Dr. Ameeta V Ravikumar
Prof. and Director
Savitribai Phule Pune University
India
Biography
Research is focused on biochemical, mechanistic and structural insights for industrial applications of yeasts and fungi isolated from marine environments and mangrove ecosystems. An experimental biochemist with 30 years experience in protein chemistry and developing protein structure-function relationships. The main interests currently focus on programs in biodiesel production from microbial sources, Biotherapeutics from Indian medicinal plants, self-assembling proteins as biomaterials and applications of dehalogenases for biotransformation or detoxification of halogenated compounds and epoxide hydrolases for synthesis of chiral pharmaceutical intermediates.
Research Interest
biodiesel production from microbial sources, Biotherapeutics from Indian medicinal plants, biochemical, mechanistic and structural insights for industrial applications of yeasts