Bioremediation of Pollutants

Dr. Vimal Chandra Pandey featured in the world’s top 2% scientists curated by Stanford University, United States. Dr. Pandey is a leading researcher in the field of phytomanagement of polluted sites. He has published more than 100 scientific articles/book chapters in peer-reviewed journals/books. He is also the author and editor of seven books published by Elsevier, with several more forthcoming. Dr. Pandey is Associate Editor/Editor/Board Member of the prestigious journals Land Degradation and Development; Restoration Ecology; Ecological Processes; Environment, Development and Sustainability; Ambio; Environmental Management; and Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology by Wiley/Springer.

Department of Environmental Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Dr. Vijai Singh is an Associate Professor and Dean (Research & Innovation) at School of Sciences, Indrashil University, Rajpur, Mehsana, Gujarat, India. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at the Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, India and also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the Invertis University, Bareilly, India. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Synthetic Biology Group at the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Paris, France and School of Energy & Chemical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology (2009) from the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India with a research focus on the development of molecular and immunoassays for diagnosis of Aeromonas hydrophila. His research interests are focused on building novel biosynthetic pathways for production of medically and industrially important biomolecules. Additionally, his laboratory is working on CRISPR-Cas9 tools for genome editing. He has more than 10 years of research and teaching experience in synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, microbiology, and industrial microbiology. He has published 79 articles, 49 chapters, 12 books and 4 patents. He serves as an associate editor, editorial board member, and reviewer of several peer-reviewed journals. He is also a member of the Board of Study and Academic Council of Indrashil University and is the Member Secretary of the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) at the same University.

Associate Professor and Dean, Department of Biosciences, School of Science, Indrashil University, Rajpur, Mehsana, Gujarat, India