Name: Arman Hamza
E-mail: ch21resch11002@iith.ac.in
Research description: Production of P. ostreatus mycelium biomass using submerged fermentation. Production, identification, and characterization of bioactive metabolites. The research plan aims to identify the nutritional and medicinal potential of edible mushroom (P. ostreatus). Optimization of the cultivation parameters to obtain maximum mycelium biomass and the secondary metabolites present in it.
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Hobbies: Table tennis, Cricket, Poetry
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Name: Mohana Priya Shankar
E-mail: ch23resch11005@iith.ac.in
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Research description: Production of P. ostreatus mycelium secondary metabolites using submerged fermentation.
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Skills: I possess a robust skill set in biotechnology, including expertise in animal tissue culture, microbial culturing, phytochemical extraction, molecular biology techniques, and downstream processing.
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Hobbies: Dancing, Shuttle badminton, Painting
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Name: Mandari Venkatesh
E-mail: ch17resch11004@iith.ac.in
Research description: Production of fungal lipase using agricultural wastes in solid state fermentation using Aspergillus niger MTCC 872. The aim is to use the enzyme for the production of biodiesel and scale up using the optimization of process parameters like Substrate ratio, Temperature, pH and Moisture contents.
Hobbies: Playing cricket
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Name: Anup Ashok
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E-mail: ch15resch11002@iith.ac.in
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Research description: Studies involving the production of L-asparaginase enzymes from Agro-industrial wastes using Solid State Fermentation to bring about a better and highly economical process for the production of drugs used in the treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) and also the study of the kinetics and the proper optimization techniques that will be helpful in the improvement of the process used in the production and purification of the enzymes followed by the studies involoving the scale up of the reactor to be used on an industrial scale.
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Hobbies: Playing football, Watching movies and TV shows, Travelling.
Name: Dr. Kruthi Doria
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E-mail: ch15resch01001@iith.ac.in
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Research description: L-asparaginase, a chemotherapeutic drug used in treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) and also as a food processing agent. Toxicity and repression caused by bacterial L-asparaginase shifted focus to eukaryotic micro-organisms such as fungi to improve the efficacy of L-asparaginase. Present work is focused on the production of L-asparaginase that is free of glutaminase and urease from fungus. In order to achieve the proposed objective, a bioprocess has to be developed from shake flask to bioreactor reactor level with the aid of statistical optimization for medium formulation.
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Hobbies: Reading Books, Watching TV shows
