduction (2018), Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis (2018), Journal of Assisted reproduction and Genetics (2018), Meta Gene (2018), Frontiers in bioscience (Scholar edition) (2017), PloS one (2016), Gene (2014) and various book chapters. She has experience in the field of male reproductive biology with emphasis on genetics and genomics of human male infertility. She has received Best Young Researcher award at the “6th World Congress on Biotechnology” organized by OMICS International, held on October 05‐07,2015 in New Delhi, India.

Ms. Vertika’s areas of interest includes genetics and genomics of human male infertility.

Email: shersinghgill84@yahoo.com

Dr. Sher Singh Gill, Assistant Professor of Microbiology at College Of Life Sciences, CHRI campus, (Jiwaji University) Gwalior, M.P., INDIA. He is a well-known distinguished academician with 08 publications and many research articles are under process for publication in reputed journals. Dr. Gill guided over 27 students at DMLT, OT, B.Sc., MSc and Ph.D. level in Gwalior, India. He is credited to develop an excellent bacterial blend (Bacterial consortium) which contain such as Bacillus infantis, Bacillus oceanisediminis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus subtilis strain CABCDRDA-a, and Bacillus subtilis, respectively for degradation of kitchen wastes into bio fertilizer and which help in reduction of environmental pollution. Dr. Gill illuminated for the first time the role of bacterial blend in isolated kitchen wastes from different sites of in and around Gwalior. He has established for the use of bacterial blend in first time, to reducing environmental and bio fertilizers. Dr. Gill is PhD fellowship awarded from MP higher education, Bhopal (M.P.) during thesis programme since 2014-16. Dr. Gill is awarded with first prizes during a National conference on Bioremediation solution to world environmental cleanup organized by Department of Biotechnology, VISM Group of Studies, Gwalior on November 25th and 26th 2017. Dr. Gill participated to many conferences, seminar and workshop in India.

Dr. Gill research interest are Microbiology, Bacteriology, Biodegradation, Enzymes production, Environmental microbiology, Diagnosis of fungal infections, Ecology of mycotic pathogens and 16s rRNA sequencing

Email: waleed@hortinstitute.com; wabobatta@yahoo.com

Abobatta is a Dr at (Citrus research Department), Horticulture Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, he’s a member of Scientific Committee for Greenhouses Plantation (Agriculture Research Center), and he is a member of Scientific Team for National Campaign for Navel Orange improvement (Horticulture Research Institute), Abobatta is a supervisor of M. Sc. Thesis in different branches of agricultural science, Abobatta published more than 18 books and research papers till now. Abobatta has been serving as an editorial board member in many journals like Acta Science Agriculture,https://actascientific.com/ASAG.php ,Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Science Publishing Group http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com, International Journal of Research in Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy Practice https://ijrcmpp.comAlso, Abobatta member of Reviewer Committee of International Academy of Chemical, Civil & Environment Engineering (IACCEE) http://iaccee.org/committee.php and many other journals all-over the world.

Dr. Waleed Abobatta research interests areIntegrated Horticulture crops management, Nano application in the agricultural sector, plant physiology, application of hydrogel polymer in agriculture, Greenhouses Plantation, Jojoba production, and the soilless culture of vegetables.

Email: Sanjay.gottipamula@sr-te.com; sanjaygshekar@gmail.com

Dr. Sanjay Shekar Gottipamla was a competent professional with >18 years of rich industrial experience in stem cells process development, research, In-vitro-cell based assay development, technology transfer, process validation, production of cell therapy and bio-pharma products. Proficient on scalable bio-production concepts and methodologies including cell-factories, bioreactors, process semi-automation and downstream technologies. Provides technical and scientific guidance to research team. Functional expertise in managing product development and production operation with key focus on profitability by ensuring optimal use of resource; Instrumental in development of StempeuCel, Rituximab, Shanpoietin, Shanvac-B. Most of the developed products are successfully commercialized.

Dr. Sanjay Shekar Gottipamla Research interests includes Regenerative medicine, Bioprocess engineering, Stem cells based therapeutics.

Email: m.maddaluno@kedrion.com; marcella.maddaluno@gmail.com

Dr. Marcella Maddaluno is a Biotechnologist working as scientist at Kedrion BioPharma. In 2005 Dr. Marcella Maddaluno earned the Bachelor Degree in Health Biotechnology (Mark: 110 out of 110 “cum laude”) at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. In 2007, in the same University, she earned the B.Sc. (Hons) in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Mark: 110 out of 110 “cum laude”). In 2011 Dr. Marcella Maddaluno earned the Ph.D. in Pharmacology, at the Department of Experimental Pharmacology, University of Naples Federico II, with a thesis regarding the pathophisiological mechanisms and the possible therapeutic targets of vascular injury. During the Pharmacology PhD program, Dr. Marcella Maddaluno investigated the role of immuneinflammatory response in cardiovascular disease by using a wide range of in vitro, in vivo and ex vivo approaches (cell cultures, animal models, histology and molecular biology techniques); she also spent 1 year at the University of Glasgow (UK) to do research in this field.

Dr. Marcella Maddaluno focused her investigations on the immune system in the context of adjuvants development and vaccine generation, carrying out functional and localization studies by Flow Cytometry, Immunoassays and Imaging Technologies. Currently Dr. Marcella Maddaluno works at Kedrion BioPharma in the field of protein purification and characterization from human plasma, in order to obtain products as therapy to rare diseases, coagulation disorders and immunodeficiencies. She also conducts scientific support to pharmaceutical patents.

Email: aghimien4@yahoo.com

Dr. Aghimien Ehimwenma Victor is a Lecturer of Forest Biometrics and Remote Sensing at the Federal College of Forest Resources Management, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. He obtained his Bachelor Degree in Forestry and Wildlife at the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. He also holds his master’s and doctorate degrees in Forest Biometrics and Remote Sensing at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His research work involves the application of qualitative and quantitative data to prescribe solutions to forest resources management problems. He is a member of Regional-based Forest Carbon Assessment for Climate Change Mitigation (REDD+) in West Africa. He participated in the National Forest (Carbon) Inventory Exercise organized by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Nigeria. He was a participant at the Forest Reference Emission Level (FREL) validation workshop in Nigeria. Dr. Aghimien Ehimwenma Victor has published 40+ articles (as both author and co-author) in reputable academic journals. Dr. Aghimien Ehimwenma Victor is Editorial Member of Continental Journal of Agricultural Science. He belongs to numerous learned professional bodies

Dr. Aghimien Ehimwenma Victor core research interests include; Forest Carbon Inventory, Forest Biometrics, Forest Mensuration, Forest Inventory, Growth and Yield Modelling and Forest Resources Management.

Email: am.othman@nrc.sci.eg; othmanam_nrc@yahoo.com

Dr. Abdelmageed M. Othman (A.M. Othman) has completed his PhD in science (Microbiology) from Al Azhar University (Cairo, Egypt) in 2012. He has got three postdoctoral studies enhancement of laccase activity and its environmental applications two of them (2013 -2015) were at Bioengineering and Sustainable Processes Research Group, Chemical Engineering Department, Vigo University (Vigo, Spain), and one (2016) at department of molecular Enzymology , institue of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, (Potsdam several Egyptian and international research projects and currently he is the Egyptian principal investig of the Egyptian Science & Technology Development Fund (STDF) project in cooperation with Potsdam University, Germany. Nowadays, he is interested in production, purification and characterization of microbial enzymes and its stabilization through immobilization he has published many of research papers in reputable journals and has been serving as a reviewer for different International Journals.

Dr. Abdelmageed M Othman is interested in production, purification and characterization of microbial enzymes and its stabilization through immobilization for different eco-friendly applications.

Email: opebanky01@gmail.com

Mr. Bankole Samuel goal is to become a leading researcher in Biotechnology and Environmental Microbiology. He completed a M.Sc. degree in Environmental Microbiology and an undergraduate degree in Microbiology at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. He have reviewed the information available on the symposium webpage as well as the theme His core academic experience is in bioremediation( phytoremediation) and Biofertilizers where his graduate research is directed towards how microorganisms interact with plants in phytoextraction of heavy metal contaminated soil in which He will be considering Endophytic and Rhizospheric bacteria with their mechanism in resistance to heavy metals .Metagenomic study of the soil and root will be considered to study the whole genome.

Mr. Bankole Samuel interest in the bioremediation symposium, Biotechnology and Environmental Microbiology

Email: ssonkar@fiu.edu ; drscsonkar@gmail.com

Dr. Sonkar working as Consultant and Technical Advisor implementation in National Mental Health Program at Indian Council of Medical Research. Dr. Sonkar, Ex-Principal Investigator on NIH funded project affiliated with Florida International University in collaboration with Public Health Research Institute of India. He is an internationally renowned translational research professional and academician with more than 10 years of experience in project planning, review, evaluation and technology assessment. He is associated as Editor, Reviewer and Member of many online journals. His work focuses upon diverse themes crossing the interface between laboratory-based research and translational research in valuating diagnostic tests and effective diseases managements. He did extensive research and published several peer-reviewed national and international research articles in high impacts journals like Nature, Elsevier, BMC, PloS etc. He handled many national and international collaborative research projects that have been successfully completed & Patented in India. Dr. Sonkar received various International and National awards for his research like, Young Investigator, Young Scientists, Best Young Scientist, Young Leader Awards, IASSTD Awards, GHES Fellow Awards Etc. His part of research was also nominated for president awards in 2015 by University of Delhi, India.

Dr. Subash C. Sonkar Research interest are Global Public Health Mental Health, Antimicrobial Resistant, Assays Development, Cervical Cancer and Sexually Transmitted Infection.

Email: Attapon1958@gmail.com

Dr. Cheepsattayakorn graduated Doctor of Medicine from Chiang Mai Medical School, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand in 1986. He then further had trained in Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, and Radiology at Chiang Mai University Medical School. He graduated numerous Fellowships in Respiratory Medicine from the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh and Thailand, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, American College of Physicians, and American College of Chest Physicians. Presently, he serves both Editor and Editorial Board Member and also referee of several international journals. He has very high experience in the fields of Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis including Infectious Diseases and Immunology. He has numerous scientific publications, more than 130 publications both in national and international journals and books. He had been served a Director of the 10th Zonal Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand for a long time and presently serve as Consultant in Respiratory Medicine (Pulmonologist) at the 10th Zonal Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Dr. Attapon Cheepsattayakorn Reserch interests includes Novel Therapeutics in Lung Cancer Nontuberculous mycobacterial infection in HIV- infected patients Multidrug – resistant tuberculosis patterns in HIV-infected patients Chemokine gene polymorphisms and their susceptibility to tuberculosis Breath Tests in Respiratory and Critical Care Tropical Infectious Diseases Human Genetics and Infectious diseases Environmental and Occupational Pulmonary Diseases

Email: sonal.jn1@gmail.com; Sjain.77@rediffmail.com

Dr. Sonal Jain, A versatile medical communications expert with a rich experience of 10 years in both scientific and promotional medical writing across different specialties like cardiology, gastroenterology, oncology, infectious diseases, diabetes, respiratory disorders and many others. Involved in scientific positioning and development (writing, editing and reviewing) of various medico-marketing inputs like manuscripts (complex), posters, abstracts, LBL's, newsletters, VA’s, brochures for leading pharmaceutical companies Expert at interpreting scientific data and correlating medical facts with therapeutic options. Experienced in establishing and nurturing professional relationships with health care professionals and KOLs. Knowledge of writing of regulatory documents like protocol and CSR writing. Understanding of ICH, GCP guidelines and clinical and non-clinical overviews. Knowledge of eCTD submission. Experience in working with pharma manufacturing aspects like tabulation of data points, relevant article search, and knowledge of guidelines of Quality. Learning experience for Quality by Design (QbD) experiments and Statistical analysis of DoE for pharma manufacturing domain. Knowledge of market research including problem definition, research plan, relevant data collection and interpreting and analyzing data. Understanding of about competitors, market structure and technological advances affecting business environment. Developed SOP's and regulatory documents for biosafety issues and compliance field trials (CFT) for transgenic crops and animals (Bt cotton and mustard, transgenic silkworms).

Dr. Sonal Jain Research interest inccludes Microbiology, Immunology, and Biotechnology. Also take up Medicine and Pharmacy articles

Email: divocha09@ukr.net

Dr. Divocha Valentina in 1967 she graduated from I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University, Faculty of Biology (Department of Virology). In 1973 continued her postgraduate study ate Odessa Institute of Virology and Epidemiology (specialty virology). In 1974 she was awarded her candidate degree with the thesis "Interaction of Coxsackie B viruses with sensitive cell cultures and their antigenic relationships." In 2009 she was awarded her doctoral degree with the thesis entitled "Biological basis antiproteinase therapy of influenza". Under her leadership performed a doctoral and two master's theses. Scientific experience is 35 years. I have more than 241 scientific publications, 3 monographs, textbook "Virology" (2012), 12 patents, 4 innovations. I am currently working as the Lugansk State Medical University, Rubezhnoye, Ukraine , is the supervisor of the nine research programs in virology and biochemistry.

Dr. Divocha Valentina Research interests includes Biological basis for anti-protein influenza therapy. Role-related trypsin-like proteinases and their inhibitors in a sequence of actions in cells influenza A and B viruses. The development of methods for the preparation of enzymes inhibiting their study of tl blocking of hemagglutinin of the influenza virus in vitro end in vivo. Justify the receipt and develop biotechnology of the antiviral drug and antiproteinases vaccines for humans.

