Researchers

Algae and Seaweeds Biotechnology

Algae for Renewable Energy

Algae in Bioremediation

Blue Economy

Lipids nanotechnology for food, supplement and skincare products

Microencapsulation technology and formulation (spray drying, complex coacervation, etc)

Fats and Oils Chemistry and Technology (Extraction, purification, refining, characterisation, analysis, etc)

Functional Food Development and Sensory Evaluation

Food analysis and frying technology

Cancer vaccine engineering and development.

Application of recombinant probiotics as vectors for oral administration of biologics

Antibody engineering - humanization, chimerization & immunotoxins

Development of biosensors for cancer screening

Food Product development

Probiotics

Obesity and bone fragility

Antibiotic resistance and biological responses

Tumorigenesis and eukaryotic quorum sensing

Gene expression profiling

Behaviorial genetics in addiction and autism spectrum disorder

Phytochemistry

Biomaterials

Green Chemistry

Functional Beverages Product Development

Antioxidant and Anti-ageing

Flavour Technology

Maillard Reaction Technology

Drug discovery and development for thetreatment of Diabetes mellitus and associated disease complications

Molecular mechanism of drug action

Herbal, functional foods and nutraceuticals

Translational research

Allergy immunotherapy

Production of recombinant bioactive proteins in bacteria and Yeast expression system

Antibiotics resistant bacteria and probiotics

Genotyping of variants associated diseases

Seaweed Cultivation and Omics Research

Aquaponic system using food waste

Sustainable waste water treatment

Biomaterials: Food Packaging, Biofilms

Enzymes: Extraction, purification & applications

Developemnt of skin whitenning products from natural resources

Food products development: Cacao tea, fruits & vegetables powders

Aquaculture: Development of functional feeds (e.g. probiotics, prebiotics and immunostimulants) and alternative source of protein (insect meal/underutilised crop)for aquafarming; Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) design and aquaculture engineering.

Environmental Bioremediation and Toxicology: Application of biotechnological methods in waste water treatment; Environmental impact assessment in aquatic environment.

Environmental Microbiology: Isolation and characterization of novel microorganisms for industrial purposes.

Metabolic and clinical biochemistry

Enzyme Biochemistry

Medicinal and pharmaceutical biochemistry

Bioremediation and environmental biochemistry

Estuarine and coastal ecology and biodiversity (invertebrates and fish)

Environmental monitoring and assessment (changing environment and impacts)

Marine Ecology and Diversity

Environmental Biotechnology (Bioremediation)

Material Science

Circadian Rhythm and chrononutrition

Maternal and infant nutrition

Childhood obesity

Food safety in food service operation

Probiotics: screening and microencapsulation studies

Functional food development

Food preservation and shelf life study

Biocomposite for food packaging

Fats and oils technology

Bacterial etiology of autoimmunity diseases

Ethnobotany of plant resources

PCR-based caprine embryo sexing

Childhood obesity intervention

Adolescent nutrition

Obesogenic environment in school

Bioinformatics, genetic sequencing (Primary immunodeficiency)

Biosciences commercialisation

Students' / academia start up and commersialisation

Neurite stimulative and neuroprotection of mushroom extracts

Oil degarding of kapok fiber

Dye decoloarisation properties of mushroom enzyme

Market survey of purchse intention of products

Sensory analysis and food product development

Clinical Nutrition in Non-communicable Diseases

Nutrition and Cancer

Nutrigenetic and Nutrigenomic

Health and Wellness Coaching

Tropical Dendroecology

Tropical Dendrochronology

Functional Wood Anatomy

Tree Physiology

Algae Biotechnology