Anupama C obtained her M.Sc. degree in Biochemistry from Kuvempu University. Presently she is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Siddaganga Institute of Technology (SIT), Tumkur, Karnataka. She is currently working on Green synthesis of nanoparticles using herbal extracts. Her area of research is proteins purification & characterization.

Dr. S. Krishna Sundari obtained her Ph.D. from Barkat Ullah University, Bhopal & The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. She did her post doctoral work on plant-microbe interaction at INRA, Champenoux, France. Presently, she is working as Associate Professor at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT), Noida. Her area of research is microbial biotechnology with applications in agriculture and environment. She is interested in exploring the therapeutic potential of bioactive compounds of plant and microbial origin using animal/human cell cultures.

Prakriti Gupta is currently pursuing her M.B.B.S. from Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi. She has undertaken a project entitled ´Serum light chains as a diagnostic marker in monoclonal gammopathies´ for an ICMR STS Program 2014. She is also an Elsevier Student Ambassador for the year 2014-15. She hopes to pursue medical research after her post graduation.

Preethi Rajamannar is currently pursuing her B.Tech in Genetic Engineering from SRM University, Chennai. She has completed a project on ´Isolation, extraction and characterization of proteases from Bacillus megaterium´ as a part of her academic curriculum. She plans to pursue further research in the field of Neurobiology or Proteomics.

Dr. Priyadarshini Chatterjee obtained her Ph.D. degree in Immunology from National Institute Immunology (NII), New Delhi. She worked as a post doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, USA focusing on infection immunity and autoimmunity. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Regional Centre for Biotechnology (DBT-UNESCO Institute), Gurgaon. Her work involves understanding the cellular and molecular basis of autoimmunity linked to deficiency of certain complement proteins.

Shruthi Lingaiah obtained her M.Tech degree in Industrial Biotechnology from Manipal University, Manipal. After working as a research trainee at Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore for a year, she joined the Molecular Medicine Department at St. John´s Research Institute, Bangalore as a Junior Research Fellow. Her work focuses on screening for molecular markers of cancer and HIV.