Westminster Alumni

Cristina Pérez-Rivero: 2018-2019

Pooja Basnett: 2014-2019

Rinat Nigmatullin: 2015-2017

S.Verma (completed 1998) The molecular enzymology of polyhydroxybutyrate biosynthesis in Streptomyces lividans, a molecular study

S.P. Valappil (completed 2005) Polyhydroxyalkanoate production in Gram-positive bacteria

R. Chouiter (completed 2007) Studies on Glycosidases found in Ganoderma

R. Nair (completed 2007) The mechanism of elicitation of penicillin production in Penicillium chrysogenum

S. Budala (completed 2008) Carbohydrates and Carbohydrate active enzymes in Ganoderma

S. Kannan (completed 2008) The metabolic role of methylmalonyl-CoA mutase in Escherichia coli

S. Philip (completed 2008) Polyhydroxyalkanote synthases- the enzymes involved in biodegradable polymer biosynthesis

T. Murphy (completed 2008) Overproduction of secondary metabolites using oligosaccharide elicitors in bacterial cultures

F. Sorrentio (completed 2009) Quorum sensing in Aspergillus nidulans

D.Peiris (completed 2009) Combinatorial cultures of Tropical Fungi

Ranjana Rai (completed 2010) Microbial production of MCL- polyhydroxyalkanoates and their applications

Deepa Karunakaran (completed 2010) Paraherquamide A production in Penicillium simplicissimum

Lydia Francis (completed 2011) Production and application of polyhydroxyalkanotes in drug delivery

Everest Akarayonye (completed 2011) Enhanced and Economical Production of polyhydroxyalkanoates

Patricia Reffatti (completed 2012) Effect of oligosaccharides on the metabolic pathways of Bacillus licheniformis and Penicillium chrysogenum

Azharul Islam (completed 2013) Cell walls of growing plant cells

Andrea Bagdadi (completed 2014) Production of MCL-PHAs in Bacillus subtilis and its use in cardiac patch development

Pooja Basnett (completed 2014) Production of MCL-PHAs from Psuedomonas mendocina and their use in the development of biodegradable drug eluting stents

Prachi Dubey (completed 2017) Production of MCL-PHAs and their use in the development of cardiac patches

Lorena Lizzaraga (completed 2018) PHA based scaffolds for nerve tissue engineering

Barbara Lukasiewicz (completed 2018) Drug eluting biodegradable stents based on Polyhydroxyalkanoates

Christy Thomas (completed 2019) Composites of PHAs for bone tissue engineering

Hima Putthuserry (completed 2019) PHAs and their application in targeted drug delivery

Moyinoluwa Odugbemi (completed 2019) PHAs for the production of bioartificial pancreas

Isabel Orlando (completed 2019) Novel hydrogel-based hybrid antibacterial polymers for wound healing applications

Sheila Piarali (completed 2019) Novel Antibacterial Agents for Innovative Antibacterial Polymers

Alexandra Paxinou (thesis submitted) Novel Antibacterial Polymers of Natural Origin

Elena Marcello (thesis submitted) PHA based Antibacterial Polymers for Tissue Engineering

Charles Thomas (completed 2012) PHA biosynthesis and its applications in neural tissue engineering

Bijal Panchal (completed in 2015) Production of MCL-PHAs and their biomedical applications

Lara Santolin: Lara Santolin studies M. Sc. in Biotechnology at the Technische Universität Berlin and visited the Roy Lab Group from the 14.10.2019 – 18.03.2020 funded by an ERASMUS+ Scholarship. She characterised P(3HB-co-3HHx) and studied its application for Nerve Tissue Engineering. Lara has been working as a research assistant and Tutor at the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering at the TU Berlin since 2017 where she has specialised in High Cell Density fed-batch cultivations for the production of PHA bioplastic gaining profound experience in handling different bioreactor systems in the scale of 1 – 100 L as well as executing the related analytics. LinkedIn