Probiotics, the Natural Microbiota in Living Organisms: Fundamentals and Applications

Prof.Dr. rer. Nat. Hesham Ali El-Enshasy is the Director of Institute of Bioproduct Development (IBD), and professor in bioprocess engineering, School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Malaysia, and co-Chair for Food, Pharmaceutical& Bio-Engineering Division, Division 15A (Food), American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE). Prof. El Enshasy received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Microbiology (Ain Shams University, Egypt), Dr. rer. Nat. in Industrial Biotechnology (TU-Braunschweig, Germany), M.Sc. Technology Management (UTM, Malaysia). He has two technology patents and more than 250 publications in industrial biotechnology. He has been akeynote, plenary, and guest speaker in more than 70 international conferences. He is also active as advisory board member, scientific and bio-business consultant for biotechnology companies in many countries.

Prof. Dr. Shang-Tian Yang is Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Food Science & Technology, Molecular Genetics, and Biochemistry Graduate Program at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He received his B.S. degree in Agricultural Chemistry from National Taiwan University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biochemical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Prof. Yang has broad research interests in biocatalysis, metabolic engineering, stem cell engineering, and high-throughput cell-based assays and biodiagnostics. He has 12 patents and more than 350 scientific publications in bioengineering with more than 15,000 citations and an h-index of 72. He is an elected fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and Associate Editor for the journal Process Biochemistry.