Editors
EXECUTIVE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Bharat Patel (Microbial Biotechnology & Genomics, Extremophiles)
School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences
Queensland University of Technology
Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia
E-mail: bharat.patel@qut.edu.au, bharatgu19@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5332-1858
BIOMEDICAL / MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
Sectional Editors:
Sanjay Singh (Ahmadabad University, Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India)
Nanomaterial Synthesis, Nanozymes with Applications in Biosensing & Targeted Drug Delivery
Associate Editors:
Ayodele A. Alaiya (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)Therapeutics & Biomarker Discovery for Clinical Applications
Katharine Sara Collison (King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Diabetes Research
Bhavana J. Davé (Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics & Rehabilitation, University of Nebraska, USA)
Human Cytogenetics & Molecular Genetics
Sarwar Hashmi (Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, USA)
Lipid Metabolic Disorders, Caenorhabditis elegans
Muralidhar L. Hegde (Institute for Academic Medicine Houston, Methodist Hospital, Houston, USA)
Genome Damage Response, DNA Repair, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Diseases
Lokesh Kori (ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi, India)
Malaria Biology, Drugs & Vaccines, Protein & Structural Biology.
Pradeep Kumar (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Drug delivery, biomaterials, 3D printing, nanomedicine, regenerative medicine, molecular modeling
Sachchida Nand Rai (University of Allahabad, India)
Neuroscience
Faiyaz Shakeel (College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Nanoemulsions, Drug Delivery, Design, Synthesis & Evaluation of Bioactives
Arif Jamal Siddiqui University of Hail, Saudi Arabia)
Human and animal parasites, Host-parasites interactions, culture and diagnostics, drug targets and vaccines, immnity
MICROBIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
Associate Editors:
Iftikhar Ahmed (Bio-Resource Conservation Institute (BCI), NARC, Islamabad, Pakistan) Bacterial Systematics & Taxonomy, Microbial Diversity, Extremophiles, Biotechnology)
Indu Bhushan (School of Biotechnology, SMVD University, Jammu & Kashmir, India
Lipase & Esterases
Jonas Contiero (Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho", São Paulo, Brazil)
Biosurfactants, Bioenergy, Enzyme Technology
Abhrajyoti Ghosh (Bose Institute, Kolkata, India)
Archaea, Microbial Genomics, Metagenomics & Microbial Biodiversity
M. Gil-Díaz (IMIDRA, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain)
Soil Remediation
Tony Greene (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia)
Bioremediation, Extremophiles
Stefan Janecek (Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)Enzymes, Evolution
Rupam Kapoor (Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India)
Agriculturally Important Pathogenic & Symbiotic Fungi
Sunil K. Khare (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
Enzymology, Nanobiotechnology, Proteomics
Yogender Pal Khasa (University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India)
Microbial biotechnology, bioprocess engineering, cloning and expression
Vinod Kumar (Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK)
Biochemical Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology, Metabolic Engineering
Long-Liu Lin (National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan)
Enzyme Biotechnology, Molecular Biology
Xiaobo Liu (Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology, China)
Applied Microbiology, Biofilms & Biocatalysis, Biomass & Biofuels
Zhi-Qiang Liu (College of Biotechnology & Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
Genetics engineering, synthetic biology, biocatalysis, biotransformation
Yanhe Ma (Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin, China)
Microbial Diversity, Systematics & Taxonomy
Maszenan bin Abdul Majid (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Bioremediation, Wastewater Treatment, Biogranulation
Ashutosh Mittal (National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA)
Biofuels, Enzyme Technology
Prasun Mukherjee (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India)
Plant Pathology
Phillip Pope (The Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway)
Rumen Microbiology, Microbial Diversity, Next Generation Sequencing
Sehanat Prasongsuk (Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)
Plant & Fungal Biotechnology, Plant Biomass Conversion.
