Microbial Diversity in the Genomic Era

Section I: Overview of microbial diversity1.1 Methods of assessment of microbial diversity in natural environments1.2 Metagenomic Achievements in Microbial Diversity Determination in Croplands: A Review1.3 Genomic diversity and evolution of rhizobia1.4 Microbial biodiversity study of a brackish water ecosystem in eastern India: The Chilika Lake1.5 Microbial diversity and community analysis of Sundarban mangrove, the world heritage site Section II: Molecular tools in microbial diversity2.1Analysing Functional Microbial Diversity: An Overview of Techniques2.2 Genetic analysis of the bacterioplankton biology and ecology through next-generation high-throughput molecular techniques Gurdeep Rastogi, Pratiksha Behera, and Madhusmita Mohapatra2.3 Molecular tools in microbial diversity: Functional assessment tool of genome and metagenome by MAPLE2.4 A polyphasic taxonomic approach for designation and description of novel microbial species2.5 Biochemical strategies to counter nitrosative stress: Nanofactories for value-added products2.6 Exploring microbial diversity and function in petroleum hydrocarbon associated environments through Omics approaches Section III: Extremophilic microbial diversity3.1 Diversity of Psychrophilic Bacteria in Sea and Glacier Ice environments - Insights through Genomics, Metagenomics and Proteomics Approaches3.2 Microbial diversity of thermophiles through the lens of next generation sequencing3.3 Microbial ecology in extreme acidic environments: use of molecular tools3.4 Alkaliphiles: Diversity and bioprospection3.5Cyanobacteria from Brazilian extreme environments: toward functional exploitation3.6 Comparative genomics of Halobacterium strains from diverse locations3.7 Microbial community dynamics of extremophiles/extreme environment3.8 Opening the black box of thermophilic autotrophic bacterial diversity Section IV: Functional Microbial Diversity4.1Functional microbial diversity in context to agriculture4.2 Functional microbial diversity in contaminated environment and application in bioremediation4.3 Structural and functional diversity of microbial metallothionein genes4.4 Functional diversity of bacterial strategies to cope with metal toxicity4.5 Functional microbial diversity: Functional genomics and metagenomics using MAPLE4.6 Linking the environmental microbial diversity and antibiotic resistance4.7 Applications of metagenomics in microbial bioremediation of pollutants: From genomics to environmental cleanup Section V: Microbial diversity and infectious diseases5.1 Molecular techniques for diagnosis of bacterial plant pathogens5.2 Molecular techniques for the study of microbial diversity with special emphasis on drug resistant microbes5.3 Exploring human bacterial diversity towards prevention of infectious disease and health promotion5.4 Prevalence of Multidrug Resistance Efflux Pumps (MDREPs) in Environmental Communities5.5 Pathogenic microbial genetic diversity with reference to significant medical and public health Section VI: Future directions of microbial diversity studies6.1 Understanding the structure and function of extreme microbiome through genomics: scope and challenges6.2 The role and future possibilities of next-generation sequencing in studying microbial diversity6.3 Taxonomical diversity of extremophiles in the deep biosphere6.4 Molecular evolution of Xenobiotic-degrading genes and mobile DNA elements in soil bacteria