Frontiers in Entomopathogenic Fungi: Diversity, Ecology and Bioprospects
暫譯: 昆蟲病原真菌的前沿：多樣性、生態與生物前景

Sunil Kumar Deshmukh is a Scientific Advisor to Greenvention Biotech, Uruli Kanchan, Pune, India, and AGPharmBioinnovations 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, 156 publications, and 26 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 Managing Editor of Mycological Spectrum, the official Journal of 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 is an adjunct professor (Department of Biosciences, Mangalore University, India) and a visiting professor (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 was a recipient of the Dr. Shome Memorial Award (2004), Vice President (2013), President (2018), and Lifetime Achievement Awardee (2019) of the Mycological Society of India. He is a Fellow of the Indian Mycological Society, Kolkata (2014), Distinguished Asian Mycologist (2015), and Outstanding Leader in Education and Research, Association of Agricultural Technology, Bangkok (2016). He was a UGC-BSR Faculty Fellow (2014-2017) and in the top 2% of scientists in the field of mycology (2020-2025). He has published over 600 research papers, edited 20 books, reviewed over 200 research articles, 25 project proposals, 12 book proposals, and evaluated 25 PhD theses (Australia, India, Mauritius, and Thailand).

Gurmeet Kour Bali is presently working as a senior project associate in the Department of Microbial Type Culture Collection (MTCC), CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India. Dr. Bali held the position of assistant professor in the Department of Zoology, DAV University, Jalandhar, India. She graduated with Master of Philosophy in Zoology from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Zoology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. Her expertise is in the field of entomopathogenic fungal diversity and its efficacy against insect pests, and its application as a biocontrol agent. Her work was published in the reputed journals, including "Scientific Data". Dr. Bali also presented her paper at the "SOL2023 International Solanaceae Genome Conference," conducted by the Department of Plant Sciences at McGill University, Canada. She has attended many ICAR and DST workshops in the fields of mycology and entomology, giving an edge to her research work. She has seven national and international research papers to her credit.

Belle Damodara Shenoy is a distinguished fungal taxonomist and Senior Principal Scientist at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Regional Centre Visakhapatnam, India, with Ph.D. (2007, University of Hong Kong) and postdoctoral training in Canada. His research spans marine mycology, environmental biotechnology, and fungal ecology, most notably microbial degradation of marine pollutants, trace-metal impacts on fungal diversity, and discovery of bioactive marine fungi. With over 50 peer-reviewed publications, he is recognized internationally for advancing fungal taxonomy and microbial ecology. As Managing Editor of MycoAsia Journal of Modern Mycology, and Associate Editor for multiple journals, he plays a leading role in shaping scholarship in fungal and marine microbiology. Dr. Shenoy's unique combination of expertise in rigorous taxonomy, applied environmental science, editorial leadership, and his dedicated regional focus on the Global South contributes significantly to advancing scientific knowledge and fostering collaboration in these critical areas.

Sunil Kumar Deshmukh 是印度浦那 Uruli Kanchan 的 Greenvention Biotech 和印度旁遮普 Patiala 的 AGPharmBioinnovations LLP 的科學顧問。他是一位資深的工業真菌學家，曾在 Hoechst Marion Roussel Limited（現為 Sanofi India Ltd.）和 Piramal Enterprises Limited 的藥物發現領域工作了相當長的時間。他還曾在新德里的 TERI-Deakin 奈米生物技術中心任職，並擔任澳大利亞迪肯大學的兼任副教授。他擁有 8 項專利、156 篇出版物和 26 本有關真菌及微生物來源天然產品的書籍。他是真菌生物學家協會（AFB）的會長，並曾擔任印度真菌學會（MSI）的前會長。Deshmukh 博士是《Mycological Spectrum》的主編，該期刊是真菌生物學家協會的官方期刊。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。他在獲取真菌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。

Kandikere R. Sridhar 是印度曼加羅爾大學生物科學系的兼任教授和 NITTE 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 Mount Allison University、德國的 Helmholtz 環境研究中心和馬丁路德大學、以及葡萄牙的 Minho 大學生物中心擔任訪問教授。他曾獲得印度真菌學會的 Dr. Shome 紀念獎（2004）、副會長（2013）、會長（2018）及終身成就獎（2019）。他是印度真菌學會（Kolkata）的院士（2014）、傑出亞洲真菌學家（2015）及農業技術協會的教育與研究傑出領導者（2016）。他曾是 UGC-BSR 教職員獎學金獲得者（2014-2017），並在真菌學領域的科學家中排名前 2%（2020-2025）。他已發表超過 600 篇研究論文，編輯 20 本書籍，審稿超過 200 篇研究文章、25 項計畫提案、12 本書提案，並評估 25 篇博士論文（澳大利亞、印度、毛里求斯和泰國）。

Gurmeet Kour Bali 目前在印度昌迪加爾的 CSIR-IMTECH 微生物類型文化收藏部（MTCC）擔任高級專案助理。Bali 博士曾在印度賈蘭達爾的 DAV 大學動物學系擔任助理教授。她在印度阿姆利則的 Guru Nanak Dev University 獲得動物學碩士學位，並在印度浦那的 Savitribai Phule Pune University 獲得博士學位。她的專長在於昆蟲病原真菌的多樣性及其對昆蟲害蟲的效能，以及作為生物防治劑的應用。她的研究成果發表在包括《Scientific Data》在內的知名期刊上。Bali 博士還在加拿大麥吉爾大學舉辦的「SOL2023 國際茄科基因組會議」上發表了她的論文。她參加了許多 ICAR 和 DST 在真菌學和昆蟲學領域的研討會，這為她的研究工作增添了優勢。她擁有七篇國內外研究論文。

Belle Damodara Shenoy 是一位傑出的真菌分類學家，現任印度 CSIR-國家海洋研究所（Regional Centre Visakhapatnam）的高級首席科學家，擁有香港大學的博士學位（2007）及在加拿大的博士後訓練。他的研究涵蓋海洋真菌學、環境生物技術和真菌生態學，特別是微生物對海洋污染物的降解、微量金屬對真菌多樣性的影響以及生物活性海洋真菌的發現。他擁有超過 50 篇經過同行評審的出版物，因在推進真菌分類學和微生物生態學方面的貢獻而在國際上受到認可。作為《MycoAsia Journal of Modern Mycology》的主編及多本期刊的副編輯，他在塑造真菌和海洋微生物學的學術研究中發揮了重要作用。Shenoy 博士在嚴謹的分類學、應用環境科學、編輯領導及對全球南方的專注等方面的獨特專業結合，對推進科學知識和促進這些關鍵領域的合作具有重要貢獻。