Microbiome and Nano-Cross-Talk: Sustainable Agriculture and Beyond

Dr. Kanchan Vishwakarma has expertise in plant-nanoparticle and plant-microbe interactions. She has experience in assessing the whole microbial diversity of plant by high throughput metagenomic approach under external stimuli. She has worked on optimization, synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles and tested their impact on plants with emphasis on regulatory detoxification pathways. She has explored the utilization of beneficial microbes, phytohormones and nanoparticles with respect to plant growth and published number of research and review articles in journals of repute such as Journal of Hazardous Materials, Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Microbiology and numerous book chapters.

Dr. Nitin Kumar has expertise in synthesising different types of nanomaterials ranging from nanoparticles to nanorods, nanostars of variety of metals and their characterization. He has also developed an electrochemical immunosensor of gold nanoparticles and gold nanorods for detection of antigens and published articles in international reputed journals. He has also worked in collaboration with other scientists in the field of plant-microbe interaction. Awards: Two times Tony B Academic Awardee (SLAS-USA and SLAS-Europe)

Prof. Agbaje Lateef is the Head of LAUTECH Nanotechnology Research Group (NANO+) at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria. He received advanced training in fermentation technology, enzyme technology, biocatalysis, functional foods and molecular biology at Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India. He has more than twenty years of research and teaching with interest in industrial microbiology and biotechnology, especially fermentation processes, enzyme technology and nanobiotechnology. He has more than one hundred publications in reputable journals and books to his credits, more than fifty of which are in nanobiotechnology. He is recognised as the foremost microbiologist, as the National Young Microbiologist of the year 2013 through the award of Professor Oyewale Tomori National Prize for Young Scientists in Microbiology by the Nigerian Young Academy (NYA). He also significant outreach of research by media publications to promote research activities.