Email: ssuchkov57@gmail.com

Dr. Sergey Suchkov was born in the City of Astrakhan, Russia, in a family of dynasty medical doctors. In 1980, graduated from Astrakhan State Medical University and was awarded with MD. In 1985, maintained his PhD as a PhD student of the I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy and Institute of Medical Enzymology, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2001, maintained his Doctor Degree at the National Institute of Immunology, Russia. From 1985 through 1987, worked as a Post Doc Research Associate, for Institute of Medical Enzy-mology; from 1987 through 1989, was a Senior Research Associate, Koltzov Institute of Developmen-tal Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1989 through 1995, was a Head of the Lab of Immu-nology and Immunobiotechnology, Helmholtz Eye Research Institute in Moscow. In 1989, trained at the Lab of Immunology, NEI, Bethesda, MD, USA,, NIH and Lab of Immunology, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, USA, as well as at some of the British Universities on the invitation of the Royal Society for Immunology. From 1995 through 2004, was a Director of the Dept for Immunology, Moscow Clin-ical Research Institute (MONIKI).

Dr. Sergey Suchkov Research interests includes Personalized and Precision Medicine, Translational research & Applications, immunology

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Dr. Jennifer Gantzer is a Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) and board-certified Nutritionist (DACBN). She is currently enrolled pursuing an MS degree of nutrition as well as completing a board-certification in Acupuncture. As a chiropractor she enhances the body’s innate ability to heal, focuses on ensuring biomechanical and ergonomic balance, and emphasizes neuro-muscular re-education to connect central nervous system to the body for pain-free prolonged health and wellness. Her passion for nutritional biochemistry allows for enhanced clinical outcomes by removing obstacles at the molecular level correlated to nutritional deficiencies that impair the body’s ability for optimal organ system functions. She continues to adapt her clinical model towards supporting natural noninvasive techniques that support the shift of an unhealthy body habitus back into homeostasis. Dr. Gantzer worked in Florida, USA for several years before moving to Europe where she completed one year of chiropractic working abroad in the Netherlands. She has returned to the USA and is currently in Florida.

Research interest of Dr. Jennifer Gantzer includes like Microbiology and Neurology

Email: amm01@ganpatuniversity.ac.in; ankitamathur38@gmail.com

Ankita was awarded PhD in Nanobiotechnology “Effect of Nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) on aerobic and anaerobic waste water bacterial isolate”. Subsequently joined Ganpat University, Mehsana, Gujarat as Assistant professor in Biotechnology, concurrently involved Gujarat State Bio technology program. Engaged in writing a book “Cellular and molecular Pharmacology “for Unnati publications (PCI). She is also involved in writing book chapters of renowed groups like Taylor and Francis, Springer, Elsevier. She has multiple publications in international journals with good citations. She has guided M.Tech as well as M.Sc. students for dissertation program. Her involvement as a reviewer in Elsevier, PLOS One and ASTES journal is indebted.

Dr. Ankita is keen in the specialized subjects as nanobiotechnology, microbiology.waste water, bioremediation, nano remediation, aerobi and anaerobic bacteria.

Email: kumari@uchc.edu; pujadolly22@gmail.com

Dr. Puja Kumari is an Immunologist by training and is deeply interested in studying host-pathogen interactions. Currently, she is working as a post-doctoral research scientist at University of Connecticut Health Center (UConn Health), Farmington, CT, USA. She did her Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, India. During her Ph.D., she researched on herpesviral-immunology and reported a key molecular mechanism involved in oncogenicity induced by human herpesviruses. Her findings have been published in reputed and peer reviewed journals. She followed her interest to study host-pathogen interactions by joining a research team at UConn Health, which is working on an NIH funded research to reveal the molecular mechanisms of bacterial sepsis.

Dr. Puja Kumari Research interests are Immunology, Virology, Inflammasomes, Pro-inflammatory Cytokines, Alarmins, Type I interferons, Toll-like receptors, miRNA

Email: asimioa@gmail.com

Dr. Oyas Ahmed Asimi was working in the Department of Fisheries, Jammu and Kashmir Government in different capacities. From 1999-2000 was working as Deputy Inspector and was looking after different administrative affairs of development department. During 2000-2003 I was working as Fisheries Development Assistant and was looking after Management of Fish Farm, Ghoumanhasan, Jammu. From 2003-2006 I was also working as Inspector Fisheries and was looking after Management of Aquarium cum Awareness Centre, Gagribal, Srinagar and was Technical Assistant to Joint Director Fisheries, Chattabal, Srinagar. From 2007 on-words working in SKUAST-K. During my tenure in state fisheries department I worked on different aspects of coldwater fish nutrition. Presently working as Associate Professor and Head, Division of Fish Nutrition and Biochemistry, Faculty of Fisheries, SKUAST-Kashmir.

Dr. Oyas Ahmed Asimi Research interests are in fish feed formulation and manufacture, biochemical analysis of fish and feed ingredients, enhancement of fish immune system by incorporating feed additives.

Email: kafeelansari123@gmail.com

Dr. Mohd Kafeel Ahmad Ansari currently working as ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR for Botany at the School of Life Sciences, Sardar Patel University, India. Also he is a recipient of an internationally competitive, prestigious Australian Research Award, Government of Australia, for my work in the area of developing environmentally friendly green technology (Phytoremediation). He worked as Visiting Scientist at the CERAR, UniSA, Australia. I am a receiver of the Foreign Citizens Research Award, Government of Turkey and worked as Foreign Citizens Research Faculty (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Biology, AU, Turkey. Subsequently, He was also conferred with prominent Dr. D. S. Kothari Research Award, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India to work at the Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi. Later, He was selected as Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, Yobe Federal University, Nigeria and then He was appointed as an Australian Awards Ambassador, Government of Australia. In recent past, He experimented to develop stress-tolerant plants together with modulation of antioxidant defence system in plants against abiotic stress, and the phytoremediation potential of mustard genotypes and some cereals crop plants. Also He extended his recent research focuses on Associate Professor (Dr.) Muhammad Kafeel Ansari Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi Cyanobacteral laccase potential for decolorization of synthetic toxic dyes, biosynthesis of nanoparticles and anti-cancer activity of Cyanobacterial laccase. He have more than ten years of teaching/research experience in Phytormediation, Plant Stress Physiology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Molecular biology, Cyanobacterial Biotechnology and Environmental Biotechnology.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohd Kafeel Ahmad Ansari Research inerests are Ecotoxicology & Environmental Impact Assessment Environmental Management & Environmental Engineering Phytoremediation/Bioremediation Stress tolerance in plants Heavy metal/synthetic dyes toxicity Protein purification & characterization Dye decolorization by Cyanobacteria

Email: hassan.abdullah@su.edu.krd

Asst. Prof . Dr. Hassan H Abdallah, received his Master of Science in Computational Chemistry from Baghdad University, Iraq in 1997, and Ph. D in Computational chemistry from Baghdad University, Iraq in 2003. He has been Assist. Prof. in computational chemistry and drug design, since July, 2012. He has authored 85 research publications in peer-reviewed National and International journals. He has edited/authored 3 chapters. Dr. Hassan H. Abdallah serves as Editorial board member for 5 International/National journals and reviewer for many National and International journals.

Asst. Prof . Dr. Hassan H Abdallah research interest is covering different topics in drug design and drug modeling. It involves the use of computational methods to develop bioactive compounds and for the discovery of novel compounds with biological activity against targets like cancer and infectious diseases.

Email: omerhamdi2001@hotmail.com

Asst. Prof. Dr. Omer Abdalla Ahmed Hamdi Obtained his B.Sc (Hons) and master degree in Chemistry from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He completed his Ph.D. in Natural Products Chemistry from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He worked a Post-doctoral research fellow at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom for six months. He is an assistant professor of Chemistry of natural products at Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Alneelain University, Sudan. He is a well-trained, highly experienced in structure elucidation of organic compounds. He is in editorial board and he is a regular reviewer of some International and Sudanese Journals.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Omer Abdalla Ahmed Hamdi research goal is mainly drug discovery from natural products. He focuses on the isolation and characterization of anticancer, analgesic, neuroprotective, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antiaging and antimicrobial agents from medicinal plants.

Email: dkshruthi.doc@gmail.com

Dr.Shruthi .D.K is an Oral and Maxillofacial Pathologist, Forensic Anthropologist and Odontologist working as Associate Professor in the Department Of Oral Pathology a well-known distinguished academician with 18 publications in national and international journals and 1 book. She is associated as Editor and Member of many online journals. Dr.Shruthi .D.K guided over 700 students of BDS in India. Actively involved in cleft lip and palate surgeries,patient educations and awareness for the same and follow up. Educating Tobacco and smoking ill effects awareness in patients and convincing about benefits of habit quitting highly focused towards Screening of Precancerous lesions and Conditions, counseling, treatment and follow up. Mentoring and guiding the undergraduate student’s .Currently working on research grants from various national and international organizations.

Dr.Shruthi .D.K interest are mainly in two field –Oral premalignant lesions, conditions and bitemark analysis

Email: ks.vinayaka@gmail.com

Dr. Vinayaka K.S is Assistant Professor and head of Department of Botany, SVS College, Bantwal, Karnataka, a renowned distinguished academician. Dr. Vinayaka K. S obtained his Ph.D degree in Botany from the Kuvempu University. Specializing in Ecology and Cryptogammic Botany. He has been teaching and conducting research in Botany for the past one decade. He has worked as head of Botany at SVS College and He had served as Principal of Kumadvathi First Grade College, Shikaripura. His research interest includes Biodiversity, Lichenology, Phytochemistry, Bioprospecting, Green energy and Phytomedicine. He has published over 120 research paper in National and International journals and has authored some books on Biological science. Dr. Vinayaka K.S has travelled abroad widely and has presented papers in many international conference and workshops. He has contributed several invited articles to many books and has done extensive research on lichens on which he has published about half dozen papers. Dr. Vinayaka K S has received many research awards and grants. He has completed several projects funded by DST, KSTA, VGST, Rufford, IDEA wild, NSF, MBZ, KFD etc. He also severed as scientific adviser for several NGOs and Committees.

Research of interest of Asst. Prof. Dr. Vinayaka K. S Specializing in Taxonomy, Bioprospecting, Ecology, Cryptogammic Botany and Physiology.

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Dr. Priyadarshini Dey is working as an Assistant Professor at MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. She did her PhD from IIT Delhi and M.Tech (Biotechnology) from NIT Durgapur. For her PhD dissertation she worked on the mechanism of mycoremediation of heavy metals and pesticide at proteomic and metabolomic level. During her PhD she was awarded the prestigious DAAD sandwich scholarship at Helmholtz Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leipzig, Germany as a visiting research scholar.

Dr. Priyadarshini Dey area of interest include Proteomic and Metabolomic study

Email: hiph.aibrahim@alexu.edu.eg; amanyibrahim65@yahoo.com

Dr. Amany Ibrahim Shehata Hassan has got- her M.B.B.Ch in 1988 from Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria university, Egypt. She has got her Master and doctor degrees of Public Health Majoring Parasitology from the High Institute of Public Health , Alexandria university, Egypt in1995 and in 2002 respectively. He is a lecturer of Parasitology in the Tropical Health Department, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University. She is an expert in field studies concerning endemic parasitic diseases in Egypt as schistosomiasis and fascioliasis. She was one of the members of Kafr El-Sheikh team (PI : Prof. Dr. Rashida Barakat ) in the Schistosomiasis Research Project (SRP) from 1990 to 1994. She has many researches concerning parasitic infections among vulnerable population groups as mentally challenged individuals and among immunodeficiency individuals ( end stage renal failure patients and cancer patients). She was nominated by the WHO to participate in the course : " Capacity Building in Research Methods and Ethics. Organized by WHO & TDR & IPT, in Tunisia in 2016. She has published many papers in reputed journals

Dr. Amany Ibrahim Research interests are in Parasitology and Medical Entemology, Field researches on Schistosomiasis, Fascioliasis, Opportunistic protozoa infections, Blastocystis infections.

Email: rajeshsingla13@rediffmail.com

Dr. Rajesh Singla is working as Principal and Associate Professor – Microbiology and Head, Agriculture Department, S.S.D. College of Professional Studies, Bhokhra, Bathinda since 25 June, 2013 to continue till date. He has been in teaching and research for 17 years. He have been taking theory and practical classes both at graduate and post-graduate level along with project guidance to the students of Agriculture, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics at B.Sc., M.Sc. and M.Phil. level. He has always been in the fore-front in various extra-curricular activities of the department and college

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rajesh Singla Research Interests is in antimicrobials of plant origin, biodegradation, enzyme production, heavy metal and microbial contamination of food and related products, bacteriocins, Environmental aspects etc.

Email: kool.amol@gmail.com

Dr. Amol Kulkarni is an experienced Microbiology researcher in the field of antibacterial drug discovery. He has an extensive hands on experience of in vitro and in vivo aspects of new drug discovery. He has worked on many clinically important bacterial pathogens such as E.coli, K. pneumoniae, P.aeruginosa, A. baumannii, Streptococcus spp, staphylococcus spp, etc. His experience in In vitro evaluation of new drugs comprises Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC), time kill studies, intracellular killing of bacterial pathogens, biofilm studies, etc. With detailed insight in the mouse infection models of bacteria, he has a good understanding of pathogenicity of different bacterial pathogens in variety of body compartments such as lungs, thigh, blood, kidney, bone and joint and skin. Determination of Preclinical PK/PD aspects of new drugs is the main area of interest of his studies. He has evaluated and differentiated different classes of clinically available as well as under development antibacterial agents using single compartment model of IVPM. His main work is with cephalosporin and fluoroquinolone classes of antibacterial agents. His work is published in international conferences such as Microbes (former inter science conference in antibiotics and antibacterial agents, ICAAC); ID week and ECCMID which includes work on Novel mechanism of action of new drugs, in vivo evaluation of these drugs, new classes such as ketolides, fourth generation cephalosporins, Carbapenems, etc. His work is also published in the journal of Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy (AAC). Apart from research in drug discovery, he is a science blogger as well. His blog has won a prestigious award in blog writing by ABP news network.

