Professor Ram Lakhan Singh (Editor) is presently holding the positions of Professor of Biochemistry and Coordinator of Biotechnology Programme at Dr. Ram Mnaohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad, India. He has also held the positions of Dean, Faculty of Science, Head, Departments of Biochemistry and Environmental sciences and Director, Institute of Engineering & Technology in the same university. He completed his Master's degree in Biochemistry from Lucknow University and joined Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India in 1980. He worked extensively on the toxicity of synthetic dyes and their metabolites and has been awarded Ph.D. degree in 1987. Professor Singh worked in UP Pollution Control Board as Junior Scientific Officer and studied the effects of effluents discharged from various industries on air and water qualities. He moved to G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India in 1988 as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and worked on the toxicity of pulp and paper mill effluents on plant and animal systems. He acquired special training in Rapeseed-Mustard quality analysis at Agriculture Canada Research Station, Saskatoon in the year 1991 under IDRC, Canada sponsored programme. Professor Singh joined Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad as Associate Professor of Biochemistry in 1994 and became full Professor in 2002. He has been instrumental in developing the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Biochemistry, Environmental Sciences and Biotechnology. He led and completed various projects funded by DST, UGC, DOE, UPCAR, UPCST etc. and guided 25 Ph.D. students. His main area of research is Environmental Biochemistry and Toxicology. Professor Singh published more than 81 research papers in peer reviewed journals and participated in various National and International scientific conferences, meetings, symposia and workshops, chaired scientific and technical sessions and presented more than 73 research papers. Professor Singh has been awarded IUTOX Senior Fellowship by International Union of Toxicology during XI International Congress of Toxicology at Montreal, Canada in 2007. He has been admitted to the Fellowship of the Society of Toxicology, India in 2011; Fellowship of Academy of Environmental Biology, India in 2015 and also received "Shikshak Shri Samman" from Government of Uttar Pradesh, India in the year 2012. Recently, Professor Singh has published two books entitled "Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture: Emerging approaches and strategies" (Elsevier: Woodhead Publishing) and "Principles and Applications of Environmental Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future" (Springer Nature Publishing). Dr. Rajat Pratap Singh (Co-editor) is presently working as Guest Faculty in Biotechnology Programme at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad since 2008. He completed his Master's degree in Biochemistry from Dr.Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad in 2005 and worked as Junior Research Fellow in DBT sponsored project entitled "Development of sustainable management strategies for the control of Parthenium weeds using biotechnological approaches in U.P." at ICAR - National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Mau, India from 2005 to 2008. He joined the Department of Biochemistry at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad in 2010 and worked extensively on microbial decolorization of textile effluents and has been awarded Ph.D. degree in 2015. Dr. Singh qualified several national exams such as CSIR UGC NET, ASRB ICAR NET and GATE. He published 6 research papers in peer reviewed journals and 4 book chapters published by International publishers such as Springer Nature and Elsevier. He participated in various National and International scientific conferences and symposia, and presented 14 research papers. Dr. Singh also participated in 3 national training programmes related to microbial diversity analysis and identification of agriculturally important microorganisms. He has guided 11 postgraduate students for their dissertation work.
