Prof. Laishram Shantikumar
Assam Down Town University, India

Biography:

Dr. Laishram Shantikumar Singh, a post graduate degree in Microbiology and PhD in Microbial Biotechnology is Associate Professor and Program chair at Microbiology Department, Assam down town University, Guwahati, Assam, India. He has worked as Scientist senior grade at IBSD, DBT, Govt. of India, Gangtok, Sikkim, India. His research focused on Microbial diversity, and bioprospecting of microbial resources for sustainable utilization which includes microbial secondary metabolites, bioactive compounds, antimicrobial agents and fight against multidrug pathogens as well as opportunistic pathogens, plant bioprospecting, and plant endophytes relation, plant-based nanoparticles, bioenergy. He is recipient of many government research grants and received several awards, recognitions and achievements, including Group Technology Award 2009 by DRL, DRDO. He is an awardee of research grants for PhD and work at USBT in GGSIP University, Delhi for post-doctoral studies. He has also worked corporate R & D sectors of Tata Tea Research Centre in APPL, Teok, Jorhat, Assam. He had served as lecturer in NFG College, Bangalore University and visiting faculty in CAEPHT. He has published many research papers/book chapters in National and International Journals and presented research articles in many National and International conferences and submitted many research data in NBCI Genbank database. He has guided 28 M.Sc. dissertation and presently guiding 5 PhD scholars.