Kamel Abd-Elsalam, Ph.D. is a head researcher at Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt. Dr. Kamel’s research interests include developing, improving and deploying plant biosecurity diagnostic tools, understanding and exploiting fungal pathogen genomes and developing eco-friendly hybrid nanomaterials for controlling toxicogenic fungi and plant diseases. He has published 8 book chapters, 2 books, 1 translated book and more than 120 research articles in international peer-reviewed journals including Fungal Diversity, Fungal Biology, FEMS Review Microbiology, PLOS One and PLOS Genetics. Dr. Kamel has also served as molecular mycologist for 5 years in the Department Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He received the Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils Prize for distinguished scientific research in biotechnology (fungal genomics) during 2014 (first ranking). Dr. Kamel has pursuedhis Ph.D. in Molecular Plant Pathology from Christian Alberchts University of Kiel (Germany) and Suez Canal University (Egypt) and was awarded postdoctoral fellowship from Christian Alberchts University of Kiel in 2008. Dr. Kamel served as Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand; Institute of Microbiology, TUM, Germany; Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; and Plant Protection Department, Sassari University, Italy.Mohamed A. Mohamed, Ph.D. is currently a researcher at Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center (ARC), Egypt. He was granted a scholarship to study his Ph.D. at Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP), University Politecnica of Valencia (CSIC-UPV) Department of biotechnology, Spain. He studied nanoscience at the Valencia Nanophotonics Technology Center (NTC), Universitat Politecnica de Valenciahe .Dr. Mohamed then extended his Ph.D. research work to study at the School of Chemistry, Metropolitan Manchester University (United Kingdom). His research interests include molecular-nanotechnology and gene delivery using smart nano-delivery systems to fight microbial plant pathogens. He successfully constructed an ultra-sensitive nanosensor microbial detection device. Dr. Mohamed has many international publications to his credit, including high impact research papers, book chapters and one issued patent. Dr. Mohamed has been awarded “The Award of Excellence” for the year 2015 in “Innovative nanotechnology” by the Universitat Politecnica of Valencia (UPV), Spain.Ram Prasad, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India. His research interests include plant-microbe interactions, sustainable agriculture, and microbial nanobiotechnology. Dr. Prasad has more than a hundred publications to his credit, including research papers, book chapters, five patents issued or pending, and several edited or authored books. Dr. Prasad has 11 years of teaching experience and has been awarded the Young Scientist Award (2007) and Prof. J. S. Datta Munshi Gold Medal (2009) by the International Society for Ecological Communications, the FSAB fellowship (2010) by the Society for Applied Biotechnology, the Outstanding Scientist Award (2015) in the field of microbiology by Venus International Foundation, and the American Cancer Society UICC International Fellowship for Beginning Investigators (USA, 2014). In 2014–2015, Dr. Prasad served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, USA.
