Dr. R. Sindhu is currently working as Associate Professor at TKM Institute of Technology, Kollam, India. She obtained PhD in Biotechnology from School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam, India. She had then worked as Post-Doctoral Fellow at RGCB, Trivandrum, India from 2006 – 2008 in the area of Metagenomics. She later joined Centre for Biofuels of Microbial Processes and Technology Division of CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum India as a Scientist Fellow from December 2008 to October 2021. She has contributed to the Centre’s activities in biomass conversion to biofuels and products, especially on pre-treatment and allied technologies. Her current research focus is on biofuels, biopolymers and microbial enzymes. She has about 305 publications/communications with an h- index of 39 (Google Scholar Citations). She is one among the top 2% scientists in the world for the year 2019 and 2020 based on the study conducted by Stanford University. She is a recipient of several awards and fellowships including Prof. S. B. Chincholkar Memorial Award for the year 2020 from BRSI, Elsevier BIORESTEC 2018 Impactful Research Award, Women Scientist Award for the year 2016 from BRSI, Top Reviewer Award 2017 (Bioresource Technology), Visiting fellowship from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland – 2014, 2016, 2017; Marie Curie Fellow – University of Naples, Italy (2016) and University of Jaen, Spain (2016); International Training Fellowship from Department of International Programmes of National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan (2012); DBT Bio-CARe Fellowship, DST WOS-B Fellowship, Best Oral Presentation Award (SEEC 2018), BIORESTEC 2018 Best Paper Award, Elsevier Best Paper Award (NHBT 2015), Best Paper Award – Renewable Energy (Elsevier) – 2014, Best Paper Award (ICETB, 2009), and Fellow of the Society for Applied Biotechnology (FSAB). She is an editorial board member of five Journals – BioEnergy Research, Annals of Agricultural and Crop Sciences, Journal of Environmental Sciences and Renewable Resources, EC Microbiology and Journal of Innovation and Applied Research. She is a Review Editor for Frontiers in Food Biotechnology and Frontiers in Microbiotechnology. She is a reviewer of 106 SCI Journals in the field of bioprocesses and products. She has edited 3 Books. She is a recipient of Outstanding Reviewer Certificate from leading publishers like ACS, RCS, Wiley, Springer and Elsevier. She is a National Honorary Advisory Board Member of Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability (CEES, India) and Chairperson of Institutional Ethics Committee of Santhigiri Scientific Industrial Research Institute (IEC-SSIRI).

Biofuels, Biopolymers, Microbial enzymes, Metagenomics

prof. J. C. Okonkwo Works at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka from 2005 to date and has risen from the rank of lecturer 11 to Professor. Holds B. Agric. (Animal Science), M. Sc. (Animal Breeding & Genetics), PGD (Biotechnology) and PhD (Animal Science), and Professor of Animal Breeding & Genetics/ Biotechnology. Published over seventy scientific papers in national and international journals . Attended and presented over thirty conference papers in national and international Conferences , Chief Editor, Editor and Reviewer for over ten scientific journals, and Member Asian Council of Science Editor

Animal Biotechnology, Breeding & Genetics

Prof. Mandal is an international research professor in the Yeungnam University, South Korea. His interest is in industrial biomaterials. He has a number of articles in prestigious international journals with high impact factor. He also holds seven patents in India and Korea. He is one of the co-founders of LadMan Healthcare Pvt Ltd (India). Besides, he also serves as a chief scientific advisor of Bio Nano Pvt. Ltd, South Korea. He is editorial board member of many international journals.

Biotechnology, biomaterials, Nanotechnology

Abba P. Obouayeba is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry-Pharmacology at the Agrovalorisation Laboratory of the Department of Biochemistry-Microbiology at the Jean Lorougnon Guédé University of Daloa (Côte d'Ivoire). He is the author of about 10 scientific papers published in international peer-reviewed journals, most of which are impact-factor; Citations: 99 and index h: 5. He is a member of the editorial board of four international journals and a reviewer of 12 international science journals with impact factor.

Research Interests of Asst. Prof. Dr. Abba P. OBOUAYEBA are Biochemistry, Medicinal plants, Natural bioactive substances, Toxicology, Pharmacological activities.

