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.

1. Exploration of microbial ecology and diversity in hotspots
2. Habitat-specific microbial community associated with the biodiversity hotspot
3. Microbial diversity and ecology of saline environments from India
4. Marine microbial hotspots—especially related to corals
5. Phyllosphere microbiomes: implications and ecofunctional diversity
6. Fungal association in hotspot of rhizosphere
7. Diversity of actinomycetes in Western Ghats
8. Microbial diversity at the polluted sites
9. Microbial diversity in termite gut ecosystem and their role in lignocellulosic degradation
10. Bacterial diversity from Garampani warm spring, Assam
11. Diversity and biotechnological importance of cellulolytic microorganisms from biodiversity hotspots
12. Biodiversity of cold-adapted extremophiles from Antarctica and their biotechnological potential
13. Isolation methods for evaluation of extremophilic microbial diversity from Antarctica region
14. Recent advances in microbial databases with special reference to kinetoplastids
15. Advances in sequencing technology, databases, and analyses tools for the assessment of microbial diversity
16. Legal protection of microbial biodiversity