SECTION I- Microbes in harsh environments 1. The Multifaceted life of Survival in varied environments.2. Thermophilic and Halophilic prokaryotes Isolated from Extreme Environments of Armenia and their Biotechnological Potential3. Microbial life at extreme of salt adaptation strategies.4. Rhizobia at extremes of alkalinity, salinity, acidity and temperature5. Mechanism of microbial survival within Psychrophilic habitat6. Secretome of microbiota in extreme conditions.7. Deciphering the key factors for heavy-metal resistance in gram negative bacteria.8. bioactive compounds from extremophiles.9. Metalotolerant Insights into the bacteria thriving in the metal contaminated areas. SECTION II. Host-plant interaction and Pathogenesis under stress condition
10. Endophytic actinomycetes mediated Modulation of Defense and Systemic Resistance confers the host plants fitness under biotic stress condition11. Microbial life in stress of oxygen concentration and physio-chemical approaches towards it's survivability.12. Bacterial metabolic fitness during pathogenesis.