6^th International Conference and Exhibition on Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry & Natural Products December 03-04, 2018 Bangkok, Thailand

Dr. Shamim Ahmad is Distinguished Professor of Microbiology & Officer In-Charge at Microbiology Section, Institute of Ophthalmology, Aligarh Muslim University,Aligarh,India since January,10,1983 .He has recently been working as Superintendent of Examinations of the Faculty of Medicine, Officer In-Charge(Administration),Manager ,Blind School and on many administrative positions at Aligarh beside having served as Faculty on deputation for more than 5 years at Faculties of Medicine abroad. He earned his Ph.D. in 1982 and obtained his Post Doc. training in various Departments of Microbiology at the Universities of world repute in six countries, being recipient of at least 6 International Fellowships including "DAAD (W.Germany),”JSPS”(Japan),”ROYAL.SOC.London"(UK),"DAAD"(Germany),"TUBA" (Turkey) and "SAIA"(Slovak Republic).Professor Ahmad's research work mainly involved Multi resistant Eye Pathogens including Super Bugs MRSAs and their alternative treatment with newer antibacterial and innovative natural products especially the "Honey". He has published many papers, one book and three Book Chapters in International books and Supervised /Co-supervised of about 48 theses beside presenting many papers at National and International conferences having being visited about 27 countries for his academic purpose. Currently, he is honored to be member in the Editorial team including Chief Editor of at least 68 International Journals of world repute.

Bacterial and Fungal Infections of the Eye and their Chemotherapy, Molecular Aspect of in drug resistance and pathogenicity of Ocular Bacterial pathogens especially Staphylococci including Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Exploration of Medicinal Plants and Unani Formulations and Natural Products for their antimicrobial activity against multi-resistant super bugs and Antimicrobial and Clinical uses of “Honey” for their Antimicrobial Activity and Medicinal uses specially in Medicine, including Ophthalmology.

Dr Minaketan Tripathy was born in the village Padmabati, State Odisha, India, in 1978. He obtained his bachelor, master (Pharmaceutics) and doctoral degrees in the field of Pharmacy in the year of 1998, 2001, and 2006 respectively. After serving different institutes in India, Mina joined the faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia as a senior lecturer in March 2008 and established the laboratory of Fundamental of Pharmaceutics. Mina believes in trans-disciplinary research and interdisciplinary linkage. The laboratory attracted many research grants, engaged with supervision of research students and published several scientific articles in journals of repute and as well conference proceedings.

Pharmaceutics, Physicochemical properties of the Drugs (Natural and Synthetic origin), Molecular processes during modification of Solubility of active pharmaceutical ingredients, Macromolecular (Bio-polymers of pharmaceutical significance) solution dynamics, Nano colloidal drug delivery systems, Natural product formulation and standardization. .

Umesh K Patil has completed his PhD from Dr H S Gour University, Sagar and Postdoctoral studies from Institute of Biology, Leiden University. Presently, he is serving as General Secretary to Indian Society of Pharmacognosy. His area of specialization is Herbal Drug Technology and Natural Products. He has more than 15 years of experience in teaching and research. He is the recipient of 7 prestigious awards given in the field of HMPs and remained BOYSCAST Fellow of DST. He is a Member of many professional bodies including International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), International Society of Ethno-pharmacology (ISE), International Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA), Germany, International Pharmaceutical Students Federation, International Society of Natural Product Development, APTI, IPA, IPGA, ISTE and IAHP. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of many reputed journals.

Herbal Drug Technology, Natural Products, Medicinal Plant Research.

Prof. Pushpangadan has received many national and international medals/awards including the prestigious UNEP Borlaug Award in 1998, the UN-Equator Initiative Award in 2002 at World Summit at Johannesburg, South Africa in September 2002, Ayurved Gaurav Award 2009 and Padma Shri Award in 2010. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAASc) and also Fellow of Seven other Scientific Bodies in India. He is the President of National Society of Ethnopharmacology, India. He also served as the President of the International Society of Ethnopharmacology (1998- 2001), International Society of Environmental Botanist (April 1999 to Jan. 2006) and International Society for the Development of Natural Products (Nov. 2012 to Oct. 2014). He also served as Vice-President/Chairman/Vice Chairman/Member of many National and International scientific bodies/committees. He has visited over 79 countries in various capacities as Chairman/Leader of scientific delegation/Scientific Expert or to participate in International seminars/symposia or to chair the International Expert Panel to review research programmes. He is an excellent Kadhakali and Bharathanatyam artist.

Research interest in Cytogenetics & Plant Breeding, Biotechnology, Molecular Taxonomy, Biosynthesis of Secondary Metabolites, Ethnobiology, Ethnopharmacology, Bioprospecting and Natural Product Development