Implication of Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation in Medicine, Agriculture and Food Industry (PDF)

Dr. Pallaval Veera Bramhachari is currently Head of the Department of Biotechnology at Krishna University, India. He has served as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Bacterial Pathogenesis Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), Australia, and DBT Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science (IIsc), Bangalore. He holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Goa University, India. His major research focuses on applied microbiology and cell biology research, including biochemical mechanism of bacterial-biofilm formations, structure-function relationship of bacterial rhamnolipids, and basic and translational cancer research. He has published more than 115 research articles in leading peer-reviewed international journals and 3 international books and has presented 47 abstracts at various national and international conferences. He has served as an editorial board member and reviewer for a number of national and international journals. He is a member of several international scientific societies and organizations, most importantly, Indian Science Congress & Society of Biological Chemists, India. He has received a number of various prestigious awards, notably, AP State Best Scientist Award 2017, DST SERB Young Scientist Award (2011) and nominated as an Associate Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences (APAS) for the year 2016.