Dr. Priyanka Verma is currently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Akal College of Basic Sciences, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India. She obtained his doctorate degree in 2015, jointly from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, WB, India. She has made pioneering contributions in the area of Plant-Microbes Interaction and Agricultural Microbiology. In her credit 31 Publications [20 research papers, 03 review articles and 08 book chapters ] in different reputed international and national journals with h-index of 09, i10-index of 09 and 162 citations (Google scholar). He has published 64 abstracts in different conferences/symposiums/workshops. She has presented 18 papers presentation [12 poster 06 oral] in conferences/symposiums and got 05 best paper presentations Award, including Young Scientist Award (NASI-Swarna Jyanti Purskar). She has contributed in organizing 03 conference/workshops. She has deposited 1982 nucleotide sequences to NCBI GenBank databases: in public domain. Dr. Verma and group have isolated and characterized >4500 microbes (Archaea, bacteria and fungi) from different extreme environments (salinity, temperatures, drought and pH) and crops associated as epiphytic, endophytic and phyllospheric. Among >4500 isolated 308 efficient plant growth promoting and hydrolytic enzymes producing microbes have been deposited to culture collection of NBAIM, India. Niche-specific microbes from extreme environments were reported as specific bio-inoculants (Biofertilizers) for crops growing in normal and different abiotic stress conditions. She is Editor/associate editor/reviewer in lots of journal including Microbial Ecology; Springer plus, Annals of Microbiology and Member of Association of microbiologist in India, Indian science congress council, India., and National Academy of Sciences, India

Microbiology, Ecology