Microbial Extremozymes

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.

• 1. Microbial screening for extremozymes2. Structure-function relationship of extremozymes3. Innovative technologies for enzyme production from extremophilic microbes4. Cold-active food enzymes: Enabling nonthermal processing in food industry5. Metagenomic approach for the isolation of novel extremophiles6. Microbial extremozymes: Novel sources and industrial applications7. Potential of microbial extremophiles for biotechnological applications: An overview8. Biomedical application of marine extremozymes9. Pharmaceutical application of extremozymes10. Extremozymes from extremophilic microorganisms as sources of bioremediation11. Functionality of thermophilic bacteria as probiotics12. Current trends in applicability of thermophiles and thermozymes in bioremediation of environmental pollutants13. l-Asparaginases from hyperthermophilic archaea and their applications14. Psychrozymes: A novel and promising resource for industrial applications15. Applications of extremozymes in the food industries16. Extremophilic lipases and esterases: Characteristics and industrial applications17. Current applications and future trends of extremozymes in detergent industries18. Bioenergy production in extremophiles19. Enzyme engineering and application of extremozymes: A vast vision for the future20. Metagenomics for mining of thermoalkalophilic enzymes21. Molecular mechanism of radio-resistant and heavy metal tolerance adaptation in microbes22. New Biotech tool from hot sources: Thermostable self-labeling protein-tags near to the boiling water23. Microbial nanotechnology: New horizons in food science and technology