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This new comprehensive volume, Endophytes and Drug Discovery: Hidden Microbial Resources for Therapeutic Innovation, explores the fascinating world of endophytes and reveals a hidden universe teeming with unrealized promise. It takes readers on an exciting journey into the tiny worlds of plants, where astonishing symbiotic relationships have subtly grown for millennia. CONTENTS: About the Authors / Editors: Editors: Skarma Nonzom, PhD Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, University of Jammu, Jammu, India Skarma Nonzom PhD, is currently working as a senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Botany, University of Jammu, Jammu (J&K), India. She has qualified CSIR-National Eligibility Test (NET) and has received Junior Research (JRF) and Senior Research Fellowships (SRF) for her MPhil and PhD. degrees pursued at the Department of Botany, University of Jammu. She has eight years of teaching and 13 years of research experience. Her research and academic interests have focused on mycology, especially psychrotrophic microfungi, ecology, and their psychrozyme potential. Recently, she has ventured into the field of fungal endophytes and medical mycology (superficial mycoses). She has published more than 30 research articles in peer-reviewed journals of national and international repute and three book chapters in edited books published by international publishers, including Springer and Taylor & Francis. She has published her research work in journals such as Microbes and Infection, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Mycoses, Symbiosis, Folia Microbiologica, and Phytotaxa. She has reported many novel global records of causative agents of human superficial mycosis. She has also reported many new records of psychrotrophic microfungi and endophytic fungi from India. So far, she has reported three new species viz., Comoclathris acuminata sp. nov, Parathyridaria ephedrae sp. nov., Astragalicola ephedrae sp. nov; endophytic to a unique endangered plant (Ephedra gerardiana). She has won many awards for paper presentations at various national conferences and seminars. She was recently awarded a Young Scientist Award (Environment) by the Society for Plant Research. She serves as an editorial member of Vegetos and has served as a reviewer for many international journals, including The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Scientific Reports, Infection and Drug Resistance, International Microbiology, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, among others. She has participated in and presented papers at more than 20 national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops. Dr. Skarma has received funding for research projects funded by the Jammu and Kashmir Science, Technology, and Innovation Council (JKSTIC) and the University of Jammu. Presently, she is a life member of the Mycological Society of India and a member of various committees of the University of Jammu. Mohd. Shahnawaz, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, Govt. Degree College Drass, A Constituent College of University of Ladakh, India Mohd. Shahnawaz PhD, is currently working as an Assistant Professor on a contract basis at the Department of Botany, Government Degree College Drass (A Constituent College of University of Ladakh), University of Ladakh, India. He has several years of teaching (under- and postgraduate level) and postdoctoral research experience. In 2021, he was selected as an Associate Professor at the Biofuel Institute, School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. In 2020, he was selected as a postdoctoral fellow at Yeungnam University, South Korea; however, due to the COVID-19 scenario, he was not able to join. He has several years of teaching and postdoctoral research experience. Dr. Shahnawaz worked in diverse fields of life sciences, viz., tissue culture of medicinal plants, genetic diversity assessment of medicinal plants using high-resolution molecular marks, enhancement of plant secondary metabolites contents, and drug discovery, biofuels and biodegradation of plastic. He completed his MPhil and PhD from the Department of Botany, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India. He is a recipient of various fellowships awarded by the SPPU, UGC-BSR, UGC-MANF, and DST-SERB. His research interests are in integrative medicine, ecology, microbiology, plant biotechnology, and bioremediation. He has served as a reviewer and editor for several international journals and received a Young Scientist Award (2019) from VDGood Professional Association at Vishakhapatnam, India. He has published 25 research articles, 21 book chapters, and 17 books of international repute. Puja Gupta, PhD Associate Professor and Head, Department of Bioscience, RIMT University, Mandi Gobindgarh, Sirhind, Punjab, India Puja Gupta, PhD, is currently serving as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department (Biosciences) at RIMT University, Mandi Gobindgarh, Sirhind, Punjab, India. She earned her MPhil and PhD degrees in Biotechnology from the School of Biotechnology, University of Jammu, and qualified CSIR-NET (Life Sciences) conducted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India. Dr. Gupta has worked as a Senior Research Fellow on DBT- and NICRA-funded projects at the University of Jammu and SKAUST-Jammu, respectively. She is the recipient of various fellowships, including CSIR-SRF (DIRECT), CSIR-RA, and DST-WOSA. She was honored with a "Women Scientist Award" by the Society for Scientific Development in Agriculture and Technology (2020) and a Young Researcher Award by the Institute of Scholars (2021). She has also served as a Lecturer in Biotechnology at the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. G.G.M. Science College, India, and has teaching experience at the junior college level as well. She has published 15 research articles, 20 book chapters, and three books with international publishers, including CRC Press, Intech, Scrivener, etc. She is a reviewer and guest editor for various journals of internal repute. Her research interest includes soil metagenomics, microbiology, microbial genetics, plant-microbe interactions, and endophytes. Refaz Ahmad Dar, PhD Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Biotechnology, Government College for Women, Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India Refaz Ahmad Dar, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Government College for Women, Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Previously he worked as biotechnology lecturer for more than 10 years at different government higher secondary schools of Jammu and Kashmir and has five years at different government degree colleges of Kashmir Division, J&K, India. He completed his doctoral degree at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. His place of research was at Microbial Biotechnology Division, CSIR-IIIM Jammu. He worked under the guidance of Dr. Parvaiz H. Qazi. His interests include the exploration of microbial biotechnological strategies to enhance the content of plant secondary metabolite of medicinal plants and oil seed crops. He has presented his work in various parts of the country and had published dozens of papers, book chapters, and three books of the international repute. His work has been cited 737 time (h-index 9, i10-index 9). He is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD Professor, King Abdulaziz University, Department of Biological Sciences Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, KAU, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD, is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completing his doctorate (botany, specialization in plant eco-physiology and molecular biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India, and at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, where he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Fellow Researcher (Associate Professor) for several years. Dr. Hakeem has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plants, plant-microbe-soil interactions, as well as in environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels. He has served as a visiting scientist at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he is involved with several international research projects with various government organizations. To date, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited more than 60 books with international publishers. He also has to his credit more than 170 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 55 book chapters in edited volumes. At present, Dr. Hakeem serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for several high-impact international scientific journals. He is included in the advisory board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. He is also a fellow of the Plantae Group of the American Society of Plant Biologists, and a member of the World Academy of Sciences, the International Society for Development and Sustainability (Japan), and the Asian Federation of Biotechnology (Korea). |
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