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Vijay Kothari is a microbiologist working in India. He holds two decades of experience in teaching and research. He has >100 publications and >20 conference talks to his credit. His publications have enjoyed wide readership across the globe (>2,82,231 reads from ResearchGate alone). Many of his articles have been ranked in the top 25% among all those ever tracked by Altmetric. His research interests include Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), Traditional Medicine (antipathogenic, neuroprotective, prebiotic properties), and Microbial Response to Sonic Stimulation. His lab has identified multiple potential targets in pathogenic bacteria, and currently working on their validation. Vijay is a recipient of AIMS award (Artificial Intelligence Molecular Screen- 2019) from Atomwise Inc., USA; Sentinel of Science (2016) from Publons; Future Leaders Mentoring Fellowship from American Society for Microbiology (ASM- 2023-24). He is a member of 25 different professional bodies. Vijay derives great satisfaction from the M.Sc. Dissertation projects guided by him, which hitherto has enabled 73 M.Sc. students to author one or more papers in indexed journals.

Dr. Subhasree is currently working as an Assistant professor at Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. She earned her Ph.D. degree from CSIR-IGIB, Delhi in 2018. She received the prestigious CSIR-SRF fellowship. Her main research work was focused on the production of biopolymers from waste biomass. After Ph.D., she joined as a postdoctoral researcher at Ewha University, and the University of Seoul, South Korea. Here, her main focus was anaerobic digestion of food wastes for methane production. She also studied methanogenesis at 4000L pilot-scale plant. After successful completion of 1 year, she joined another project at Yeungnam University, South Korea. During that period, she worked on several fungal toxins and their inhibition from fermented food. She also worked on biofilm inhibition of pathogenic organisms by natural bioactive compounds. To her credit, she has 24 research papers published in peer-reviewed journals, 8 book chapters and 2 books. In addition, she is a life member of various scientific societies and also a member of various committees at the Sharda University for Graduate and Undergraduate programs.

Prasun Kumar holds a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India. He is presently working as a Research Scientist at MNR Medical College and Hospital, Sangareddy, Telangana. Earlier, he was working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea. He has over seven years of experience in applied microbiological research including about 2 years of experience in industrial R&D. His main areas of research are bioinformatics, biopolymers, microbial biodiversity, bioenergy, microbial biofilms, quorum sensing, quorum quenching, and genomics. His present research is oriented toward valorizing lignocellulosic biowastes into value-added products such as biopolymer, 2G ethanol, bioenergy, and antibiofilm compounds. To his credit, there are over 34 articles in SCI journals, 5 books, and 11 chapters with international publishers. He has been serving the scientific society by reviewing articles for several SCI journals and delivering guest lectures. Publons awarded him the peer review award in the year 2018. He also serves as the editorial board member of a few international journals.

Vijay Kothari 是一位在印度工作的微生物學家，擁有二十年的教學和研究經驗。他的出版物超過100篇，並在20場以上的會議上發表演講。他的研究成果在全球享有廣泛的讀者群（僅在ResearchGate上就有超過282,231次閱讀）。他的許多文章在Altmetric追蹤的所有文章中排名前25%。他的研究興趣包括抗微生物抗藥性（AMR）、傳統醫學（抗病原、神經保護、益生元特性）以及微生物對聲音刺激的反應。他的實驗室已經確定了多個病原菌的潛在靶點，並目前正在進行驗證。Vijay 獲得了來自美國Atomwise Inc.的AIMS獎（人工智慧分子篩選-2019）、來自Publons的科學守護者獎（2016）以及美國微生物學會（ASM-2023-24）的未來領袖導師獎。他是25個不同專業機構的成員。Vijay 對於他所指導的碩士論文項目感到非常滿意，迄今為止已使73名碩士生在索引期刊上發表一篇或多篇論文。

Subhasree 博士目前在印度北方邦大諾伊達的Sharda University擔任助理教授。她於2018年在德里CSIR-IGIB獲得博士學位，並獲得了著名的CSIR-SRF獎學金。她的主要研究工作集中在從廢棄生物質中生產生物聚合物。博士畢業後，她在韓國的梨花女子大學和首爾大學擔任博士後研究員，主要研究食物廢棄物的厭氧消化以生產甲烷。她還在4000L的試點工廠研究甲烷生成。成功完成一年後，她加入了韓國的慶南大學的另一個項目。在那段期間，她研究了幾種真菌毒素及其在發酵食品中的抑制作用。她還研究了天然生物活性化合物對病原體的生物膜抑制。她的學術成就包括在同行評審期刊上發表24篇研究論文、8章書籍章節和2本書。此外，她是多個科學學會的終身會員，並在Sharda University的研究生和本科生項目中擔任多個委員會的成員。

Prasun Kumar 擁有來自印度德里CSIR基因組與整合生物學研究所的生物技術博士學位。他目前在印度特倫甘納邦的MNR醫學院和醫院擔任研究科學家。此前，他在韓國慶南大學的化學工程系擔任助理教授。他在應用微生物學研究方面擁有超過七年的經驗，其中約兩年是在工業研發領域。他的主要研究領域包括生物信息學、生物聚合物、微生物多樣性、生物能源、微生物生物膜、群體感應、群體抑制和基因組學。他目前的研究方向是將木質纖維素生物廢料轉化為增值產品，如生物聚合物、2G乙醇、生物能源和抗生物膜化合物。他的學術成就包括在SCI期刊上發表超過34篇文章、5本書和11章與國際出版商合作的章節。他通過為多個SCI期刊審稿和發表客座講座來服務科學界。Publons在2018年授予他同行評審獎。他還擔任幾本國際期刊的編輯委員會成員。