The book is aimed at providing an exposure to some important topics which are generally not covered adequately in formal courses in biotechnology. It informs the readers about:
- How micro-fluidics are proving useful in enzyme kinetics.
- Chemi-proteomics; combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening in the context of drug discovery.
- How enzymes can be used with gaseous substrates?
- How to source more robust enzymes from marine resources for diverse applications?
- Why some nano-materials can be chiral?
- Synthesis of diverse quantum dots as powerful fluorescent probes in biology.
- How basics of surface chemistry and immunology are vital in dealing with endemics/pandemics like Covid-19.
The book is aimed at providing an exposure to some important topics which are generally not covered adequately in formal courses in biotechnology.
Uses of Flow-based Systems for Enzyme Kinetics. Chemoproteomics: An Extremely Powerful Kit in Drug Discovery Toolbox. Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening Methods. Fundamentals and Applications of Solid/Gas Biocatalysis. Biochemistry and Biomolecules of Halophiles: Recent Trends and Prospects. Marine Enzymes: Exploiting Bacterial Resource for Blue Biotechnology. Quantum Dots in Biological Sciences. Chirality in Nanomaterials: Occurrence, Methods of Determination and Biochemical Significance. Surface Chemistry and Immunochemistry at a Crossroad called COVID-19.
Munishwar Nath Gupta taught chemistry, biochemistry and biotechnology at IIT Delhi [ 1975-2018]. A Ph.D [ Biochemistry] from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore was followed by post-doc at University of Minnesota [ USA]; MIT [ USA]; UTC [ France] and Lund University [ Sweden]. He is a fellow of both National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad and Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. His previous edited/co-edited books include Thermostability of Enzymes [ Springer]; Interfaces of Nano-materials and Microbes [ CRC]; Three Phase Partitioning [ Elsevier] and Structure and Intrinsic disorder in Enzymology [ Elsevier]. He is currently series editor for Foundations and Frontiers in Enzymology [ Elsevier]. He has published 300 scientific articles with current h-index of 60.
