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Presents a top to bottom outline of natural and synthetic antifungal compounds
Elaborates on the past and recent updates on antifungal peptides with their structure-function relationship
Focuses on antifungal chemotherapy, structure-activity/function relationship and synthetic analogues which help in development of new compounds and drugs
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Amit Basak, currently Professor of Chemistry and Chairman, School of Bioscience, IIT Kharagpur,obtained his Ph.D. (natural product chemistry) from Calcutta University and D. Phil. (penicillin biosynthesis) from University of Oxford. He then worked on clavulanic acid biosynthesis as a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests involve understanding the mechanism of diradical generating reactions and their applications, development of enzyme inhibitors as antimicrobial agents and molecular capture chemistry. He has received several prestigious awards and fellowships for his research contribution.
Ranadhir Chakraborty was born in Darjeeling. He has worked for Ph.D in the Department of Microbiology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. He is at present serving the Department of Biotechnology, University of North Bengal, in the capacity of Professor and Head. He maintained a perfect blend of classical and modern microbiology in his ongoing journey of Science. He probes some basic scientific problems including antimicrobial resistance with cutting edge technology of every passing time period.
Santi M. Mandal obtained his Ph D in the field of Molecular Microbiology and continuing research with major focus in Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. He visited UTMB-USA and NUS-Singapore for his postdoctoral training. Recently, he is working as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Vidyasagar University, India. He has published more than 90 research papers in reputed journals and conferred upon several prestigious awards for his research contribution.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recent Trends in Antifungal Agents and Antifungal Therapy
Editors: Amit Basak, Ranadhir Chakraborty, Santi M. Mandal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2782-3
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2780-9Published: 05 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3835-5Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-2782-3Published: 21 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 250
Number of Illustrations: 109 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mycology, Bacteriology, Biological Microscopy, Immunology