Cemil Koyunoğlu was one of the main people who established Inonu-Pal accredited fuel-oil laboratory with his willingness after his bachelor's degree graduation. Then, he graduated from his Master’s.degree position at the same department during his proficiency testing connection between SGS Netherland and Inonu-Pal. After the fuel-oil first accepted as an accredited laboratory. He accepted as a research assistant in Yalova University Energy System Engineering Department. When he started his doctor of philosophy position in Energy Institute, Istanbul Technical University, in 2011. He was moved his staff position to Istanbul Technical University, Energy Institute in 2013. He set up an online “Petroleum products and lubricant testing online course & certificate” course and the entry was posted in Fundamental science & Engineering courses on 21st August 2014 to the Technology ED online courses platform which is located in Virginia State, U.S.A. and the web-company collaborated with 13 accredited universities in the U.S.A. He is the representative and contact person between IEA clean coal technology department and Yalova university

Research Interests of Dr. Cemil Koyunoglu are Energy system,Petroleum

Dr. Arvind have completed his PhD from MANIT, Bhopal. His Area of research are Human Thermal Comfort, Life Cycle Analysis of Biological Species, Thermal Engineering, Micro Channel Heat Sink. He published more than 10 Articles in various journals of international Repute. He also Published four books in International Publication Houses.

Human Thermal Comfort, Life Cycle Analysis of Biological Species, Thermal Engineering, Micro Channel Heat Sink

Dr. Farshid Talat is Assistant Professor of Crop genetics and Breeding at Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization of Iran. He is doing research in the field of crop genetics and biotechnology for 22 years and has been teaching Genetics and Biostatistics in several universities since 1999. He has conducted extensive studies on crop breeding and plant architecture systems in Iran. Dr. Talat served as a coordinator of 47 national projects .He received his B.Sc. degree in Agronomy and Plant Breeding from Urmia University in 1997 and his M.Sc. in Plant Breeding-Biotechnology from University of Tehran in 1999. Dr.Talat received his PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences in Genomics on wild cotton sequencing program. He is the author of 80 national and international published papers.

Statistical data analyses, Genomics, Genetics, Plant breeding, Bioinformatics, Biodata Analyses

Dr. Mudasir Dar is one of the young scientists in the field of Environmental Science and microbial-technology. His major research interest includes a wide range of resource recovery, microbial-technology, and bioengineering fields. He has more than 15 years of research experience related to gut-microbiome analysis in Insects, snails and termites with an expertise in the area of Metagenomics, Transcriptomics, and Metatranscriptomics where he harness the high-throughput sequencing technologies to better understand the host-microbial interactions towards lignocellulolytic systems. He is working as an Associate professor, at the Jiangsu University, P.R. China. He has received Foreign Outstanding Young Scientist grant (¥400000.00) and Postdoctoral Fund (¥350000.00) from National Natural Science of Foundation (NSFC), and China Postdoctoral Organization, China, respectively. He is also recognized as Foreign Scientific Experts by Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) of the People’s Republic of China and received a foundation grant of ¥300000.00. Previously he has worked as post-doctoral researcher at School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. He is currently working on the biofuel production from lignocellulosic wastes by using gut bacteria of Lignocellulose-feeding pest insects, such as Termites, Beetles, Caterpillars, etc. He received his Ph.D. from the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, India. During his doctoral degree he got an opportunity to work on Bioprospection of symbiotic gut-bacteria from the snails for agro-waste disposal management. He is also having more than 45 papers published in peer reviewed international journals of high repute. He is serving as an editorial board member of several prestigious and reputed international journals. He is also an active regular reviewer of many esteemed international journals published by Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, RSC and Taylor & Francis publishers. He has qualified the prestigious exams like, CSIR-UGC-NET multiple times with AIR 41 and 101 conducted by the CSIR-HRDG Govt. of India. He is a recipient of many national awards like Maulana Azad national fellow, DST PURSE fellow, UGC-UPE phase II fellow, etc. Currently, we endeavor to biomimic the gut environments of lignocellulose feeding insects and their interactions with microbial symbionts for a sustainable and potential design of future biorefinery. Dr. Mudasir along with his team are endeavoring to answer the following scientific challenges: ? To understand the physiological mechanisms governing, modulating, and perpetuating symbiotic interactions in animals particularly the ones feeding on lignocellulosic biomass. How these mechanisms help the hosts to adapt and evolve under natural conditions. ? How the valorization of the lignocellulose through gut symbionts of insects could prove as efficient model for future biorefinery.

