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Cherrihan Adra is one of the UniSC graduates with first class Honours. She also holds a BSc in the Science Program where she majored in Chemistry and minored in Microbiology. She is now continuing with this research by conducting her PhD with Dr İpek Kurtböke relating to the application of actinomycetes as biological control agents through investigating their bioactive secondary metabolites.

Harrchun Panchalingam has recently completed his PhD under Dr Kurtböke’s supervision. He is an international student from Sri Lanka and holds BSc from Monash University Malaysia and MSc from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. His PhD project involved assessment of Trichoderma and actinomycetes spp. to control Pyrrhoderma noxium infections of heritage fig trees in Brisbane. Currently he is working as research assistant at (UniSC). His research interests are biological control of plant diseases, development of biofertilizers and bioremediation of hydrocarbons.

Dr D. İpek Kurtböke is currently a senior lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) in Australia conducting research in applied, industrial and environmental microbiology. She is an internationally reputed actinomycetologist and she has been in the field of biodiscovery since 1982 conducting research into discovery of novel and potent therapeutic compounds produced by actinomycetes in Turkey, Italy, the UK, and Australia with leading pharmaceutical companies. She has been an Executive Board member of the World Federation of Culture Collections (WFCC) since 2000, currently serving her second term as the President of the Federation. She is also one of the members of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)’s, Bacterial Viruses Subcommittee. She has editorial duties in different journals including Marine Drugs, Diversity and Frontiers Marine Science/Marine Biotechnology.