Dr Neelam Garg was born in Hoshiarpur (Punjab) in 1960. She completed her both higher degrees of Masters and Doctorate in Microbiology from Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana (Punjab) with a focus on Pseudomonas aeruginosa toxins. She was a recipient of merit fellowship in Masters and CSIR Research Fellowship during her Ph.D. programme. Presently, she is Professor and has presided over the Department of Microbiology as Chairperson (HOD), Faculty of Life Sciences, Kurukshetra University (KUK), Kurukshetra-136 119 for three terms latest being from 2012-2018. She has over 31 years of research and teaching experience as a faculty member in PAU and KUK. She was awarded two major research projects by Department of Biotechnology (DBT, Government of India),

Dr. Abhinav Aeron was born and raised in the city of Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh). He completed his Masters in Microbiology from DAV (PG) College (Ch. CS University, Meerut), Muzaffarnagar and Doctorate in Microbiology from Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Gurukula Kangri University, Haridwar-249 404, Uttarakhand, India. He worked as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) and further as a Senior Research Fellow (SRF) under Uttarakhand Council of Science and Technology (UCOST, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Uttarakhand) sponsored while pursuing his Doctorate on Diversity of rhizobia in Medicinal legumes. He also went to pursue post doctoral fellowship at Chonbuk National University, Iksan, South Korea. He served as Assistant Professor (on contract) in Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kurukshetra University for 6 months and then shifted to Department of Biosciences, DAV (PG) College (Ch. CS University, Meerut), Muzaffarnagar as a Lecturer. Further he worked in Sharda University, Greater Noida and Dolphin PG Institite, Dehradun as Assistant Professor.