Microbiome in Human Health and Disease

Chapter 1_Significance of microbiome on human healthcare.- Chapter 2_Animal models for microbiome studies.- Chapter 3_Bioinformatics tools for analyzing microbiomes.- Chapter 4_Modulation of Systemic Immune Responses through genital, skin, and oral microbiota.-Chapter 5_Role of microbiome in development of immune system.- Chapter 6_Understanding the interplay between host immune-microbiome interactions.- Chapter 7_Overview on human gut microbiome and its role in immunomodulation.- Chapter 8_Cancer microbiome and immunotherapy: Understanding the complexity between microbes, immunity, and cancer.- Chapter 9_Dynamics of Respiratory Microbiome in lung dysbiosis.- Chapter 10_Microbiome Therapeutics: Emerging concepts and challenges.- Chapter 11_Intestinal Microbiome and Health.- Chapter 12_Macromolecule signalling mediating inflammation and immune system interaction.- Chapter 13_Microbiome-immune homeostasis and their involvement in cancer immunotherapy.- Chapter 14_Challenges and future prospects in the microbiome intervention in human health and disease.

Dr. Pallaval Veera Bramhachari is currently a Head & Senior Faculty member of the Department of Biotechnology at Krishna University, Machilipatnam, India. He has earlier served as Postdoctoral research scientist at the Bacterial Pathogenesis Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR-Berghofoer Research Center),), Brisbane, Australia, and DBT Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He completed his PhD in Microbiology from Goa University, India. His major research interests are the investigation on the applied research in microbiology and cell biology including biochemical mechanism of bacterial-biofilm formations, structure-function relationship of bacterial rhamnolipids, basic and translational cancer research. He has published more than 140 research articles in Scopus-indexed journals, authored and co-authored 6 international books and invited book chapters in prestigious peer reviewedinternational and presented 47 abstracts at various national and international conferences. He has served as editorial board and reviewer for a number of national and international journals. He is a member of numerous international scientific societies and organizations, most importantly, Indian Science Congress & Society of Biological Chemists, India. He successfully completed two major research projects.  

He was awarded Travel scholarship from QIMR-2007, Australia for attending 4th Indo-Australian Biotechnology Conference at Brisbane, Australia, Awarded with young scientist travel fellowship (2007) from the DST, Govt. of India for attending XVII Lancefield International Symposium at Porto Heli-Greece-2008, He was conferred with various prestigious awards, notably, Science Education Research Board (SERB), Government of India-Young Scientist award (2011) with a research project and Nominated as Associate Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences (APAS)-2016,