Dr. Sanjivkumar Muthusamy is presently working as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at K.R. College of Arts & Science, K.R. Nagar, Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu, India. He has completed his Ph.D., in Microbiology- Marine Biotechnology (Interdisciplinary) at the Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India in the year of 2018 and has qualified ICAR-NET exam twice in the years of 2019 and 2020. His current research focus is on enzymes and bioactive metabolites and nanoparticles from actinobacteria, microalgae, plants for human health improvement. He is having 10 years of teaching experience and 06 years of research experience. He has mentored 15 PG students for their dissertation work. He has organized 15 national level seminars, conferences, and training programs. He has published 40 research articles in the peer reviewed National & International Journals with high impact factors and 5 Laboratory protocols, 16 Book chapters. He has an H-index of 14 with a total citation of 467 as per Google Scholar. He is serving as a member of editorial boards and reviewer in both national and international journals. Dr. Radhakrishnan Manikkam, currently working as a Professor (Research) & Head, at the Centre for Drug Discovery and Development, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. Constituting both teaching and research, he has a total experience of 16 years. He completed his PhD in Microbiology from National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (ICMR), Chennai. Throughout his study, he focused on research in Actinobacteria from different under studied sources and environments especially marine. He built up his experience studying the ecology, diversity, taxonomy and bioprospecting potentials of Actinobacteria from rare ecosystems in India. He has received 10 research projects (5 as PI and 5 as Co-PI) from different central funding agencies in India with the worth of Rs. 2.1 Crores for pursuing research on marine Actinobacteria. All of his publications, which exceed 175, focus on Actinobacterial research, with very few exceptions. He has edited a manual titled ‘Protocols in Actinobacterial Research’ from Springer Protocols Handbook series and also a book on Translational Research in Biomedical Sciences by Springer. He has also published 41 Book chapters. He has participated in the 11th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctic Ocean during 2020 and 1st Ever Arctic Winter Expedition during 20204 to explore Actinobacteria. Dr. Gopikrishnan Venugopal is working as an Assistant Professor (Research), Bioprospecting division, Centre for Drug Discovery and Development, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai. He is working in the field of actinobacterial research for the past 14 years. He obtained his doctoral degree at Actinobacterial Research Lab, Department of Microbiology, Periyar University, Tamil Nadu. Currently he is working on research areas like associated actinobacteria mainly fish gut, earthworm cast and gut, insect nest, marine biofouling, antibiofouling compounds, natural pigments, enzymes and bioactive compounds. He has completed one DST SERB ECR project as PI and ongoing project MOES PI for the total cost of Rs 29 lakhs. He has published 62 research articles both national and International journals, three manuals, and 11 book chapters on actinobacteria.
