Dr. Sivakumar Natesan is an Assistant
Professor at the Department of Molecular Microbiology, School of Biotechnology,
Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India. He holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D.
Previously he served as a Lecturer at the Thanthai Hans Roever College from
1998 to 2004, a Lecturer at Srimad Andavn Arts & Science College from 2004
to 2007, Lecturer & Head at Thanthai Hans Roever College from 2007 to 2008,
and a Lecturer at CMST, Manonmaniam Sundranar University from 2008 to 2010. He
joined Madurai Kamaraj University in March 2010. His research interests lie in
aquaculture probiotics, environmental biotechnology, and microbial
bioprospection. He is a Life Member of the Biotech Research Society (BRSI),
NIIST, Trivandrum, and the National Academy of Biological Sciences (NABS),
Chennai. He is also a Reviewer of several academic journals, including Current
Science, African Journal of Microbiological Research, African Journal of
Biotechnology, Saudi Journal of Biology, etc.
Dr. Muriel Billamboz is an Associate Professor
at the Health and Environment Department, Laboratory of Sustainable Chemistry
and Health in Lille, France. Her research keywords & expertise include Catalysis,
Drug Discovery, Medicinal Chemistry and Photochromic Molecules. She has 44
publications with 780 citations and an h-index of 14 (Scopus, 14 December
2023).
Samir Jawhara is currently a researcher at Lille University Hospital, France (CNRS-UMR 8576), and was previously a research fellow at the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH, USA), before returning to Lille University Hospital. He received his Ph.D. in immunology-microbiology from Lille University. His research focuses on how fungal glycans can modulate platelet activation via different receptors of the innate immune response, contributing to the escape of pathogenic yeasts from the immune response.
