About the Book
Caring for the earth as the underlying emphasis, the papers in this volume deal with the conservation, management and development of natural resources, pertaining to agriculture, livestock and water resources development. The issues involved here have been seen by the experts in the context of social, economic and technical measures, aimed at sustainability at local, regional and national levels. The contributions advocate survival strategies and sustainable policies that are needed to save the mankind and our planet in the new millennium.
About the Author :
Dr. Satendra Singh is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Jacob Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. He has completed B. Pharma (UPTU), M. Tech. Bioinformatics (IIITA) and Ph. D. in Bioinformatics (SHUATS). He has qualified GATE-2003, 2004 and GATE-2006. His main area of research interests are genome analysis, drug designing, chemoinformatics molecular dynamics and Agriculture Bioinformatics. Dr. Singh has published research papers in national and international peer reviewed journals. He is the recipient of several awards, including Excellence in Teaching award, Young scientist awards, Best research paper award and Best oral presentation award, etc. Dr. Singh is having life time memberships of several National and International societies.
Dr. Budhayash Gautam is an Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at "Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, U.P., India", where he is serving for the last twelve years. He has his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics. He has also two masters, one in Bioinformatics and another one in the Biotechnology area. He has over 14 years of experience of teaching and research where he has taught bioinformatics to graduate, undergraduate and doctoral students. He has worked extensively on several bioinformatics projects. He has more than 40 International research publications published in several good reputed and peer-reviewed journals. He has several co-authored chapters too in his name in books published in various international publishing houses. He has several Awards and Honours in his name given by various national international societies.
Dr. Dhirendra Kumar is presently working as Assistant Professor of Animal Genetics & Breeding at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu (SKUAST-J), R.S.Pura, Jammu (J&K). Dr. Dhirendra is a recipient of Best Ph.D. Thesis award, Appreciation Award (2), Distinguished Scientist Award, Excellence in Teaching Award, young Scientist Award (2) and Life Science Leadership Award. He has also served as Organizing Secretary of International Conference (1), Joint Organizing Secretary of International Conference (1) and Co-organizing Secretary of National Conference/Symposium (2). Presently he is the Principal Investigator of Network Project of NBAGR-ICAR on Characterization of Poonchi Chicken. He has edited three books and published more than 40 research and review articles in reputed national and international scientific journals.
Dr. Gurudayal Ram Guru is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering, Jacob Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. He has done B.Sc. Agriculture from Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, M.Sc. (Agri.) Biotechnology from Odisha University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, Ph.D. Biotechnology from Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. He is currently teaching and guiding Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral students for their project work/dissertation/thesis. He has published research papers in national and international peer reviewed journals and has been appointed as member, Editorial Board and Reviewer of several journals.
Dr. Pramod Kumar Yadav has obtained M. Tech. (Bioinformatics) degree from Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad in 2006 and Ph.D. (Bioinformatics) from SHUATS, Allahabad in 2014. He has qualified GATE-2003 and GATE-2004, and received graduate scholarship by Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India, New Delhi. Currently, Dr. Yadav is working as an Asst. Professor (senior scale) in the Dept. of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Prayagraj (Allahabad), U.P., India. He is actively involved in Teaching and Research since last 14 years. He has published 26 research articles in international and national peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Yadav is recipient of Young Scientist Award-2015 by Society of Bioinformatics and Biological Sciences. He has given several invited talks in workshops/conferences. Dr. Yadav is editorial board member and reviewer of many international journals.
Vibha Raj Shanti is PI of WOS-B project funded by DST, Gov. of India. Her areas of research interest include drought stress, next generation sequencing, transcriptom study, bio-pesticides, etc. She has published research papers in national and international peer reviewed journals.
