Jata Shankar received a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Biotechnology (through GAT B Now) from Calicut University (Kerala), in 2001 and a Ph.D. degree in Biosciences (Biotechnology) from Institute of Genomic and Integrative Biology (CSIR) and Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi, India, in Oct 2006. He has been awarded with Postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Medicine at Stanford University from 2007-2012. He worked with Prof. David A Stevens using RO1 grant in collaboration with Thomas Wu-Genentech Industry and Jennifer Wortmman at MIT-Harvard during post-doc tenure. Dr. Shankar joined the GGC-Central University in 2012 as an Assistant Professor. He joined JUIT in 2013 as Assistant Professor-Senior Grade, and currently serves as an Associate Professor since 2017 at Jaypee University of Information Technology in Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Department. He has guided five PhD scholars in the area of fungal pathogens and evaluation of phytochemical as antifungal agents and 44 B. Tech in Biotechnology project theses and 10 PG project thesis. He has contributed 1120 gene sequences (ESTSs-153, GSSs--967, Gene-8), 5- Next Generation Sequencing data-136 million sequencing reads from mouse genome (SRA, NCBI-USA). He has also contributed 2104 protein peptide sequences of Aspergillus terreus protein sequence in PRIDE protein database (EMBL-EBI). He has published 41 peer reviewed articles in the area of microbial genomics and others, with h-index 15 and i10-index 25, and 06 Book chapters.
Prof. Pradeep Verma completed his PhD at Sardar Patel University Gujarat, India in 2002. In the same year he was selected as UNESCO Fellow and joined Czech Academy of Sciences Prague, Czech Republic. He later moved to Charles University, Prague to work as Post-doctoral Fellow. In 2004 he joined the UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany as a visiting scientist. He was awarded a DFG fellowship which provided him another opportunity to work as a Post-doctoral Fellow at Gottingen University, Germany. He is also a recipient of various prestigious awards such as the Ron Cockcroft award by Swedish society, and UNESCO Fellow ASCR, Prague. He has been awarded Fellow of the Mycological society of India (MSI-2020); the Prof. P.C. Jain Memorial Award, Mycological Society of India 2020; and Fellow of the Biotech Research Society, India (2021). He is currently working as professor (former head and dean, School of Life Sciences) at the Department of Microbiology, CURAJ. He is a member of various national and international societies and academies. He has completed two collaborated projects worth 150 million INR in microbial diversity and bioenergy.
Dr. Maulin P Shah is an active researcher and scientific writer in his field for over 20 years. He received a B.Sc. degree (1999) in Microbiology from Gujarat University, Godhra (Gujarat), India. He also earned his Ph.D. degree (2005) in Environmental Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar (Gujarat) India. His research interests include Biological Wastewater Treatment, Environmental Microbiology, Biodegradation, Bioremediation, & Phytoremediation of Environmental Pollutants from Industrial Wastewaters. He has published more than 240 research papers in national and international journals of repute on various aspects of microbial biodegradation and bioremediation of environmental pollutants. He is the editor of 65 books of international repute.
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