Name:

Dr. Pradnya P. Kanekar

Year of Birth:

 b.1950

Education:

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Specialization:

Bioremediation of hazardous waste waters; Biodegradation of toxic chemopollutants

Honours:

1. Shewade Prize of Poona University for 1st rank in Botany Principal of T.Y. B.Sc., in 1971. 2. Archana Medal,1994. AEB Fellow Award of the Academy of Environmental Biology (Gold Plated Medal & Citation) in recognition of outstanding contributions and research on `Water Pollution Control using Microbial Technology for Treatment of Industrial Waste Waters'. 3. Prize to research paper presented on 'Microbial activities during storage of raw buffalo hide with relevance to leather processing' by Shede PN, Polkade AV, Kanekar PP, Sarnaik SS and Dhakephalkar PK at 38th LERIG 2004, Chennai, January 2004. 4. Best oral presentation award for research paper on 'Bacterial diversity of Lonar lake ecosystem' by Joshi AA, Kanekar PP, Kelkar AS and Sarnaik SS at National seminar on Biodiversity of Lonar crater, February 2004. 5. Fellow, Academy of Environmental Biology. 6. Member Indian deligation of Environmental Scientists to visit Russia in July-August 1990 under Scientific Exchange Programme between Man and Biosphere (MAB) Committee Academy of Sciences, USSR and Indian Environmental Society, New Delhi, Travel sponsored by UNESCO. 7. Invited speaker, International Symposium on Aquatic Microbiology at Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K. Financial support by Society for Applied Microbiology (U.K.) during July 13-18, 1998. 8. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Biology (over 65 papers evaluated since 1991) 9. President, Association of Food Scientists and Technologists (AFST) of India , Pune Chapter 1988 - 1990, Vice President 1983 - 1988. 10. Secretary, Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), Pune Unit 1995 - 1999. 11. Organizing Secretary, One day Seminar on "Industrial Water Pollution in Pune Metropollitan area - Problems and Solutions" 1995, Pune 12. Organizing Secretary, National Symposium on :"Recent Trends in Biological Treatment of Industrial Wastes" 1996, Pune. 13. Expert, Lonar Crater Development Project Committee, Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation, Mumbai, 1998 14. Convener, Indian Women Scientists Association (IWSA), Pune Branch 1999 till present. 15. Convener, VIII National Conference of Women in Science 2001. 16. Referee/Expert for evaluation of Research Projects received from DST/DBT/CSIR, Govt. of India 17. Expert, CENTRE OF RELEVANCE AND EXCELLENCE CORE (CORE) IN INDUATRIAL MICROBIOLOGY at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Suratkala, and Member, REACH Monitoring Committee (RMC), under MISSION REACH Programme of TIFAC, DST, Govt. of India since 2001. 18. Referee/Expert for evaluation of Ph.D. thesis received from University of Mumbai, University of Kerala, M.S. University Baroda, Saurashtra University Ahmedabad. 19. Resource person UGC Refresher Course in Microbiology, at Pune University, July 2001 20. Resource person UGC Refresher Course in Microbiology and Environmental Sciences, at Pune University, November 2003. 21. Convener, Indo-Swiss Collaboration in Biotechnology (ISCB) Symposium on 'Biological approaches for detection and removal of pesticides' March 2004, Pune. 22. Convener, Silver Jubilee Meet of Indian Women Scientists' Association, Pune Branch, April 2005, Pune. 23. Member, Board of Studies in Environmental Science, Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Manjari, Dist. Pune, 2004.

Contact:

kanekarp@rediffmail.com

Patents:

 Microbial bioremediation of caprolactam from nylon-6 waste effluent. Kanekar,P.P. & Kulkarni, R.S. (No. 23/BOM/97).

Production of protease using deoiled soybean cake by Arthrobacter ramosus and Bacillus alkalophilus. Kanekar, P.P.; Nilegaonkar,S.S.; Sarnaik,S.S. & Kelkar,A.S. (No. 24/BOM/97).

Microbial process for bioremediation of ethylenethiourea (ETU) from industrial effluents of ethylene bisdithiocarbamate (EBDC) pesticides. Kanekar,P.P. & Puranik,K.P. (No. 25/BOM/97).

Bioremediation of Triphenylmethane dyes from waste waters. P.P.Kanekar & S.S.Sarnaik (No.621/BOM/99).

Publications:

1

N.M.Deshpande, P.K.Dhakephalkar, and P.P.Kanekar (2001) Plasmid mediated dimethoate degradation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa MCM B-427. Letters in Applied Microbiology, 33 : 275-279.

2

B.J.Bhadbhade, P.K.Dhakephalkar, S.S.Sarnaik and P.P.Kanekar (2002) Plasmid associated biodegradation of an organophosphorus pesticide Monocrotophos by Pseudomonas mendocina. Biotechnology Letters, 24 : 647-650.

3

Bharati J. Bhadbhade, Seema S. Sarnaik and Pradnya P. Kanekar (2002). Bioremediation of an Industrial Effluent Containing Monocrotophos. Current Microbiology., 45(5) : 346-349.

4

Pradnya Kanekar, Premlata Dautpure and Seema Sarnaik (2003) Biodegradation of nitroexplosives. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, 41 : 991-1001.

5

N.M.Deshpande, S.S.Sarnaik, S.A.Paranjape and P.P.Kanekar (2004) Optimization of dimethoate degradation by Brevundimonas sp. MCM B-427 using factorial design : studies on interactive effects of environmental factors. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 20(5) : 455-462.

6

P.P.Kanekar and P.A.Vaishampayan (2004) Bioremediation of atrazine contaminated soil by rhizospheric isolates of Arthrobacter sp. In Biotechnological Approaches for Sustainable Development M. Sudhakara Reddy, Sunil Khanna eds. Allied Publishers Private Ltd. New Delhi (ISBN 81-7764-669-9) pp. 271-276.

 

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