Dr Anirban Roy Choudhury
CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh
Product: Pullulan
Dr. Anirban Roy Choudhury is a Senior Principal Scientist in the field of microbiology and biotechnology at CSIR- Institute of Microbial Technology which is one of the premier CSIR labs based out of Chandigarh. With more than 2 decades of experience in the industry and academia, Dr Anirban is an adept researcher in Bioprocess Development and Scale up; Fermentative production of polysaccharides and Polysaccharide based biomaterials.
The main areas of his research domain include fermentative production of various commercially important biomolecules and his laboratory is actively working on polysaccharides which are one of the most abundant but relatively less exploited biomolecules. He is extensively involved in the research of polysaccharides ranging from screening, production and scale up of polysaccharide fermentation to developing biomaterials which has diverse applications.
Dr Syed Shams Yazdani
DBT-ICGEB, Delhi
Product 1: Cetearyl Alcohol
Product 2: “Green” Paraffins
Dr. Syed Shams Yazdani is Group Leader of the Microbial Engineering, Integrative Biology group and Coordinator of DBT-ICGEB Centre for Advanced Bioenergy Research at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in New Delhi, India. His research Interests are in metabolic engineering, cellulolytic enzymes, and biofuels. He holds a BSc (Hons) Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University and MSc and PhD (Biotechnology) from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His group is currently involved in development of technologies for fungal enzymes, C5/C6 sugar fermentation and advanced biofuels production, such as butanol, fatty alcohols and alkanes.
His early career research led to the development of technologies for production of recombinant streptokinase and recombinant malaria vaccine candidates, which were transferred to industries for cGMP production, clinical trials and commercialization. He was further involved in a breakthrough discovery during his research at Rice University, Houston, USA as an overseas fellow, where a novel pathway was identified in E. coli to produce bioethanol from glycerin, a waste from biodiesel industry.
He is an author of >50 publications in high impact international journals and 15 patent applications. He leads several multilateral international collaborative projects, including Indo-UK, Indo-Australia and Indo-US. He is a member of editorial board of Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (JIMB), Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology and Indian Journal of Biotechnology, and reviewers of many renowned peer review journals. He serves in various committees of Government of India such as Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) and many academic institutions. He is representing India in an AHTEG of Synthetic Biology at UN Convention of Biological Diversity.
Dr Kannan Srinivasan
CSIR - Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute
Product: Bio-Derived Furanic Polymers
Dr. Kannan Srinivasan is currently the Director of CSIR- Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute. His field of research include Chemical Sciences with focus on heterogenous catalysis and material sciences. He holds a M.Sc & Ph.D in the field of Chemistry from IIT Madras and did his Post-doctoral research from NCL, Pune.
His current research activities include heterogeneous catalytic transformation of biomass to chemicals and fuels including bio-diesel, linear alkanes, levulinic acid derivatives, furan derivatives, bio-based polymers, epoxidized oils and castor oil derived chemicals. He has worked extensively in synthesis, including intercalation, delamination & restacking, solid state transformation and polytypism, and characterization of hydrotalcite-like or layered double hydroxides compounds, pillared and expanded cationic clays, layered perovskites, mesoporous materials, metal carbonates, mixed metal oxides and supported metal oxides (both in nano and micro dimensions), commercial resins. He has further explored them as heterogeneous catalysts for the synthesis of fine chemicals of industrial importance in particular perfumery chemicals, bio-fuels, renewable chemicals, CO2 derived chemicals and as adsorbents for environmental remediation and investigated them through microscopic and spectroscopic techniques and model catalytic studies with a view to understand the structure-property-activity relationships. He has also carried out scale-up of the processes and technology development for commercial exploitation and know-how transfer.
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