Dr. Amol Kulkarni's research interests include Bacterial pathogenicity, mouse infection models of bacteria, IVPM studies, emergence of mechanism of resistance to different antibiotics, etc.

Email: sri_pingala@yahoo.co.in

Dr. Sridevi Pingali is an Associate Professor at Sri Venkateshwara college of Pharmacy, Madhapur, Hyderabad. She has been actively involved in Research and Academics since 2007. She attained her Ph.D degree at the age of 33. In her credit she published more than twenty research publications in reputed national and international journals.Her research area focuses mainly on analytical method development of various phytochemicals, Bioanalytical method development and Food analysis. Her research innovations in the field of analysis which is having social impact to the analytical community such as 1.Extraction, isolation,quantification and analytical method development of withania-A and withanolide-A in different varities of withania somnifera(L) 2. A Validated Method development and comparision of sulphonamides in various chicken meat samples using RP-HPLC method Her research studies involve national and international collaborations like CIMAP, ICAR-NRCM, Hyderabad. She Participated and presented both Oral and poster presentations in National and International seminars and conferences, she had good understanding educational compliance and regulatory standards. She is Proficient with instructional techniques. She has ability to manage multiple projects to meet deadlines.She is University Topper and Gold Medalist at M.Pharm level. She has been invited at various conferences and the findings of her research have been presented in national, regional and international conferences. She handled various research projects for graduate and postgraduate students.

Dr.Sridevi Research interets are Food analysis, Herbal drug analysis, Medical microbiology, Medicinal chemistry

Email: rupal.snehkunj@srki.ac.in

Dr. Rupal Snehkunj is currently serving as Professor in renowned college Shree Ramkrishna institute of computer education and applied sciences, VNSG university, Surat, Gujarat. She has completed her P.hD. from Charusat university and M. Phil from Kadi University Gujarat. She has 10 years of experience in teaching and research. Prof. Rupal has been invited as resource person for expert session in national conferences and has more than 20 research papers in various conferences, journals such as IEEE,Springer, web of sciences,etc. She has completed Research project submitted to Kadi Sarva vishwavidyalaya, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

Dr. Rupal Snehkunj's research interests are Image processing, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence and using computer technologies in various domains as microbiology, chemistry and biosciences,etc.

Email: delghonamy@yahoo.com

Dr. Dina H. El-Ghonemy currently works as an Associate professor at the Department of Microbiological Chemistry, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Centre, Egypt. She got her Ph.D. in Microbiology from Ain Shams Univeristy. Dr. Dina does research in Biotechnology, Microbiology and Physiology. She has worked in different projects titled "Production of therapeutic yeast and cellulases from microorganisms``, ``Improving Biodegradation of Rice Straw to Produce Industrial Enzymes via Biotechnology Techniques``, ``Feed and manure production from the olive by-product in Sinai desert`` and a copy investigator of a project titled "Production of L-asparaginase, an anticancer agent, from locally isolated filamentous fungi using agricultural wastes via solid state fermentation". She is currently working as a copy investigator of a project titled "Enhancement of Lipid Production from Isolated Fungal Strains by Mutagenesis and Optimization of Cultural Conditions using Corn Stover for Biodiesel Production" and as a principle investigator of a project titled ``Improvement of anti-tumor agents from filamentous fungi under solid state fermentation.

Dr. Dina H. El-Ghonemy's research interests include Production and optimization of microbial enzymes, separation and purification of enzymes, characterization of the purified enzymes, enzymes stabilization through immobilization on different supports and estimation of anti-microbial activity of different antimicrobial agents.

Email: adkhan@uok.edu.pk

Dr. Adnan Khan is serving as Assistant Professor in Department of Geology, University of Karachi, Pakistan. He is a well-known academician serving University of Karachi since last 13 years. Dr. Khan is rendering his services in the fields of teaching research and consultancy related to Geology. He is embarked with 22 research publications and one book. A dozen of M.Sc. students are at his disposal for research work on groundwater and industrial rocks and minerals. Currently he is supervising about 6 M. Phil students working on various aspects of environmental and economic geology. Dr. Khan is credited to first time explain the arsenic contamination sources and mechanisms from Indus delta and earned his PhD on the same. He has worked on the groundwater quality pattern of Karachi (largest city of Pakistan) in detail. He has worked on several projects associated with his supervisor and funded by Pakistan Science Foundation, Higher Education Commission and World Bank. He has organized 2 international conferences and dozens of symposia, seminars and workshops. He launched an international journal of Economic and Environmental Geology (IJEEG) in 2010 which is the sole journal from Pakistan addressing the economic and environmental aspects of Geology. He is serving as Managing Editor of IJEEG and associated as Member of online journals. Moreover, he has also served as Manager Publications in an internationally known organization entitled Bentham Science Publishers which is a leading publisher of health sciences.

Dr. Adnan Khan's research interests include Groundwater arsenic contamination, hydro-geochemistry, sediment geochemistry, deltaic and coastal groundwater, environmental geology, industrial rocks and minerals, soil mechanics, engineering geology.

Email: arun.2k.64@gmail.com

Dr. Arun Kumar Currently working as Research Associate at Central Research Institute of Homoeopathy, under CCRH, Ministry of AYUSH, Delhi. (Since Jan 2018-till date) Working on antimicrobial and antifungal properties of homeopathic drugs; Bacterial and Fungal culture, Disc diffusion assay, Drug sensitivity test, Gene expression study through Real time PCR. Genoprotective efficacy of Homeopathic drugs against chemical induced DNA damage in lymphocytes, OECD approved assays: Alkaline comet assay, MN assay Involved in writing of scientific documentation for project proposals, ethical committee proposals, and projrcts reports and manuscripts etc. Management of lab facility, documentation cum demonstration of laboratory work to visitors, organizing of national and international conferences, seminars, workshops and scientific meetings.

Dr. Arun Kumar expertise in Microbiology, cell and molecular Biology

Email: prpawar1962@gmail.com

Dr. Prabhakar Ramchandra Pawar, working as Associate Professor in Zoology at Rayat Shikshan Sanstha's, Mahatma Phule Arts, Science & Commerce College, Panvel, Dist.–Raigad, Navi Mumbai - 410 206, Maharashtra, India, affiliated to University of Mumbai. He is well known distinguished academician with 38 publications and 04 books. He has completed 05 Research Projects funded by University of Mumbai and University Grants Commission, New Delhi. He is a Research Guide for Ph. D. (Zoology) of University of Mumbai. He is Peer Reviewer of 11 International Research Journals and Editorial Board Member of 08 Peer Reviewed International Research Journals with Impact Factors. Also, he is a Life Member of 04 Research Associations. He stood fourth in Order of Merit, M. Sc. Examination, 1985 and Stood first in Zoology, M. Sc. Examination, 1985. He has received Best Teacher Award from Principal, Veer Wajekar Arts, Science and Commerce College, Phunde, Uran, Navi Mumbai - 400 702.

Dr. Prabhakar R. Pawar Research Interests are Coastal and Marine Diversity of Macrobenthos, Coastal Marine Pollution, Microbiology of water and sediment and Mangrove and associated diversity.

Email: manu8anu@gmail.com; drmanukumarhm@gmail.com; mh487@duke.edu

Dr. Manukumar, H.M. holds Ph.D. honor in 2018 at Department of Biotechnology from University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India. He worked on molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), development novel diagnostic techniques, novel food packaging material, and novel route of nanoparticle synthesis to fight against resistant S. aureus is of research interest in his Ph.D. tenure and many colloborative research supported more than 50 peer-reviewed research publications in both national and international levels added to his credits as author and co-author, including publication from Scientific Reports from Nature publishers. Currently, as Postdoctoral Associate working at DUKE University, Department of Medicine-Infectious Diseases, USA and his research focused on understanding “mechanism of NAbs to prevent mother to children transmission (MTCT) of HIV-1 and identify genetic signature governing the MTCT" in the area of pediatric research. Also, he is medical writer in editing company, Shanghai, China., reviewer for Acta Scientific Microbiology and Acta Scientific Cancer Biology.

Research interest's of Dr. Manukumar, H.M: Bacteriology, Virology-understand HIV origins, pathogenesis and drug resistance, and to design new AIDS vaccines.

Email: seydou27@hotmail.com

Dr. El Hadji Seydou Mbaye was born in 1978 in Kaolack a region of Senegal. During 2008-2013, he earned his PhD in Biology and Human Pathologies with the collaboration of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) /WHO, Lyon (France); 2006-2007 : Master of Life and Health, Specialty Biology of microorganisms, Virology in Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (France); 2005-2006 : Master of Life and Health, option of Immuno-physiopathology in Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (France); 2004-2005 : License of Biochemistry in Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (France); 2002-2004 : General Degree in Sciences and Technologies in University of METZ (France). He was certified by the Federation International of Gynecology Obstetrics (FIGO), the Accreditation Council of Oncology in Europe (ACOE, www.acoe.be), the Institute Catalan of Oncology (ICO) for cervical cancer prevention (Grade 10/10) in support of Continuing Medical Education for physicians. These credits are also recognized as Physician’s Recognition Award (AMA PRA Category 1 credits) by the American Medical Association. He was certified, by the United Nations for Basic Notion of Security on the Ground-Protection, Health and behavior, by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)/World Health Organization (WHO), Lyon (France) for Safety Certificate. He has published 1 Book with a style of philosophical story. Author of the world program against cancer in low and middle incomes countries, he is lead author (first listed) of more than 90 peer-reviewed research articles published in reputed journals.

Dr. El Hadji Seydou Mbaye Research Interests are Women genital sphere infections, Cancer, Viruses, Immunology, Pesticides and cancer, Microbiology, Human Bio-banking, Vaccines and Vaccination Program.

Email: shubhsmishra38@gmail.com

Dr. Shubhangi Mishra holds a Master’s degree in Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and has been rewarded as a Gold Medalist during her post-graduation. She has several awards to her name for excellence in academics at the university and college levels during graduation as well as post-graduation. She has presented papers at various National and International conferences, Continuing Dental Education programs and Post-graduate Conventions of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology as well as Forensic Odontology and has bagged awards at the same. She has also been an active member of the UNESCO chair in Bioethics, Haifa at Government Dental College and Hospital, Aurangabad during her post-graduation. She has worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology at Government Dental College and Hospital, Nagpur and is currently working as an Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Consultant. She has published papers in National and International journals. She has an ardent approach towards deepening and delivering knowledge in her field of specialization, and believes it to be one of the best routes of ushering in brilliance in the field of medicine.

Research Interests of Dr. Shubhangi D Mishra are Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Oral Oncology, Forensic Odontology, Bioethics, Oral Anatomy and Histology, Molecular Pathology, Pharmacotherapeutics.

Email: abdulghaffar@neduet.edu.pk

Dr. Abdul Ghaffar Memon is Tsinghua University graduate, He earned doctoral degree as Ph.D. in the Environmental Science and Engineering from the School of Environment. Upon his excellence in academics Dr. Memon was awarded as outstanding Ph.D. graduate of year 2019. Dr. Memon contributed in the scientific community through his novel research which is acknowledged and published in high-quality Journals including Journal of Hazardous Materials, ACS Applied Interfaces, Sensors Actuators, B Chem, Biosensors, Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering etc. Dr. Memon remained active participant in international conferences, His research was acknowledged with best posters awards. Dr. Memon is recipient of Tsinghua-Veolia top grade scholarship, Chinese government Scholarship, Tsinghua University research grant to participate at international meetings overseas. Dr. Memon participated and represented at various forums including United Nations programs, MCCCOP-I, MCCCOP-II, UNCCD, Belt and Road Initiatives, He remained International Students Ambassador, public speaker, associated with various organizations including TEDxTHU. He is member of American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Pakistan Society for Microbiology (PSM), Biological Safety Association of Pakistan (BSAP), Biosensors Biochip and Nanobiology (BBN), Tsinghua University Student association of Belt and Road Initiative (SABRI), Currently Dr. Memon is serving at NED University of Engineering and Technology as Assistant Professor and contributing in teaching and research at graduate and post graduate level.

Dr. Abdul Ghaffar Memon's Research Interests include Nanotechnology, Biosensors, Environmental Microbiology, Water quality, Surface water monitoring, Label-free detection, colorimetric.