Pramod Ramteke (Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture Technology & Sciences, India)
Bioremediation, Enzymes, Psychrophiles
Govind P. Rao (Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa Campus, New Delhi, India)
Plant Virology, Phytoplasmas, Plant-disease Interactions
Susana Rodriguez-Couto (Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain)
Laccases, Biodegradation, Nanobiocatalyst
Pratyoosh Shukla (Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India)
Synthetic & Systems Biology, Enzyme Technology, Bioinformatics
Raghuveer Singh (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)
Fermentation technology, enzyme technology, metabolic engineering, analytical chemistry
Hiroyuki Yamamoto (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan)
Ocean Biodiversity
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY
Sectional Editor:
Saikat Gantait (Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University, Mohanpur, India)
Plant Tissue Culture, Seed / Germplasm, Conservation, Molecular Markers
Associate Editors:
Parvaiz Ahmad (Department of Botany, S. P. College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India)
Plant Abiotic Stress Physiology & Biochemistry, Plant-microbe Interaction
Sandeep Arora (G B Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, India)
Plant Oxidative Stress Biology, Nanobiotechnology
Lijun Chai (Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology, Huazhong Agricultural University, China)
Plant Biotechnology, Plant Reproduction, Plant Germplasm Resources & Genetic Modification
Parvatam Giridhar (CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysuru, India)
Plant Tissue Culture, Secondary Metabolites, Molecular Biology, Food Formulations
Zhongqi He (USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, USA)
Applied & Environmental Chemistry of Agricultural Products, By-products & Plant Nutrients
Aung Htay Naing (Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea)
Plant Molecular Biology, Transcriptomics, Transgenic Plants
Sujay Paul (Departamento Regional de Bioingeniería, ITESM, Queretaro, Mexico)
Plant Genomics & Stress Responsive Genes, Microbial Genomics & Transcriptomics
Rituraj Purohit (CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, India)
Computational Biology, Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Dynamics
ADVISORY BOARD (2020 - 2021)
Vijit Dalal(CyomX Therapeutics, USA)
Biomedical, antibody therapeutics,cancer, protein science, amyloid biology and optical spectroscopy
Soon-Wook Kwon (Pusan National University, Republic of Korea)
Plant, genomics and molecular breeding
Sandeep Kumar Verma (SAGE University, India)
Plant, tissue culture &nanotechnology, bioinformatics
Reza Talebi(Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch, Iran)
Plant, molecular breeding, biotic andabiotic stresses in plant, population genetics, genome-wide association mapping
Jong-Kuk Na(Kangwon National University, Republicof Korea)
Plant, abiotic stress, transgenics,genomics
Mohamed Chamkha (Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax (CBS),Tunisia)
Microbiology, bioremediation and biodegradation
M. R. Meena(ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, India)
Plant, molecular breeding andtranscriptomics
Sushil Kumar Sarswat (Anand AgriculturalUniversity, India)
Plant, molecular breeding, QTL mapping,crop genomics
Ganeshan Sivanandhan (Chungnam NationalUniversity, Republic of Korea)
Plant, functional genomics,metabolomics, cell/organ culture, genome genetic engineering
B. Parameswari (ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, India)
Plant, virology, RNAi, transgenics,molecular pathology
Sarvajeet Singh Gill (Maharshi Dayanand University, India)
Plant, stress physiology, molecularbiology
Aditi Banerjee (IIT Guwahati, India)
Microbiology, biodegradation, nanomaterial / enzyme waste water treatment
Gaurav Sharma (UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA)
Biomedical, imaging, metabolism,metabolomics, NMR and MRI
Mehdi Rahimi(Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Iran)
Plant, breeding, stress biology,genomics & gene expression, molecular markers, QTL mapping, geneticdiversity
Anshu Alok (PanjabUniversity, India)
Plant, genome editing metabolicengineering in wheat, potato and banana, tissue culture, genetic engineering in medicinal plants
Mansour Ghorbanpour (Arak University, Iran)
Plant, Phytonantechnology / nanotechnology
Ifeanyi Michael Amadi (JUST Inc., USA)
Biomedical, upstream bioprocessing,mammalian cell culture, protein expression, cell culture process development
Balendra Sah(University of Wisconsin, USA)
Microbiology, metabolic engineering,synthetic biology, protein expression, secondary metabolites and biofuels.
Tahar Mechichi (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
Microbial biodegradation
Prakash K. Sarangi (Central Agricultural University, India)
Microbiology, microbial bioconversion,waste biomass utilization, enzymes
Sanket J. Joshi (Sultan QaboosUniversity, Oman)
Microbiology, fermentation, biosurfactants, enhanced oilrecovery, bioremediation
M. Iqbal R. Khan (Jamia Hamdard, India)
Plant, stress biology, hormones, signalling
Prakash Koringa (Anand Agricultural University, India)
Animal biotechnology, metagenomics,lncRNA
Gyan Singh Shekhawat (Jai Narain Vyas University, India)
Plant, molecular markers, somaticembryogenesis, medicinal plants
Subhash J. Jakhesara (Anand Agricultural University, India)
Animal biotechnology, microbiology,metagenomics, genomics, transcriptomics, animal cell culture
SENIOR PUBLISHING EDITOR
Nabil Khélifi
Springer, Heidelberg, Germany
E-mail: Nabil.Khelifi@springer.com
