Microbial Biotechnology: Basic Research and Applications / Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology (PDF)

than 40 peer reviewed national and international publications and has delivered numerous oral and poster presentations in numerous platforms. Dr. Ashish is the Member Secretary of Association of Microbiologists of India-LPU unit. He is presently serving as Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab..






Dr. Shanquan (Alan) Wang is currently an associate professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. His research focus on environmental microbiology, especially on organohalide-respiring bacteria and their conversion of halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). He integrates microbial cultivation, metagenomics, molecular techniques and bioreactor operation to gain fundamental insights into complex biosystems (e.g. bioremediation sites and anaerobic digesters), specifically from molecular-, cellular-, community- to system-levels. The generated knowledge on these reductive processes will be further employed to devise novel methods, techniques and products for environmental engineering purposes. He was awarded as SYSU Bairen Scholar and Zhujiang Youth Scholar in 2016 and 2018, respectively.






Dr. Ram Prasad is associated with Department of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India. His research interest includes applied microbiology, plant-microbe-interactions, sustainable agriculture and nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has more than one hundred fifty publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles & book chapters and five patents issued or pending, and edited or authored several books. Dr. Prasad has twelve years of teaching experience and has been awarded the Young Scientist Award (2007) & Prof. J.S. Datta Munshi Gold Medal (2009) by the International Society for Ecological Communications; FSAB fellowship (2010) by the Society for Applied Biotechnology; the American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowship for Beginning Investigators, USA (2014); Outstanding Scientist Award (2015) in the field of Microbiology by Venus International Foundation; BRICPL Science Investigator Award (ICAABT-2017) and Research Excellence Award (2018). He has been serving as editorial board members: Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers in Nutrition, Academia Journal of Biotechnology including Series editor of Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences, Springer Nature, USA. Previously, Dr. Prasad served as Assistant Professor Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India; Visiting Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, United States and Research Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.