Email: ahmedhegazi128@gmail.com; ahmad@ahmedhegazi.com

Ahmed Hegazi is currently a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in the National Research Center, Egypt. Prof. Hegazi received his master’s degree in 1979, and his PhD in 1981. Hegazi's research work has been focused lately on bee products and their therapeutic effects. Hegazi organized and contributed to national and international research projects since 1977 and up till now; he has been the principal investigator on multiple research projects within the National Research Center. He has published 211 scientific papers and articles in national and international journals. He also served on the board of multiple national and international scientific journals. Dr. Hegazi is also the president of the Egyptian Environmental Society for Uses and Production of Bee Products, secretary of the Egyptian Society of Apitherapy, the secretary-general of the African Federation of Apiculture Associations, and a member of the International Apitherapy Commission (APIMONDIA). Dr. Hegazi awards; First Class Decoration of Excellence, Egypt, 1995, The Senior Scientist Prize of National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, 1996, The National Scientific Prize In Biological Sciences, Egypt, 1990, The Scientific Prize of The National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, 1989, The Second Best Research Paper Award, International Congress of Propolis, Bones Aires, Argentina, 2000, Main Speaker Award,10th Academic Conference, PRA and NAS (Nippon Apitherapy Soc.) Japan, 2006, 2 Bronze medals from The International Innovation Fair of the Middle East, Kuwait, 2007 Awarded of Ghazi Wad Allah Salon Prize, 2008, Finally awarded the Merit Award in Medical Sciences, National Research Centre, Egypt, 2016 and have 6 patents.

Prof. Dr. Ahmed G Hegazi Research interest are Microbiology and Immunology and Uses of Production of Bee Products

Email: vkskumar111987@gmail.com; vkskumar49@gmail.com

Dr. Vikas Kumar was born in the village of Safapur at Begusarai district (Bihar) in 1987 and at present working as Assistant Professor in Department of Agriculture, Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur (Rajasthan). He has completed his Ph.D Forestry (Dept. of Silviculture and Agroforestry) in College of Forestry, Vellanikkara under the Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur (Kerala) in 2018. He has graduated from College of Forestry, Ponnampet, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore (Karnataka) in 2010 and Post graduated from ASPEE college of Horticulture and Forestry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari (Gujarat) in 2012. He worked as Junior Research Fellow, Research Fellow in different projects. His achievements and awards are “National Talent Scholarship (NTS)” through ICAR in July 2006 to June 2010; “Junior Research Fellow (JRF)” GUJCOST in April 2011 to March 2012. He received three times “Best Poster Presentation”; “World Agricultural Excellence Award” in the area of Agriculture Education by World Achievers Foundation, Kolkata on June 25, 2017, “Young Scientists Award” in area of Silviculture and Agroforestry by Education Expo TV CRS 5th Faculty Branding Awards-2017 at Kolkata on July 2017 and “Emerging Research Award” by International Institute of Organized Research on I20R Awards 2017 . He qualified the ASRB NET (ICAR) on 2013 & 2018. He has life membership of ten societies such as “Indian Society of Agroforestry, Jhansi”, “Indian Association of Soil & Water Conservationists, Dehradun”, “Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Association of India, Anand, Gujarat”, “The Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata”, “Society for Advancement of Human and Nature, Solan”, “National Environmental Science Academy, New Delhi” and “Tropical Forestry, State forest research institute, Jabalpur, MP”. He is working as Editor/reviewer of different journals “Agroforestry Systems, Journal of Environmental Biology, Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, Small Ruminant Research, International Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Research, Direct Research Journal of Agriculture and Food Science, World Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, International Journal of Agricultural Resources Governance and Ecology, Lawarence Press, International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation, Journal of Technological Advances and Scientific Research, Journal of Integral Sciences, International Journal of Zoology Research, Bioinfo Publications, Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Science, and Sky Journal of Biochemistry Research (Africa). He presented research papers in different International or national conferences/ seminars i.e. total 113 (59 National / International research papers, 14 books, 17 book chapters and 23 popular articles).

Dr. Vikas Kumar research interets are Agroforestry, Silviculture, Forest Policy, Climate Change, Biodiversity and conservation, Nursery management, Seed Biology and Horticulture

Email: usharaniks2003@yahoo.com

Dr. RK. Usharani received her M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences, PG Diploma in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioinformatics from Bharathiar University, Tamil Nadu. Her specialization is in Environmental Microbiology & Engineering. She has qualified UGC-NET/JRF conducted by University Grant Commission, New Delhi, India. Currently she is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, PSG CAS, TN, India. She started her teaching career as a Lecturer in Microbiology, SNMV College, Bharathiar University and Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Central University of Kerala for about 3 yrs. She had research experience in DRDO-BU Centre for Life Sciences and Biotech, R&D Lab for about 6yrs. She was awarded fellowship from DRDO-Bharathiar University, Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India and Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology. She is having her credit, 16 research papers published in Internationals journals with SCI/ISSBN and 25 papers presented in International and National Conferences of repute. She has received the best paper award from International Conference on Advanced Oxidation Process, 2010. She has also served as invited reviewer and editorial board member in various scientific Journals.

Dr. RK. Usharani research field was expertise on Bioremediation & Ozonation Technology, Biotreatment, Ozonation, AOP, Hybrid processes for the removal of xenobiotics from contaminated water and soil; Spectral studies include Structural elucidation, determination of intermediates & by-products of Organophosphates and prediction of pathways. Research studies in Microbial Biocatalyst and Biotransformation. Working in the Environmental Bioengineering field and solution made for xenobiotic removal from contaminated environment, Immobilization and Bioencapsulation techniques, also interest to work in the microbial gene sequencing for novo strains.

Email: anupsarkar.jpg@gmail.com

Mr. Anup Kumar Sarkar is currently working as an Assistant Professor & Head in the Department of Botany, Dukhulal Nibaran Chandra College, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India.He is also a research scholar of Raiganj University.His research is mainly focused on metabolism of Plant& microbial communities in Forest and Agricultural Ecosystem.He has involved in many collaborative research work with various researchers of India.He has presented several papers in National and International conferences.He has co-edited some books and published many research articles in peer reviewed reputed journals.

Mr. Anup Kumar Sarkar Research Interests are Plant and Microbial interaction in forest and agricultural ecosystem

Email: pmornya@njala.edu.sl

Dr. Philip M.P. Mornya is a senior lecturer in the department of Horticulture and currently the Dean in the School of Natural Resources Management, Njala University. He has 16 years of instructional experience in the University teaching various courses both at undergraduate and graduate levels. Additionally, he has served as Head, Department of Horticulture in the School of Natural Resources Management from 2013-2015. He has held other position in the same University such as: School Representative to Postgraduate Board (2013 - 2015), School Representative to University Scoring Committee (202 -2013, Quality assurance officer and curriculum review representative for School of Natural Resources Management (2012-2015), Chief Examiner (Agriculture), National Council for Technical & Vocational and Other Awards (NCTVA) (2003 -2007) etc. Dr. Mornya has also served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI) (2012 -2014) where he was involved in both on-farm and on-station research on improving farmers’ productivity of horticultural crops. Dr. Mornya holds a PhD degree in Ornamental Horticulture from Beijing Forestry University, P.R. China. He has extensive working experience in vegetation/biodiversity assessment for baseline ESIA survey with international organizations including Environmental Resource Management (ERM), South Africa, Environ-Insight, South Africa etc. He also has extensive knowledge in plant species identification to the lowest taxonomic level, particularly for forest, grassland and woodland plants. He is a very strong resource person for partnership building with institutions and organizations that are beneficial to both staff and students of Njala University. Dr. Philip Mornya has 16 Publications: 1 book, 1 book chapter; 9 journal articles; 2 abstracts; 3 consultancy reports. He has lived, worked and conducted research in P.R. China. He is married with two children.

Dr. Philip M.P. MORNYA Research Interest is in Agricultural and horticultural research: fields of research and training include landscape management, orchard management, plant Nursery production and technology, plant physiology and flowering regulation (forcing culture), manipulation of crop practices for yield improvement and nutritional value; ex-situ conservation of endangered indigenous vegetables and fruits; the characterization and documentation of immune boosting crop species for health enhancement.

Email: babarasifpharma@gmail.com

Dr. Babar Ali is working as Assistant Professor in College of Pharmacy, Buraydah Colleges, Al - Qassim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) since 2012. He has been awarded M. Pharm degree in 2007 and Ph.D degree in 2012. He has one year teaching experience in Himalayan Institute of Pharmacy and Research (HIPR), Dehradun, India after M. Pharm. He had awarded Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR, Govt. of India during his Ph.D tenure. He published more than 30 national and international papers in peer reviewed international journals and is serving as an international editorial board member of reputed journal. He has sound knowledge of modern sophisticated instrumentation techniques like UV, NMR, HPTLC and HPLC.

Dr. Babar Ali interests are: Quality control and standardization of natural drugs Isolation and characterization of phytochemical markers and NCEs from plants and their bioassay To provide bioenhancer compositions useful as transport facilitators that increase bioavailability of therapeutically important drugs. Chromatography of natural compounds UPLC-MS/MS

Email: mohammadreza.shakibaie@gmail.com; mr_shakibaei@kmu.ac.ir; mr_shakibaei@gmail.com

Dr. Shakibaie MR earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pune India from 1992 to 1997. His thesis was molecular genetics of Plasmid Mediated Silver and Antibiotic Resistances in Acinetobacter baumannii”. He completed one-year Postdoctoral research training at Aquatic Microbial Lab in Mysore, India during 2006. His research title was Horizontal Gene Transfer in Gram-Negative Bacteria. Dr. Shakibaie Joined the Department of Microbiology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 1998. He has published more than 62 original research papers in different International peer reviewed journals with high impact factors in microbiology and biotechnology. The total impact factor of his research is more than 68, with h-index 14 and hi-index 19. His work is cited more than 296 times (www.scholar.google.com). The research gate score index is 25.18 and Scopus H index 9. His work also has been cited in 3 textbooks of microbiology published from USA and Europe. He has presented more than 42 papers in International and National Conferences. He has made fundamental contributions in the area of gene transfer, plasmid biology, molecular microbiology, Nano microbiology. He is on the editorial board of the number of peer-reviewed journals in Iran and abroad. He has successfully supervised 4 Ph.D., and 1 Post-Doctoral scholar for their research. Currently, 1 Ph.D. students are working with him

Research of Dr. Mohammad Reza Shakibaie is in the area of gene transfer, plasmid biology, molecular microbiology, Nano microbiology

Email: annasxhan@gmail.com

Dr. Han Naung Tun is a Physician, working with the European Society of Cardiology. He got MBBS from Yangon, Myanmar and he also finished Postgraduate General Medicine Training form Myanmar Medical Association in 2015 . After 2 years of his studied in General Medicine from MMA, he worked as a General and Family Physician. He is a former Clinical Doctor with Medecins Sans Frontieres(Holland) in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases ( HIV and TB Medicine) in Yangon, Myanmar in 2014. In additions, he also worked as a Technical Support Coordinator for HIV/TB and Tropical Medicine in USAID’s PEPFAR Project for Upper Myanmar Region. He became an International Active Member of American College of Family Physician (AAFP) in 2015 . After that, he received MACTM and joined with Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM) working group . As he has strong passion on Cardiology ,he went to Switzerland and attended International Postgraduate Cardiology training in Davos and Zurich Heart House. Then, he started to join with European Society of Cardiology in January , 2015 and he is currently a researcher and clinician in ESC working groups . He became an International Active Member of American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association in 2018.

Research Interests of Dr. Han Naung Tun are Immuno-viral infections , Cardiovascular Infectious Medicine, Tropical and Travel Medicine

Email: kathirtamil56@gmail.com; kathiravan@arcgroup.co.in

Dr.T.Kathiravan Research & Development Head of ARC Group of Companies (Food Division), India is a Food Scientist & Researcher with more than 24 publications in various National and International journals. He is associated as Editor, Associate Editor, Editorial Board member and reviewer for reputed international journals and member of selected professional bodies. He is DRDO-JRF qualified and received Doctoral Research fellowship from Indian Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defense, Govt of India. He is also qualified CSIR-Research Associateship 2018, UGC-NET December 2013 & GATE Examination-2012. He received his PhD in Food Science from Indian Defense Food Research Laboratory, DRDO (affiliated to Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu India). The title of his research work was “Pulsed Electric Field Processing of Functionalized Fruits-Vegetables blends”. He completed his M.Sc (Food Science and Technology) from Pondicherry Central University, Puducherry, India. He completed his B.Sc (Biotechnology) from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India. He also has 8+ years of experience in Research and Development, Academics and ISO 22000:2005 Certified Food Industries.

Dr. Kathiravan Research interests are Thermal & Non-thermal food processing technologies, R&D of Specialty Foods, Dairy Technology, Beverages, Namkeens, RTC, RTD, RTF, RTE Food Products and Consultancy.

Email: arifjamal13@gmail.com Siddiqui@uoh.edu.sa; arif.siddiqui.uoh@gmail.com

Dr. Arif Jamal Siddiqui has been graduated from Department of Biology at the VBS Purvanchal University, India in 2006. After his graduation, he has done his MSc in Biotechnology in 2008 in the Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, India. In 2011; he has been awarded a scholarship by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi India for Higher Education Council to pursue a PhD in Parasitology and Immunology at the CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute Lucknow (CDRI) India, and completed his PhD in 2015. He has been worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United State between 2015 and 2018. Then he moved to the University of Hail in 2018 and currently working there as an Assistant Professor.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Arif Jamal Siddiqui research experience and interest are to study host-parasites interaction, Immune response (specific T, B, MQ, Dendritic cells and specific memory T, B related study) during parasite interaction, drug and vaccine development against, parasites infection. Presently, I am working on parasite diversity, Immune behaviors & responses, diagnosis and vaccine development of different parasites Schistosoma mansoni, Schistosoma japonicum and Schistosoma haematobium (Trematode worm) and Plasmodium parasites (Malaria).

