Santi M. Mandal obtained his Ph D in the field of Molecular Microbiology and continuing research with major focus in Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. He visited UTMB-USA and NUS-Singapore for his postdoctoral training. He worked as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Vidyasagar University, India. He has published more than 110 research papers in reputed journals and conferred upon several prestigious awards for his research contribution. Currently, he is engaged at Central Research Facility, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur India.
Debarati Paul (PhD) currently Associate Professor in The Department of Biotechnology, Amity University, has completed her PhD from the Institute of Microbial Technology-CSIR (Chandigarh) and thereafter she carried our research work abroad in EAWAG (Switzerland) and Mississippi State University (USA) for about 5 years, before joining Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, NOIDA as Assistant Professor.Her main area of research is environmental biotechnology, encompassing biodegradation, biofuels, genomics and proteomics and also antimicrobial resistance. She has published over 70 papers including research articles, reviews, conference proceedings and posters and book chapters. She has actively participated in national and international projects as research fellow and also as principal investigator (PI) as co-PI. She has received the prestigious Indo US Science and Technology forum award and Bharat Gaurav award along with DST travel grants, poster award, etc.