Sajad Hussain Parey is assistant professor in the Department of Zoology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University Rajouri, India. He has published more than 50 research articles in national and international journals and described more than a hundred new species of caddisflies from the Indian Himalayas and several new records that were earlier reported from Nepal, Bhutan, China, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. He has participated and presented his research work in more than 30 national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops and also visited and studied caddisflies at Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. Dr. Parey has received extramural grants from several Indian funding bodies, including the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB-DST); National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS); Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and University Grants Commission (UGC).
Tabraq Ali is pursuing PhD in the Department of Zoology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University. He is working on the morphological and molecular study of caddisflies of the North-Western Himalayas, has surveyed almost the entire region, i.e., Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand, and described several new records of caddisflies. He is an expert in DNA extraction, PCR handling, and DNA barcoding of Trichoptera. Mr Ali has published research articles and book chapters in reputed national and international journals and presented his research at more than 10 national and international conferences and workshops.
Manpreet Singh Pandher is scientist at Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Kolkata, India. For more than one and a half decade, he has been working on the identification and documentation of the Trichoptera fauna of the Indian sub-continent, specifically the Indian Himalayas and the Northeast. He has published more than 50 research articles in reputed national and international journals and described more than a hundred new species of caddisflies from the Indian Himalayas and many new records that were earlier reported from Nepal, Bhutan, China, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. He has participated and presented his research work in more than 50 national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops. Dr Pandher has received extramural grants from the SERB-DST; Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change; and UGC.
