Advisory Board and Editors Biotechnology
Tarl W Prow
Dr. Tarl Prow is the Deputy Director of the Dermatology Research Centre within the School of Medicine and heads a group of 10 researchers focused on micromedical devices for dermatology and nanomedicine. He is a multidisciplinary researcher with internationally recognized expertise in the fields of micro-medical device development, nanodermatology, topical drug delivery and non-invasive imaging.
Prashanth Ravishankar
Dr. Prashanth Ravishankar received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Arkansas. He is a Research and Development Scientist at Namida Lab Inc.
He has over a decade of experience in areas of Bioengineering, Biomaterials, Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering, and Bone and Cardiovascular Bioengineering. He has presented at international conferences in the USA, Canada, and Abu Dhabi. He also serves as an editorial member on BMC Research Notes and as a reviewer for journals and conferences.
Anoop Rawat
Dr. Anooop Rawat is a Research Associate at the University of Southern California.
His primary research is focused on understanding biophysical and structural basis of misfolding and aggregation of huntingtin protein which is implicated in Huntington's disease.
Ana I.F. Ribeiro-Barros
PhD in Plant Molecular Biology (1997, Wageningen University and Research);
Director of the Tropical College, University of Lisbon (ULisboa);
Head of Research Lab and Professor of Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Microbiology and Tropical Ecosystems (School of Agriculture, ULisboa);
Invited professor Universidade da Madeira (Portugal), Eduardo Mondlane University and Gorongosa National Park (Mozambique;
Area of scientific activity (25+ years): Agrobiotechnology applied to the management and characterization of agro-forestry resources: Biodiversity; Conservation Genetics; Ethnobotany; Landscape genomics; Molecular Ecology; Plant-Environment Interactions (symbioses, pathogenesis and abiotic stresses); Soil diversity.
Scientific Identifiers:
Ciência Vitae: 081F-E3CE-9D52
ORCID: 0000-0002-6071-6460
Scopus: 35557486600
Google: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=en&authuser=2&user=hzAWUTUAAAAJ
Diego Romero
Associate Professor of Microbiology in University of Málaga (Spain). Head of Department of Microbiology and Crop Protection in IHSM-UMA-CSIC. Past Ramon y Cajal Investigator. Postdoctoral training in Harvard Medical School.
Ulrika Rova
Besides current research activities in pre-treatment and biochemical conversion of lignocellulose Rova has a background in recombinant protein expression, protein crystallization, biochemical characterization of catalytical properties of enzymes.
Rajib Roychowdhury
Dr. Rajib Roychowdhury is a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research in Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) - The Volcani Center, Israel. His primary research interest is focused on crop genomics and genetics for abiotic stress response and disease resistance mechanism. Presently he is working on viral disease resistance of citrus and grapevine. Previously he worked on major cereals (wheat. Rice, barley) and berry fruits (strawberry, blueberry) for fungal disease resistance, yield and quality improvement, and osmotic stress (drought, heat, salinity) tolerance under challenging climate. He worked a lot on mutation breeding in carnation, which was a pioneer work on this floricultural crop in South-East Asia. He was elected as a Fellow Member of the Linnaean Society of London, UK. His biography was published in the Pearl Edition of Marquis Who’sWho of the World, USA. In 2019, he got the travel award by International Wheat Initiative (Germany) for presenting his research in 1 st International Wheat Congress, Saskatoon, Canada. He has a plenty number of impacted research papers, review articles, invited chapters and books in both international and nationally reputed journals and publishers. Currently he is serving in the editorial board of Frontiers in Genetics, Agronomy, South African Journal of Botany.
Boris Rubinsky
Professor at UC Berkeley since 1980. Resides in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Research in biomedical engineering.
Dr. Rubinsky's research interests include:
Heat and mass transfer in biomedical engineering and biotechnology in particular low temperature biology, bio-electronics and biomedical devices in particular micro and nano bionic technologies and electroporation, medical imaging in particular electrical impedance tomography and light imaging, biomedical numerical analysis in particular genetic and evolutionary algorithms and fractal techniques.
Darren N Saunders
Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the University of NSW and visiting fellow at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute in Sydney, Australia. Science communicator and past deputy chair of the Australian Academy of Science Early-Mid Career Researcher Forum. Australian Leadership Award (2012), NSW Life Scientist Research Award (2010).
My research is focused on proteostasis and metabolic reprogramming in cancer and neurodegeneration, integrating various platforms (including proteomics, genomics, and metabolomics) to better understand genotype-phenotype relationships. I have a long-standing interest in protein homeostasis (proteostasis), publishing numerous manuscripts providing mechanistic insights into serpin biology and the Ubiquitin-proteasome system, with more recent work aimed at characterising novel mutations involved in protein misfolding and Ub systems in various disease states. I developed a novel platform for screening protein-protein interactions in situ, and novel proteomics approaches to systematically identify E3 Ub ligase substrates and for exploring interactome diversity in cell signalling. We use a number of models systems including patient-derived iPS cells, patient derived tumour xenografts and transgenic models of cancer and neurodegeneration. I am also collaborating to develop creative technology-based approaches to visualizing and communicating complex data, using music to explore the intersection between genetics and environment.
