Anticancer Plants

Dr. Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar is an Assistant Professor at Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, Shahjahanpur, India. He received his PhD degree from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India in 2008, prior to conducting postdoctoral research at the Botanical Institute, University of Basel (BIB), Switzerland (2008-2010) and Chonbuk National University (CBNU), Republic of Korea in 2011. He was an Assistant Professor at Jimma University, Ethiopia (2011-2014), and a Fellow Researcher at the Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), (2014-2015). Dr. Akhtar has 14 years of research and 8 years of teaching experience in Soil Microbiology, Applied Microbiology, Environmental Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Plant Pathology and Plant Nano-biotechnology.  He is the author or co-author of over a hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters, and has edited five books with international publishers. His current research focuses on rhizospheric plant-microbe interactions and their molecular biotechnology, bioremediation, biomineralization, nanofertilizers and nanobiotechnology.   Dr. Mallappa Kumara Swamy is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). He received his PhD (Biotechnology) from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India in 2013. He has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience in the fields of plant biotechnology, secondary metabolite production, phytochemistry and bioactive studies. Dr. Swamy has authored more than 50 research publications in peer-reviewed journals, and is an editorial board member and reviewer for several high-impact international journals. His current focus is on cell and tissue culture technology for bioactive compound production, and on nanotechnology for medical applications.