Biomass, Biofuels, Biochemicals

Dr. Singh is working in the area of Industrial Biotechnology particularly industrial enzymes, biopolymers, glycoproteins, biofuels, etc. from fungal sources. He has more than 300 publications, including 200 research papers, 5 books, 45 book chapters, and 50 popular articles and has been granted 2 Indian patents. He has many national and international awards to his credit. He is Fellow of Biotech Research Society of India, Association of Microbiologists of India and Mycological Society of India. He was guest editor of Biologia, Indian Journal of Experimental biology and Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research in 2012. Dr Reeta Rani Singhania is currently Associate Professor at National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology at Kaohsiung in Taiwan. Her major research area Microbial & Enzyme Technology and Bioprocess Technology, with current focus on value-added compounds from lignocellulosic biomass including oligosaccharides and bioethanol. She has 16 patents, edited four books and published more than 180 research articles, several book chapters and conference communications. She is the recipient of several national and international awards. She is the Editor of Bioresource Technology Reports and System Microbiologyand Biomanufacturing and Associate Editor of Heliyon Energy. Prof. Ashok Pandey is currently Executive Director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-India, Lucknow. His major research and technological development interests are industrial and environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels and chemicals, waste to wealth and energy, etc.Prof. Christian Larroche is Director of Polytech Clermont-Ferrand, a graduate school of engineering of University Clermont-Auvergne, France. He is also member of the research laboratory Institut Pascal and of the laboratory of excellence ImobS3 at the same university. He has strong research skills and expertise in the area of applied microbiology and biochemical engineering. He is author of 220 documents, including 114 articles, three patents, 15 book chapters and 24 co-editions of books or journal special issues. He is member of French Society for Process Engineering (SFGP), French Society of Biotechnology and European Federation of Chemical Engineering. He is administrator of IBA-IFIBiop and editor of Bioresource Technology.

• 1. Microbial enzymes: An overview2. Purification of enzymes 3. Enzyme kinetics and modelling of enzymatic systems4. Thermodynamics of enzyme catalyzed reaction5. Enzymatic biocatalysis in chemical transformations: A promising and emerging field in green chemistry6. Current and emerging technologies for the development of novel enzyme catalysis7. Industrial applications of multistep enzyme reactions8. Enzyme nanocarriers9. Immobilized enzymes and their implications10. Enzyme based biosensors and their applications11. Enzymes as diagnostic tools12. Enzymes as analytical tools for the assessment of food quality and food safety13. Metabolic engineering for the improvement of industrial enzymes14. Enzyme engineering15. Recombinant enzymes in food and pharmaceutical industry16. Tailoring of industrial enzymes17. Metagenomics and the search for industrial enzymes18. Bioinformatics of industrial enzymes19. Enzymes: Emerging trends and future perspectives20. Global market scenario of industrial enzymes