Microbial Genomic Islands in Adaptation and Pathogenicity, 2023

Chapter 1. An introduction of microbial genomic islands for evolutionary adaptation and pathogenicity.- Chapter 2. Computation tools for prediction and analysis of genomic islands.- Chapter 3. An overview of genomic islands’ main features and computational prediction: the CMNR group of bacteria as a case study.- Chapter 4. Microbial genomic island discovery, visualization and analysis.- Chapter 5. Genomic islands in bacterial genome evolution and speciation.- Chapter 6. Genomic islands in the gut microbiome: current knowledge and the application in the probiotics field.- Chapter 7. Genomic islands in nutritional fitness and adaptation.- Chapter 8. Genomic islands involved in iron uptake.- Chapter 9. Genomic islands in uropathogeneic E. coli.- Chapter 10. Genomic islands in Helicobacter species.- Chapter 11. Genomic islands in Staphylococcus.- Chapter 12. Genomic islands in Pseudomonas species.- Chapter 13. Genomic islands in Klebsiella pneumonia.- Chapter 14. Molecular Insights intoGenomic Islands and Evolution of Vibrio cholerae.- Chapter 15. Genomic islands in marine bacteria.- Chapter 16. Challenges in Eventing Horizontal Gene Transfer.- chapter 17. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning for prediction and analysis of genomic islands.

Dr. Indra Mani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Gargi College, University of Delhi (DU), New Delhi, India. He received M.Sc. (Microbiology) from Bundelkhand University (BU), Jhansi, UP, and Ph.D. (Biochemistry) in 2011 from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, UP, India. He completed postdoctoral (from 2011 to 2015) in the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA. He has worked as a Senior Research Officer (SRO) in the Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. He has more than 10 years of research and teaching experience in Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, Cell Signaling, and Bioinformatics. He has published more than 50 research articles, 30 book chapters, and 3 books. He also has more than 100 NCBI-GenBank accession numbers. He has presented papers in national and international conferences. He has extensive experience in fluorescence/confocalmicroscopy, molecular cytogenetics, cell culture, microbial characterization, and in silico analysis. He serves as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals and also a member of national and international societies.

Dr. Vijai Singh is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Biosciences, School of Science at Indrashil University, Rajpur, Mehsana, Gujarat, India. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, India and also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at the Invertis University, Bareilly, India. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Synthetic Biology Group at the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Paris, France and School of Energy & Chemical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology (2009) from the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resou