Microbial Biofilms

Dr. Sanket Joshi is currently a Professor at the Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University, Rajasthan, India. He has academic teaching and research experience of about 16 years, and industrial R&D experience of about 4 years in India and Oman. While working in Indian pharma companies, he undertook several turnkey projects. His current research interests encompass energy (In-situ/ex-situ microbial enhanced light/heavy oil recovery; chemical enhanced oil Recovery; biofuels), microbial products (biosurfactants, biopolymers, R&D and scale-up), and environmental bioremediation (crude oil pollution; analysis, mitigation and control of souring by Sulfate reducing bacteria; HPAM contaminated sites). He has about 125 scientific publications in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and two books to his credit. He is an Academic/Associate Editor for: Frontiers in Microbiology, PeerJ, Ecotoxicology (Springer), Petroleum Science and Technology (Springer), Biotech (Springer), and Open Biotechnology Journal; guest editor for Frontiers in Microbiology, Sustainability, Scientifica, and Open Biotechnology Journal. Dr. Dibyajit Lahiri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India, where he conducts advanced interdisciplinary research in microbiology, biofilms, antimicrobial resistance, and microbial biotechnology. His scholarly work emphasizes understanding the mechanisms of microbial biofilm formation and inhibition, particularly on medically relevant surfaces and environmental substrates, and exploring innovative strategies for combating biofilm-associated antimicrobial resistance. Dr. Lahiri has authored and co-authored a substantial body of scholarly work, with over 100 publications including high-impact journal articles, book chapters, and reviews. His research portfolio covers topics such as biofilm-mediated degradation of environmental pollutants, novel antibiofilm agents (including nanoscale and natural compounds), and biotechnological applications of microbial systems, with an h-index around 38 reflecting significant citation impact and academic influence.He has contributed to major scientific discussions on microbial biofilms in diverse contexts, including their roles in chronic infections, environmental microplastic degradation, and biofuel production, demonstrating both fundamental and applied research orientations. His collaborative research outputs also include contributions to antimicrobial peptide studies and microbial electrochemical systems. Dr. Lahiri serves as editor and contributor to scholarly publications in his field, and he participates actively in international research networks and editorial activities. His work is regularly presented at scientific forums and continually contributes to advancing microbial biotechnology and strategies to mitigate biofilm-associated challenges in health, industry, and the environment. Rina Rani Ray is Associate Professor and Head, Department of Biotechnology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal. Her research interest focuses on the diverse field of microbial biotechnology. She has been in academics and research for more than 25 years and worked in several institutes of repute. She started her research career in the field of microbial enzyme technology. She successfully completed a number of research projects funded by different sponsoring agencies like UGC, DST and DRDO and is working a project sponsored by DBT, WB. She has published around 80 research papers in various peer reviewed national and international journals and is on the editorial board and a regular reviewer of many journals. At present, her research group is working on the positive and negative aspects of biofilm. She is the member of various scientific associations and was nominated fellows of Zoological Society, India and Academy for Environment and Life Sciences, India. Dr. D. MubarakAli PhD completed his master and doctoral degree in the department of Microbiology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India. He was worked as Research Professor in Division of Bioengineering, Incheon National University (INU) and Research Associate in Centre for Surface Technology and Applications (CeSTA), Korea Aerospace University, Republic of Korea. He worked also as Scientist in Central Inter-Disciplinary Research Facility (DSIR-recognized), Puducherry (UT), India; Research Associate – III in National Repository for Microalgae and Cyanobacteria – Freshwater. He published nearly 91 peer-reviewed articles; 5 book chapters and holds 2 International and 2 National Patents. He has deposited 85 gene sequences in GenBank (NCBI). He is serving as an Editor in Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology (Elsevier), Guest Editor in Sustainability (MDPI) and Guest Editor in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology (Bentham & Sciences). Presently, Assistant Professor in School of Life Science, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai where teaching and guiding Ph.D., M.Tech., M.Sc and B.Tech students.

• 1. Microbial Biofilms: Issues and Challenges 2. Genetics of Microbial Biofilm Development 3. Introduction on Genomic analysis of Biofilm 4. Metabolomics study of biofilm forming natural microbiota of oral biofilm 5. Metabolomics study of biofilm forming natural microbiota of gut biofilm 6. Metabolomics study of biofilm forming natural microbiota of skin biofilm 7. Metabolomics study of biofilm forming natural microbiota of vaginal biofilm 8. Metabolome analysis for host- microbiota interactions 9. Differential Metabolomics study between the planktonic and sessile colonies 10. Biofilm formation in acute and chronic infections with special emphasis on common chronic and nosocomial diseases. 11. Medical device-associated biofilm and the challenges of treatment 12. NMR-based metabolomics study on microbial biofilm 13. Isotope Labeling LC-MS for Metabolomics of biofilm study and Tracer based biofilm metabolomics analysis 14. Lipidomics profiling of microbial biofilm 15. Functional metabolomics approaches in determining the inhibition of biofilm 16. Methods for Designing Anti-Biofilm Agents (in vivo and in silico) 17. Reprogramming of metabolomics of biofilms 18. Dysbiosis in metabolic syndrome 19. Quantifying biofilm structure using image analysis 20. Metabolic modeling of a chronic wound biofilm consortium