Email: drkpkannan@gmail.com

Dr K.P.Kannan Ph.D., currently holding the position of Head, Department of Biotechnology, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India. Subsequent to completing his master’s and doctoral degree in mycology at the University of Madras, Dr. K. P. Kannan moved to the industry, for a brief exposure in the field. After a year of working with Marina Labs, he understood his passion for teaching and moved to Bannari Amman Institute of technology, Sathyamangalam, as a lecturer. From 2006 till date, Dr. K. P Kannan has grown from the position of lecturer to the Head of Department of Biotechnology through his sheer hard work, inquisitive research and his passion for teaching. He had got about 8 – 10 research projects worth thirteen lakhs in Indian Rupees, and had also been instrumental in organizing various conferences funded by prestigious institutes in the country. He is also the recipient of various national and international awards including Young scientist awards and The Cambridge Certificate for Outstanding Educational Achievement, etc. He has also guided and supervised three PhD candidates, one M.Phil candidate, 20 B.Tech candidates and 7 M. Tech Candidates in their academic research for the awarding of their respective degrees. With close to 40 research publications as his credentials, he has also been instrumental in organizing various departmental and collegiate activities for the student welfare. He has also served as Founder Member for Biologist forum of India.

Dr K.P.Kannan research interest are Microbial Biotechnology, Fungal Endophytes, Mycotoxins, Screening and Characterization of Secondary metabolites from Endophytes

Email: hassmnagy@campus.viu.edu

He is Hassan Nagy, graduated with a degree as a doctor of medicine and surgery from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in Dec 2014. He finished MBA in Health Care Management at Virginia International University, Fairfax, VA, May, 2017, with a master thesis concentration on health care policies in the U.S., He completed his thesis and presented it in CDIA annual conference 2017 “Analysis of the impact of healthcare reform policy (ACA) on healthcare providers: A case study of the US healthcare system”. After he obtained his medical degree, He practiced general medicine and specialized in OB/ GYN in Egypt. He cleared internships in different countries Turkey, and Russia. He has several years of clinical experience in surgical oncology particularly gynecological oncology at Ain Shams University hospital, Cairo, Egypt he also attend a condensed training program in GYN oncology at Orenburg State University, Orenburg, Russia. He completed a training program as A visitor resident at Istanbul Medineyt University of Internal medicine and OB/ GYN. He performed surgical techniques, clinical Skills, and diagnosing.

Dr. Hassan Nagy is currently working as a Clinical Coordinator at Medics USA. He have been working in teaching Healthcare management alongside Allied health science for the past two years. He've also three years of work experience divided between clinical and management works.

Email: didehdar_m@yahoo.com; didehdar_m@arakmu.ac.ir

Dr. Mojtaba Didehdar, Assistant Professor of Medical Mycology, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran, have 30 national and international publications and 3 books. He is associated as Editor Board and Member of many online journals. He has been the General Director of Education at Arak University of Medical Sciences and is currently the Dean of the Khomein School of Medical Sciences, Khomein, Iran. He first devised the HRM method to identify dermatophyte species.

Dr. Mojtaba Didehdar Research interets are Medical Mycology, Molecular Mycology, Epidemiology of mycoses, Diagnosis of fungal infections.

Email: dashsandipkumar@gmail.com; dashsandipkumar@yahoo.com

Dr. Sandip Kumar Dash is a young, dynamic, and enthusiastic researcher and academician working as Asst. Prof. in Zoology, Berhampur University, India, since Nov 2017. He has completed his M.Sc. from Berhampur University, Odisha and obtained his Ph.D. from AcSIR-IGIB, Delhi and M.D. University, Haryana, India during 2014. He has more than eight years of research and teaching experiences. During which, He has published many National and International Research Articles and Book Chapters. He is a life member of several National and International societies like International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS), Indian Science Congress Associations (ISCA), and Associations of Microbiology of India (AMI). Dr. Dash is serving as editor and reviewer in many online Journals of National and International repute. He has guided many M.Phil. thesis and M.Sc. Dissertation works. Dr. Dash is recipient of many awards at the level of University like N.K.Sahu Memorial Medal-2008 (Berhampur University, Odisha) and Best Thesis Award: 2013-14 (M.D. University, Haryana).

Dr. Sandip Kumar Dash’s research interests are Molecular diagnosis of bacterial, viral and fungal infectious diseases. Microbial synthesis of biopolymers Nanosynthesis, Nanofabrication, nanosensors for environmental analysis and monitoring

Email: grawal@iastate.edu; gauravrawal96@gmail.com

Gaurav Rawal is a Graduate Assistant- Research in the Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine at Iowa State University. He received his DVM from the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Sciences from Nepal and MS from Iowa State University (ISU) in Veterinary Preventive Medicine under the supervision of Drs. Bailey Arruda and Daniel Linhares. His MS thesis was on the epidemiologic characteristic of porcine astrovirus type 3. He is currently working with Dr. Jianqiang Zhang on his Ph.D. with a focus in molecular virology of PRRSv. He has a working knowledge of molecular virology including cell culture, cell line maintenance, sample extraction and processing, virus Isolation, virus titration, virus propagation, and production, quantitative RT-PCR, fluorescence microscopy, hemagglutination test, and clinical research processes includes running field study, challenge/animal studies and feed studies including resource management, sample collection, feeding, caretaking animals, animal examination, necropsy skills, farm visits, herd evaluation, and others. He has published peer reviewed papers, conference proceedings, magazine articles, attended several posters, oral presentations and invited talks, participated as co-author in proposal and served as a reviewer for MDPI Journals.

Research Interests of Dr. Gaurav Rawal are Animal Virology, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Emerging Diseases

Email: ekhlasbt03@gmail.com

Mr. Md. Ekhlas Uddin is an Academician and Researcher in the field of Biosciences, and Medical and Health Sciences; working in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Gono University, Bangladesh. He teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses on these subjects. He has been awarded awards, scholarships, and has numerous editorial assignments in many globally reputed journals. Moreover, Mr. Uddin is a member of several national and international academic research institutions around the world. In addition, He has not only been serving as editors and editorial board members of some reputed International journals and proceedings but also presenting the keynote, public and invited lectures in some reputed national and international conferences. It should be noted that a respectable number of scientific papers have also been presented and published in international conferences, symposia, and workshops.

Dr. Ekhlas Uddin Research Interest are Biochemistry, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Microbial, Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, Cancer Biology, etc

Email: rajibdutta@163.com; rajinchina@gmail.com

Dr Rajib Dutta has experience in fields like emergency medicine,critical care , internal medicine.He has worked in top corporate hospitals in india.His educational qualification includes fellowship in emergency medicine from RCEM(UK),MRCP(London),Pediatric Neurology(BPNA,UK),Diploma in clinical neuropsychology(UK),MD Neurology and several other certificate courses in sleep medicine,neuroimaging .He has almost 20 papers published in various high ranked journals .He is a professional MRCP (Internal medicine ) online tutor and has help many candidates to pass PACES exam .He is the editorial member of Acta scientific Neurology (ASNE) also.

Research Interests of Dr Rajib Dutta are Central nervous system infections,Movement disorders,Neurodegenerative diseases,Neuropsychology,Sleep medicine,Neurogenetics.His current research includes Huntington disease , Alzheimer disease,Parkinson diseases ,cognitive impairment in terms of vascular risk factors,peripheral organs related to neurodegeneration and MIND diet.

Email: gaurav10saxena@gmail.com; stop.environmentalpollution@gmail.com

Dr. Gaurav Saxena is serving as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology, School of Life and Allied Sciences, and a member of Proctorial Board at Baba Farid Institute of Technology, Dehradun (UK) India. He is a nature-lover and has a dedicated cause for environmental protection. Dr. Saxena teaches courses in General Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Microbial Genetics, Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology, and Laboratory Techniques in Microbiology and Molecular Biology. Currently, Dr. Saxena is engaged in developing sustainable environmental remediation technologies for environmental safety. He has worked on the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST)-Sponsored Indian government research projects. Dr. Saxena has been awarded the prestigious “Young Environmentalist Award and “Young Achiever Award” in recognition of his scientific research. He is the editor of five books, Bioremediation for Environmental Sustainability: Toxicity, Mechanisms of Contaminants Degradation, Detoxification and Challenges (Elsevier, USA), Bioremediation for Environmental Sustainability: Approaches to Tackle Pollution for Cleaner and Greener Society (Elsevier, The Netherlands), “Bioremediation of Industrial Pollutants (Write and Print Publication, India), Bioremediation of Industrial Waste for Environmental Safety: Industrial Waste and Its Management (Springer Nature, Singapore), and Bioremediation of Industrial Waste for Environmental Safety: Biological Agents and Methods for Industrial Waste Management (Springer Nature, Singapore) and author of one book, Microbe-Assisted Phytoremediation of Environmental Pollutants: Recent Advances and Challenges (Taylor & Francis, USA). Dr. Saxena is also on the editorial board of Frontiers in Microbiology (a Swiss Journal) and serving as a Review Editor. Dr. Saxena’s academic contributions includes several scientific papers, reviews and book reviews, conference papers, book chapters, popular science articles, weblished articles, and newspaper article in reputed national and international journals (Springer Nature, Elsevier and International Water Association (IWA)), conference proceedings, books (Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Elsevier), science magazines, websites, and newspapers, respectively. Currently, Dr. Saxena is serving as a potential reviewer for several international and national research journals in his thrust areas. He is a member of the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI) and Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) India, American Chemical Society (ACS) USA, and British Ecological Society (BES), London, United Kingdom.

Dr. Gaurav Saxena’s research areas include: Environmental Microbiology, Biodegradation and Bioremediation, Microbe-Assisted Phytoremediation, Microbial Wastewater Treatment, Nanoremediation, Environmental Metagenomics, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Toxicology, Environmental Waste Management, and Waste-to-Energy.

Email: sharprakriti@gmail.com; sharprakriti@lzb.ac.cn

Dr. Prakriti Sharma Ghimire has completed PhD from the Institute of Microbiology (IM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). During PhD, her research work mainly focused on microbial genetics and their biochemistry, gene modification to observe how change in genetic make cause change in their behavior and function. She analyzed Aspergillus fumigatus cellulolytic gene expression for efficient lignocellulose degradation present in corn, wheat and soybean cell wall cellulose using proteomics and transcriptomics analysis; change in N-glycosylation pattern, mannosylation and phenotype in Trichoderma reesei, mechanism of protein translocation from golgi to outer membrane and biosynthesis and modification on microbial polysaccharide research. Currently, she is working as a postdoc researcher in Northwest Institue of Eco-Environment and Resources, Lanzhou, China. Her current research focus on microbial community and composition present in environmental samples such as air and water and to analyze their impact health and climate especially in the Himalayan regions. Dr. Sharma Ghimire is also working as a research scientist, administrator and active member in Himalayan Environment Research Institute (HERI), in Nepal.

Dr. Prakriti Sharma Ghimire research interets are molecular biology and biochemistry, microbiology, environment microbiology and microbial ecology

Email: melese1980@gmail.com; meleswo@dtu.edu.et

Mr Melese Worku Abera of Biology in Master’s degree Botanical sciences graduates in University of Gondar 2013, Ethiopia, and also I graduates bacher degree in production forester From Hawsa University 2009, Ethiopian. Currently I am lecture and researcher in Debre Tabor University, Ethiopian. I have more than 15 publications. Besides this I am participated as researcher to present 7 international and more than 10 national workshop as present research finding from the workshop. And I am training from Calgary (Canda) University in bimolecular and bioinformatics, He is associated as Editor and board Member plant pathology and review report journal. Over 15 students at Bachelor degree and 2 Msc degree supervisor last 4 year Ethiopia. I am qualified to develop how treating of tomato Wilt disease caused by Fusarium Oxysporum and develop stain of fungi. From my experience, isolation of Fusarium Oxysporum from infected tomato plant, how to eradicate the tomato wilt diseased using systemic fungicides and using soil amendment experiment.

Mr Melese Worku Abera Research interest as Diagnosis of tomato fungal infections, treating tomato fungal infection, forest Ecology, assing of forest pathogen and insect

Email: salman186631@gmail.com

Dr. Salman Khan is an Associate Professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology. He did their PhD under the faculty of Medicine on hepatitis B Virus- Genotypes & Mutation, and he got his post-graduation in Medical Microbiology under the faculty of Medicine. He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology. Currently, he is Incharge of Medical Immunology & Medical Virology section in the Department of Medical Laboratory Science at Knowledge University, Erbil, Iraq. He has had the honour of working experience at the medical college of different countries like Mauritius, Nepal, and India. He was the founder and Dean at Venkateshwara school of Paramedical science in India and attended several workshops like on Molecular Technique and Hospital Associated Infection. During his service tenure under Kathmandu University, he was involved in several academic training programs like Advanced Training on teaching-and learning Methods, Clinical Case Study by Problem Based Learning (PBL) Methods, Scientific Writing & Research Ethics and have more than 8 years of experience to teach in Integrated Teaching Pattern According to the human Body Systems to the MBBS Students. He had been in charge of Postgraduate students for Journal Club & their practical Thesis Work at Nepal. He was appointed as Director of Basic Medical Sciences and Academic cum PBL Coordinator to Make a Master Schedule for Integrated Teaching of Basic Medical Sciences and Conducting PBL, Making PBL cases, Arrangement of Basic Medical Science Departmental Labs as per the PBL Case. He was a member of the Institutional Research Committee in Nepal and currently he is a member of Research development cell in other countries and published more than 37 Research Article in international indexed journals and also an Editorial member in some Journal. He published more than 10 Research on Hepatitis B virus and focused the clinicians awareness on the importance of genotype and Mutation, differentiation of chronic hepatitis B carriers from mutants, acute and simple carriers. Also, his research focused on Hepatitis B virus infection in pregnant Women and transmission to newborns and their prevention. His researches also published and focused on other public health issues like Anemia during pregnancy and Adolescent, Rheumatoid arthritis, Adenosine Deaminase Activity in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, thyroid dysfunction, Renal dysfunction, hyperuricemia, dysentery caused by Shigella & Escherichia coli, and finding multi-drug resistance patterns in Lower Respiratory Tract Infections, wound infection, Pregnancy Associated Asymptomatic Bacteriuria, and drug resistance, etc.

