Prof. Pinaki Sar

Pinaki Sar, Professor, Department of Biotechnology IIT Kharagpur has been engaged in teaching and research on Microbiology and related biotechnology aspects for the past 18 years. His major area of interest lies in the exploration of microbial communities and their catabolic repertoire; and application in environmental sustainability. He uses genomics and metagenomics approaches to understand community/species function. He has been engaged in teaching the subject Metabolic Engineering for over 10 years to the undergraduate (B Tech. Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering) students of IIT Kharagpur.
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Prof. Amit Ghosh

Dr. Amit Ghosh received his Ph.D. from IISc Bangalore and thereafter did his postdoctoral research for seven years in Metabolic Engineering from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA. He has been engaged in research on metabolic engineering, systems and synthetic biology for the last 12 years. He got involved in teaching subjects: Metabolic Engineering, Metabolic Systems Biology to UG & PG students of IIT Kharagpur for the last 4 years.
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