Contents: 1. Industrial biotechnology: An overview. 2. Manipulating aspergillus niger genome: A journey. 3. Scaling-up of microbial fuel cell using clay membrane. separator and non-catalyzed electrode materials. 4. Hydroxy acids: Production and applications. 5. Bacterial xylanases: Production, purification and applications. 6. Biorefinery prospects: A study on pine litter feedstock.7. Butanol production from lignocellulosics. 8. Pretreatment of lignocelluloses for biogas and ethanol processes.9. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR): Back to the roots. 10. Bio-prospecting of indigenous yeast isolates of fermented foods of north-western imalayas. 11. Probiotics today: Charting new directions.12. Non dairy probiotic beverage as potent functional food. 13. Coatings of bio-based materials on flexible food packaging: Opportunities for problem solving. and innovations. 14. Assessing food safety and food quality through proteomic and peptidomic tools.15. Pullulan as therapeutic tool in biomedical applications. 16. Chitinases and chitinase-like proteins: Ubiquity and potential in therapeutics.17. Current status of microbial lectins in biomedical research. 18. Studies on a pharmaceutically important antioxidant-glutathione.19. Role of infectious agents in cardiovascular diseases. 20. Nanoparticle gold in wild and resistant leishmaniasi.21. New submerged membrane bioreactors (SMBRs) for sustainable water. 22. Use of microbes in biological treatment of shrimp wastewater in the united states.23. Bioremediation of hazardous Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate. 24. Biotechnological approaches for valorization of whey. 25. Management of organic wastes by vermicomposting.

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