Iqbal Ahmad
Aligarh Muslim University, India
Biography
Iqbal Ahmad is a senior professor of Agricultural microbiology at AMU, Aligarh, India. He has more than 27 years of extensive teaching and research experience. His major works are in the area of Applied Microbiology, Environmental and Agricultural aspects of Microbial diversity and bio-prospection. He has significantly contributed in exploring the use of traditionally used Indian medicinal plants as a source of anti-infective/anti biofilms against drug-resistant microbial pathogens. His current research thrust area includes Microbial Ecology, AMR, Quorum sensing, Biofilms based PGPR, Mixed biofilms and the use of natural and synthetic products including nanoparticles as anti-infective agents. He has guided 15 PhDs and more than 60 MSc dissertations, completed five Research Projects, edited 12 books and published more than 250 original research papers/book Chapters. The research work published has been fairly cited by the International scientific community.