Value-Addition in Agri-Food Industry Waste Through Enzyme Technology

Dr. Mohammed Kuddus. PhD in Enzyme Biotechnology. After completing PhD in Enzyme Biotechnology, he worked in different R&D projects funded by various scientific agencies. Prof. Kuddus’ main research area includes biochemistry, industrial enzymes, waste utilization, extremophiles, microbial and food biotechnology. He has more than 15 years of integrated teaching and research experience and published more than 75 research articles in peer reviewed international journals along with 8 books and 22 book chapters. Also, published 40 abstract at International/ National conferences and symposia and received best presentation awards. He supervised 6 PhD thesis and 12 PG/UG dissertations. He has been serving as an editor/editorial board member for 20 and reviewer for more than 40 international peer-reviewed journals; along with research grant reviewer for scientific body of USA, Italy, South Africa, India and Saudi Arabia. He has also been awarded SERC Young Scientist Project from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India; and Young Scientist Project from International Foundation for Science, Stockholm, Sweden. Prof. Ramteke has 36 years of teaching and research experience and contributed significantly towards development of microbe based eco-friendly processes to sustainable crop production and utilization of agricultural wastes for production of biofuel and industrially important enzymes. He is elected Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Biotech Research Society of India, Royal Society of Biology, Academy of Microbiological Sciences (AMI), National Academy of Biological Sciences, Mycological Society of India and International Society of Environmental Botanists. He is recipient of BHU Centennial Award, Excellence in Science Award (SCON), J. C. Bose Gold Medal, Dr. J. C. Edward Medal, Prof. K. S. Bilgramy Memorial Award, Prof. K. V. Shastri Gold Medal and V. S. Chauhan Gold Medal. He mentored 39 PhD, 72 PG students and four patents, 2 technologies, 5 databases and 323 gene sequences in NCBI are to his credit. He authored/edited 10 books and over 250 research articles. He was a visiting Scientist to USA, United Kingdom, Belgium, Hungary, Turkey, Czech Republic and South Korea and member of 18th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica.

1. Enzyme technology in the conversion of food processing wastes into valuable products 2. Enzymes production from fruit and vegetable waste and their industrial applications 3. Microbial conversion of biomass to value-added chemicals 4. In-silico approaches for the quest of novel enzymes 5. Enzyme-assisted biotransformation of agro-food waste for nutritional improvement and revalorization 6. Value addition to seafood processing waste by using enzymes 7. Industrial enzymes production from industrial and agricultural wastes/residues 8. Hydrothermal carbonization of non-lignocellulosic wastes using enzyme pre-treatment 9. Lignocellulosic and chitinous wastes as pollutant adsorbents and their enzymatic degradation 10. Value-addition to industrial food processing waste 11. Utilization of Agro-Industrial and Food By-Products for the Production of Amphiphilic Proteins and Peptides 12. Value-Addition in Citrus Processing Industry Waste through Enzyme Technology 13. Enzymatic extraction of pigments from Agro-processing Waste 14. Sericin, a by-product of the silk industry: extraction and applications 15. Bioactive extraction from tropical fruit residues by enzyme-assisted processes 16. Production of value-added products from fruit juice residues using enzyme technology 17. Ecofriendly Utilization of Lignocellulosic Wastes: Mushroom Cultivation and Value Addition 18. Potential of microbial lipids for biodiesel production 19. Waste-based bioethanol production by using food, fruit, banana, grain wastes 20. Agriculture Waste to Bio-plastics: A Perfect Substitution of Plastics 21. Food Wastes for Bio-ethanol Production 22. Biohydrogen production from food waste (Green hydrogen): current and future prospect 23. The whole resource technology for ethanol fermentation from food waste 24. Bioconversion of Agricultural residues & waste to value added products