Dr. Mudasir Dar is one of the young scientists in the field of Environmental Science and microbial-technology. His major research interest includes a wide range of resource recovery, microbial-technology, and bioengineering fields. He has more than 15 years of research experience related to gut-microbiome analysis in Insects, snails and termites with an expertise in the area of Metagenomics, Transcriptomics, and Metatranscriptomics where he harness the high-throughput sequencing technologies to better understand the host-microbial interactions towards lignocellulolytic systems. He is working as an Associate professor, at the Jiangsu University, P.R. China. He has received Foreign Outstanding Young Scientist grant (¥400000.00) and Postdoctoral Fund (¥350000.00) from National Natural Science of Foundation (NSFC), and China Postdoctoral Organization, China, respectively. He is also recognized as Foreign Scientific Experts by Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) of the People’s Republic of China and received a foundation grant of ¥300000.00. Previously he has worked as post-doctoral researcher at School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. He is currently working on the biofuel production from lignocellulosic wastes by using gut bacteria of Lignocellulose-feeding pest insects, such as Termites, Beetles, Caterpillars, etc. He received his Ph.D. from the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, India. During his doctoral degree he got an opportunity to work on Bioprospection of symbiotic gut-bacteria from the snails for agro-waste disposal management. He is also having more than 45 papers published in peer reviewed international journals of high repute. He is serving as an editorial board member of several prestigious and reputed international journals. He is also an active regular reviewer of many esteemed international journals published by Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, RSC and Taylor & Francis publishers. He has qualified the prestigious exams like, CSIR-UGC-NET multiple times with AIR 41 and 101 conducted by the CSIR-HRDG Govt. of India. He is a recipient of many national awards like Maulana Azad national fellow, DST PURSE fellow, UGC-UPE phase II fellow, etc. Currently, we endeavor to biomimic the gut environments of lignocellulose feeding insects and their interactions with microbial symbionts for a sustainable and potential design of future biorefinery. Dr. Mudasir along with his team are endeavoring to answer the following scientific challenges: ? To understand the physiological mechanisms governing, modulating, and perpetuating symbiotic interactions in animals particularly the ones feeding on lignocellulosic biomass. How these mechanisms help the hosts to adapt and evolve under natural conditions. ? How the valorization of the lignocellulose through gut symbionts of insects could prove as efficient model for future biorefinery.

Dr. Anupam Singh is working as an Associate professor and Head, Department of Biotechnology, Bansal Institute of Engineering and Technology. During his masters, he was awarded by DBT Studentship by the department of biotechnology, Govt. of India, New Delhi. He gained specialization in Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology. In the field of Biotechnology, he has more than 13 years experience in the research and teaching. He also delivered guest/ special lectures at a number of symposium/ seminars in India. Dr. Singh has also filled scientific patent and published many more research papers in peer-reviewed journals. (If you are not available with the Short Biography, kindly mention the points to be included in the Short Biography so, that we can write and upload)

Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering

Dr. Jyoti Kataria (PhD) Assistant Professor, Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Physiotherapy. Graduated from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences Bangalore, post-graduated from M.S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore and PhD in physiotherapy from Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University. She has been awarded master’s Degree in Musculoskeletal and Sports and PhD in Physiotherapy in orthopedics. She has been awarded for her contribution in academics and scientific fraternity at several occasions at prestigious International and Nations events. She is recipient of gold medal for research paper presentation at International Conference AIIMS New Delhi. Her forte is Scapular Bio-mechanics in computer professionals, sports biomechanics, and ergonomics. She has numerous publications in various national and international repute journals. She has professional experience of more than 10 years.

Ergonomics, Posture, disability, Health, physical well being.

I am Dharmendra Kumar, presently working as an Associate professor and Research Coordinator in the Department of Pharmacy, IEC Engineering and technolgy, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. I have about 10 years of teaching, and research experience in reputed PCI and AICTE approved organizations. I have 10 patents (01 grant, 07 published, 2 filed) and 15 publications in reputed National and International journals. I have also received an Outstanding Reviewer award from various journals. I have Authored/Edited/Editing 6 books.

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Nousheen Yousaf currently works at the Department of Botany, Government College University Lahore, Pakistan as Assistant Professor. Nousheen does research in Mycology. Her research focuses on domains of Fungal Biology, Molecular systematics and phylogeny and Fungal Plant Pathology. She has published many research articles in International and National Journals.

