0000-0003-3180-1567 About
Dr. Keshab Chandra Mondal is Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He was awarded Chancellor’s Gold medal for scoring the first rank in M.Sc. examination. Since the last 25 years, he has been serving at the Faculty of Raja N L Khan Women’s College and Microbiology Department, Vidyasagar University in various capacities. He is a renowned academician and scientist in the area of microbial enzymes, gut flora, probiotics and fermented foods. His research efforts have been focused on understanding the microbial diversity of traditional fermented foods and their impacts on gut flora as well as anti-diabetic, antiobesity and antitoxic potentialities. He is standardizing traditional fermented foods for improvement of quality, hygienic status and market potentialities. Exploration of effective probiotic organisms and microbial enzymes are also his field of research. Prof. Mondal has published more than 162 scientific papers, 8 reviews, 20 book chapters and one text book (Microbial Fermentation and Enzyme Technology) from CRC press. He is the Associate Guest Editor for Frontiers in Nutrition, Frontiers in Sustainable Food system and Frontiers in Microbiology and member of editorial board in Current Research in Nutrition and Food Science, and Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology. Prof. Mondal has guided more than 100 dissertation projects, 4 M.Phil students and produced 19 Ph. D. students. He is the recipient of Indo-Hungarian fellowship in 2014 and Tempus Public Foundation (TPF) fellowship, Hungary for the year 2015-16. He has been conferred Fellow of Biotech Research Society, India (2020) and Fellow of Physiological Society of India (2021). He has widely travelled in Europe and many other countries and has delivered lead talks in many conferences and has organized several conferences and workshops.
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Vidyasagar University Professor
Education
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Vidyasagar University Ph D
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Publications (202)
- Mucoromycota tannases Save
- Bioprospecting of probiotic bacteria from traditional food of high-altitude Himalayan region Save
- Effects of soil physico-chemical parameters on Sclerotium rolfsii suppressiveness Save
- Production Optimization of Feather Hydrolysate and Use as a Promising Nitogen-Rich Fertilizer for Rice (Oryza Sativa) Production Save
- State-of-art engineering approaches for ameliorated production of microbial lipid Save
- Extraction of chitosan from biologically-derived chitin by bacterial chitin deacetylase: Process optimization and product quality assessment Save
- An overview of normal human gut microbiota and dysbiosis Save
- A longitudinal study on the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia in the multiethnic communities of Jhargram, West Bengal Save
- Pathogenicity of Vibrio harveyi and its biocontrol using bacteriophages Save
- Attenuation of fluoride-induced hepatorenal oxidative stress by ferulic acid in vivo: An approach with in-silico analysis and interaction informatics of ferulic acid Save