Dr. Iqbal Ahmad
Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Email: iahmad.ag@amu.ac.in; ahmadiqbal8@yahoo.co.in
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8447-4497
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Iqbal Ahmad is currently Professor of the Department of Agricultural Microbiology at Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh, India. He received his Ph.D. degree from Aligarh Muslim University in Agriculture Microbiology, during his Ph.D. research work he worked at the Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India with pioneer veterinary bacteriologist, Late Dr. JNS Yadava, FNA, FNASc. He first worked as a Research Scientist at The Himalya Drug Co., New Delhi in 1994 and then joined as a Lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh in 1995 and then promoted to Professor in 2010. He was the Section Incharge of Microbiology during 1999-2000 and has also chaired the Department during 2011-2013 and in 2017. He has done pioneering research on plasmid mediated drug resistance and virulence factors in enteric bacteria and strategies to combat drug resistance and virulence of pathogenic microbes through screening and
evaluation of Indian medicinal plant derived herbal products/extracts and phytocompounds especially targeting Quorum sensing, biofilm and virulence of pathogenic microorganisms. His research work on agriculturally important microorganisms on diazotrophs, biofilm forming PGPR and Impact of wastewater on soil health has been well documented. His recent interest on Interdisciplinary microbiological works and drug-macromolecule interactions are gaining importance in academic world.
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Kuldeep Dhama
Division of Pathology, ICAR – Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, India
Email: kdhama@rediffmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7469-4752
Kuldeep Dhama is currently working as Principal Scientist in ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar, India. With 22 years of research and teaching experience in the areas of microbiology, immunology and virology, he has developed several diagnostics, vaccines, immunomodulatory modules and hypothesis to counter infectious diseases of animals, poultry and public health concerns. He also has been awarded NAAS Associateship (National Academy of Agricultural Science, India). To his credit he has handled 20 research projects and guided 17 M.V.Sc. and P.D. scholars.
Associate Editors
Dr. Hafiz M. N. Iqbal
Professor
Facultad de Agronomía,
Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León,
Nuevo León
Mexico
hafiz.iqbalx@uanl.edu.mx
Dr. Faisal Masood Khan
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Cumming School of Medicine, Foothills Campus, Alberta
Canada
fkhan@ucalgary.ca
Dr. Jose Manuel Lorenzo
Head of Research
Department of Food Science and Technology
Centro Tecnológico de la Carne de Galicia,
Ourense, Spain
jmlorenzo@ceteca.net
Dr. Jianxun Ding
Associate Professor
Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials
Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Changchun
China
jxding@ciac.ac.cn
Dr. Ruchi Tiwari
Assistant Professor
Department of Veterinary Microbiology,
College of Veterinary Sc. & A.H.
DUVASU, Mathura, U.P.
India
ruchi.vet@gmail.com
Dr. Adriano Gomes da Cruz
Professor
Department of Food,
Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ),
Brazil
adriano.cruz@ifrj.edu.br
Dr. Yashpal Singh Malik
Joint Director
ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research
Institute (ICAR-IVRI), Nainital
Uttarakhand
India
malikyps@gmail.com
Dr. Mohamed Fawzy Ramadan Hassanien
Professor
Department of Clinical Nutrition
Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences
Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah
Saudi Arabia
mfhassanien@uqu.edu.sa
Dr. Ahmet Adiguzel
Professor
Faculty of Science
Department of Molecular Biology
and Genetics, Ataturk University
25240-Erzurum
Turkey
adiguzel@atauni.edu.tr
Dr. Ian James Martins
Principal Research Fellow
Centre of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Care,
Edith Cowan University, Perth
Australia
i.martins@ecu.edu.au
Assistant Editors
Dr. Muhammad Bilal
Associate Professor
Department of Sanitary Engineering,
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk,
Poland
muhammad.bilal@pg.edu.pl
Dr. Roberto Parra-Saldivar
Professor
Tecnologico de Monterrey,
School of Engineering and Sciences,
Monterrey, NL,
Mexico.
r.parra@tec.mx
Dr. Izabela Michalak
Associate Professor
Department of Advanced Material Technologies,
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology,
Wroclaw,
Poland.
izabela.michalak@pwr.edu.pl
Dr. Dimitri Poddighe
Associate Professor
School of Medicine (NUSOM),
Nazarbayev University,
Nur-Sultan City,
Kazakhstan.
