Dr. Kalyani Dhusia is a computational biologist specializing in structural bioinformatics. She earned her PhD in December 2018 focusing on Structural bioinformatics analysis of potential inhibitors against microbial pathogens and joined Michigan State University for her first postdoc in January 2019 where she is focusing her research for development of predictive models of genomic binding by the nuclear receptors, aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) and nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (Nrf2) with Bhattacharya's lab.
Her research interest ranges broadly from computational biology, machine learning to artificial intelligence that led to her current position at Albert Einstein College of Medicine that emphasizes on construction of large scale database in with development of machine learning based computational algorithms to study the dynamics of protein protein interaction of membrane receptors in immune systems and their functional role in cell signal transduction.
Her scholarly publications are included in peer-reviewed journals like microbial pathogenesis, infection, genetics and evolution and International journal of biological macromolecules. she is a recipient of national and international awards. She is a dynamic personality and innovator in her field. Her commitment to bring moral courage, ethical conviction and mission statement to the room is spectacular. She keeps looking for innovative and fruitful mergers in interdisciplinary science.
Outside of work she is 6th Kyu Aikidoha with persistently active in traveling, live street music and adventure sports.
Dr. Kalpana Raja has extent knowledge and expertise in pharmacy, software programming, computational biology, bioinformatics and biomedical informatics through education and employment. Basically, she is a pharmacist, awarded with Bachelor of Pharmacy from Tamilnadu Dr M G R Medical University, Chennai, India. Kalpana is a registered pharmacist (life member) with the Indian Pharmacy Council, New Delhi, India. Her interest to develop software tools for healthcare motivated Kalpana to earn Master of Science in Computing: Software Technology from School of Computing, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. She completed her second Master of Science degree in Bioinformatics from Bharathiar University, India. Kalpana also completed PhD in Computing: Software Technology - Bioinformatics (inter-disciplinary) from Bharathiar University, India. Recently, Kalpana is honored with Member of Royal Society of Biology (MRSB) from The Royal Society, London, UK. Kalpana gained her post-doctoral training at Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, and Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann arbor, USA. Now, she is working as a post-doctoral research associate at Regenerative Biology, The Morgridge Institute for Research, Affiliated with University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA. Kalpana has published more than 50 research articles in leading journals including Nature Communications, books, and conferences. She has contributed as an editor, associate editor, and reviewer in 10 journals including Briefings in Bioinformatics with impact factor 9.101 and Bioinformatics with impact factor 4.531. In this book, she has applied text mining for microbiology. Though text mining is applied to many biological areas, her attempt to apply it to fungal siderophores is the first application in the field of microbiology.
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Pramod Ramteke has 36 years of research and teaching experience in environmental biotechnology and worked in the area of development of microbe based eco-friendly processes to utilize agricultural wastes for production of biofuels and industrially important enzymes; biodegradation and detoxification of pollutants and sustainable crop production. He worked as Dean of Post Graduateat Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHUATS) and Scientist at CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. He obtained three patents, developed 5 databases and deposited 293 gene sequences in NCBI; executed 11 R & D sponsored projects, authored/edited 6 books and published over 250 scientific papers and reviews in national and international peer reviewed journals. He is Fellow of NAAS, NABS, BRSI, AMSc, NESA, UPAAS, MASc, Royal Society of Biology and the Linnean Society of London and has been conferred with Life Time Achievement Award-Dr. B. Vasanthraj David Foundation, Prof. K. V. Shastri Gold Medal, ABAP-Senior Scientist Award, Dr. J. C. Edward Medal, J. C. Bose Gold Medal, SCON Award for Excellence in Science Award, V. S. Chauhan Gold Medal and Prof. K. S. Bilgramy Memorial Award. He was a visiting Scientist at Szeged University, Hungary, Hacettepe University, Turkey, Institute of Food Research, UK, University of Liege, Belgium, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea and Hydrobiological Institute, Czech Republic.
List of potential contributors
S. No.
Name
AffiliationEmail address
1.
Dr. Francesco Vinale
Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante
(IPSP-CNR), Via Universitàf.vinale@ipp.cnr.it
2.
Dr. Hubertus Haas
Division of Molecular Biology/ Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical Universityhubertus.haas@i-med.ac.at
3.
Dr. Elzbieta Gumienna-Kontecka
Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
elzbieta.gumienna-kontecka@chem.uni.wroc.pl
4.
Dr. Kuang-Ren Chung
Citrus Research and Education Center, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), University of Florida
krchung@ufl.edu
5.
Prof. Holger B. Deising
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Institut
holger.deising@landw.uni-halle.de
6. Dr. Peter PuntLeiden University
peter.punt@tno.nl
7. Dr. Eric PearlmanDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Eric.Pearlman@case.edu
8.
