Sachidanand Singh Editor

Dr. Sachidanand Singh, Professor in Biotechnology Department, Sanklachand Patel University, Visnagar, Gujrat. He completed B.Tech Biotechnology, M.Tech Bioinformatics and PhD in Bioinformatics. He has a postdoctoral research experience from the college of Pharmacy, Ohio State University, USA. His specialization area includes Plant Biotechnology, Systems Biology and Drug Design. He has more than 12 years of research and academic experience. He has served for a decade in the School of Biotechnology and Health Sciences, Karunya University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. He also worked as a consultant for the college of pharmacy, Ohio State University as a Statistical Genetics during the year 2018. He has published more than 38 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and completed one SERB, Govt of India funded project, and two University research grant projects. He has received several awards in his area of research and for his teaching strategies. He has organized different conference and workshops and received Govt. funds for the same. He has shared his area of expertise with different colleges and universities as invited speaker in different conferences and workshops. He has guided 36 B.Tech and 10 M.Tech projects. Presently 6 Ph.D students are enrolled under him and 1 PhD completed are working in the field of Herbal products, drug Design and integration with network biology.

Dr. Rahul Datta, He is an Assistant Professor at Mendel University in Brno. He got his MSc and Ph.D. from Mendel University, Czech Republic. He is a soil microbiologist and enzymologist. His research is focused on the application of biochar, soil molecular, and microbiological techniques for the improvement of soil quality and crop productivity to attain sustainable agriculture and a solution to food security. He had the opportunity to work with renowned scientists like Prof. Dr. Richard Dick at Ohio State University, Ohio, USA, and Prof. Paolo Nannipieri at the University of Florence, Italy, as a visiting scientist. So far, he has published about 90 research articles and review papers, 2 books with Springer and one with Intech Open. he has reviewed more than 300 papers in peer reviewed journals. He is Academic editor of journal PlosOne, Open Agriculture. He is also hosting Special issue in journal Land, Agriculture and Sustainability. At present, he is an Honorary International Advisor of the Asian PGPR Society

Dr. Parul Johri did B. Tech Biotechnology in the Year 2006 from IET Bundelkhand University Jhansi and completed her M. Tech in Bioinformatic from Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil University Mumbai Maharashtra, India. She received her PhD in Biotechnology (specialization Bioinformatic) from Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Campus. Dr. Johri ahs published about 16 research and review papers of national and international repute and have 7 book chapters. She has been a recipient of Vasant Rao Dada Saheb Gold Medal, merit holder in top 0.1 % students across India in CBSE board exams. Dr. Johri got funds from DBT CTEP for conducting Popular Lecture Series in Biotechnology, Govt. of India and also got funds from National Commission of Women (NCW) for conducting webinar in women health and rights. Dr. Johri has a wide teaching career of about 14 years and she has guided many Post Graduate students for their final year projects.

Mala Trivedi, Professor, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow. She is recipient of double Gold Medal from University of Allahabad during her M.Sc. 1993. She did her PhD in Plant Genetics and Breeding from Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, (CIMAP) (CSIR), Lucknow. She was Research associate at Institute of Cell Biology, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, P.R. China. She has good experience in plant transgenics. She has published more than 50 research papers in leading journals of National and international repute. Dr. Trivedi has published a book and several book chapters with international publishers. She has 5 Indian and 2 US patents to her credit. She is member of many prestigious societies. She was also visiting faculty to University of Lanzhou, Lanzhou PR China. Currently she is involved in mass multiplications of economically important plants (horticulture and medicinal plants). She is PI of DBT funded project and supervise 12 PhD scholars so far.