Applied Microbiology and Bioengineering

Pratyoosh Shukla is presently working as Professor and Coordinator at School of Biotechnology, and Centre for Bioinformatics at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He was awarded with Indo-USA Research Professor at University of Cincinnati, USA. His research areas include enzyme technology and protein bioinformatics and its technological interventions in interdisciplinary Biotechnology.

Section I: Enzymes in bioprocessing 1. Microbial Tyrosinases:  A Novel Enzyme, Structural Features and Applications 2. Production of Bioethanol from Sugarcane Bagasse: Current approaches and Perspectives 3. Improvement of the amino-sugar-1-phosphate acetyltransferase activity on the archaeal bifunctional protein 4. Production of halophilic alkaline protease in lab scale reactors

Section II:  Human health, Microbial physiology and biomedical applications 5. Strategies for Screening and Characterization of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae isolated from natural sources for human probiotic applications 6. Ecological and biotechnological aspects of Methylobacterium mesophilicum 7. Smart actuators for innovative biomedical applications: An interactive overview

Section III: Bioprocess development 8. Design and Development of Antibiotic Fermentation Using Different Processing Strategies: Challenges and Perspectives 9. Bioreactors design and principles: Current perspectives and improvement strategies 10. Effectual bioprocess development for protein production using Cell line engineering 11. Microalgal antenna engineering for improved bioprocess of biofuel production 12. Bioprocess development for Synbiotic foods: Challenges and opportunities 13. Recent bio-processing technologies for value added horticultural products