Dr. Arun Karnawal is presently working as an associate professor of the department of Microbiology, School of Bioengineering & Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, and Punjab, India. He completed his Ph. D. in Microbiology at Gurukul Kangri University, India. He has 14 years teaching & research experience in agricultural microbiology, fermentation technology, microbial enzymes, bioremediation, biotransformation, bioinformatics, and molecular biology. He has published many articles in international journals and also authored books related to microbiology. He serves as an Editorial Board member and reviewer for international journals. He attended national and international conferences.
Dr. Arun Karnawal has research experience is in the Isolation of bacterial strains, biochemical characterization and effect of different parameters on growth on bacterial cultures, characterization for PGPR (plant growth promoting) activity, Identification and quantification of phytohormones, the Gnotobiotic assay to check phytohormones production and growth promotion activity in rice. Greenhouse assay to check growth promotion activity, Increase grain yield by applying biological control agent, bio fertilizer, co-inoculation of biocontrol and biofertilizer.
