Dr. Kalyani Dhusia is a computational biologist specializing in structural bioinformatics. She earned her PhD in December 2018 focusing on Structural bioinformatics analysis of potential inhibitors against microbial pathogens and joined Michigan State University for her first postdoc in January 2019 where she is focusing her research for development of predictive models of genomic binding by the nuclear receptors, aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) and nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (Nrf2) with Bhattacharya's lab.

Her research interest ranges broadly from computational biology, machine learning to artificial intelligence that led to her current position at Albert Einstein College of Medicine that emphasizes on construction of large scale database in with development of machine learning based computational algorithms to study the dynamics of protein protein interaction of membrane receptors in immune systems and their functional role in cell signal transduction.

Her scholarly publications are included in peer-reviewed journals like microbial pathogenesis, infection, genetics and evolution and International journal of biological macromolecules. she is a recipient of national and international awards. She is a dynamic personality and innovator in her field. Her commitment to bring moral courage, ethical conviction and mission statement to the room is spectacular. She keeps looking for innovative and fruitful mergers in interdisciplinary science.

Outside of work she is 6^th Kyu Aikidoha with persistently active in traveling, live street music and adventure sports.

Dr. Kalpana Raja has extent knowledge and expertise in pharmacy, software programming, computational biology, bioinformatics and biomedical informatics through education and employment. Basically, she is a pharmacist, awarded with Bachelor of Pharmacy from Tamilnadu Dr M G R Medical University, Chennai, India. Kalpana is a registered pharmacist (life member) with the Indian Pharmacy Council, New Delhi, India. Her interest to develop software tools for healthcare motivated Kalpana to earn Master of Science in Computing: Software Technology from School of Computing, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. She completed her second Master of Science degree in Bioinformatics from Bharathiar University, India. Kalpana also completed PhD in Computing: Software Technology - Bioinformatics (inter-disciplinary) from Bharathiar University, India. Recently, Kalpana is honored with Member of Royal Society of Biology (MRSB) from The Royal Society, London, UK. Kalpana gained her post-doctoral training at Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, and Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann arbor, USA. Now, she is working as a post-doctoral research associate at Regenerative Biology, The Morgridge Institute for Research, Affiliated with University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA. Kalpana has published more than 50 research articles in leading journals including Nature Communications, books, and conferences. She has contributed as an editor, associate editor, and reviewer in 10 journals including Briefings in Bioinformatics with impact factor 9.101 and Bioinformatics with impact factor 4.531. In this book, she has applied text mining for microbiology. Though text mining is applied to many biological areas, her attempt to apply it to fungal siderophores is the first application in the field of microbiology.

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Pramod Ramteke has 36 years of research and teaching experience in environmental biotechnology and worked in the area of development of microbe based eco-friendly processes to utilize agricultural wastes for production of biofuels and industrially important enzymes; biodegradation and detoxification of  pollutants and  sustainable crop production. He worked as Dean of Post Graduateat Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS) and Scientist at CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. He obtained three patents, developed 5 databases and deposited 293 gene sequences in NCBI; executed 11 R & D sponsored projects, authored/edited 6 books and published over 250 scientific papers and reviews in national and international peer reviewed journals. He is Fellow of NAAS, NABS, BRSI, AMSc, NESA, UPAAS, MASc, Royal Society of Biology and the Linnean Society of London and has been conferred with Life Time Achievement Award-Dr. B. Vasanthraj David Foundation, Prof. K. V. Shastri Gold Medal, ABAP-Senior Scientist Award, Dr. J. C. Edward Medal, J. C. Bose Gold Medal, SCON Award for Excellence in Science Award, V. S. Chauhan Gold Medal and Prof. K. S. Bilgramy Memorial Award. He was a visiting Scientist at Szeged University, Hungary, Hacettepe University, Turkey, Institute of Food Research, UK, University of Liege, Belgium, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea and Hydrobiological Institute, Czech Republic.

List of potential contributors

S. No.

Name

Affiliation

Email address

1.

Dr. Francesco Vinale

Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante

(IPSP-CNR), Via Università

f.vinale@ipp.cnr.it

2.

Dr. Hubertus Haas

Division of Molecular Biology/ Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University

hubertus.haas@i-med.ac.at

3.

Dr. Elzbieta Gumienna-Kontecka

Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

elzbieta.gumienna-kontecka@chem.uni.wroc.pl

4.

Dr. Kuang-Ren Chung

Citrus Research and Education Center, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), University of Florida

krchung@ufl.edu

5.

Prof. Holger B. Deising

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Institut

holger.deising@landw.uni-halle.de

6.

Dr. Peter Punt

Leiden University

peter.punt@tno.nl

7.

Dr. Eric Pearlman

Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland

Eric.Pearlman@case.edu

8.

Dr. Manoj Kumar Solanki

National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms

mkswings321@gmail.com

9.

Dr. Gérald Larcher

Département Pharmacie Biochimie University of Angers

gerald.larcher@univ-angers.fr

10.

