Deepak Anand received his PhD in microbiology and cell biology from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India where is characterized the antisense RNA against essential cell division gene and role of protease in division process. His major research of interest is bacterial cell biology and its role in growth and division. He is a Postdoc Fellow and a junior researcher at Max-Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany; actively involved in understanding the mechanism of bacterial cell division and chromosome segregation. He has contributed 2 reviews and 5 research articles in peer reviewed journals. He is member body of the postdoc representative, department of Ecophysiology, at Max-Planck Institute, Marburg.Dr Prerna Pandey, a biotechnologist with several years of wet lab research experience, worked at International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi. Her field of research in PhD included isolation and molecular characterization of geminiviruses, genome sequencing, gene annotation, and gene silencing using the RNA interference technology. She has also worked at Transasia Biomedicals and Advance Enzyme Technologies as a scientist. Prerna has published papers in peer-reviewed journals, and has submitted a number of annotated Geminiviral genome sequences in the GenBank, including two novel ones. She has also completed her editing and proof-reading courses from Society for the promotion of Editors and Proof-readers, UK and now works as a freelance scientific editor and writer. When Prerna is not busy with her assignments, she loves to explore historical places.
