Advanced Microbial Technology for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment

Author Biography

Saurabh Gangola is currently working as an assistant professor at the School of Agriculture, Graphic Era Hill University, Bhimtal, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India. He has completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Microbiology from G.B.P.U.A.& T., Pantnagar, U.S Nagar, India. His area of specialization is bioremediation and biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds (including pesticides, hydrocarbons, and azo dye), degradation kinetics, microbial stress-responsive enzymes, bioinformatics, molecular biology, plant-microbe interaction, plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria, culturable and unculturable microorganisms, and metagenomics. He has published 21 research and review articles in highly reputed international journals and authored 10 book chapters. He has also edited 1 book published by Springer. Saurabh Kumar works in Agricultural Microbiology at ICAR- Research Complex for Eastern Region in Patna, India. Samiksha Joshi is working as an Assistant Professor at Shri Ram Group of Colleges, Department of Biosciences, Muzaffarnagar, India. She has completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Microbiology from G.B.P.U.A.&T., Pantnagar, U.S Nagar, India. Her area of expertise is microbiology, molecular biology, Plant-microbe interaction, Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria, metagenomics, biodegradation, and bioremediation. She has published 8 research and review articles in reputed international journals and has authored 8 book chapters. Dr. Pankaj Bhatt completed his PhD. in microbiology from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. His research focused on the molecular and microbiological basis of bioremediation. Dr Bhatt has published several articles in high impact factor leading journals including Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, Chemosphere, Environmental research, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, and 3-Biotech. He has also published several book chapters on microbial biotechnology. Presently he is working as a Post-Doctoral researcher at Integrative Microbiology Research Centre, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou China.