Research Interests: - his ongoing research focusing on COPD patients, Viral Hepatitis and prevention of Pregnancy associated infecious diseases.

Email: dr.avinashteli@gmail.com; dr.avinashteli@outlook.com

Dr. Avinash Teli was born in Nepal on March 15, 1991; He became a proud Indian citizen a few years ago. He accomplished his Doctoral in Pharmacy from MMU, India. He is one of the most profound experts in healthcare policy and regulations. His expertise extends from Hospital and healthcare policy design to implementation. He has been involved in the fields of Clinical Pharmacology, Research, Medical Quality and Hospital Operations. Dr. Avinash Teli is Head Clinical Pharmacologist and Drug consultant, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Nayati Medicity, Mathura. Previously, He worked in MMIMSR, Fortis Hospital, Medanta-The Medicity, Eternal Heart care center in Clinical Pharmacology department focusing on Medical Administration or Medication Management and Supply chain. He is engaged in Medication Therapy Management, Prescription validation, Dose calculation specially for Chemo drugs, Antibiotic usage, DDD, DRI. Dr. Avinash Teli is Lifetime member of Foundation for Health and Environment Research. He is Community immunity Ambassador of Mohammad Bin Rashid University of Medical and Health Science-USA, He is Active Full member of American Society of Health System Pharmacists(ASHP). Dr.Avinash is Editorial board member in two indexed journal with high impact factor. He is also working with Acta Scientific publication Pvt. Ltd as Editorial Board Member of ASPC. He has reviewed Many Manuscript as Reviewer in Surgery & Case Studies: Open Access Journal –Lupin Publisher. He is expert in evaluation of the manuscript, Interventions towards Manuscripts, quality of the manuscript etc; He has achieved many certifications from authorities like GCP-NIDA, Pharmacovigilance from UMC, Diabetes prevention from EACCME IDF School of diabetes, Brussels, Belgium, Many more certification From WHO. He is also active member of many organizations with valid course certificates. He is trainer for drug information, clinical practice & Safe medication for healthcare team. Dr. Avinash has attended several conferences and workshops at national and international levels. He also has presented many posters on international level.

Research Interests of Dr. Avinash Teli are Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmacology, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Medication Errors, Drugs Information Services, Pharmaceutical Care, Pharmaco-epidemiology, Pharmaco-economics, Pharmacovigilance, Antibiotic usage, Antibiogram. Rational Use of Drugs; Clinical Trials etc.

Email: rathermuzafar52@yahoo.com

Muzafar Ahmad Rather obtained his master degree in Biochemistry from Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi. Dr. Muzafar gained his M.Phil. in nanotechnology based drug delivery systems for tuberculosis (TB) from the University of Kashmir, Srinagar India. He finished his Ph.D. from Council of Scientific and Innovative Research-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM), Srinagar, India. His research interests are focused on the search for new tuberculosis (TB) drugs from the sources which include but are not limited to natural, synthetic and semisynthetic origins. The core focus is on new chemical entities for TB drug development. Dr. Muzafar has many national and international publications of high repute to his credit.

Chemotherapy; Drug development and Drug Resistance in Bacteria; Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics; Nanoformulation of Antimicrobials.

Email: nandkn@gmail.com; nandk@rpi.edu

MSc Biotechnology, PhD from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi Research Associate, RPI, NY, USA Chaired session international conference (2nd International Conference and Expo on Vaccine and Vaccination), Member of organizing committee (2nd International Conference and Expo on Vaccine and Vaccination), Invited speaker in international conferences Member of Science advisory board

Molecular biology, Immuno-Biotechnology, Vaccinology, Protein purification, Fermentation, Animal study, Monoclonal antibody, Cancer and Cell culture

Email: gamal.ammar@cornell.edu; gammar@srtacity.sci.eg; gamal.ammar@gmail.com

Dr. Gamal Ammar is an Assistant Professor of Biotechnology at SRTA-City, Egypt, and recently also as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Biotechnolog, Plant Transformation Facility, Cornell University, USA. His professional career started in 2006 by working for prestigious organizations like FAO and Monsanto. Thenceforth, he began his academic progress with a M.Sc. followed by a Ph.D. in Biotechnology. He succeeded to establish a complete integrated Plant Biotechnology Unit at his organization, where he is the research team leader of a distinguished group of junior scientists. After years of highly skillful experiences in research, teaching and administration, his ambitions aim to go beyond research into developing and applying novel technologies to access, and achieve sustainability. He is experienced with a demonstrated history of working in the biotechnology industry. Skilled in CRISPR, Plant Tissue Culture and Transformation, Environmental Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, and Microbial Genetics. Recently, he also has different activities to utilize the wide Biotechnology umbrella in order to study Plant Stress Signalling and QTLs related to serious climatic problems under a global warming scenario

His researches focous on Plant Biotechnology employment in different fields and scopes, believing that countries have to launch its development via Agriculture, mainly utilizing plant systems for environmental aspects like; bioremediation of heavy metals, and plant microbe interaction; medical ones like, producing edible vaccines besides secondary metabolites, and even manipulation of plants in industry to produce new products, leading to offer new solutions in a globe that faces climate changes, poverty, hunger, and renewable resources insecurity for reaching sustainable development

Email: dr.goswami2008@yahoo.co.in; meenaawasthi2011@gmail.com

Meena Goswami Awasthi is working in Department of Livestock Products Technology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, U.P. Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhayaya Pashu Chikitsa Vishwavidyalya euam Gau Anusandhan Sansthan (DUVASU), Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India. She finished her PhD in Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar, Bareilly India in 2015, MVSc (Livestock Products Technology) from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUA&T), Pantnagar, India in 2010 and Bachelor of Veterinary Sciences & Animal Husbandry from GBPUA&T), Pantnagar, India in 2008.

Fresh meat technology and meat microbiology is the area of specialization. She has worked on nitrite replacement with various spices, seasonings and condiments. She has developed various value added functional meat products like, health promoting carabeef based cookies, chicken spread, pork snacks, enrobed chicken kababs, low salt chevon sausages etc. She has also worked on meat products specially developed for consumers suffering from various life style diseases like hypertension, obesity, cardio vascular diseases etc. Presently she is working on nano emulsified essential oils incorporated muscle foods.

Email: rmirlekar@med.unc.edu

Bhalchandra Mirlekar is an immunologist with a deep and long-lasting interest in how the immune response shapes cancer and autoimmune disease. he is leveraging the immunosuppressive populations that restrain anti-tumor immunity in pancreatic cancer and malignant melanoma, with developing new immune-based therapy options for these deadly malignancies. he acquired the knowledge, training and experience in the field of immunology to effectively carry out research in basic immunology for better translation of research findings to clinical applications. he worked on molecular mechanism of T cell differentiation associated with auto-inflammatory responses. he proposed that the regulatory T cell (Treg) function and cytokine signaling dictates the balance between Treg and Th17 cells. In addition to many first-author publications, he have written several collaborative co-authored peer-reviewed publications in collaboration during my research studies. Currently, he is working on cellular and molecular mechanisms of B cell-mediated immune responses during pancreatic cancer and malignant melanoma initiation and progression

Tumor immunology, Cancer immunotherapy: Drug discovery, clinical trials, studies on cancer patient samples, Molecular mechanism behind generation of innate and adaptive immune responses, Immune cell and cytokine signaling , Generation of transgenic, gene knock-out, cancer and autoimmune animal models ,Flow cytometry based research

Email: sagarayan36@gmail.com; sagarayan36@khcollege.ac.in

Dr. Sagar A. Vhanalakar is presently working as a Vice Principal and Head, Department of Zoology, Shri. Mouni Vidyapeeth’s Karmaveer Hire Arts, Science, Commerce and Education College, Gargoti, Tal – Bhudargad, Dist – Kolhapur, 416209 M. S., INDIA. He did his Ph. D. in the year 2010 from Shivaji University, Kolhapur (M.S.) India. Dr. Vhanalakar has 16 years of teaching experience and 14 years of research experience. The main area of his research is aquaculture and fisheries, limnology and biodiversity. There are 50 research papers, 12 book chapters and two books on the name of Dr. Vhanalakar. He also edited 10 books published by Bhumi Publishing, India. He attended and presented research papers in more than 50 national and international research conferences. He published more than 50 science awareness and agricultural articles in newspapers. Presently he is working as a principal investigator of one research project funded by University Grants Commission, New Delhi. He worked as an organizing secretary for two international, one national and 08 university level conferences and seminars. He is presently working as a managing editor for Bhumi Publication, Kolhapur, M.S., India. Dr. Vhanalakar is enganded in various social activities like Awareness campaingn during Ganesh festival regarding water pollution, establishment and guaidance to Self Help Group (SHG) of womens, their accounting and daily working.

Limnology, Aquaculture, Nanobiology

Email: adelina.rosca@umfcd.ro

Adelina Rosca is currently an Assistant Professor of Virology at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania where she conducts the practical training of clinical Virology for third year’s medical students and residents in infectious diseases and Microbiology. She also serves as researcher at the AIDS International Laboratory Centre of Excellence established by the Baylor Paediatric AIDS Initiative at Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of Virology in Bucharest. Her main research interest is on the long term evolution of HIV infection under cART and HIV impact on the CNS with a particular interest in the epigenetic regulation of HIV persistence and evolving strategies.

HIV, viral hepatitis, viral diseases

Email: naeemkhan@ufl.edu

Naeem Khan is a Plant Physiologist, My scientific interest includes the study of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Plant Insect-interactions, Phytohormones, Abiotic stresses, Plant breeding, Plant metabolites, Plant protection, Soil microbiology and Microbial cleaning of polluted lands

Plant Microbe Interactions; Plant-Insect Interactions; Phytohormones; Plant Metabolites; Agronomy.

Email: abhishekbairwa913@gmail.com; abhishek.kumar@mewaruniversity.co.in

Abhishek Kumar Verma is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Life Sciences, School of Science and Technology at Mewar University. I received My Graduate degree from Department of Biotechnology from Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India and Post Graduate degree In Life Sciences (Specialization in Biochemistry) from the Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda (Punjab) in 2019. My experience researching and writing my MSc Thesis Work: M.Sc. Dissertation Project (August 2018 to May 2019) on “Pharmacological Activities of Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis and In Silico Identification of Glycolytic Inhibitors in Cancer Cells” under the guidance of Dr. Shashank Kumar, Department of Biochemistry and Microbial Sciences, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda-151001 has helped me develop and fine-tune the skills necessary for a full-time research position. Specifically, my experience with reviewing literature and writing various academic reports, as evident from the publications listed in my resume, has equipped me with the reading and writing skills you are looking for in your ideal candidate. On the technical side, I have extensive experience working with Bioinformatics analysis tools, namely Molecular Docking- Schrodinger (Maestro), Ligand scout, PyRx, Auto Dock Vina, RunMtiAutodock, and Run MtiopenScreen, MD Stimulation, Protein Preparation, Visualization and Modelling: Phyre 2 Server, SWISS Model, String Database, Chimera, VMD, LigPlus++, PyMOL, Discovery Studio Visualizer, RasWin, Avogadro, USCF Chimera and Other Bioinformatics Tools- MEGA-X, NAMD, SPDBV, Pharmacophore Modelling. Together with the theoretical knowledge I’ve gained over the years (e.g., Biochemistry, Life Sciences) and my love for spreadsheets and analysis, this part of the research assistantship is what attracts and excites me the most. I have publications in various national and international journal, book chapter and edited book (Mayadhar Barik, Abhishek Kumar Verma. A Textbook of the SARS-CoV-2: Guidelines and Protocol Development. Mahi International Publisher Ahmadabad, India (published), ISSN: 978-93-89339-66-6 (Published Date- 24 July 2020.

Biochemistry and Microbial Sciences

Email: sci.kassim.abdull@uobabylon.edu.iq

Kassim Abdulla Hamza Al-Morshidy, Ph.D. in parasitology and Immunology and M.Sc. in Parasitology. He is assistant professor at the University of Babylon, College of Science, Iraq. He has a number of works in parasitology and immunology and he have planned to future works in these areas.

Parasitology; Immunology; Epidemiology; Zoonosis diseases: Molecular Biology; Parasitological Ecology; Medical Entomology and Lectin.

