Streptomycetes: Biological Candidates for Sustainable Agriculture
暫譯: 鏈霉菌：可持續農業的生物候選者

Dr. Talwinder Kaur, Ph.D works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India and has teaching experience of more than 8 years at the University and college level. She earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology from Department of Microbiology at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India. Her area of research is exploration of microbes especially, Streptomyces for their antimicrobial, biocontrol and plant growth promoting potential. She has participated in many national and International conferences. She has guided 24 M.Sc students for their project work. She is also a holder of 1 patent. Dr. Kaur has an M.Sc. in Fermentation and Microbial Technology and a B.Sc. in Industrial Microbiology.

Dr. Harsh Kumar is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czechia. Dr. Kumar was formal postdoc fellow in the Centre of Advanced Technologies, Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Králové, Czechia. He earned his Ph.D. in Food Technology from the School of Bioengineering and Food Technology at Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Himachal Pradesh, India. His work involves developing an electrochemical immunosensor for the detection of antibiotics/toxins in food items. In addition, Dr. Kumar also has expertise in the isolation and identification of multidrug-resistant bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus from diverse sources. Dr. Kumar has an M.Sc. in Microbiology and a B.Sc. in Industrial Microbiology.

Dr. Rajesh Kumari Manhas (M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.) is a retired Associate Professor, Microbiology, from Guru Nanak Dev University, India. She qualified National Level Test (conducted by CSIR) for the award of Junior and Senior Research Fellowships. She has received ten major research project grants from various funding agencies of Govt. of India like DST, UGC, ICAR, DBT, CSIR, and RUSA and a minor research project funded by GNDU. She has guided 7 students for the award of Ph.D. As a dedicated researcher, she has worked in the area of actinobacterial diversity and biotechnology, especially purification and characterization of novel antimicrobial compounds from Streptomyces active against drug resistant human pathogens and fungal phytopathoges, development of Streptomyces bioformulations for the protection of plants from phytopathogens, and improvement of plant growth. In addition to antimicrobial activities, she has also reported antioxidant, anticancerous and probiotic potential of bioactive compounds from Streptomyces spp. She has reported a new Streptomyces sp. (Streptomyces amritsarensis 2A) from Indian soil, and isolated two novel compounds from this novel sp., showing activity against drug resistant microbes. She has nine MTCC microbial type culture collection contributions to her credit.

塔爾溫德·考爾博士（Dr. Talwinder Kaur），博士，現任印度旁遮普邦阿姆利則的古魯納納克大學微生物學系助理教授，擁有超過8年的大學及學院教學經驗。她在古魯納納克大學微生物學系獲得微生物學博士學位。她的研究領域是探索微生物，特別是鏈霉菌（Streptomyces）在抗微生物、生物防治及促進植物生長方面的潛力。她參加了許多國內及國際會議，並指導了24名碩士生的專案工作。她還擁有1項專利。考爾博士擁有發酵與微生物技術的碩士學位及工業微生物學的學士學位。

哈希·庫馬爾博士（Dr. Harsh Kumar）目前是捷克奧斯特拉瓦技術大學材料科學與技術學院的博士後研究員。庫馬爾博士曾在捷克赫拉德茨克拉洛維大學科學學院的先進技術中心擔任博士後研究員。他在印度喜馬偕爾邦的舒利尼生物技術與管理科學大學的生物工程與食品技術學院獲得食品技術博士學位。他的研究工作涉及開發一種電化學免疫感測器，用於檢測食品中的抗生素/毒素。此外，庫馬爾博士在從多種來源分離和鑑定多重耐藥細菌（如大腸桿菌（Escherichia coli）和金黃色葡萄球菌（Staphylococcus aureus））方面也具有專業知識。庫馬爾博士擁有微生物學的碩士學位及工業微生物學的學士學位。

拉傑什·庫馬里·曼哈斯博士（Dr. Rajesh Kumari Manhas）（碩士、哲學碩士、博士）是印度古魯納納克大學退休的微生物學副教授。她通過了由印度科學與工業研究委員會（CSIR）舉辦的國家級考試，獲得初級和高級研究獎學金。她獲得了來自印度政府各個資助機構（如DST、UGC、ICAR、DBT、CSIR和RUSA）的十項主要研究項目資助，以及由古魯納納克大學資助的一項小型研究項目。她指導了7名博士生的研究工作。作為一名專注的研究者，她在放線菌多樣性和生物技術領域工作，特別是從鏈霉菌中純化和表徵對抗耐藥人類病原體和真菌植物病原體的新型抗微生物化合物，開發鏈霉菌生物製劑以保護植物免受植物病原體侵害，以及促進植物生長。除了抗微生物活性外，她還報告了鏈霉菌（Streptomyces spp.）中生物活性化合物的抗氧化、抗癌和益生菌潛力。她從印度土壤中報告了一種新的鏈霉菌（Streptomyces amritsarensis 2A），並從這種新物種中分離出兩種新化合物，顯示出對耐藥微生物的活性。她擁有九項MTCC微生物類型文化收藏的貢獻。