Mycology, Molecular taxonomy and systematics of different groups of fungi (macro fungi, pathogenic and filamentous fungi).

Prof. Dr. Aziz Ahmad is a professor of plant biochemistry at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. He has served at UMT as a lecturer and has over 20 years of experience as a researcher and administrator. His research focus and scholarly contributions are related to biochemical processes and the production of important compounds, particularly in aquatic organisms. In general, his emphasis is on the use of cell and tissue culture in aquatic plants, microalgae and rice. Through tissue culture methods, the biochemical processes in respective organisms can be stimulated or modified using genetic engineering and biochemical engineering processes that finally benefit humankind. He also utilizes his ability to understand the biochemical processes in the cells and tissues as a foundation for the production of essential fatty acids and secondary metabolites crucial in medicine and defence mechanisms in crops such as rice toward pathogenic microbes. His expertise in this field aims to ensure the sustainability of natural resources as a source of food and medicine. He also actively plays as a reviewer for other high-impact journals indexed in SCOPUS and WOS.

Plant-microbe interaction (abiotic and biotic stress in plants)

Dr. Indrani Paul is an accomplished academician and Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Brainware University, Kolkata. Holding a PhD in environmental biotechnology from the prestigious National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, Dr. Paul has made significant contributions to the field of waste valorization, waste management, bioremediation, wastewater treatment, and value-added product generation from microbes. With a passion for solving environmental challenges, she has dedicated their career to researching innovative solutions for sustainable waste management. Their work is marked by a substantial body of research publications that have not only expanded our understanding of these critical issues but also provided practical and sustainable approaches to address them. As an assistant professor, she imparts knowledge and expertise to the next generation of biotechnologists, inspiring and guiding students in their pursuit of scientific excellence. Their commitment to education and research has earned them recognition as a leading authority in the field of environmental biotechnology. Dr. Paul’s 's research interests are aligned with the pressing global need for environmentally friendly solutions. They are driven by the belief that through waste valorization and bioremediation, we can not only mitigate the environmental impact of waste but also harness its potential to create value and address critical environmental challenges. With a proven track record in academia and research, Dr. Indrani Paul stands as a distinguished figure in the realm of biotechnology, advocating for a cleaner, more sustainable future through their dedication to environmental biotechnology and their remarkable contributions to waste management and resource optimization.

Waste valorization, waste management, bioremediation, waste water treatment, value added product generation from microbes

Dr. Jegan Sekar is a scientist at the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India. Completed PhD in biotechnology at the University of Madras in the research area of agricultural microbial biotechnology. Core research is on understanding the below-ground microbiome, plant-microbe interactions, and exploring microbial engineers to enhance the quality and quantity of crop yield and soil fertility. To ensure global food security for the growing population, maximize productivity with minimum inputs by using renewable resources. Published research articles in prior reviewed journals, received research grants and awards, and exchange scientific visits.

Soil-microbe-plant interaction, Microbiome, Metagenomics, Transcriptomics, Biofertilizers and bioinputs

I want to dedicate my career to developing novel cancer immunotherapies. I am currently working as a Scientist in preclinical discovery at Ankyra Therapeutics. Previously, I worked in the Immuno-Oncology division at Moderna Therapeutics. I conducted my doctoral research at Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. For my thesis, I discovered the mechanisms by which a tumor cell-intrinsic protein called Ubiquitin Specific Protease 6 (USP6) activated cytotoxic Natural Killer cells to inhibit the growth of pediatric tumors like Ewing sarcoma (ES). My work contributed towards the development of a novel therapeutic approach for ES (for which no treatment options exist for metastatic and recurrent disease) as well as other malignancies as an alternative to T-cell targeted therapies, which are sensitive to antigen loss. Previous to this, I graduated from the Master’s in Biotechnology program from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at University of Pennsylvania (2015-2017), and a Bachelor’s in Biotechnology from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), India (2010-2014). After college, I pursued my interests in cancer therapeutics by working at the Biologics unit of a multi-national pharmaceutical company, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, in Hyderabad, India (2014-2015). I was proud to be a part of a mission to develop affordable biosimilars for patients in need.

Immunotherapy, Cancer Immunology, Solid Tumors, Sarcomas, Tumor Microenvironment, Cancer Therapeutics, Drug Development, Intra-tumoral Therapies.