Recent Trends in Antifungal Agents and Antifungal Therapy

1. FungiFights Fungi: Tip off in Antifungal Chemotherapy.- 2. EssentialOil and Antifungal Therapy.- 3. AntifungalPeptides with Potential Against Pathogenic Fungi.- 4. Lipopeptides:Status and Strategies to Control Fungal Infection.- 5. PlantDerived Antifungal Agents: Past and Recent Developments.- 6. RecentAdvancements in Combinational Antifungal Therapy and Immunotherapy.- 7. Nanocarriersof Antifungal Agents.- 8. SyntheticCompounds for Antifungal Chemotherapy.- 9. Antifungaltherapy in Eye infections: New Drugs, New Trends.- 10. AntifungalSusceptibility Testing of  Dermatophytes.

Amit Basak, currentlyProfessor of Chemistry and Chairman, School of Bioscience, IIT Kharagpur,obtainedhis Ph.D. (natural product chemistry) from Calcutta University and D. Phil. (penicillinbiosynthesis) from University of Oxford. He then worked on clavulanic acidbiosynthesis as a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins University. Hisresearch interests involve understanding the mechanism of diradical generatingreactions and their applications, development of enzyme inhibitors asantimicrobial agents and molecular capture chemistry. He has received severalprestigious awards and fellowships for his research contribution.

Ranadhir Chakraborty was born inDarjeeling. He has worked for Ph.D in the Department of Microbiology, BoseInstitute, Kolkata, India. He is at present serving the Department ofBiotechnology, University of North Bengal, in the capacity of Professor andHead. He maintained a perfect blend of classical and modern microbiology in hisongoing journey of Science. He probes some basic scientific problems includingantimicrobial resistance with cutting edge technology of every passing time period.Santi M. Mandal obtained his Ph D in the field of MolecularMicrobiology and continuing research with major focus in AntimicrobialChemotherapy. He visited UTMB-USA and NUS-Singapore for his postdoctoraltraining. Recently, he is working as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology atVidyasagar University, India. He has published more than 90 research papers inreputed journals and conferred upon several prestigious awards for his researchcontribution.