New and Future Developments in Microbial Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Recent Advances in Application of Fungi and Fungal Metabolites: Applications in Healthcare

1. Prospects for macro-fungal metabolites in human health
2. Endophytic fungi: A New Hope for Drug Discovery
3. Pharmacological Applications of Medicinal Mushroom
4. Pharmacologically active fungal secondary metabolites in Lichen symbiosis
5. Therapeutic potency of bioactive compounds from fungal endophytes
6. Fungal origin antibiotics: the current scenario in pharmacology industries
7. Role of fungi in neurodegenerative diseases
8. Fungal secondary metabolites with potential anticancer activity
9. Encounter of Fungal Secondary Metabolites: A Promising Source of Anti-cancer Drugs
10. Neoteric trends in marine fungi research as promising and alternate source of anticancer phytochemicals
11. Fungal Enzyme inhibitors: Repository of novel cancer therapeutics
12. Enhancement of anticancer secondary metabolites production in fungi with biotechnological aspects
13. Fungal Metabolites- A Potential Source of Anti-Viral Compounds
14. Myconanoparticles as an effective antimicrobial against MDR (Multi Drug Resistant) pathogens
15. Chitin: Promising biopolymer for biomedical application
16. Status of fungal disease in silkworm
17. Anti-pathogenic activity of fungal secondary metabolites: with special reference to human pathogenic bacteria
18. Hypoglycaemic potential of mushrooms and their metabolites
19. Marine Fungi: promising source for anticancer compounds
20. Bio-medical applications of 4-hydroxycoumarin as fungal metabolite and its derivatives

Prof. Joginder Singh is a Professor in the Department of Botany at Nagaland University in India. Previously, he has worked as Young Scientist at Microbial Biotechnology and Biofertilizer Laboratory, Department of Botany, Jai Narain Vyas University in Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He is an active member of various scientific societies and organizations including, Association of Microbiologists of India, Indian Society of Salinity Research Scientists, Indian Society for Radiation Biology, and European Federation of Biotechnology. He has published extensively, including both journal papers and book chapters. He serves as a reviewer for many prestigious journals, including Current Research in Engineering, Science and Technology, Journal of Cleaner Production, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Pedosphere, Soil and Sediment Contamination, Symbiosis, International Journal of Phytoremediation, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Annals of Agricultural Sciences, Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and many more.
Dr. Praveen Gehlot is Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Jai Narain Vyas University Jodhpur. He did his PhD from JNV University Jodhpur, under the able guidance of Prof. D.K. Purohit. He has about 18 years of teaching and research experience. He has been an awardee of Young Scientist under FAST Track Scheme by Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi and later worked as a Pool-Officer of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi. Earlier, he taught at Budha Institute of Technology and Science Research College, Jodhpur and Government Bangor PG College, Pali, Rajasthan and subsequently served as an Associate Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner, Rajasthan. Dr. Gehlot worked out three major research projects sponsored by UGC, DST and CSIR, New Delhi. He has published more than 80 research papers, book chapters