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Behsdabstractbook.Pdf CONTENTS Messages Committees BEHSD – 2018 Organizers Detailed Scientific Program Abstracts of Plenary and Invited Lectures Abstracts of Short Oral Presentations Poster Abstracts About BRSI Sponsor Message from Professor Alok Dhawan, Director, CSIR-IITR Message from Dr D Parmar, Chairman, BEHSD-2018 Message from Professor TP Singh, President, BRSI Message from Professor Ashok Pandey, General Chair, BEHSD-2018 Bio-Innovation for Environmental and Health Sustainable Developments (BEHSD-2018) Bio-Innovation for Environmental and Health Sustainable Developments (BEHSD-2018) November 27-28, 2018 Organizing Committee Patron: Professor Alok Dhawan General Chairman: Professor Ashok Pandey Conference Chairman- Dr D Parmar Convener: Dr N Manickam Co-Conveners: Dr Kausar Ansari, Dr R Parthasarathi Treasurer- Dr K C Khulbe COA, CoFA, Sr. FAO, SPO, AO Committees and Members Fund Raising Catering and Refreshment Dr Poonam Kakkar (Chair Person) Dr K C Khulbe (Chairman) Dr Ratan Singh Ray (Convener) Dr Sanjay Yadav (Convener) Dr Sanjay Yadav Dr Sandeep Sharma Dr Sheelendra Pratap Singh Dr Ram Narayan Mr Laxmi Kant (Co-Convener) Scientific Session & Website, Publicity and Press Publication Audio visual & photography Dr K Chowdhuri (Chairman) Dr Yogeshwer Shukla (Chairman) Dr Ravi Ram Kristipati (Convener) Mr Nikhil Garg (Convener) Dr Akshay Dwarakanath Dr Akshay Dwarakanath Dr Amit Kumar Mr C M Tiwari Dr Vikas Srivatsava Mr Ali Kausar Dr R Rajagopal Mr Nasir Naqvi Dr Neeraj Satija Mr Shyam Kumar Pal Mr Sarfraj Ahmed Venue/stage Arrangement Transport Dr Alok Pandey (Chairman) Dr Ratan Singh Ray (Chairman) Dr Kausar M Ansari (Convener) Er A H Khan (Convener) Mr Yogendra Singh Dr Dhirendra Singh Mr R K Upadhyay Dr Anjeneya Dr Somendu Roy Mr Sandeep Negi Mr. Sandeep Kumar Mr. Prem Singh Mr Jai Shanker Registration Accommodation Dr Sanghamitra Bandopadhyay (Chair Dr VP Sharma (Chairman) Person) Dr Manoj Kumar (Convener) Dr Aruna Satish (Convener) Dr Pradeep Sharma Dr Chetna Singh Mr Sathyanarayana Dr Jyotsana Singh Mr. Pankaj Jagdale Dr Anurag Tripathi Mr Amit Kumar Mishra Mr. Pradeep Kumar Poster Session Cultural Programme Dr Ravi Ram (Chairman) Dr Alok Pandey (Chairman) Dr Pradeep Kumar Sharma (Convener) Dr Aruna Satish (Convener) Dr D Ghosh Dr Jyotsana Singh (Co-Convener) Dr Abhay Raj Dr Smriti Priya (Co-Convener) Ms Nidhi Arjaria Ms Swati Shrivatsava Medical Rapporteur Dr Kesava Chandran (Chairman) Dr R Rajagopal (Chairman) Dr Vipin Bihari (Convener) Dr Neeraj Satija (Convener) Dr Preeti Chaturvedi Dr S Anbumani Dr. Sandeep Sharma 1 Bio-Innovation for Environmental and Health Sustainable Developments (BEHSD-2018) BEHSD-2018 ORGANIZERS Patron Professor Alok Dhawan, Director, CSIR-IITR, Lucknow General Chair Professor Ashok Pandey, Distinguished Scientist, CSIR-IITR, Lucknow Conference Chair Professor TP Singh, President, BRSI, AIIMS, New Delhi Dr D Parmar, Chief Scientist, CSIR-IITR, Lucknow Convener Dr N Manickam, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-IITR, Lucknow Co-Conveners Dr R Parthasarathi, Principal Scientist, CSIR-IITR, Lucknow Dr Kausar