Syed Hassan Shah
Syed Hassan Shah is a Wi-Fi connectivity subject matter expert with the Qualcomm Inc. product management team, where he is involved in Consumer and Compute Wireless products with a focus on Mi-Fi, CPE, and UWB technologies. In addition to that, Dr. Shah is also an adjunct faculty member at California State University, Fullerton Campus, where he teaches computer science courses to graduate classes. Over the past decade, Dr. Shah held multiple industrial & academic roles such as a Product Specialist for Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), CBRS, Private LTE, Digital Electricity, and open RAN product lines. Dr. Shah was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia Southern University, USA followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA. Before moving to the United States, he completed his BS with honors in CS from Kohat University of Science & Technology (KUST), Pakistan, and his Ph.D. Degree (combined with Masters) from the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Kyungpook National University (KNU), Republic of Korea (South Korea). During the summer of 2015, he was invited as a distinguished visiting researcher at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA to investigate MAC layer findings in IEEE 1609.4 protocol stacks. Overall, Dr. Shah has authored/co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed international publications including Journal articles, Conference Proceedings, Book Chapters, and 05 books. In 2016, his work on robust content retrieval in future vehicular networks won the Qualcomm Innovation Award at KNU, South Korea. Dr. Shah's research interests include Wireless and Ad hoc Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Cities, Connected Vehicles, and Future Internet architectures.
Furthermore, Dr. Shah is a Senior IEEE and ACM member, served as a TPC Member or Reviewer in over 100 International Conferences and Workshops including IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICNC, IEEE VTC, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CoNEXT, ACM MobiHoc, ACM SAC, and many more. Furthermore, he has been reviewing papers for over 50 different International Journals including IEEE Magazines on Wireless Communications, Networks, Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Sensors Letters, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and Vehicular Technologies, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Big Data, and Mobile Computing. Moreover, Dr. Shah has been an editorial member of more than 60 Special Issues with top-ranked journals in Communication Society and served as an editorial board member of KSII Transactions on Internet & Information Systems, Wiley's Internet Technology Letters, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, IEEE Newsletters on Internet Initiative, Future Directions, and Software Defined Networks. Dr. Shah has been an appointee of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society as liaison to IEEE Young Professionals society for the year 2018-2019. Since 2018, he is also an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Arif J Siddiqui
Dr. Arif Jamal Siddiqui is an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at the Department of Biology, College of Science, University of Hail, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD from CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India in 2015. From 2015 to 2018, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America.
He has more than 8 years of experience in research, teaching and administration. In his professional work, he has received research grants as a Principal Investigator from various renowned organizations. He has successfully published more than 100 publications in internationally recognized peer-reviewed prestigious journals, published several book chapters for internationally renowned publishers and presented many articles and posters in various conferences/workshops worldwide. He has published numerous papers in the fields of parasitology, immunology, herbal medicine, vaccine development, drug discovery and natural products with a specialization in anti-parasitic, antiviral, anticancer and antibacterial agents. Furthermore, he is a member of The Indian Science Congress Association, India and the Annals of Parasitology, Poland. He has reviewed more than 250 manuscripts and he also currently holds various editorial positions (Academic, Associate, Guest and Review Editor) in various reputable journals and has edited more than 150 manuscripts.
Kashmir Singh
Dr. Kashmir Singh is a Professor in the department of biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh. With a focus on Plant biotechnology, his research interests span, metabolic engineering of secondary metabolites and biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in plants.
Early in his career, he received the Marie Curie Fellowship from European commission on biotechnology. Later, he received International Research Associateship at Missouri state University, USA. He was also a visiting scientist of McGill University, Montreal Canada, where he worked in the area of stress tolerance in cereal crops. Recently he was awarded INSA bilateral exchange fellowship to Poland. His major contribution in research work was understanding the molecular aspects of secondary metabolism in medicinal plants such as chlorophytum borivilianum, Phyllanthus emblica, Saussaurea lappa etc. He is also studying fungal resistance in grapes by identifying molecular markers, genes and non-coding RNAs associated with biotic stress tolerance.
He has guided 21 Ph.D. and 25 M.Sc. students and has over 90 publications. He is member of board of studies, research degree committees, reviewer of international journals and member of grant review committee of USA-Israel BARD grants. He has represented the Institute in international conferences and visited several countries including Poland, USA and Canada.