Dr. Dinesh Chandra has completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Kumaun University Nainital and Ph.D in Botany subject from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, India. He is working as Assistant Teacher in Department of School Education at Govt. Inter College Chamtola, Almora, India. His research areas of expertise are plant microbe interaction; abiotic stress tolerance mechanism, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria; Arbuscular micorrhizal fungi; etc. Dinesh has 25 publications to his credit. He has received 01 first runner up award for the best poster presentation..
Dr. Pankaj Bhatt completed his PhD. in microbiology from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. His research focused on the molecular and microbiological basis of bioremediation. Dr Bhatt has published several articles in high impact factor leading journals including Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, Chemosphere, Environmental research, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, and 3-Biotech. He has also published several book chapters on microbial biotechnology. Presently he is working as a Post-Doctoral researcher at Integrative Microbiology Research Centre, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou China.