Metagenomics and Microbial Ecology (ePub)

Surajit De Mandal, Ph.D., is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P. R. China. He has eight years of research experience and published several research articles in international journals. He also acts as acts as an editorial board member/ reviewer for various international journals. His field of interest includes microbial diversity and metagenomics, molecular phylogeny, bioinformatics, and microbial control of insect pests. He is presently working on microbial community analysis using next-generation sequencing methods.

Amrita Kumari Panda, Ph.D is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Biotechnology at Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gahira Guru Vishwavidyalaya Sarguja, Chhattisgarh India. She obtained her Doctoral degree in Biotechnology from Berhampur University, Odisha, India. Dr. Panda received Fast Track Post Doctoral fellowship from Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India, New Delhi. She has more than eight years of research experience in the field of molecular microbiology, microbial diversity and published several articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals. She received Federation of European Microbiological Society (FEMS) Meeting grant award in the year 2014. Her research interest includes Metagenomics and Microbial diversity.

N. Senthil Kumar, Ph.D, is Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Mizoram University with 16 years of teaching and research experience. His field of interest includes Genomics, Molecular phylogeny and Bioinformatics. He is presently working on metagenomics, cancer DNA markers and mutation analysis. During his post-doctoral stint at Sun Yat-sen University, China he was involved in RNAi studies with chitin synthase gene. He has authored more than 90 research papers, and he is the investigator of various national research projects.