Ansari, Senior Scientist, CSIR-IITR, Lucknow Treasure Dr K C Khulbe, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-IITR, Lucknow National Steering Committee Dr. Vivek Agarwal, CMD, CDC India, Jaipur Prof. Saroj K Barik, Director, CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow Prof. Asis Datta, Distinguished Scientist, NIPGR, New Delhi Dr. Raghavendra Gaikaiwari, CMD, HTBS, Pune Dr. Amit Ghosh, Distinguished scientist, NICED, Kolkata Prof. P Gunasekaran, Vice-Chancelllor, VIT, Bhopal Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Director, CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur Dr. Rakesh Kumar Mishra, Director, CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad Prof. G. Padmanaban,Distinguished Scientist, IISc, Bangalore Dr. Piyush Palkhiwala, CMD, Maps Enzymes, Ahmedabad Prof. Din B Sahoo, Director, IBSD, Imphal Prof. Debi Sarkar, Director, IISER, Chandigarh Prof. Sudhir K Sopory, Distinguished Professor, ICGEB, New Delhi Dr. Virendra M Tiwari, Director, CSIR-NGRI, Hyderabad Prof. Ganapati D Yadav, Director, ICT, Mumbai International Advisory Committee Prof. CN Aguilar, Mexico Prof.Robin Anderson, USA Dr. Maria Barbosa, The Netherlands Prof. Raj Boopathy, USA Dr. Sammy Boussiba, Israel 2 Bio-Innovation for Environmental and Health Sustainable Developments (BEHSD-2018) Dr. David Bryant, UK Prof. In Seop Chang, Republic of Korea Prof. Jo Shu Chang, Taiwan Dr. Roberto De Philippis, Italy Dr. Hans Deschner, Germany Prof. Cheng-Di Dong, Taiwan Prof. David Dong, Taiwan Prof. Edgard Gnansounou, Switzerland Prof. Guocheng Du, China Prof. Claude-Gilles Dussap, France Prof. Suzana Ferreira-Dias, Portugal Prof. Jega Jegatheesan, Australia Prof. Samir Khanal, USA Dr. Gopalkrishnan Kumar, Korea Prof. Christian Larroche, France Dr. Eon Seon Jin, Korea Prof. Duu Jong Lee, Taiwan Dr. Yuan Kun Lee, Singapore Prof. Piet Lens, The Netherlands Prof. Carol Lin, Hong Kong Prof. Giorgio Mannina, Italy Prof. Booki Min, Korea Dr. Navid Moheimani, Australia Prof. Ganti S Murthy, USA Dr. K Rathinam Navanietha, USA Prof. How Zong Ng, Singapore Prof. Hao Huu Ngo, Australia Dr. Poonam Nigam, UK Prof. Hee Mock Oh, Korea Prof. Dr. Bestami Ozkaya, Turkey Dr. Komaraiah Palle, USA Dr. Deepak Pant, Belgium Prof. Jong-Moon Park, Korea Dr. Siew-Moi Phang, Malaysia Dr. Philip Pienkos, USA Dr. Saul Purton, UK Dr. Celine Rebours, Norway Dr. Eldon Rene, The Netherlands 3 Bio-Innovation for Environmental and Health Sustainable Developments (BEHSD-2018) Dr. Jhuma Sadhukhan, UK Prof. Maria Angeles Sanroman, Spain Prof. Aji K Sarmah, New Zealand Prof. J Saucedo-Castaneda, Mexico Prof. Sang Jun Sim, Korea Prof. Carlos Ricardo Soccol, Brazil Prof. Rao Surampalli, USA Prof. Mohammad Taherzadeh, Sweden Prof. Jose Teixeira, Portugal Prof. Daniel Tsang, Hong Kong Prof. Rajeshwar D. Tyagi, Canada Dr. Vitor Verdelho Vieira, Portugal Prof. C Visvanathan, Thailand Dr. MakotoWatanabe, Japan Prof. Jonathan Wong, Hong Kong Prof. Yonghong Wu, China Prof. Zhengqiang Zhang, China National Advisory Committee Prof. Avinash K Agarwal, IIT, Kanpur Prof. Rintu Banerjee, IIT, Kharagpur Prof. UC Banerjee, NIPER, Mohali Dr. G