Microbial Inoculants

Joginder Singh Panwar is a Professor in the Department of Botany at Nagaland University, Lumami, India. His previous appointments include a professorship at the School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, and a Young Scientist position at the Microbial Biotechnology and Biofertilizer Laboratory at Jai Narain Vyas University, funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is an active member of several scientific societies, including the Association of Microbiologists of India and the European Federation of Biotechnology. Dr. Singh has an extensive publication record across books and journals, and he also regularly serves as a reviewer for numerous prestigious international journals He has published extensively with Elsevier and Springer both in journals and books. He serves as a reviewer for many prestigious journals. He actively participates and presents at national and international scientific conferences and events.

Dr. Ana Maria Queijeiro López became an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology (IQB) of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) after completing her master's degree in Biological Sciences (Applied Microbiology) and starting a doctorate in Phytopathology (Parasitism Biochemistry) at the Escola Superior de Agricultura of the University of São Paulo, receiving training at universities in Germany, Spain and England, the latter country where she completed her doctorate in Molecular Biochemistry and Phytopathology (University of Bristol, Long Ashton Research Station campus), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. John Alexander Lucas. She returned to IQB/UFAL in 1999, as Associate Professor, where she still works in teaching, extension and research activities, in areas of interface between microbial biochemistry and different areas of biotechnology, such as in the interaction with plants, animals, different ecosystems, food and pharmaceutical products.