New Strategies Combating Bacterial Infection

Dr Iqbal Ahmad is a Reader in Agricultural Microbiology at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh,India. He has several years of teaching and research experience and he published 2 books (one of them by Wiley-VCH) and over 50 research papers. His current research interests include antipathogenic, anti-adherence and anti-quorum sensing activities of medicinal plants and natural products against multi-drug resistant bacteria.

Dr. Farrukh Aqil is a Lecturer in Biotechnology, Integral University, Aligarh, India. His research interests include interaction studies of natural products/phytocompounds with antibiotics and macromolecules, cytotoxicity testing of natural products and characterization of active principles from promising bioactive plant extracts. He has published over 14 research papers and 3 chapters in books.