Marine Fungi: Biotechnology and Bioprospects
暫譯: 海洋真菌：生物技術與生物潛力

本書主要回顧了生物技術的發展以及海洋真菌在農業、營養、治療潛力、食品應用中的色素、疏水蛋白的應用、生物表面活性劑、海洋真菌在極地地區的潛力，並強調了海洋真菌未來的發展。

Kandikere R. Sridhar is an Adjunct Professor (Department of Biosciences, Mangalore University, India) and a Visiting Professor at NITTE (Deemed to be University), Mangalore, India. His research areas are the Diversity and Ecology of Fungi of the Western Ghats and maritime habitats. He was an NSERC fellow and visiting professor at Mount Allison University, Canada; the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research at UFZ and Martin Luther University, Germany; and the Centre of Biology, University of Minho, Portugal. He is a recipient of the Dr. Shome Memorial Award (2004), Vice President (2013), President (2018) of the Mycological Society of India (IMSI). He is a Fellow of the Indian Mycological Society, Kolkata (2014), Distinguished Asian Mycologist (2015), Outstanding Leader in Education and Research, Association of Agricultural Technology, Bangkok (2016), and Fellow of the Karnataka Science and Technology Academy, India (2023). He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of MSI (2019) and the Association of Fungal Biologists (AFB), India (2025). He has mentored 25 PhD theses, 5 MPhil theses, and 25 MSc projects (mycology, food science, and myriapodology). He was a UGC-BSR Faculty Fellow, India (2014-2017) and in the top 2% of scientists in the field of mycology (2020-2025). He has published over 600 research papers, edited 22 books, and reviewed over 200 research articles, 25 project proposals, 15 book proposals, and he has evaluated 25 PhD theses (Australia, India, Mauritius, and Thailand).

Sunil K. Deshmukh is a Scientific Advisor to Greenvention Biotech, Uruli Kanchan, Pune, India, and AGPharm Bioinnovations LLP, Patiala, Punjab, India. He is a veteran industrial mycologist who spent a substantial part of his career in drug discovery at Hoechst Marion Roussel Limited [now Sanofi India Ltd.], Mumbai, and Piramal Enterprises Limited, Mumbai. He has also served at the TERI-Deakin Nanobiotechnology Centre, New Delhi, and as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Deakin University, Australia. He has to his credit 8 patents, 158 publications and 28 books on various aspects of fungi and natural products of microbial origin. He is the president of the Association of Fungal Biologists (AFB) and a past president of the Mycological Society of India (MSI). Dr. Deshmukh is the Managing Editor of Mycological Spectrum, the official journal of the Association of Fungal Biologists. He has approximately four decades of research experience dealing with bioactives from fungi, including keratinophilic fungi. He has approximately four decades of research experience in getting bioactives from fungi and various aspects of keratinophilic fungi.

Kandikere R. Sridhar 是印度曼加羅爾大學生物科學系的兼任教授，以及印度曼加羅爾的 NITTE（被認定為大學）的訪問教授。他的研究領域包括西高止山脈及海洋棲息地的真菌多樣性與生態學。他曾是 NSERC 獎學金獲得者，並在加拿大的蒙特艾利森大學、德國的赫爾姆霍茨環境研究中心（UFZ）和馬丁路德大學、以及葡萄牙的米尼奧大學生物學中心擔任訪問教授。他是印度真菌學會（IMSI）的 Dr. Shome 紀念獎（2004）、副會長（2013）、會長（2018）的獲得者。他是印度真菌學會（Kolkata，2014）的院士、傑出亞洲真菌學家（2015）、農業技術協會（曼谷，2016）中的教育與研究傑出領導者，以及卡納塔克科學與技術學院（印度，2023）的院士。他獲得了 MSI 的終身成就獎（2019）和印度真菌生物學協會（AFB，2025）的獎項。他指導了 25 篇博士論文、5 篇碩士論文和 25 個碩士專案（真菌學、食品科學和多足類學）。他曾是印度 UGC-BSR 教職員獎學金獲得者（2014-2017），並在真菌學領域中名列前 2% 的科學家（2020-2025）。他已發表超過 600 篇研究論文，編輯 22 本書籍，並審稿超過 200 篇研究文章、25 個專案提案、15 個書籍提案，並評估了 25 篇博士論文（澳大利亞、印度、毛里求斯和泰國）。

Sunil K. Deshmukh 是印度浦那 Greenvention Biotech 和旁遮普 Patiala 的 AGPharm Bioinnovations LLP 的科學顧問。他是一位資深的工業真菌學家，在 Hoechst Marion Roussel Limited（現為 Sanofi India Ltd.）和 Piramal Enterprises Limited 的藥物發現領域中度過了職業生涯的相當一部分。他還曾在新德里的 TERI-Deakin 奈米生物技術中心工作，並擔任澳大利亞迪肯大學的兼任副教授。他擁有 8 項專利、158 篇出版物和 28 本有關真菌及微生物來源天然產品的書籍。他是真菌生物學協會（AFB）的會長，並曾擔任印度真菌學會（MSI）的前會長。Deshmukh 博士是官方期刊 Mycological Spectrum 的主編，該期刊由真菌生物學協會出版。他在從真菌中提取生物活性物質方面擁有約四十年的研究經驗，包括角蛋白親和性真菌。他在從真菌中獲取生物活性物質及各種角蛋白親和性真菌方面也有約四十年的研究經驗。