Microplastics Pollution and Its Remediation

Dr. Ajay Kumar as a Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at Rama University Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur, Dr. Kumar has successfully served more than 21 years in research and teaching. He has a proven experience in Genomics & Proteomics, Bioprocess Engineering, Bioinformatics, Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology, Genetic Engineering, Environmental Biotechnology, Fermentation Technology, and Food Biotechnology. He has held several key positions in well-renowned Universities and Engineering Institutes. Dr. Kumar received his M. Tech. (Biotechnology) from the Institute of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow, India and Ph.D. from the ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Goats, Mathura, India. His expertise lies in research that includes computational vaccine & drug development, cancer biology genomics & proteomics, and fermentation technology. He has published 100 articles, 20 chapters, 4 books, and 7 patents. He has also served as chief and associate editor, editorial board member, and reviewer of several peer-reviewed journals. He is a research guide in his supervision M.Tech and Ph. D. scholars awarded their degree and supervising. Besides all these achievements, he is also a member of the Board of Study and Academic Council of Rama University Kanpur and Regional Food Research Analysis Center, Department of horticulture & food processing, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Being a member of a professional body such as the international association of engineers (IAENG) and INSA, he has rendered consultancy services in vaccine research.

Dr. Vijai Singh is a Professor and Head of the Department of Biosciences, School of Science at Indrashil University, Rajpur, Mehsana, Gujarat, India. He has worked as Associate Professor in the Department of Biosciences, School of Science at Indrashil University, Rajpur, Mehsana, India. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at the Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, India and also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the Invertis University, Bareilly, India. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Synthetic Biology Group at the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Paris, France and School of Energy & Chemical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology (2009) from the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India with a research focus on the development of molecular and immunoassays for diagnosis of Aeromonas hydrophila. His research interests are focused on building novel biosynthetic pathways for production of medically and industrially important biomolecules. Additionally, his laboratory is working on CRISPR-Cas9 tools for genome editing. He has more than 12 years of research and teaching experience in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, microbiology, and industrial microbiology. He has published 104 articles, 75 book chapters, 25 books and 3 patents. He serves as an associate editor, editorial board member, and reviewer of several peer-reviewed journals. He is also a member of the Board of Study and Academic Council of Indrashil University and is the Member Secretary of the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) at the same University.

Dr. Ajay Kumar擔任印度烏塔爾邦坎普爾拉瑪大學工程與技術學院生物技術系的教授及系主任，擁有超過21年的研究與教學經驗。他在基因組學與蛋白質組學、生物製程工程、生物資訊學、微生物學、工業微生物學、基因工程、環境生物技術、發酵技術及食品生物技術等領域具有豐富的經驗。他曾在多所知名大學及工程學院擔任多個重要職位。Kumar博士於印度勒克瑙的工程與技術學院獲得生物技術碩士學位（M. Tech.），並於印度馬圖拉的ICAR-中央山羊研究所獲得博士學位（Ph.D.）。他的專業研究包括計算疫苗與藥物開發、癌症生物學的基因組學與蛋白質組學，以及發酵技術。他已發表100篇文章、20章章節、4本書籍及7項專利。此外，他還擔任多本同行評審期刊的主編、副編輯、編輯委員會成員及審稿人。他是多位碩士及博士生的研究指導老師，並協助他們獲得學位。除了這些成就外，他還是拉瑪大學坎普爾的學術委員會及研究委員會成員，以及烏塔爾邦勒克瑙的區域食品研究分析中心的成員。作為國際工程師協會（IAENG）及印度科學院（INSA）的成員，他在疫苗研究方面提供了顧問服務。

Dr. Vijai Singh是印度古吉拉特邦梅赫薩納市Indrashil大學科學學院生物科學系的教授及系主任。他曾擔任Indrashil大學生物科學系的副教授，並在印度甘地納格的高級研究所生物科學與生物技術系擔任助理教授，還曾在印度巴雷利的Invertis大學生物技術系擔任助理教授。在此之前，他曾在法國巴黎的系統與合成生物學研究所的合成生物學小組及南韓蔚山科學技術院的能源與化學工程學院擔任博士後研究員。他於2009年在印度烏塔爾邦技術大學的國家魚類遺傳資源局獲得生物技術博士學位（Ph.D.），研究重點為開發用於診斷Aeromonas hydrophila的分子及免疫檢測。他的研究興趣集中於建立新型生物合成途徑，以生產醫療及工業上重要的生物分子。此外，他的實驗室正在研究用於基因組編輯的CRISPR-Cas9工具。他在合成生物學、代謝工程、生物資訊學、微生物學及工業微生物學等領域擁有超過12年的研究與教學經驗。他已發表104篇文章、75章章節、25本書籍及3項專利。他擔任多本同行評審期刊的副編輯、編輯委員會成員及審稿人。他也是Indrashil大學的學術委員會及研究委員會成員，並擔任該大學機構生物安全委員會（IBSC）的成員秘書。