Dr. Manoj Kumar Solanki
National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms
mkswings321@gmail.com
9. Dr. Gérald LarcherDépartement Pharmacie Biochimie University of Angers
gerald.larcher@univ-angers.fr
10. Dr. Francesco VinaleCNR - Istituto per la Protezione delle Piante (IPP-CNR), Via Università, Naples, Italy
f.vinale@ipp.cnr.it
11. Dr. Rajinder K. GuptaUniversity School of Biotechnology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
rkg67ap@yahoo.com
12. Dr. Weizhen QiCollege of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong, China
qwz0221@live.cn
13.
Dr. Lei Zhao
Shandong Normal University, China
zhaolei@sdu.edu.cn
14. Prof. Günther WinkelmannInstitute of Microbiology and Biotechnology
University of Tübingen, Germany
winkelmann@uni-tuebingen.de
15.
Dr. Célia Maria de Almeida Soares
Laboratório de Biologia Molecular, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás
cmasoares@gmail.com
16. Dr. Anil Kumar ChhillarCentre for Biotechnology, M.D. University, Rohtak
anil.chhillar@gmail.com
17. Dr. Sabiha YasminDivision of Molecular Biology, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University
dr.sabiha.yasmin@gmail.com
18. Dr. Linda JohnsonAgResearch Limited, Grasslands Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Linda.Johnson@agresearch.co.nz
19. Dr. Sébastien RigaliCentre for Protein Engineering, University of Liège, Institut de Chimie
srigali@ulg.ac.be
20.
Dr. Erika Kothe
Microbial Communication, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology and Pharmacy Friedrich Schiller University
Erika.Kothe@uni-jena.de
21. Dr. Joanna C.RenshawCentre for Radio chemistry Research, Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road
joanna.c.renshaw@man.ac.uk
22. Dr. Harald ObereggerInstitut für Molekular biologie Universität. Innsbruck
harald.oberegger@uibk.ac.at
23. Dr. Luis AnteloIBWF Institut für Biotechnologie und Wirkstoff-Forschung
antelo@ibwf.de
24. Dr. Katrin EisfeldInstitut für Biotechnologie und Wirkstoff-Forschung e.V., Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 56, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
katei@gmx.de
eisfeld@ibwf.de
25.
Dr. Kai Welzela
Department of Entomology, University of California,
kwelz001@ucr.edu
donghwan.choe@ucr.edu
kwelz001@ucr.edu
26.
Dr. Schrettl Markus
Division of Molecular Biology
markus.schrettl@i-med.ac.at
27.
Dr. Zhiqiang An
IMM SRBzhiqiang.an@uth.tmc.edu
28.
Dr. Sally A. Leong
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin
sal@plantpath.wisc.edu
29. Prof. J. McEvoyCornell University
mcevoyp@science.oregonstate.edu
30. Dr. Kurt HaselwandterInstitut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse
kurt.haselwandter@uibk.ac.at
31. Dr. G. Nicholson
Department of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck
g.nicholson@qut.edu.au
32.
Dr. G. Winkelmann
Institut für Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie
winkelmann@uni.tuebingen.de
33. Alvin L.CrumblissDepartment of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, USA
alvin.crumbliss@duke.edu
34. Dr. Alison ButlerDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
butler@chem.ucsb.edu
35. Dr. Linda J.JohnsonAgResearch Ltd., Grasslands Research Centre, Tennent Drive
linda.johnson@agresearch.co.nz
36. Dr. Elzbieta Gumienna-KonteckaFaculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw
elzbieta.gumienna-kontecka@chem.uni.wroc.pl
37.
Dr. Jioji N.Tabudravu
Marine Biodiscovery Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen
j.tabudravu@abdn.ac.uk
38. Dr. David P. NicolauCenter for Anti-Infective Research and Development, Hartford Hospital
Division of Infectious Diseases, Hartford Hospital, Hartford
david.nicolau@hhchealth.org
39.
Prof. Pascal Sonnet
Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Laboratoire de Glycochimie, des Antimicrobiens, et des Agroressources, UMR CNRS
pascal.sonnet@u-picardie.fr
40. Prof. Jin-HwanKwakSchool of Life Science, Handong Global University, Pohang, Republic of Korea
jhkwak@handong.edu
41. Prof. Owen W. DuckworthDepartment of Soil Science, North Carolina State University
owen_duckworth@ncsu.edu
42. Dr. Anna Maria PirttiläDepartment of Biology, University of Oulu
am.pirttila@oulu.fi
43. Dr. Zhen-MingChiUnesco Chinese Center of Marine Biotechnology, Ocean University of China
zhenming@sdu.edu.cn
44.
Dr. Isabelle J. Schalk
IREBS, ESBS, Blvd Sébastien Brantisabelle.schalk@unistra.fr
45.
Prof. Shaojie Li
State Key Laboratory of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lisj@im.ac.cn
46.
Dr. Bruno Giuliano Garisto Donzelli
School of Integrative Plant Science - Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
bdd1@cornell.edu
47.
Dr. Laura E.Birch
Department of Biology, Clarke College, Iowalaura.birch@clarke.edu
48.
Dr. MacitIlkit
Division of Mycology, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Çukurova, Adana
milkit@cu.edu.tr