Microbial Diversity and Ecology in Hotspots

Dr. Aparna B. Gunjal has completed her B.Sc. from Annasaheb Magar Mahavidyalaya, Hadapsar; M.Sc. from Modern College Arts, Commerce and Science College, Ganeshkhind and Ph.D in Environmental Sciences subject from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India. She is working as Assistant Professor in Department of Microbiology at Dr. D.Y. Patil, Arts, Commerce and Science College, Pimpri, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Aparna has 66 publications to her credit. She has received 06 Awards for the Best Paper presentations and also received the travel grants. Aparna has also received Pune Municipal Corporation Award for excellent work in Applied Microbiology Research in 2015, The Elsevier Foundation - TWAS Sustainability Visiting Expert Programme in 2018 and Young Researcher award with Innovative Technology. She has worked on composting aspect as a Senior Researcher Assistant at Hongkong Baptist University, Hongkong. Aparna is Reviewer for many Journals.

Sonali S. Shinde is working as Assistant Professor at Annasaheb Kulkarni, Department of Biodiversity, MES Abasaheb Garware College, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Sonali completed her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Microbiology and Masters in Microbiology. She teaches courses in Microbial diversity, Molecular Biology, Environment Laws and Patents to Postgraduate students. She has supervised Master students for dissertation work. She was associated with several research projects in the Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology (IBB), National Center for Cell Sciences (NCCS) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Unit for Research and Development of Information Products (CSIR- URDIP), Pune Maharashtra India. She has worked in experimental microbiology, systems biology, and procedures of patenting an invention. She has published research papers and book in International Journals of repute. Her research areas of interest are Natural Product Chemistry and interaction studies involving Microbial Diversity.