Biographical note

Anjali Priyadarshini, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Delhi University, India. Dr. Priyadarshini is a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Government of India awardee. Her field of research and interest includes biotechnology and nanotechnology. Dr. Priyadarshini has published papers in peer reviewed journals in the biomedical field.

Prerna Pandey, PhD, is a biotechnologist with several years of wet lab research experience. She has worked at the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India. Her PhD research involved isolation and molecular characterization of Geminiviruses, genome sequencing, gene annotation, and gene silencing using the RNA interference technology. She has also worked at Transasia Biomedicals and Advance Enzyme Technologies as a scientist. Dr. Prerna has published papers in peer-reviewed journals in the field and has submitted a number of annotated Geminiviral genome sequences to GenBank, including two novel ones.