Fungal Biotechnology and Bioengineering

lt;p>Prof. Abd El-Latif Hesham, is full Professor of Microbial Genetics and Environmental Meta-Genome Biotechnology, and presently working as Head of Genetics Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Beni Suef University (BSU), Egypt.  He graduated and got his M.Sc from Genetics department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Egypt and his PhD degree from Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences in "Microbial Genetics and Environmental Meta-Genome Biotechnology". He awarded postdoctoral studies about " Meta-Genome Biotechnology" from CAS-TWAS.

Before joining BSU he worked at Assiut University since his graduation in 1992 to July 2019 as a demonstrator, lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor and then full professor. He also worked as associate professor of microbial genetics and biotechnology for five years in the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia.

He is one of the leading experts in the area of "Microbial Genetics & Biotechnology", "Biodegradation, Bioremediation & Phytoremediation", " Microbial community structure, "Soil Microbiology and Enzyme activities", "Biological Control", "Anti-microbial activates", "Biofertilizer", "Biofuels" and "Environmental Meta-Genome Biotechnology".  He has co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications in reputed Thomson Reuters impact factor journals and 4 book chapters in international reputed publishers like Elsevier, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and John Wiley & Sons. He is key person in many national and international research projects related to field of Microbial Genetics and applied biotechnology.

Prof. Hesham has been the scientific & organizing committee member and invited speaker in various international conferences. He is also a recipient of several prestigious national and international awards including most recently he has been elected as member of the Egyptian National Biotechnology Network of Expertise (NBNE); and Has been appointed as the Country Representative for Egypt and the Arab Counties by International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation Society (IBBS) UK, which belongs to the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS).

He is also Fellow of Microbiology Society, UK; European Federation of Biotechnology, Spain; The Bio-Processing Network, Australia; and The International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation Society.

Prof. Hesham serves as an associate editor and editorial board member for international reputed journals such as, Scientific Reports; Frontiers in Microbiology; Frontiers in Plant Science; PeerJ; Current Bioinformatics; International Journal of Agriculture & Biology; Journal of Environmental Biology and Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology. 

Professor Ram Sanmukh Upadhyay is a Professor and Head of Botany Department at the most prestigious University of India, Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He is credited with the discovery of the perfect state of Fusarium udum, the causal agent of the wilt of pigeon pea. He is also acclaimed for his contributions to the biology of this pathogen. He has published 143 research papers, 60 Book Chapters, 03 edited Books and 01 Monographs of national and international repute. He has produced 27 Ph.D. students ranging on the topics such as biological control of plant pathogens, programmed plant cell death in response to pathogens, bioremediation of toxic effluents, induced resistance in plants and their immunization, plant growth promoting microbes, chitinase production from actinomycetes, mycorrhizal technology for reclamation of wastelands, role rhizobacteria in detoxifying phytotoxic effect, development of molecular markers in tracking microbes in environment and effect of biotic and abiotic factors on plants, mole

Foreword.- Fungal Epigenetic Engineering.- Yeast engineering for new antifungal compounds: a contextualized overview.- G protein-coupled receptors in fungi.- Prompt and convenient preparation of oral vaccines using yeast cell surface display.- Trichoderma a factory of multipurpose enzymes.- Advances genomic approaches for mining fungal genes for biofuels.- Genetically modified fungi for second generation bioethanol production.- Fungal Bioengineering in Biodiesel Production.- Bioengineering fungi and yeast for the production of enzymes, metabolites and value-added compounds.- Fungal production of prebiotics.- Fermentative production of secondary metabolites from Bioengineered Fungi and their applications.- Recent progress on Trichoderma secondary metabolites.- Fungal genes encoding enzymes that are used in cheese production and fermentation industries.- Unravelling the potentials of endophytes and its applications.- Fungal genes and gene products involved in wastewater treatments.-DNA Barcode for Species Identification in Fungi.- Current progress on endophytic microbial dynamics on Dendrobium plants.-Understanding its role bioengineered Trichoderma in managing soil-borne plant diseases and its other benefits.- Beyond classical biocontrol: new perspectives on Trichoderma.- Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) and Induced systemic resistance (ISR) mechanism of Trichoderma against pathogens.- Index.