Sub Themes

United Nation Sustainable Goal 2 on Zero Hunger

  • Exploring and Characterizing Mushrooms for all forms of malnutrition
  • Mushroom culturing in enhancing agricultural productivity
  • Mushroom cultivation for small scale food producers particularly women indigenous peoples and family farmers
  • Mushroom research for market exploration and opportunities
  • Mushroom characterization and production for value additions and non-farm employment
  • Food and Industrial microbiology
  • Microbial nanotechnology
  • Microbial Science of Food Fermentations
  • Food Nanotechnology
  • Human Health in Probiotics

United Nation Sustainable Goal 3 on Good Health and Well Being

  • Microbial diseases
  • Emerging and reemerging diseases
  • Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Pathogenicity and Virulence
  • Forensic Microbiolgy
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Microbiomes
  • Microbiology Production and application of microbial metabolites
  • Enzyme technologies
  • Drugs and pharmaceutical technology
  • Food processing technology
  • Value added products from industrial byproducts
  • Feed stocks (biomass) for renewable energy generation Biofuels (bio-diesel, bio-ethanol and bio-gas)
  • Environmental chemistry
  • Waste management and treatment methods Modeling of environmental processes
  • Microbial products such as antimicrobials, enzymes, beverages, drugs, toxins, vitamins, amino acids, organic acids, solvents, food products, and recombinant proteins.

United Nation Sustainable Goal 14 on Life Below Water

  • Role of microbes in water purification
  • Sources, Fate and Behavior of Microorganisms in Water Monitoring of microbial contamination in water
  • Assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease
  • Challenges and Consequences of waterborne pathogens
  • Microbiology of antibiotic resistant microorganism
  • Antimicrobial resistance and bacterial strains
  • Resistance to antagonistic compounds from organic origin
  • Drug delivery of simple, compound and complex therapeutic agents
  • Application of nanoparticles in water filtration and purification
  • Quantum particles in eradication of water found microbial population
  • Bioprospecting of marine microbes
  • Impact of pollutants on marine life
  • Pollution of water and its regulation
  • Oil spills in water and their effects
  • Ecosystem of hydrothermal vents
  • Aquatic microbiology
  • Aquaculture and fisheries
  • Marine natural products

United Nation Sustainable Goal 15 on Life on Land

  • Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial microorganisms
  • Sustainable management of land using microorganisms
  • Microbes for food security
  • Combating environmental changes using microorganisms
  • Prevention of land degradation
  • Microorganisms for sustainable agriculture
  • Microorganism-assisted land and forest regeneration