DEM

Research Interest

• Second generation Biofuels and Chemicals
• Enzyme production, microbial technology and Biocatalysis
• Production of chemicals and fuels from 2G feedstocks and other waste streams instead of Second-generation Biofuels and Chemicals

Work Experience

Awards and Honours

• Registered Patent Agent, Government of India (IN/PA/1706)
• Gold Medalist in MSc Microbiology and University Topper
• Twice Qualified CSIR-NET Lecturership under Life Sciences CategoryGATE Qualified
• GATE Qualified

Patents

• Method of consolidated bioprocessing of lignocellulosic biomass for production of L-lactic acid
  United States Patent 9856500

Selected Publications

• Rational approach for mutant selection of Talaromyces verruculosus IIPC 324 secreting biofuel cellulases—Assessing saccharification potential
  Industrial Crops and Products 114 (2018) 93–97
• Conclusive selection of optimal parameters for cellulase production by Talaromyces verruculosus IIPC 324 under SSF via saccharification of acid pretreated sugarcane
  bagasse
  Biofuels 2018
• Performance evaluation of fungal cellulases with dilute acid pretreated sugarcane bagasse: A robust bioprospecting strategy for biofuel enzymes
  Renewable Energy, 115 (2018) 978-988
• Purification, characterization and molecular docking study of NADPH dependent xylose reductase from thermotolerant Kluyveromyces sp. IIPE453
  Process Biochemistry 51(1), 2016, 124-133