Biofilm Associated Antimicrobial Resistance and Its Recovery (ePub)

diverse field of microbial biotechnology. She has worked in academia and research for more than 25 years in several institutes of repute. She started her research career in the field of microbial enzyme technology. She successfully completed a number of research projects funded by different sponsoring agencies such as UGC, DST and DRDO and is working on a project sponsored by DBT, WB. She has published around 80 research papers in various peer-reviewed national and international journals and is on the editorial boards and a regular reviewer of many journals. At present her research group is working on the positive and negative aspects of bacterial biofilm. She is a member of various scientific associations and was nominated fellow of the Zoological Society, India and the Academy for Environment and Life Sciences, India. She has also edited books for Springer Nature.

Sougata Ghosh is Associate Professor and Research Co- ordinator in the Department of Microbiology, School of Science, RK University, India. He obtained his BSc., MSc. and Ph.D. in Microbiology from Savitribai Phule Pune University, India. He is also Visiting Professor at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand and Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, USA. He was principle investigator of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India funded Foldscope Research Project. He has filed three patents on novel nanodrugs and published more than 70 highly cited research articles in various international journals such as the International Journal of Nanomedicine, Journal of Nanobiotechnology, Journal of Nanomaterials, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He has 4077 citations, h-index 33 and i10 index 70. He has written one book entitled Dioscorea bulbifera: A model system in nanobiotechnology and medicine, which is a frequently consulted, voluminous and comprehensive report on traditional medicinal plants. He has edited eight books and contributed to 150 book chapters. As speaker he has addressed numerous international conferences, the most notable being IJAS- 2019 and 2017 at Harvard University; ITNANO, Northeastern University, Boston; ASM Biodefense, Washington D.C.; Nano- Bio- Med 2013, Trieste, Italy; and BioMicroWorld2013, Madrid, Spain. He is a reviewer for various reputed journals such as Nanoscale, Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, B: Biology, Journal of Diabetes Research, International Journal of Advances in Engineering Research, International Journal of Research in Science and Technology, Chemotherapy Research and Practice, Journal of Nanomedicine & Biotherapeutic Discovery, Journal of Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology, Applied Nanoscience and Arabian Journal of Chemistry (Elsevier). He is a life member of the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI). His area of research consists of but is not limited to nanomedicine, microbial metabolism, bioprospecting, bioremediation, biofilms, cancer and diabetes.