Algae Materials. Applications Benefitting Health. Developments in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Authors

K. Arunkumar heading the Department of Plant Sciences and Dean of student welfare, Central University of Kerala, India. Dr.K. Arunkumar obtained his M.Sc. and Philosophy in Botany from Bharathidasan University and Ph.D. from University of Madras, India during 1999. Having specialization in physiology and extraction chemistry, he worked in Rubber Research Institute of India during 1997-1999. Later, he has joined as an Assistant Professor College teacher in the year 1999 since then he is concentrating on applied researches of algal diversity, biology and biochemistry. He has published 67 research articles of which 46 are Scopus indexed and guided 6 Ph.D's by attracting grants from Government of India funding Agencies (UGC/DST/SERB). He offers 4 credits Massive Open Online (MOOC) course Biomass Characterization for Postgraduates through UGC-SWAYAM portal. Currently he is heading the Department of Plant Sciences and Dean of student welfare, Central University of Kerala, India A. Arun Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India. Dr. A. Arun, Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India. His research team is working on Bioplastic, Bioenergy, Microbial fuel cells, Bioremediation, Biomass, and Bioactive compounds. He has vast experience related to the said field by publishing several research articles and book chapters in reputed peer-reviewed journals. In addition, he received many major research projects and one consultancy project, including one Indo-China project funded under SPARC by MHRD, India Rathinam Raja Professor in Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital (SBMCH)-BIHER, Chromepet, Chennai, India.. Dr.Rathinam Raja is working as a Professor in Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital (SBMCH)-BIHER, Chromepet, Chennai, India. He pursued his Ph.D. in microalgae at University of Madras on 2004. He also did his Post-Doctoral Research at IIT Madras. He also worked as a Lead Scientist at Aquatic Energy LLC, Louisiana for couple of years. Previously he worked in Taiwan, South Korea and Portugal. He has published 32 international articles, 14 book chapters and edited a book Ramasamy Palaniappan Director of Research at Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, BIHER-India.. Professor Palaniappan Ramasamy educated at the University of Madras and obtained his Ph.D. in Zoology (Parasitology). Later he continued his post-doctoral training at Queens University Belfast in Northern Ireland (1982-84), and was then appointed as lecturer and then promoted in 1997 as Professor in Zoology followed as Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology between 2004 and 2012. Ramasamy took several Academic and Research Institutions in India including the position as the "Vice-Chancellor� of the prestigious university, Alagappa University-Karaikudi. He established the "Higher Education Link Program sponsored by the British Councils from the UK and India on exchange programs in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Infrastructures. Since 2015, Dr. Ramasamy is serving as, Director of Research at Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, BIHER-India. He published nearly 100 significant publications and has a patent on "new antiviral agent from a plant