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Dr. Ramasamy Vijayakumar is an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Government Arts and Science College (formerly Bharathidasan University Constituent College), affiliated with Bharathidasan University, Perambalur, India. He has sixteen years of teaching experience as well as twenty years of research experience in the field of actinobacteriology. He has deposited around twenty-one nucleotide sequences in

GenBank; published seventy-eight research articles, twelve book chapters, and two books; guided six Ph.D. candidates; and organized several seminars and workshops. He has received research grants from the DBT, TNSCST, and TAN-SCHE, Government of India. He filed one Indian patent. He is a life member of the National Academy of Biological Sciences, India, Mycological Society of India, and Microbiologist's Society, India. He is a member of the doctoral committee for Ph.D. scholars and a member of the board of studies for microbiology in various institutions. He received the 2013 Shri P.K. Das Memorial Best Faculty Award in Microbiology from the Nehru Arts and Science College, Coimbatore – India. As per the Indian Journal of Experimental Biology (Vol. 51, 2013), Dr. Vijayakumar was ranked second in the top five institutions in the field of actinobacterial research in India.

Dr. Suresh S.S. Raja is an assistant professor and head of the Department of Microbiology, Government Arts and Science College (formerly Bharathidasan University Constituent College), affiliated with Bharathidasan University, Perambalur, India. He has been teaching Microbiology both at undergraduate and post-graduate levels for the last twenty-two years. He has published twenty-five research articles in national and international

journals and has attended numerous seminars, symposia, and workshops. He has documented seroprevalence of leptospirosis among farming communities in three districts of Tamil Nadu, South India. Medical microbiology remains his field of specialization. He has supervised three student projects funded by the state science academy. He has organized several seminars and training workshops. He is a member of the board of studies of various colleges and one university. He had been a member of a university inspection committee for approving Microbiology courses at colleges. He has delivered special lectures at academic institutions and extension programmes and is a member of professional bodies and voluntary organizations.
