Virendra S. Bisaria
PROFESSOR
Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology
The Indian Institutes of Technology, Delhi
India
Biography
Born xxCityxxx, yyStateyy; Ph.D. IIT Delhi, India 1978; Post Doctoral Research experience at Institute of Biotechnology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland; Institute of Biotechnology, Nuclear Research Centre, Julich, Germany; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, UK; International Centre for Biotechnology, Osaka University, Japan; Kobe University, Japan; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Research Interest
Research Interests: Lignocellulose Bioconversion of renewable resources to value added products - cellulose hydrolysis, stabilization of cellulases, regulation of cellulase and xylanase biosynthesis; applications of cellulase and xylanase enzymes; Biofuels and Biorefinery - Ethanol from cellulose/hemicellulose; metabolic engineering for production of bioproducts such as 2,3-butanediol and malic acid in suitable bacterial hosts. Bioinoculants (biofertilizers and biopesticides); Plant Cell Technology - production of therapeutic compounds, metabolic engineering for enhanced production of metabolites
Publications
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Ghose,T.K. and Bisaria,V.S., ‘Studies on the mechanism of enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulosic substances’, Biotechnol. Bioeng., USA, 1979, 21, 131-146.
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Kinoshita, S., Negoro, S., Muramatsu, M., Bisaria, V. S., Sawada, S. and Okada, H., 6-Aminohexanoic acid cyclic dimer hydrolase, a new cyclic amide hydrolase produced by Achromobacter guttatus KI 72, Eur. J. Biochem., UK, 1977, 80, 485-496.
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Bisaria, V. S., Kinoshita, S. and Okada, H., Purification and properties of a cyclic amide hydrolyzing enzyme, Ind. J. Biochem. Biophys., India, 1976, 13(2), 113-116.
