Genetic and Metabolic Engineering for Improved Biofuel Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass

Dr. Arindam Kuila is currently working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith (Deemed University), Rajasthan. Previously, he worked as a research associate at Hindustan Petroleum Green R&D Centre, Bangalore. He did his PhD from Agricultural & Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2013 in the area of lignocellulosic biofuel production. His major areas of research are enzyme technology, bioprocess development for biofuel production and biopolymer production from lignocellulosic biomass. He has one Indo-Brazil collaborative project funded by DBT, New Delhi. He has guided 2 PhD students and currently 4 PhD students are working under his guidance. He has published 7 edited books, 8 book chapters, 28 papers in peer reviewed Journals and filled 5 patents. He is currently acting as guest editor for the Journal of Food Process Engineering (Wiley, Impact Factor: 2.356) and Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery Joournal (Springer, Impact Factor: 4.987). Prof. Vinay Sharma is Dean, Faculty of Science & Technology and Chair, Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology at Banasthali Vidyapith, India. He is also Coordinator, DBT M.Sc. Programme in Biotechnology and, DBT Centre for Bioinformatics, Banasthali University. Earlier he served as Lecturer and then Reader during Feb 1986 to April 96 at IIT Roorkee, India. He has over 30 years of teaching and research experience and has published over 250 research papers (including 31 as conference proceedings/ book chapters). Besides he has written 3 Text Books, 3 Edited Books and edited one thematic issue of "Current Biochemical Engineering". His major areas of research interests are Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.

• 1. Development of cellulolytic strain by genetic engineering approach for enhanced cellulose production2. Development of cellulolytic thermo tolerant fungal strain3. Development of efficient strain for both pentose and hexose sugar fermentation by genetic engineering approach4. Development of ethanol fermenting yeast for high tolerance to inhibitory compounds5. Development of efficient fungal strain for high enzyme production by metabolic engineering approach6. Genetic engineering of cellulolytic fungal strain for ethanol production7. Present status and future prospect of genetic and metabolic engineering for biofuel production from lignocellulosic biomass8. Current status of cellulase production by fungal strains9. Bioreactor design for efficient biofuel production from lignocellulosic biomass10. Downstream processing of biofuel11. Future scope and potential of genetic and metabolic engineering approach for cost effective biomass-based biofuel production