Role of Gut Microbiome in Neurodegenerative Disorders

Authors

Mukesh Kumar Yadav Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India. Dr. Mukesh Kumar Yadav, is working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India. He has more than 15 years of research experience in the field of microbiology in general and microbial biofilms, host-pathogen interaction and endophytes in particular. In his laboratory, Dr. Yadav's is working on microbial biofilms, antimicrobial resistance, pathogenesis and identification of novel pathways for the development of new antimicrobial/antibiofilm compounds. Dr. Yadav has published more than 74 research articles and received research grants from various funding agencies like, NRF Korea, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and University Grant Commission (UGC). Balachandar Vellingiri Central University of Punjab, India. Dr. Balachandar Vellingiri is mainly working on neurological diseases and analyzing its genetic impact. He is working on to develop human induced pluripotent stem cells (HiPSCs) and to generate patient derived Brain organoids as a promising disease model for various neurological disease because understanding the inside mechanism of neurological diseases is always a difficult task. He is well-expertise in techniques such as molecular cytogenetics, sequencing, techniques in developing HiPSCs and Brain organoids especially for neurodegenerative disease like Parkinson's disease. He has published more than 100 research and review articles in various Internationally reputed SCI journals and 3 Book chapters and 1 book on Autism Spectrum Disorder. To his credit Dr. Balachandar Vellingiri has received a Prime Minister Funded Project Called ? Indo-Japan Collaborative Project under Prof. Shinya Yamanaka (Nobel Laureate - Father of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Japan, November 2017. Further, he has been awarded with the most prestigious award from Tamil Nadu government "Tamil Nadu Young Scientist� award from Ministry of Higher Education, Science City, Tamil Nadu Government, February 2017.