Viji Sitther Editor

Dr. Prashant Kumar Singh is currently working as a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Vegetables and Field Crops, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization - The Volcani Centre, Israel. He has published papers in reputed international journals such as Aquatic toxicology, Journal of Proteomics, Biochemical and Biophysical Acta, Functional and Integrative Genomics, Frontiers in Plant Sciences, BMC-Plant Biology, Gene, Archives of Microbiology, Journal of Basic Micro Biology, Acta Crystallography and various book chapters in Taylors and Francis Group as well as Elsevier publishing group. He completed his Ph.D. degree on title “Cadmium-induced changes in the proteome of three Anabaena species and molecular characterization Alr2954 for decoding its role in abiotic stress management in E. coli”. He used a variety of techniques beginning with physiology, biochemistry, proteomics, genomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics to understand the mechanism of differential cadmium survival in three diazotrophic Anabaena species. Dr. Singh also has exposure to various national (Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi) and International institutes (Henan University, China). Dr. Singh has also been awarded a Young Scientist Award and lifetime members of various scientific societies such as International Plant Proteomics Organisation, American Society of Plant Biologists, Plantae community, Member on Board of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APEC), Member of Society for Experimental Biology, etc. María F. Fillat earned the Ph.D. degree in Sciences (University of Zaragoza, Spain) in 1988. She completed her instruction as PhD student at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and Emory University (GA, USA) studying the role of flavoproteins flavodoxin and ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase in photosynthetic electron transport and nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria. From 1989 to 1991, Dr. Fillat worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) where she studied several aspects of molecular genetics in cyanobacteria. Since 2000, Dr. Fillat´s work is mainly focused in the functional study of FUR (ferric uptake regulation) proteins in cyanobacteria. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and Professor in 2012. Dr. Viji Sitther serves as a professor of biology at Morgan State University, USA. Her research specializes on the genetic manipulation of cyanobacteria and use of nanotechnological approaches for sustainable energy applications. She holds M.Phil., Ph.D. degrees in the biological sciences, and has more than 20 years of research experience. Her efforts to genetically engineer genes for salt tolerance and lipid production, and the use of plasmon-resonant nanomaterial for improved light capture have led to patents, and a start-up company, “HaloCyTech” reliant on the technology has been formed. Dr. Ajay Kumar is a visiting scientist at the Department of Postharvest Science, Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, Israel. He has published extensively in leading International and National journals or books. He has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Microbial biocontrol, and Endophytes related with the medicinal plants, Postharvest management of fruits. Dr. Kumar has published more than 165 research articles including review papers/book chapters/ books in the leading international journals. He is serving as special issue editors in some journals like “Frontiers in Microbiology, Microorganism” etc. In addition also acting as reviewer in some leading journals like Frontiers group, PLOS ONE, Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Biological Control, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 3Biotech etc. Dr, Kumar has edited several books with leading publishers including Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor and Francis.