Volume 1. Microbial Diversity in Normal & Extreme Environments
Section I: Introduction to microbial diversity
1. Emerging concepts in bacterial taxonomy by Ch.V. Ramana
2. Bioinformatics Tools for Microbial Diversity Analysis by M. Krishna Mohan
3. Application of genomics to understand the pathogenic microbial diversity by Subrata K. Das
4. Fungal Diversity; Global perspectives and Ecosystem Dynamics by B.N. Johri
Section II: Microbes in normal and extreme environments
5. Marine microbial diversity for sustainable development by Anil Kumar
6. Diversity of microbes in hot springs and their sustainable use by Subrata K. Das
7. Thermophilic fungal diversity in sustainable development by Bijender Singh
8. Microbiome of the deep terrestrial subsurface by Pinaki Sar
9. Marine fungal diversity - the present status and future challenges by V.V. Sharma
10. Diversity of iron and sulphur oxidisers in sulphide mine leachates by S.R. Dave
11. Distribution and bio-prospecting potentials of actinobacteria from Indian mangrove ecosystems by Syed Dastager 12. Gut microbiome and its impact on human health by Syed Dastager
13. Cyanobacterial diversity and production of value-added proteases by S.N. Bagchi
14. Utility of microbial diversity in mitigating climate change by Anjana Sharma
15. Microbial diversity in waste treatment by I.S. Thakur
16. Cyanobacteria as future biofuel: Facts and Figments by Ashish K. Bhatnagar
17. Halocin diversity among halophilic archaea and their potential applications by Santosh Tiwari 18. Microbial Diversity and Dynamics in Hydrocarbon Resource Environments (HRE) by Akhil Agrawal
19. Mining human microbiome for therapeutics by Yogesh Souche
20. Microbiome as source of novel bioactive compounds by Rakesh Sharma
21. Conclusions
22. Subject index
About the Author: Prof. T. Satyanarayana is currently a UGC-BSR Faculty Fellow at the Division of Biological Sciences & Engineering, Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi after retiring from the Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, as Professor and Head in June 2016. He has over 270 scientific papers and reviews, 8 edited books and 2 patents to his credit. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), Biotech Research Society (I), Mycological Society of India (MSI) and Telengana Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the AMI's Dr. Manjrekar Award, the MSI's Dr. Agnihotrudu Award, and the BRSI's Malaviya Memorial Award. With over 40 years of research and teaching experience, he is also a past president of the AMI and MSI. His research efforts have largely focused on understanding the diversity and applications of yeasts; thermophilic fungi and bacteria and their enzymes; metagenomics; carbon sequestration employing extremophilic bacterial carbonic anhydrases; and bioethanol production from lignocellulosic substrates using enzyme cocktails.
Dr. B.N. Johri is a former NASI senior scientist at the Department of Biotechnology, Barkatullah University, Bhopal (India). He has received various academic awards, including the Indian National Science Academy's Young Scientist Medal, the Rafi Kidwai Memorial Award and the Katzu Award. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (I), National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and National Institute of Ecology. He has considerable teaching and research experience, and has 150 research publications and 5 edited books to his credit.
Dr. Subrata K. Das has been a Scientist at the Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, part of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, since 2003. His main research interests are in microbial genomics and translational research. Dr. Das has discovered 20 novel bacteria, and his metagenomics research has revealed the community composition and functional correlation of microbiome in pristine environment. He has published 54 research papers and contributed a chapter for Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. He was selected for the prestigious E.K. Janaki Ammal National Award for the year 2015 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India for his significant contributions to genomics, metagenomics and bacterial diversity. He received an outstanding contribution award from the Association for the Advancement of Biodiversity Science, India in January 2014. He is a member of the American Society of Microbiology, USA, and a fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and the Association for the Advancement of Biodiversity Science, Karnataka. Dr. Das had participated as a faculty member in the 'South Asia Thematic School in Aquatic Microbial Ecology' jointly organized by the CNRS, CEFIPRA, IRD, SORBONNE University (France), GORDEN & BETTY MOORE Foundation (USA) and Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
