Methods for the Study of Microbial Biofilms

Dr. Abhishek Guldhe is an Associate Professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Maharashtra, India. He was awarded with the prestigious Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. His research focus areas are microalgal biotechnology, biofuels, bioactive compounds, environmental biotechnology, and waste beneficiation. He teaches various subjects of biotechnology and environmental sciences. He has over 45 publications which include papers and book chapters in reputed international journals and books.

Dr. Vinothkannan Ravichandran graduated from SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India. He then joined IIT Madras as Research Associate. After that he joined Helmholtz institute of Biotechnology, Shandong University, China as a postdoctoral associate. His area of research is drug designing against quorum sensing pathways of multi drug resistant bacterial pathogens. With more than 6 years of postdoc experience, he joined Amity University Mumbai where he teaches various courses especially biochemistry and bioinformatics. He has contributed 27 publications in peer reviewed journals and completed a prestigious China Postdoctoral science foundation grant and Shandong University International Exchange Fellowship as well. He serves as reviewer in various national and international journals.

Dr. Shashank Kamble has expertise in the biology of infectious diseases with an emphasis on tuberculosis and a consistent academic background in microbiology. He holds a PhD in Biological Sciences from the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi and is currently serving as the Assistant Professor at the Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Mumbai. He has 11 peer-reviewed international publications and has delivered invited talks in various academic institutions across the country. He has received research grants from national funding agencies and recently has received an award for his innovation on the biological filter for groundwater softening by the Agastya International Foundation, Times group and GlobalShala in 2021. He serves as manuscript reviewer for many international peer reviewed journals. His research interests include the microbial adaptations inside the hosts such as biofilms and natural habitats as well as the mechanism of anti-microbial resistance and combating strategies.