Name:

Dr. Vandana Ghormade

Year of Birth:

Education:

M.Sc., Ph.D.

Specialization:

(1)Fungal Biology and Biotechnology (2) Fungal Morphogenesis (3) Development of antifungals and biocontrol agents (4) Molecular Biology

Honours:

Gold Medal, M.Sc Botany, University of Pune, 1989; CSIR-Research Fellowship, Jul 1996-May 2001 ;CSIR-RA award, Jun 2001- Feb 2005 ; Guman Devi Verma Best Woman Scientist at the Global Conference of Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Udaipur, 2005.

Contact:

vandanaghormade@yahoo.com

Patents:

Publications:

1

C.V. Joshi, V. Ghormade, P. Kunde, P. Kulkarni, H. Mamgain, S. Bhat, K. M. Paknikar and M. V. Deshpande. (2010) Flocculation of dimorphic yeast Benjaminiella poitrasii is altered by modulation of NAD-glutamate dehydrogenase. Bioresource Technology . 101: 1393-1395

2

P. Chavan, S.Mane, G. Kulkarni, S.Shaikh, V. Ghormade, D. P. Nerkar, Y. Shouche and M. V. Deshpande. (2009) Natural yeast flora of different varieties of grapes used for wine making in India. Food Microbiol. 26:801-808

3

J. Enkerli, V. Ghormade, C. Oulevey and F Widmer (2009). Metarhizium anisopliae chitinase PCR-RFLP. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 102:185-188

4

N. Doiphode, V. Ghormade and M.V. Deshpande (2009). Chitosan production using a dimorphic zygomycetous fungus Benjaminiella poitrasii : role of chitin deacetylase for increased deacetylation. Asian Chitin Journal 5: 19-26.

5

N. Doiphode, C. Joshi, V. Ghormade and M.V. Deshpande (2009). The biotechnological applications of dimorphic yeasts. In: Yeast Biotechnology – Diversity and applications (T Satyanarayana and G Kunze, eds) Springer, New York, USA pp 636-650



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