Email: hebaamn@yahoo.com; ha.mahfouze@nrc.sci.eg

Dr. Heba Amin Mahfouze is Associate Professor in Genetics and Cytology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Division, National Research Centre from 2006 to now. She obtained a M.Sc degree in 2008 in Plant virology from Ain Shams University and a Ph.D degree in Plant Virology in 2013 from Ain Shams University. She obtained on a Postdoctoral grant in University of Delhi, South Campus, India. Also, she has attended several international conferences, symposium and workshops in Germany, China, India, Hungary, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt. She is a member of the editorial board of two international journals. He has also served as editor for an international book project entitled (Outline of Biotechnology) and (Plant virus and its relationship to humans) and published by Lap Lambert Academic. She also serves as a reviewer for 9 international journals. In addition, she serves as referee for international projects. She member in international and national scientific committees. She has supervised M.Sc and Ph.D theses

Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Genetic Engineering, Plant viruses

Email: cksnaidu@gmail.com; tul53710@temple.edu

Assistant Professor Dr. Kumaraswamy Naidu Chitrala is an Assistant Professor (Research) at Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine. He is currently leading the Bioinformatics core facility at Fels Institute for Cancer Research & Molecular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University. My research has primarily been in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics with the application of different high-performance computational approaches to solving biological problems. I have published over 30 research publications, 4 book chapters and over 30 abstracts by participating at national and international meetings. Over the past few years, my research has been primarily focused on the implementation of transcriptomic, genomics data analysis tools and algorithms to perform a broad range of data analyses for emerging genomics technologies for basic and translational research projects.

Bioinformatics; Immunology; Epidemiology; Epigenetics; Computational Biology; Cancer biology; Microbiome analysis; Metabolic disorders; Neurological disorders; Aging; Drug designing; Data mining and analysis; Machine learning approaches; Database development; High-Performance Super Computing

Email: rajvanshiharsh@gmail.com; harsh.rajvanshi@fdeci.org

Mr. Dr. Rajvanshi is a trained clinician with a Masters in Public Health (M.P.H) with specialization in Epidemiology (top of the class) from Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal University. He is also pursuing his Executive PhD in Public Health from the Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi. He is currently working as Head of Operations, Chief Epidemiologist, and Monitoring & Evaluation officer at Malaria Elimination Demonstration Project in the tribal district of Mandla in Madhya Pradesh. He has authored more than 28 papers in peer reviewed journals and is also the Co-Founder and Editorial Chief of International Dental Journal of Students' Research and Journal of Public Health & Allied Sciences - both under Cephorb Medline International Pvt Ltd - a company co-founded by him. Dr. Rajvanshi has presented more than 50 research papers and ideas in conferences and events. He is also the recepient of the prestigious Pierre Fauchard Senior Student award, Famdent Outstanding Student of the Year award, Best Outgoing Student award from his alma mater, Top 14 Student Clinicians of India by ADA/Dentsply amongst several others

Public Health, malaria, vector borne diseases

Email: mangesh1101@gmail.com; mhade@fsu.edu; mangesh.hade@med.fsu.edu

Dr. Hade obtained a BSc in Biotechnology from Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Maharashtra, India and received his MSc in Biotechnology from Bangalore University, Bangalore, India. He then moved to the Institute of Microbial Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India and obtained his PhD degree in Biotechnology where he investigated various functions of truncated hemoglobins and their chimeric forms in the lab of Dr. Kanak L Dikshit. Dr. Hade has received several awards and published several research articles. Dr. Hade is currently working as post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. His work mainly focused on the development of novel ways of cargo loading into the exosomes and investigating their effects on wound healing. Dr. Hade has been involved in multiple projects related to the extracellular vesicles and drug discovery. His research interests include exploiting the application of extracellular vesicles for wound healing, cancer therapy and neurodegenerative disease.

protein engineering, molecular biology, microbiology, mycobacteriology, drug discovery, exosomes, extracellular vesicles, mesenchymal stem cells, wound healing, cancer therapy, neurodegenerative disorders

Email: mailmeanp86@gmail.com

Dr.Anoop.M., Currently working as Associate Professor at KVM College of Science and Technology. He was Awarded Ph.D. from Mahatma Gandhi University. He Completed Masters degree from VIT University, Tamil Nadu and B.Ed. from Kerala University. He also Achieved Diploma in Software Engineering certified by NIIT.He possesses more than twelve years of experience as an Academician and as a Researcher. He started his Carrier as Lecturer in Biotechnology at SNGM Arts and Science College, Alappuzha, Kerala .He worked as Teacher in Biology at Sree Gokulam Public School Attingal, Thiruvananthapuram and worked as visiting faculty of General Science at NIMS Civil Service Academy, Neyyatinkara, Kerala. He has organized national and international conferences and enacted as resource person in many. His main areas of interest include Biodegradation, Ethno pharmacology, Food & dairy microbiology and Biostatistics. He authored twelve research papers in National /International journals and seven in national /international conference proceedings

Ethno pharmacology, Biodegradation ,Food and Dairytechnology.

Email: zunzah@gmail.com; drzahid.casvab@uob.edu.pk

Doctor of Philosophy (Immunology) University of Paris South 11, Paris France Masters (Immunology) University of Val de Marne Paris 12, Paris France MS (Biotechnology and Informatics) Balochistan University of Information Technology Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta, Pakistan DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicines), Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, Pakistan Gold medal in MS (Biotechnology & Informatics)

Immunology, Proteomics

Email: Abdulezizj@gmail.com; col@haramaya.edu.et

Dr. Abduleziz Jemal, Graduated by Veterinary Medicine 2014 and starts MSC, By Veterinary Microbiology 2019 and now he is Researcher at Haramaya University. he Have Published Six Papers on Different Journals. he Have Good Experiences on Paper Editting, Especially on Medical, Veterinary, Animal Science and Microbiology.

Medical Microbiology, Veterinary Microbiology and Infectious Disease,

Email: drkavitagupta2010@gmail.com; micro_kavita@aiimsbhubaneswar.edu.in

Currently, Dr. Kavita Gupta is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar since February, 2018. She is the coordinator EQAS program and Nursing curriculum of the Department. She has completed her MD in 2013 from VMMC & SJH Hospital, New Delhi. She has worked as senior resident in AIIMS Jodhpur and UCMS New Delhi for a period of three and half years after her MD. She previously worked in the ESIC Medical College & Hospital Faridabad for nearly one year. She is involved in various research projects involving detection of drug resistance in bacteria, Tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections and also in viral diseases. Many students are doing their MD thesis under her guidance. She has published a number of papers in reputed journals. During her faculty tenure, she is actively involved in research and currently doing various research projects. Overall she is involved in teaching & microbiology research since 11 years and has a deep interest in carrying good research work

Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Tuberculosis, Antimicrobial Resistance, Sexually transmitted infections

Email: kishore016@yahoo.com; skmunshi@stamfordunivversity.edu.bd

Ass prof. Saurab Kishore Munshi is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Stamford University Bangladesh since March, 2016. He is the coordinator of MS Program of the Department. He joined in the University as a Lecturer on May, 2011. He previously worked in the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (NTRL), Bangladesh as a researcher for nearly one and half years. Saurab Kishore Munshi completed his B. Sc. (Hons.) and MS in Microbiology from Department of Microbiology, Stamford university Bnagladesh. He started his research career in the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) in 2008. There he worked on the detection of diarrheagenic E. coli from surface water. During his MS study, he concentrated to the research on tuberculosis with the joint collaboration with National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (NTRL), Dhaka, Bangladesh. He worked there on the various approaches for the detection of drug resistant tuberculosis and published a numbers of papers in reputed journals. Afterwards, during his faculty tenure, he is actively involved in research and is supervising several of research students with a continual output as reflected through his extensive national and international papers. Overall, he has been involved in microbiological research for 12 years. He has already published 39 original research and review articles in different reputed international and local journals.

Food Microbiology, Environmental & Agricultural Microbiology, Tuberculosis, Clinical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Cell Biology.

Email: ayusuf75@yahoo.com; ayusuf75@nins.gov.bd

Currently he is working as Principal Investigator in a research project with the Oxford University, UK entitled as “Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on bacterial sepsis, antibiotic consumption and stewardship, and antimicrobial resistance” under Prof. Timothy R. Walsh, Professor of Medical Microbiology and Antibiotic Resistance, Department of Zoology, Zoology Research and Administration Building, 11a Mansfield Rd, Oxford OX1 3SZ, University of Oxford, UK. This project is undergoing in 11 countries worldwide and Bangladesh is one of these countries.

Microbiology and Antibiotic Resistance, Zoology

Email: info@hmu.edu.krd; amin.bakir@hmu.edu.krd

Asst. prof Amin A. Bakir from College of Veterinary Medicine – Tabriz University –Iran 2001 Worked in Central Veterinary Lab – Northern Iraq from July 2001 UNFAO monitoring officer for regional zoonotic disease surveillance 2002 – 2003 Started MSc in Medical Microbiology with a project on HCV prevalence in the region Become academic staff in the College of Medicine – Hawler Medical University 2006 Teaching Medical Virology to Medical students Started PhD in Infection, Immunity and Inflammation in University of Leicester – UK Worked on Transcriptional responses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis inside Neutrophils during TB infection. Started working as Supervisor in Erbil city – Iraq from 2017 on molecular detection diagnosis of human infectious diseases and genetic disorders

Medical Microbiology, Molecular Biology

Email: vsbotany@gmail.com; veerual@gmail.com

Presently He is working as a Asst. Professor in Post Graduate Department of Botany in BK College, Chikodi, India. He is having 13 years of teaching and research experience in life sciences.

Botany, Plant Pathology

Email: kjpnarayana@gmail.com; kolla@img.cas.cz

Jayaprakash Kolla received his Ph.D. from Acharya Nagarjuna University, in Microbiology (2008). He started his research career in 2008 in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Laila Nutraceuticals. Afterward, he did his post-doctoral research at National Centre for Biological Sciences, Dept. of Cell signaling, Bangalore, India. Further, he was awarded an Independent DST-Young scientist project and pursued research in Molecular Oncology at the Centre for DNA fingerprinting and diagnostics, Hyderabad, India. From 2013-2018, he extended his career as a scientist in drug discovery research at Hetero Drugs Ltd. He conducted several preclinical studies for potential antivirals and anti-inflammatory small molecules and attained proficiency in regulatory fulfillment of Investigational new drugs. Thereafter, he joined in CZ-OPENSCREEN (National node of the pan-European ESFRI infrastructure EU-OPENSCREEN), Czech Republic and engaged in various high throughput screening projects including nuclear receptor profiling and anti-inflammatory agents

Cancer Biology/Molecular Oncology, Cancer Biology/Molecular Oncology, Chemical Biology, Chemical Biology, Chemical Biology

Email: prasadniranjangunjal@gmail.com

Asst prof. Gunjal Prasad Niranjan is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of rich, in depth and extensive experience in Laboratory, Teaching and Administration. Presently associated with DVVPF’s Medical College and Hospital, Ahmednagar as Assistant Professor in Department of Microbiology. PhD Scholar at MUHS, Nashik. Trained for ISO 15189:2012 Quality Management System and Internal Auditor. MUHS Approved Teacher – Assistant Professor for Microbiology. Approved External Examiner for BDS, PG-DMLT at MUHS, Nashik, DPU, Pune, PIMS Loni. About 13 Original research articles published in various National and International Journals and 2 copyrights. Hands on training for various molecular techniques like RT PCR for COVID-19, MTB, HIV. Worked as NAAC Criteria Coordinator in various criteria for institutional NAAC Committee. Work experience as Infection Control Officer for Ahmednagar’s First NABH Hospital, knowledge of NABH. Presented oral paper and poster in conferences. Author of Experimental Study designs and clinical trials (Chapter no. 14) Book Name: Research Guide A complete Book for your Research Journey. Publisher Vora Medical Publication, Mumbai. Editors Prof. Dr. Sunil Natha Mhaske (Editor in Chief), Prof. Sandeep S. Kadu, (Asso. Editor), Edition First Edition 2020. Working on Chapter for Book on Salivary diagnostics.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis molecular diagnosis, Antibiotic stewardship, Hospital Infection prevention and control, Bacteriological diagnosis, Serological diagnosis, Parasitological diagnosis, Mycological diagnosis, Virological diagnosis.

Email: samanderkaushik@gmail.com; smanderkaushik.cbt@mdurohtak.ac.in

Asst prof. Samander Kaushik, completed his PhD in Virology (Microbiology) from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, India, in 2010. Since then, he has been working as an assistant professor at Maharshi Dayanand University's Centre for Biotechnology in Rohtak, Haryana, India. His research group is developing rapid, sensitive, specific, and cost-effective diagnostic tests and treatment agents. He has twenty years of expertise in this field and has published more than forty papers in PubMed/Scopus-indexed/peer-reviewed journals, as well as three book chapters with an 820 citation index. He received financial support from a variety of sources for his lab's research efforts

Research interest are Virology

Email: aad@uomosul.edu.iq; presedent@uomosul.edu.iq

Assist. Prof. Ali Adel Dawood at the college of Medicine. he teaches medical biology for the first class medical students. he have 43 publication and more than 160 paper reviews.

