Bioprospecting of Microbial Diversity: Challenges and Applications in Biochemical Industry, Agriculture and Environment Protection

Prof. Pradeep Verma is a group leader of Bioprocess and Bioenergy Laboratory at the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, CURAJ. His area of expertise covers microbial diversity, bioremediation, bioprocess development, and lignocellulosic and algal biomass-based biorefinery. He also holds 12 international patents in the field of microwave-assisted biomass pretreatment and biobutanol production. He has more than 60 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and contributed to several book chapters (28 published; 15 in press) in various edited books. He has also edited 3 books for international publishers such as Springer and Elsevier. He is on the editorial board of several prestigious journals. Also, he has been a reviewer for more than 40 journals spanning several publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, RSC, ACS, Nature, Frontiers, and MDPI.

Dr. Maulin P. Shah is an active researcher and microbial biotechnologist with diverse research interest. His primary interest is the environment, the quality of our living resources and the ways that bacteria can help to manage and degrade toxic wastes and restore environmental health. Consequently, His work has been focused to assess the impact of industrial pollution on microbial diversity of wastewater following cultivation dependant and cultivation independent analysis.