Bio-Nano Interface Applications in Food, Healthcare and Sustainability

Dr. Manoranjan Arakha  is an assistant professor at the Centre for Biotechnology, Siksha' O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He received his doctorate in Life Science from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India, in 2017. Subsequently, He pursued post-doctoral research on Bio-Nano interface at University College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests include green synthesis of different metal nanoparticles and moderate their Physico-chemical parameters for antimicrobial and cytotoxic properties. For antimicrobial, he is mainly interested in nanoformulation effective against biofilm-forming and antimicrobial peptide-resistant bacteria.

Dr. Arun Kumar Pradhan  is an assistant professor in Centre for Biotechnology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Siksha' O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2016 from the Department of Environment & Sustainability, CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India. His area of interest is microbial biosurfactants and their various biotechnological applications like the effect of biosurfactant on cancer cells, study of biofilm inhibitory capacity of biosurfactants, nanoparticle approach (liposome) of heavy metal detection, etc. Currently, he is working on the green synthesis of various nanoparticles and clinical applications of biosurfactants to cure different disorders.

Dr. Suman Jha  is an associate professor in the Department of Life Science, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Physical Chemistry-I, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, in 2009. He completed his post-doctoral research in protein biophysics from the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, USA (2010-2011). Currently, Dr. Jha investigates different nanoformulations for biological applications like in TIIDM, Parkinson's, and cancer. His research interests involve studying nanoparticle-biomolecular interfacial interactions, protein-metal ions & protein-protein interactions.