Baskar, SJCE, Chennai Dr. Thallada Bhaskar, CSIR-IIP, Dehradun Dr. P Binod, CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum Prof. Debabrata Das, IIT Khargapur Dr. Supratim Datta, IISER – Kolkata Prof. A Dayanand, UoG, Gulbarga Prof. Kashyap K Dubey, CUH, Mahendragarh Prof. Vikash Kumar Dubey, IIT, Guwahati Dr. Arvind Duggal, DBT, New Delhi Mr. Brigadier P Ganesham, Palle Srujana Prof. MM Ghangrekar, IIT Kharagpur Dr. Vinod K Garg, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda Prof. SP Govindwar, Shivaji University, Kolhapur Prof. Arun Goyal, IIT Guwahati Prof. Bhola Gurjar, IIT Roorkee Prof. BP Kapadnis, Pune University, Pune 4 Bio-Innovation for Environmental and Health Sustainable Developments (BEHSD-2018) Dr. Rupam Kataki, Tezpur University, Tezpur Dr. Nirmala Kaushik, TIFAC, New Delhi Prof. Sunil Kumar Khare, IIT New Delhi Dr. Ashwani Kumar, HSGCU, Sagar Prof. R Praveen Kumar, Arunai, Thiruvannamalai Dr. Sunil Kumar, CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur Dr. Manoj Kumar Upreti, IOCL,Faridabad Prof. Smita Lele, ICT, Mumbai Dr. Datta Madamwar, SP University, Gujarat Dr. Natesan Manickam, CSIR-IITR, Lucknow Dr. Vivek Morya, DST Centre, BBAU, Lucknow Prof. Suparna Mukherji, IIT Bombay Prof. P Mullai, Annamalai University, Chidambaram Dr. K Madhavan Nampoothiri, CSIR-NIIST, Trivandum Dr. YV Nancharaiah, BARC, Kalpakkam Dr. Neelu Navani, DYPU, Pune Dr. Sangeeta Negi, MNNIT, Allahabad Prof. Parmjit Singh Panesar, SLIET, Longowal Dr. Deepak Pant, CUHP, Dharamshala Prof. KB Ramachandran, IIT Chennai Prof. Pramod W Ramteke, SHBUA, Allahabad Prof. Latha Rangan, IIT Guwahati Prof. Sudhakara M Reddy, Thapar University, Patiala Prof. T Satyanarayana, NSIT, New Delhi Dr. S Shivaji, BH Eye Research Centre, Hyderabad Prof. Ram Sarup Singh, Punjabi University, Patiala Dr. Sudhir Pratap Singh, CIAB, Mohali Prof. Rekha S Singhal, ICT, Mumbai Dr. Reeta Rani Singhania, DBT-BEC, IOCL, Faridabad Prof. M Srimurali, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati Dr. Sangeeta Srivastava, Godavari Biorefineries, Mumbai Prof. Jyoti Prakash Tamang, Sikkim University, Gangtok Prof. lndu S Thakur, JNU, New Delhi Dr. Onkar Tiwari, DBT, New Delhi Prof. Siddh Nath Upadhyay, IIT(BHU), Varanasi Prof. Jyoti Vakhlu, UoJ, Jammu Dr. Sunita Varjani, GPCB, Gandhinagar Dr. Rajeev Kumar Varshney, ICRISAT, Hyderabad 5 Bio-Innovation for Environmental and Health Sustainable Developments (BEHSD-2018) Scientific Program International Conference organized and hosted by CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR), Lucknow, India in association with the Biotech Research Society (BRSI), India November 27-28, 2018 Tuesday 27th November 2018 0800-1700h Registration 0900-0930h Opening session (S H Zaidi Auditorium) 0930-1000h Plenary 1 –Energy security and environmental sustainability: A perspective for India based on domestic carbon resources- Anjan Ray, CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun, India Chairs: Jo-Shu Chang, Taiwan &Ganti S Murthy, USA 1000-1030h Plenary 2 -Waste biorefinery and resource recovery using filamentous fungi-Mohammad J. 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