dimitri.poddighe@nu.edu.kz
Editorial Board Members
Dr. Nikhat Manzoor
Professor
Department of Biosciences
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
India
nmanzoor@jmi.ac.in
Dr. Pramod W. Ramteke
Professor and Head
Department of Biological Sciences
Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture
Technology & Sciences (SHUATS), Allahabad
India
pramod.ramteke@shiats.edu.in
Dr. Parvez Akhtar
Research Scientist
Aurora Research Institute
Milwaukee, WI 53233
USA
Parvez.Akhtar@aurora.org
Dr. Vodnar Dan- Cristian
Associate Professor
Department of Food Science
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca
Romania
dan.vodnar@usamvcluj.ro
Dr. Maryam Dadar
Assistant Professor
Agricultural Research, Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute
(RVSRI), Karaj
Iran
dadar.m77@gmail.com
Dr. Abd El-Latif Hesham
Professor
Department of Genetics
Faculty of Agriculture
Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef
Egypt
hesham_egypt5@agr.bsu.edu.eg
Dr. Pongsak Rattanachaikunsopon
Professor
Department of Biological Science
Faculty of Science
Ubon Ratchathani University, Ubon Ratchathani
Thailand
rattanachaikunsopon@yahoo.com
Dr. Vasudeo Zambare
Professor
School of Science
Sandip University, Nashik Maharashtra,
India
vasuzambare@gmail.com
Dr. Debdulal Banerjee
Associate Professor
Department of Botany and Forestry
Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal
India
db@mail.vidyasagar.ac.in
Dr. Nour Shafik Emam El-Gendy
Professor
Department of Petroleum and
Environmental Biotechnology
Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Cairo
Egypt
nourepri@yahoo.com
Dr. Mona Ibrahem Shaaban
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University
Egypt
mona_ibrahem@mans.edu.eg
Dr. Amir Sasan Mozaffari Nejad
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine
Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft
Iran
asmozafarinejad@yahoo.in
Dr. Pawan K Dadheech
Professor
Department of Microbiology
School of Life Sciences
Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan
India
pdadheech@curaj.ac.in
Dr. Hussein Hasan Abulreesh
Associate Professor
Environmental and Public Health Microbiology, Department of Biology
Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah
Saudi Arabia
hhabulreesh@uqu.edu.sa
Dr. Pranav Kumar Prabhakar
Professor
Department of Research Impact and Outcome
Research and Development Cell
Lovely Professional University
Phagwara, Punjab, India
pranav.16113@lpu.co.in
Dr. Hesam Kamyab
Post Doctoral Fellow
UTM RAZAK School of Engineering and Advanced Technology
University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
Malaysia
khesam2@live.utm.my
Dr. A.K. Srivastava
Principal Scientist
Soil Science
ICAR- Central Citrus Research Institute, Nagpur
India
aksrivas2007@gmail.com
Dr. Kunal
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology
SGT University, Budhera
Gurugram, Haryana
India
kunal_pau@yahoo.co.in
Dr. Pushpanathan Muthuirulan
Research Associate
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA
muthuirulanp@fas.harvard.edu
Dr. Prashant Khare
Scientist D & Ramalingaswami Fellow
Department of Microbiology
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal
India
prashantkhare.microbiology@aiimsbhopal.edu.in
Dr. Ramalingam Radhakrishnan
Assistant Professor
P.G. and Research Department of Botany
Jamal Mohamed College,
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu
India
rkbot@jmc.edu
Dr. Prosun Tribedi
Assistant Professor
Department of Biotechnology,
The Neotia University,
South 24 Parganas, West Bengal
India
tribedi.prosun@gmail.com
Dr. Joaquim C.G. Esteves da Silva
Professor
Faculty of Sciences
University of Porto, Porto
Portugal
jcsilva@fc.up.pt
Dr. Godfred A. Menezes
Associate Professor and Clinical Microbiologist
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
RAK College of Medical Sciences
RAKMHSU, Ras Al Khaimah
UAE
godfred@rakmhsu.ac.ae
Dr. Ranga Rao Ambati
Associate Professor
Department of Biotechnology,
Vignan’s Foundation for Science,
Technology and Research, Andhra Pradesh
India
arangarao99@gmail.com
Dr. Abdur Rauf
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Swabi, Pakhtunkhwa
Pakistan
abdurrauf@uoswabi.edu.pk
Dr. Mohammad Zubair
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical Microbiology,
Faculty of Medicine,
University of Tabuk, Tabuk
Saudi Arabia
zmohammad@ut.edu.sa
Dr. Sedky Hassan Aly Hassan
Associate Professor
Department of Botany & Microbiology
Faculty of Science,
New Valley University, El-Kharga, New Valley
Egypt
sedkyhassan@aun.edu.eg
Dr. Ammar Mohammed AL-Farga
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Jeddah, Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
amalfarga@uj.edu.sa
Dr. M. N. Khan
Editor
Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology
editor@microbiologyjournal.org