Saher Islam, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA. She worked at Cornell University, New York, and West Virginia State University, West Virginia, in the USA as visiting scholar. She has keen research interests in genetics, molecular biology, biotechnology, and bioinformatics, and has ample hands-on experience in molecular marker analysis, whole-genome sequencing (WGS), and RNA sequencing. She has edited five books, including Sequencing Technologies in Microbial Food Safety and Quality, Nutriomics, and Global Food Safety. She is the recipient of the 2016 Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Travel Grant from European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany.
Devarajan Thangadurai, PhD, is Professor at Karnatak University, Dharwad, India. He did his postdoctoral research at the University of Madeira, Portugal; University of Delhi, India; and ICAR National Research Centre for Banana, India. He is the recipient of a Best Young Scientist Awa