Vipin Chandra Kalia Editor

Dr. Vipin Chandra Kalia is presently working as Chief Scientist, Microbial Biotechnology and Genomics, CSIR- Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. He is a Professor, AcSIR who obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. Genetics, from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He has been elected as: (i) Fellow of Association of Microbiologists of India (FAMI), and (ii) Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (FNASc). His main areas of Research are Microbial Biodiversity, Bioenergy, Biopolymers, Genomics and Microbial Evolution; Quorum sensing, Quorum quenching, Drug Discovery and Antimicrobials. He has published 65 papers in Scientific journals such as (i) Nature Biotechnology, (ii) Biotechnology Advances, (iii) Trends in Biotechnology, (iv) Critical Reviews in Microbiology, (v) Bio resource Technology, (vi) PLoS ONE, (vii) BMC Genomics. His works have been cited 1600 times with an h index: 22; i10 index: 35. He is presently the Editor in Chief of Indian Journal of Microbiology and Editor of (i) J Microbiol & Biotechnol(Korea), (ii). Appl. Biochem. & Biotechnology (USA), (iii) International Scholarly Res. Network Renewable Energy, (iv). Dataset Papers in Microbiol. Life member of Scientific Societies: (i) Society of Biological Chemists of India (ii) Society for Plant Biochem. & Biotechnol. (India); (iii) Association of Microbiologist of India; (iv) Indian Science Congress Association; (v) BioEnergy Society of India, (vi) Biotech Res. Soc. of India. (BRSI); Member: American Society of Microbiology. He can be contacted at: [email protected]; [email protected]