Research interest are Microbiology, Virology, Immunology, Bioinformatics, and Genetics

Email: tarika.kumar@gmail.com; tarika.upadhyay-env@msubaroda.ac.in

Asst prof. Tarika Kumar served as an academician, teacher and researcher since 2008 after my PhD from Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. She served as Head, PG Department of Microbiology, Brindavan College, Bangalore, India. he moved to Irvine, California, USA in late 2010 and helped Dr So, UCI in editing a book on Acupuncture relating it with Anatomy (Acupuncture Anatomy Regional micro anatomy and systemic acupuncture networks). Further, she served as Junior Specialist in Peripheral Nerve Research Lab, Gillespie Hall, University of California. she also did a private job as Quality Control Manager, Nature’s Flavors, Orange, CA, USA. After 3 years of residence in USA, she returned back to India and joined Reva University, Bangalore as Assistant Professor and spent 3 years. she left for Gujarat, India in 2016 and joined Parul University, Vadodara in Parul Institute of Applied Sciences. In 2019, she joined The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, her current job in Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science. Her Research Interests are very broad ranging in Microbiology fields. she also have been awarded with research grants BIOTHON- 2018: Hackathon of Biotech Solutions for State Problems under the theme- “Swachchh Bharat” entitled ‘Biological Production of Polyhydroxyalkanoates from Biowastes’. He is also working on Research Grant “Standardization of root trainers and potting mixture for seed/seedling of eight forest tree species and Trichoderma (Bio-fertilizer) application” awarded by Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Gandhinagar

Environmental Microbiology, Bioplastics, Polyhydroxyalkanoates, Biofertilizers

Email: salghtani@ut.edu.sa

Assistant Professor of Botany – Biology Department - University College of Taymaa - University of Tabuk from 2017, to date : Vice Dean of University College of Taymaa - University of Tabuk, 2018. Head of Biology Department - University College of Taymaa - University of Tabuk from 2018, to date.

Research interest are Plant Ecology, Ecological Pollution, Plant diversity, Effect of pollution on Vegetation, Flora of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Soil Seed Bank, Medicinal Plants and Phytoremediation by some Plants

Email: usharaniks2003@yahoo.com ; usharani@psgcas.ac.in

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Email: b.deivasigamani@gmail.com; sigamani_bd@rediffmail.com

Iam Dr. B. Deivasigamani, working as an Associate Professor (Since 2017) & UGC-Research Awardee (2016-18), DST-SERB Young Scientist Awardee (2012), AWARD FOR INCREDIBLE RESEARCHER OF INDIA -2021 by Record Owner Delhi- 110009, India. (23.08.2021), Outstanding Scientist Award (August, 2021) by VD Good Professional Association of India, Life time Dignitary Fellows (August 2021) by the International Organization for Academic and Scientific Development, OUTSTANDING FACULTY OF THE YEAR-2021. EET CRS Research wings for excellence in professional education & industry present 9th Branding award July 2021 by Kolkata India. My area of research is fish immunology. I have published 11 books, 10 manual and more than 80 research papers in reputed International journals Nature Scientific Report Journal – 03, International Journal=77 and 10 National journals. I have editorial board member and reviewer of the five repute International Academic Journals and has Professional membership of Indian Science Congress Association (Life member), Journal of Environmental Biology and Journal of Aquatic Biology. Identified 75 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence. I completed two minor project (UGC minor and TNSCST student project) and nine Major projects UGC, MoES, CSIR, DST-SERB and Indo-Vietnam (DST-MOST)-International collaborative project. I have visited Vietnam country for Indo-Vietnam collaborative project bilateral research project meeting on August, 2012 to 2014. I Conducted 30 training program on fish immunbology and immunotechnology, Enzyme technology sponsored by UGC, DBT and DST, Government of India, New Delhi and a summer training Programme on Bioprocess Technology (Enzyme Technology).

Fish Immunology and Biotechnology

Email: arun.uoh@gmail.com arun.sai@ctuap.ac.in

Asst prof. PVPS Arun is an engineer turned academician. He has a total of 23+ publications in various international and national journals. He is a recipient of prestigious awards and fellowships such as DBT-JRF, CSIR-SRF, DAAD, DBT-JRF, DST-SERB-NPDF, Young Research award from Institute of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Young Scientist award for the year 2020 from Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences. He is also an Associate Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences.

Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Tribal Medicine

Email: rana.deepu91@gmail.com

Asst prof. Deepanshu Rana done M.Sc. & Ph.D. in Microbiology from Gurukul Kangri University, Hardwar, India, having 5 years research and 1 years teaching experience. I am a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from SAAR, JNU (February, 2020) and also an active member of Indian Science Congress Association and Indian Science Congress Association-Haridwar Chapter. My area of research is working on Gut Bacteria capable of producing potent Secondary Metabolites which may serve as Antimicrobial agents with enhancement in there potentiality using Nanotechnology and also the in-silico studies. I have about 10 publications in leading peer reviewed Journals.

Gut Bacteria, Secondary Metabolites, Microbe-Microbe Interaction, Antimicrobial agents, Ecological Niche, Nanotechnology, In-silico study

Email: salman186631@gmail.com; salman.khan@ausoma.org

Dr. Salman Khan is an Associate Professor of Medical Microbiology & Immunology. He did their PhD under the faculty of Medicine on hepatitis B Virus- Genotypes & Mutation, and he got his post-graduation in Medical Microbiology under the faculty of Medicine. He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology. Currently, he is working as Chair & Associate Professor of Infectious Disease & Immunology at school of medicine, American University, USA. He has had the honour of working experience at the medical college of different countries like USA, Iraq, Mauritius, Nepal, and India. He was the founder and Dean at Venkateshwara school of Paramedical science in India and started several para-medical courses like Bachelor in Medical Laboratory Technology, B.Sc. in OTT (Operation Theatre Technology),Bachelor of Physiotherapy, Diploma in Rural Health Care, Diploma in Community Health Care,Diploma in blood bank technology,Diploma in emergency and trauma care,Diploma in Anaesthesia Technology,Diploma in Dialysis Technology etc and attended several workshops like on Molecular Technique and Hospital Associated Infection.

Research Interests: Microbiology, Infectious disease & Immunology

Email: ndako.james@lmu.edu.ng; ndakoj0103@gmail.com; ndakoj@yahoo.co.uk

Ndako James Ajigasokoa-(Associate Professor) is a versatile, motivated and efficient Academic and an administrator with a wide span research career in the field of Medical Laboratory sciences with special emphasis in the field of Medical Microbiology. He had his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Microbiology and thereafter a Master’s degree in Applied Microbiology and plant Pathology, He obtained his PhD degree in Applied Microbiology with special interest in Epidemiology and public health Microbiology. Ndako James has over Sixty publications in both local and international Journals, with some indexed in Scopus/Web of Science. He was among the five faculties from Landmark University nominated as goggle scholar of the year 2015.Ndako strongly desires to build a highly skilled research base on the precise and accurate diagnosis of Viral Hepatitis,HIV and Human papillomavirus Virus and other Virus of Medical importance within and outside the Nigerian context based on current best practices as obtained in renowned research Laboratories. It is interesting to know he work well within a team but also perform excellently well with individual responsibilities. His objective is to provide quality service in a caring and professional manner and support any given outlined goals, objectives and mission with regard to his institutional development plan. Ndako James Ajigasokoa is a certified Medical Laboraory Scientist with Majors in Medical Virology. He is an astute administrator and a fellows of the Institute of Management Consultant(FIMC-Certified Management Consultant-ICMCI Global Certificate).

My research interest coves all area of Mecical Micobilogy with expertise in Clinical Virology which includes Research on Viral Hepatitis (Hepatitis B virus and Hepatitis C virus, HIV, HPV and other viruses of Medical Importance.This research is furtherance at promoting the SDG 03-United Nations Charter which tends to promote good health and well-being in communities.

Email: abhishekmehta623@gmail.com

Asst prof . Abhishek Mehta having Over 10 years of extensive experience in Academics(Medical teaching), Medical research, Laboratory medicine, Clinical Microbiology, infectious diseases and hospital infection control.

Research Interests are Herbal antimicrobials, Clinical Microbiology, Bacteriology, infectious diseases

Email: imteyazqamar@gmail.com; imteyazqamar@gbu.ac.in

A researcher passionate about providing quality mentoring for youngsters in advancing their career. Dr. Imteyaz Qamar is working as Assistant Professor at the School of Biotechnology, Gautam Buddha University. He obtained his Doctoral degree from Hormone Research Centre, Chonnam National University, South Korea. He published several papers including JBC, Aging, JBSD, Sci Rep, RSC Adv etc. He received various awards and sponsored grants from ICMR, CSIR. He is also member of The Endocrine Society, USA.

Cancer Biology, Aging, Cellular Senescence, Gene Regulation

Email: priti186631@gmail.com

Dr. Priti Singh is an Assistant Professor of Nutritional, Biochemical & Molecular Sciences. She finished MD from abroad, and she got her post-graduation in Medical Biochemistry under the faculty of Medicine. Currently, she is working as an Assistant Professor of Nutritional, Biochemical & Molecular Sciences at school of medicine, American University, Kingdom of the Netherland. She had the honor of working experience at the medical college of different countries like Kingdom of the Netherland, Mauritius, Nepal, and India. She was a member of the Institutional Research Committee in Nepal and published more than 30 Research Articles in International indexed journals and an Editorial member in another Journal. She published more than 6 Research on Diabetes and focused the clinician's awareness on the importance of differential diagnosis. Her research mainly focused Anemia during pregnancy and Adolescent, Rheumatoid arthritis, Adenosine Deaminase Activity in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, thyroid dysfunction, Renal dysfunction, hyperuricemia, dysentery caused by Shigella & Escherichia coli, and finding multi-drug resistance patterns in Lower Respiratory Tract Infections, wound infection, Pregnancy Associated Asymptomatic Bacteriuria, and drug resistance, etc. And her ongoing research focusing on pneumonia in immunocompromised patients, post covid complications.

Research Interests are Biochemistry & Infectious Diseases

Email: smukry.nibd@gmail.com; saminanaz.mukry@nibd.edu.pk

I am working as a Microbiologist and Cell &molecular biologist in the position of Associate Professor/ HOD Microbiology at National Institute of Blood Diseases & Bone Marrow Transplantation, Karachi Pakistan. My responsibilities at NIBD are diverse. It involves managing diagnostic laboratory operations, academics and research. My primary field of research is biological sciences. Within this general field, I specialize in microbiology, immunology and cell & molecular biology. I am an active member of NIBD Infection Control Committee. At NIBD most of our patients’ population is immune-compromised and rate of infectious complications vary according to individuals’ microenvironment and treatment procedure (such as type of bone-marrow or stem cell transplant) therefore beside antibiotic stewardship I am also advocating diagnostic stewardship which is imperative to overall lab quality management. Beside infectious diseases (Malaria, COVID-19, HCV, Dengue, bacterial infections etc) my research group is working on understanding the immunological and molecular basis of hematological disorders; immune thrombocytopenia, leukemia, myeloproliferative neoplasms and aplastic anemia.

Research Interests: Immunology, applied microbiology, hematology, cell and molecular biology, infectious diseases/ infection prevention and control, antimicrobial resistance, prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers.

Email: jaishriz@gmail.com

PhD in Molecular Medicine from AIIMS, New Delhi, India and Post doctorate from IHU, URMITE, AMU, Marseille, France. More than 14 yrs of Molecular diagnostics and research experiences. (Ex- Laboratory Head, SRL (Agilus) diagnostics, Raipur, Ex – Consultant and project manager, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi). 33 International publications. Sound knowledge of NABL accredited molecular laboratories. Expertise in Molecular pathology.

Research interests are Infectious disease and Molecular Diagnostics

Email: arifamu@gmail.com; arifahmad@manuu.edu.in

Dr. Arif Ahmad is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology, Maulana Azad National Urdu University (A Central University), Hyderabad, India. Dr. Ahmad obtained his Masters degree from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh in the year 2003. He received his Ph.D. degree from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in the year 2008. He also qualified CSIR/UCG-NET and received CSIR, Junior Research Fellowship during his Ph.D. He has received Post-doctoral Young Scientist Fellowship from SERB-DST, New Delhi. His area of research is cancer biology in the field of HPV-induced cervical carcinogenesis and the study of the synergic effect of certain medicinal active compounds on hepatocellular carcinoma.

Research Interests are Cancer Biology of cervical and hepatocellular carcinoma

Email: jagdishpau1965@gmail.com; jpsingh@pau.edu

Dr J P Singh, Professor has 27 years of teaching, research and extension experience in the field of Soil and Water Engineering. He worked as Head (Additional Charge), Department of Soil & Water Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana for one year and Hostel Warden for 5 years. He did B Tech (Agril Engg) from Allahabad Agricultural Institute (AAI), Allahabad, UP, M Tech (Soil & Water Engg) & Ph D (Soil & Water Engg) from department of Soil & Water Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, PAU, Ludhiana. He was bestowed with prestigious Jawahar Lal Nehru Award for the best Ph D thesis by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, Young Scientist Award & Kunwar Saxena Bahadur Award by the Society of Recent Development in Agriculture, Fellowship Award by the Hi Tech Horticultural Society, Agricultural Engineering Division Medal for best research paper by the Institution of Engineers, best Research Paper Award by the Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (ISAE) and Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) for pursuing Ph D by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi. He taught various UG & PG courses, developed few PG courses too and guided 3 Ph D students & 14 M Tech students as major advisor. Dr J P Singh & his team brought laurel to the University with FIST, DST funded project of Rs. 1.52 Cr for Establishment of A State of Art Geospatial Lab. He is handling DST funded project on North India Center for Water Technology Research in Agriculture as CoPI and involved in several competitive & AICRP project as CoPI & Associated Scientist. He was Technical Advisor to Drainage Division, Punjab Govt for design and installation of subsurface drainage system in south western districts of Punjab under drainage project funded by World Bank. Dr Singh has published about 70 research papers in the National & International journal of repute and presented research papers in more than 30 National/International seminars/conferences/symposia. One of his developed technology “Development of Filter for Canal Water Potability” is under patent. He has been a member/chairman of various committees at State & National level on waterlogging & drainage and professional society.

research interests are Water Management, Water Quality, Groundwater