Dr. Abhinay Sharma is PBC postdoctoral fellow (February 2017 till date) in Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Institute for Medical Research – Israel-Canada (IMRIC), Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel with Prof. Emanuel Hanski. Dr. Sharma worked as CNPq postdoctoral fellow from 2011 to 2012 in the Department of Physiology at the Bioscience Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil with Prof. Celia R.S. Garcia. He moved on to be a Postdoctoral fellow from 2012 to 2013 in Department of Medical Microbiology at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research with the late Prof. Gursharan Singh Chhatwal and was an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow from 2013 to 2016 in the Department of Vaccinology at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany with Prof Dr Carlos Guzmán. Dr. Prachi Bhargava has over 20 years of teaching and research experience in microbial molecular biology and is currently working as an Associate Professor at Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow. She has worked as a Principle Investigator on various major GOI-sponsored projects, and was recently involved in a project sponsored by SERB, New Delhi. As an active researcher, Dr Bhargava has published numerous research and review articles in respected journals, along with several book chapters Dr. Ram Prasad is an Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi Central University. His expertise is in microbial biotechnology. He has won several awards including Award for Research Excellence (6th Academic Brilliance Awards). He was included in the Most Top Cited Authors in 2018 (reported by Stanford University in 2021). He is a member of many scientific committees, published ~146 research articles, contributed ~30 book chapters, is an editorial board member of several journals in microbiology and biotechnology and belongs to several committees abroad. Dr. Devendra Kumar Choudhary is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (MNASc), India. He has included in top 2% world scientists list published in PLoS Biology (A Stanford University Study). He holds a PhD in Microbiology and is currently working as an Associate Professor at Amity University, Noida. Dr. Choudhary has worked as Principle Investigator on major GOI-sponsored projects. He has published over 91 articles for repute national and international journals.