Goyal, D. (dr.)

Biography

Professional Experience 24 years (after obtaining Ph.D) as on August, 2014 Teaching : 20 years Industrial R & D : 4 years Research (Including Ph.D) : 27 years Academics 1995 Post Doctorate in Industrial Biotechnology at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan worked on Molecular biology of coryneform bacteria with Prof. K Nagai and Dr Masaaki Wachi in collaboration with Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Tsukuba. 1990 Ph.D in Microbiology from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, worked on “Studies on cyanobacterial plasmids” under the supervision of Late Padmashree Dr GS Venkataraman . 1986 M.Sc in Microbiology from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, awarded with Gold Medal for outstanding academic performance and worked on “Effect of herbicides on cyanobacteria” under the supervision of Ex Principal Scientist, IARI, New Delhi Dr. Mrs. P Roychoudhary.

Research Interest

Worked on effect of herbicides on cyanobacteria that forms an integral part of rice cultivation and their plasmid profiles. During post doctoral work cell cycle mutants and plasmid biology of coryneform bacteria was studied and a new shuttle vector for gene cloning in coryneform bacteria (Brevibacterium, Corynebacterium) was developed. Industrial plantations of pulp wood tree species Eucalyptus and Acacia in 1997-1999 in Orissa and Punjab, India were raised involving application of microbial inoculants and fly ash for soil amendment to improve productivity on degraded lands and rehabilitation of lime sludge dumped sites and developed package of practices for utilization of fly ash as a resource material. Developed and used microbial systems in bioremediation for their beneficial application in soil for improving soil fertility and crop productivity on degraded lands involving molecular markers to assess their survival and studying soil-plant-microbe interaction, metal remediation from industrial effluents, pyrene (PAH) biodegradation and dye decolourization and degradation using bacterial systems. Developed cost effective protocols for mass production of microbial inoculants (nitrogen fixer and phosphate solubilizer), green alga Dunaliella for *-carotene and Spirulina for SCP. Developed innovative approaches for utilization of industrial solid wastes such as fly ash and bio-wastes for meaningful purposes especially as soil ameliorants and metal biosorbent for clean up of metal containing industrial effluents. An invention was made related to a process for manufacturing biosorbent from waste microbial biomass from pharmaceutical industry, which is cost effective and environment friendly and has usage/utility for the removal of chromium from chromium (VI) containing solutions or chrome effluent or any other such effluent to a significant level, obviating the use of a chemical process. The prime focus has been from lab. to land/market approach which involved technology development, demonstration and dissemination and commercialization mainly of microbial processes through business incubation, mentoring and technical support and guidance