13 Oct 2016-|Gurgaon (Manesar) | Amity University Gurgaon
Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Gurgaon organized Guest lecture on Engineering yeast for lignocellulosic biofuels production
Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Gurgaon organized Guest lecture on Engineering yeast for lignocellulosic biofuels production on 13th October 2016 by Dr Naseem A Gaur, ICGEB, New Delhi who is currently the group leader of Yeast Biofuel group. His talk generated a lot of interest in the faculty and student participants of AIB and ASEES.
Dr. Naseem Gaur, has completed his Ph.D. in molecular microbiology under the supervision of Prof. Rajendra Prasad JNU, in collaboration with J.M.I. He did his postdoctoral training from BWH, Harvard University, Boston, MA and National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
In his talk he spoke on the biofuel generation first and second their usefulness and limitations in the production technology. In first generation agricultural crops were used as carbon source and in second generation lignocellulosic biomass as carbon source for bioethanol production. Among lignocellulosic biomass xylose is quite in abundance, however yeast cannot use it as a source of carbon in natural condition. His group focuses on metabolic engineering in yeast for rapid and efficient fermentation of xylose. He discussed about the two pathways through which the yeast can be made to utilize xylose as carbon source; TypeI (XR-XDH pathway) and Type II (XI) pathway. Among these the Type II (XI)pathway is more efficient for xylose fermentation. He also discussed about the thermo tolerant yeast for xylose metabolism, which can be used the environments of stress.Session was appreciated by Biotechnology students. Dr. Rajendra Prasad,Dean -Research & Director -Amity Institute of Biotechnology proposed vote of thanks.