Applied Biotechnology and Bioinformatics

Hrudayanath Thatoi, PhD, is the Research Director at the Center for Industrial Biotechnology, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) University, Odisha, India. He obtained his doctorate in botany from Utkal University, Odisha, India. His research interests include sustainable production of renewable energy, mushroom diversity and bioactivity, bioremediation, etc. He has published 25 books and more than 300 research papers in national and international journals. He is the recipient of the Samanta Chandrasekhar Award by DST, Govt. of Odisha.

Sonali Mohapatra, PhD, is a post-doc research associate in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA after obtaining her doctorate in biotechnology engineering. Her research focuses on bioprocessing technologies. Apart from her publications and edited books, she has also been part of successful scale-up projects in the synthesis of prebiotics from dairy waste streams.

Swagat Kumar Das, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Odisha University of Technology and Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He obtained his doctorate from Ravenshaw University, Odisha, India. He is a fellow recipient of the Eurasian Academy of Environmental Sciences (FEAES) and the Society of Innovative Educationalists, Scientific Research Professionals (FSIESRP). He has published more than 30 publications in various national and international journals and 12 book chapters.

Sukanta Kumar Pradhan, PhD, serves as HOD in the Department of Bioinformatics, Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Odisha, India. He obtained his doctorate in biotechnology from Ravenshaw University, Odisha, India. His research interests include genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, and bioinformatics. He has published more than 60 research papers in reputed national and international journals and 8 book chapters.