Microbial Polymers: Applications and Ecological Perspectives

Dr. Anukool Vaishnav: Anukool Vaishnav is working as an Assistant professor in Department of Biotechnology, GLA University, Mathura. He operated SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellowship (NPDF) project as a Principal Investigator at Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has 7 years of research experience in Agriculture Microbiology. His research is mainly focuses on microbial mediated plant protection against biotic and abiotic stress, characterization of signaling molecules and secondary metabolites (soluble and VOCs) in plant holobionts. As an active researcher, he has published more than 20 research and review articles along with 13 book chapters for reputed journals and edited books. He has filed 9 Indian patents in association with his research group. He is an editorial member of Current Genomics Journal published by Bentham Science. He has been awarded with Young Scientist Award from reputed societies.

Dr. Devendra Kumar Choudhary: Dr. Choudhary is selected member-National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) and shows his presence at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida. Recently he was associated with PDM and worked as Professor (Ad hoc) for three months. He is active researcher and operated major projects with worth amount 10 million sponsored by DBT, DST and SERB, New Delhi, India, as principal investigator and co-investigator. He has involved and contributed in NAAS policy paper number 36 in the year 2006. He has published more than 80 research/review articles along with several book chapters for reputed journals and edited books (Springer, Elsevier and Taylor Francis/Wiley-Blackwell). He has supervised 08 research scholars for their doctoral programme as supervisor and co-supervisor. In addition, he is recipient of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) visiting and summer research fellowship-2014 and his team received DR. RS Rana Memorial best research award 2013 sponsored by Association of Microbiologists of India. His team filed 3 patents and submitted bacterial strains to public domain wherein incurred two accession numbers from MTCC, IMTECH for submitted bacterial cultures (MTCC, 12057 & 12058) along with one MCC no 2607.