Antimicrobials for Sustainable Food Storage

Naga Raju Maddela received his M.Sc. (1996-1998) and Ph.D. (2012) in Microbiology from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapuramu, India. During his doctoral program in the area of Environmental Microbiology, he investigated the effects of industrial effluents/insecticides on soil microorganisms and their biological activities and he is working as Faculty in Microbiology since 1998, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. He worked on Prometeo Investigator (fellowship received from SENESCYT) at Universidad Estatal Amazonica, Ecuador during 2013-15, received "Postdoctoral Fellowship" (2016-2018) from Sun Yat-sen University, China. He also received external funding from "China Postdoctoral Science Foundation" in 2017, internal funding from "Universidad Tecnica de Manabi" in 2020. He participated in national / international conferences, and presented research data in China, Cuba, Ecuador, India and Singapore. Currently, he is working as a Full Professor at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Tecnica de Manabi, Portoviejo, Ecuador. He has been actively publishing scientific articles, books (authored and edited) and chapters since 2007. As of now, he published 80 articles, 15 books and 50 book chapters.

Gusdanis Alberto Campos Garcia received his Bachelor's degree in Chemistry (2005) and Ph.D in Chemistry (2012) from Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela. He served as a Full-time Associate Professor of the Academic Unit of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Experimental Sciences, Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela (2014-2016). Also, he worked as Research and Development Coordinator at Simsa oil company in Venezuela (2013-2016). Since 2016, he is working as a Principal professor of Laboratory Instrumentation and Toxicology of the Clinical Laboratory course, Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), Universidad Tecnica de Manabi (UTM), Portoviejo, Ecuador. At UTM, he is also serving as a Vice-Dean of Research and Postgraduate of the faculty of Health Sciences from 2017 to present. He is a Member of the Clinical Laboratory Sciences research group at UTM and supervising students of master's program in biomedicine. He is an alternate member of the Honorable University Council of UTM for the period 2023-2025.

Jaskiran Kaur is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the department of Biotechnology, DAV University, Sarmastpur, Jalandhar, Punjab- 144012, India. She has more than three years of teaching and research experience. She has received her MSc in Biotechnology from Punjab University, Chandigarh in 2010; and MPhil and PhD in Environmental Science and Technology from Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India in 2012 and 2019, respectively. Her area of research interest is wastewater management and treatment, membrane bioreactor, membrane fouling mitigation, quorum quenching, biofuels and bioremediation. She has published more than 25 research papers in peer-reviewed national and international research journals, conference proceedings and chapters in books. She is serving as a Brand ambassador in The Bentham Science Publisher. In addition, she organized several workshops and faculty development programs till date. She has also participated in various training programs, faculty development programs, seminars and presented her work in more than 10 National, International conferences and seminars as well.