Dr. Francesco Vinale

CNR - Istituto per la Protezione delle Piante (IPP-CNR), Via Università, Naples, Italy

f.vinale@ipp.cnr.it

11.

Dr. Rajinder K. Gupta

University School of Biotechnology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

rkg67ap@yahoo.com

12.

Dr. Weizhen Qi

College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong, China

qwz0221@live.cn

13.

Dr. Lei Zhao

Shandong Normal University, China

zhaolei@sdu.edu.cn

14.

Prof. Günther Winkelmann

Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology

University of Tübingen, Germany

winkelmann@uni-tuebingen.de

15.

Dr. Célia Maria de Almeida Soares

Laboratório de Biologia Molecular, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás

cmasoares@gmail.com

16.

Dr. Anil Kumar Chhillar

Centre for Biotechnology, M.D. University, Rohtak

anil.chhillar@gmail.com

17.

Dr. Sabiha Yasmin

Division of Molecular Biology, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University

dr.sabiha.yasmin@gmail.com

18.

Dr. Linda Johnson

AgResearch Limited, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Linda.Johnson@agresearch.co.nz

19.

Dr. Sébastien Rigali

Centre for Protein Engineering, University of Liège, Institut de Chimie

srigali@ulg.ac.be

20.

Dr. Erika Kothe

Microbial Communication, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy Friedrich Schiller University

Erika.Kothe@uni-jena.de

21.

Dr. Joanna C.Renshaw

Centre for Radio chemistry Research, Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road

joanna.c.renshaw@man.ac.uk

22.

Dr. Harald Oberegger

Institut für Molekular biologie Universität. Innsbruck

harald.oberegger@uibk.ac.at

23.

Dr. Luis Antelo

IBWF Institut für Biotechnologie und Wirkstoff-Forschung

antelo@ibwf.de

24.

Dr. Katrin Eisfeld

Institut für Biotechnologie und Wirkstoff-Forschung e.V., Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 56, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

katei@gmx.de

eisfeld@ibwf.de

25.

Dr. Kai Welzela

Department of Entomology, University of California,

kwelz001@ucr.edu

donghwan.choe@ucr.edu

kwelz001@ucr.edu

26.

Dr. Schrettl Markus

Division of Molecular Biology

markus.schrettl@i-med.ac.at

27.

Dr. Zhiqiang An

IMM SRB

zhiqiang.an@uth.tmc.edu

28.

Dr. Sally A. Leong

Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin

sal@plantpath.wisc.edu

29.

Prof. J. McEvoy

Cornell University

mcevoyp@science.oregonstate.edu

30.

Dr. Kurt Haselwandter

Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse

kurt.haselwandter@uibk.ac.at

31.

Dr. G. Nicholson

Department of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck

g.nicholson@qut.edu.au

32.

Dr. G. Winkelmann

Institut für Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie

winkelmann@uni.tuebingen.de

33.

Alvin L.Crumbliss

Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, USA

alvin.crumbliss@duke.edu

34.

Dr. Alison Butler

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara

butler@chem.ucsb.edu

35.

Dr. Linda J.Johnson

AgResearch Ltd., Grasslands Research Centre, Tennent Drive

linda.johnson@agresearch.co.nz

36.

Dr. Elzbieta Gumienna-Kontecka

Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw

elzbieta.gumienna-kontecka@chem.uni.wroc.pl

37.

Dr. Jioji N.Tabudravu

Marine Biodiscovery Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen

j.tabudravu@abdn.ac.uk

38.

Dr. David P. Nicolau

Center for Anti-Infective Research and Development, Hartford Hospital

Division of Infectious Diseases, Hartford Hospital, Hartford

david.nicolau@hhchealth.org

39.

Prof. Pascal Sonnet

Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Laboratoire de Glycochimie, des Antimicrobiens, et des Agroressources, UMR CNRS

pascal.sonnet@u-picardie.fr

40.

Prof. Jin-HwanKwak

School of Life Science, Handong Global University, Pohang, Republic of Korea

jhkwak@handong.edu

41.

Prof. Owen W. Duckworth

Department of Soil Science, North Carolina State University

owen_duckworth@ncsu.edu

42.

Dr. Anna Maria Pirttilä

Department of Biology, University of Oulu

am.pirttila@oulu.fi

43.

Dr. Zhen-MingChi

Unesco Chinese Center of Marine Biotechnology, Ocean University of China

zhenming@sdu.edu.cn

44.

Dr. Isabelle J. Schalk

IREBS, ESBS, Blvd Sébastien Brant

isabelle.schalk@unistra.fr

45.

Prof. Shaojie Li

State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Lisj@im.ac.cn

46.

Dr. Bruno Giuliano Garisto Donzelli

School of Integrative Plant Science - Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section

bdd1@cornell.edu

47.

Dr. Laura E.Birch

Department of Biology, Clarke College, Iowa

laura.birch@clarke.edu

48.

Dr. MacitIlkit

Division of Mycology, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Çukurova, Adana

milkit@cu.edu.tr