Recent Advancements in Microbial Diversity

Dr Surajit De Mandal is Postdoctoral researcher in College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University (SCAU), Guangzhou, P. R. China. He completed his Ph.D from the Dept. of Biotechnology, Mizoram University, India. His main areas of research are microbial ecology, insect-microbe interactions and microbial biopesticides. Dr. De Mandal has more than fifty publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles & book chapters and edited book. He has reviewed publications for various international journals like Frontier in Microbiology, Scientific reports, Heliyon, Geomicrobiology etc. Presently he is studying the role of gut microbiota in insect immunity.

1. Biodiversity of microbial life: Indian Himalayan region 2. Microbial endophytes of plants: diversity, benefits, and their interaction with host 3. A spotlight on the recent advances in bacterial plant diseases and their footprint on crop production 4. Bacterial diseases of banana: detection, characterization, and control management 5. Toward an enhanced understanding of plant growth promoting microbes for sustainable agriculture 6. Multifaceted beneficial effects of plant growth promoting bacteria and rhizobium on legume production in hill agriculture 7. Role of rhizospheric microbial diversity in plant growth promotion in maintaining the sustainable agrosystem at high altitude regions 8. Microbes adapted to cold and their use as biofertilizers for mountainous regions 9. Actinobacteria: diversity and biotechnological applications 10. Quorum sensing: the microbial linguistic 11. Exploration of microbial communities of Indian hot springs and their potential biotechnological applications 12. Microbial diversity and functional potential in wetland ecosystems 13. Effect of climate change on microbial diversity and its functional attributes 14. Spatial variation of the microbial diversity in the mangrove dominated Sundarban Forest of India 15. Microbe assisted plant stress management 16. Insect gut microbiome and its applications 17. Diversity and the antimicrobial activity of vaginal lactobacilli: current status and future prospective 18. Gut microbiota and brain development: A review 19. Role of microbial communities in traditionally fermented foods and beverages in North East India 20. Metagenomics: Applications of functional and structural approaches and meta-omics 21. Metagenomics: a vital source of information for modeling interaction networks in bacterial communities 22. Metagenomics based approach to reveal the secrets of unculturable microbial diversity from aquatic environment 23. Metagenomic-based approach to a comprehensive understanding of cave microbial