R&D Activities

• Enzyme technology with special reference to production and application of proteolytic, lipolytic and amylolytic enzymes in pretanning operations.
• Development of microbial methods for utilization of solid wastes and agricultural biomass for production of value added products.
• Metabolic engineering and directed evolution of industrially important enzymes.
• Evolving protein based metal sensor through proteomics and genomics approaches.
• Developing an ideal tool for site specific protein bio-conjugation with medically important biomaterials.
• Molecular and Polyphasic identification of microbial species.
• Human resource development in biotechnology at B.Tech, M.Tech, M.Sc and Ph.D levels.
• Conducting training program for the industrial persons, academic faculty and internship for the UG/PG students.
• Co-ordinating with industries for scaling up of their proteins and biomass up to 500 L level fermentor.
• Testing of enzyme products from different companies for leather applications.