Preface

1. Polymer Macromolecules to Polymeric Nanostructures: Efficient antibacterial candidates

J. Lakshmi Praba¹*, Rupesh N. Prabhu¹ and V. Sivasankar^2,3

¹ Post Graduate and Research Department of Chemistry, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli 620017, Tamil Nadu, India

²Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan

*Corresponding author email: lakshmiprabhachem@gmail.com

2. Algal Nanoparticles - Boon for antimicrobial therapeutic applications

M. Prabhakaran¹ and V. Sivasankar^2,3

¹PG and Research Department of Botany, Pachaiyappa's College, Tamil Nadu, India

²Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan

*Corresponding author email: sivshri.20@gmail.com

3. Green and bio-mechanochemical synthesis of silver nanoparticles and their antibacterial activity

Zdenka Bedlovičová¹*, Matej Baláz², Mária Kováčová², Ľudmila Balázová³, and Aneta Salayová¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Komenského 73, 041 81, Kosice, Slovakia

²Department of Mechanochemistry, Institute of Geotechnics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 45, 040 01, Kosice, Slovakia

³Ľudmila Balázová, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy and Botany, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Komenského 73, 041 81, Kosice, Slovakia

*Corresponding author email: zdenka.bedlovicova@uvlf.sk; zdenka.bedlovicova@gmail.com

4. Novel antimicrobial compounds from indigenous plants and microbes - an imminent resource

Deepika Jothinathan¹*, Prabhakaran Mylsamy², Kiyoshi Omine³

¹Department of Life Sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu, India

²PG & Research Department of Botany, Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai 600030, Tamil Nadu, India

³Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan

*Corresponding author email: jdeepika@cutn.ac.in

5. Antimicrobial properties of prodigionins from bacteria

Melissa Marlene RODRIGUEZ-DELGADO, Patricia HERNANDEZ-VELASCO, Francisco Guadalupe AVALOS-ALANIS, Juan Francisco VILLARREAL-CHIU*

*Corresponding author email: juan.villarrealch@uanl.edu.mx

6. Immobilized systems based on secondary metabolites produced by microorganisms - towards antimicrobial applications

Irene MORALES-ATILANO, Juan Francisco VILLARREAL-CHIU, Melissa Marlene RODRIGUEZ-DELGADO*

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas. Av. Universidad s/n, Cd. Universitaria, San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, México. 66455

*Corresponding author email: melissa.rodriguezdl@uanl.edu.mx

7. Nanomaterials: Therapeutic agent for antimicrobial therapy

Kartick Chandra Majhi, P
About the Author:

Ram Prasad, Ph.D. is associated with Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India since 2005. His research interest includes applied microbiology, plant-microbe-interactions, sustainable agriculture and nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has more than hundred publications to his credit, including research papers, review articles & book chapters and five patents issued or pending, and edited or authored several books. Dr. Prasad has twelve years of teaching experience and has been awarded the Young Scientist Award (2007) & Prof. J.S. Datta Munshi Gold Medal (2009) by the International Society for Ecological Communications; FSAB fellowship (2010) by the Society for Applied Biotechnology; the American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowship for Beginning Investigators, USA (2014); Outstanding Scientist Award (2015) in the field of Microbiology by Venus International Foundation; BRICPL Science Investigator Award (ICAABT-2017) and Research Excellence Award (2018). He has been serving as editorial board members: Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers in Nutrition, Academia Journal of Biotechnology including Series editor of Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences, Springer Nature, USA. Previously, Dr. Prasad served as Visiting Assistant Professor, Whiting School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, USA and Research Associate Professor at School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

Busi Siddhardha, Ph.D. is a full-time Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Pondicherry University (a central university) Puducherry, India from 2011. Prior to joining the Pondicherry University, he was teaching at the Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar. In brief, he has got more than 12 years of research and 7 years of teaching experience at the university level. Currently, there are five Ph.D. students under his guidance. He has published more than 60 research articles/book chapters in the leading national and international journals. Dr. Siddhardha has successfully completed two research projects on "quorum sensing attenuation and antibiofilm activity of natural products" funded by DST-SERB and UGC, India. Currently, he is a principle investigator of a project on "attenuation of quorum sensing and biofilm mediated virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by selected phytochemicals and understanding the mechanism of action" funded by DST-SERB (2018-2021). His current areas of research interests include antimicrobial drug discovery, nanobiotechnology, antivirulence therapy targeting bacterial quorum sensing and biofilms, and antimicrobial photodynamic therapy. He pursued his Ph.D. in Biology Division from CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, India. He has been awarded Junior Research Fellowship by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India in the year 2005. He is editorial board member of several reputed journals. He is a member of many national and international scientific societies.

Madhu Dyavaiah, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. He has served as a Research Scientist in the Gen'NY'sis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomic, University at Albany, USA (2006-2012), Postdoctoral fellow at Wadsworth Center, New York Dept. of Health, USA (2003-2006) and IISc. Bangalore, India (2002-2003). His research interest includes, Molecular Pathogenesis, DNA damage response, tRNA modification and translation regulation and aging biology. He has research experience in working with microbial pathogens includes, Cryptococcus, Candida and Fusarium spaces. Currently, he is working with different model systems such as S. cerevisiae and mice model to study the effect of natural compounds on age-related diseases including neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. He has been conferred with various prestigious awards in USA and India. He has served as referee for a number of International journals, including Food Sciences and Toxicology Research. He has more than 15 years of research and 8 years of teaching experience in Genomics, Proteomics, Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry Biology and Drug Discovery. He has also published more than 20 research articles and a review in the peer-reviewed international journal, and authored three book chapters, which includes a chapter, "Yeasts: Candida and Cryptococcus" in the book entitled "Bacterial and Mycotic Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts: Clinical and Microbiological Aspects" He is a member of many scientific societies and organizations.