Rohana binti Abu

Rohana Abu is a senior lecturer at Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang. She graduated from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia with Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and Master of Engineering (Bioprocess) in 2006 and 2010, respectively. She received her Ph.D. in Biochemical & Chemical Engineering from Technical University of Denmark in 2016. Her current research interests focus on the thermodynamics and kinetics of enzyme-catalysed reactions and the application of enzymatic cascades for the conversion of non-natural substrates.

She is currently looking for masters and PhD students to work on developing a continuous flow process for the enzymatic cascades for chemical and pharmaceutical processing. If you are interested in this project please contact her at rohanaa@ump.edu.my.

Publications:

International Journals

1. Voges M, Abu R, Gundersen MT, Held C, Woodley JM and Sadowski G. (2017). Reaction Equilibrium of the ω-Transamination of (S)-Phenylethylamine: Experiments and ePC-SAFT Modeling, Org. Process Res. Dev., 21(7), 976–986.
2. Palacio CM, Crismaru CG, Bartsch S, Navickas V, Ditrich K, Breuer M, Abu R, Woodley JM, Baldenius K, Wu B and Janssen DB. 2016. Enzymatic network for production of ether amines from alcohols. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 113, 1853–1861.
3. Abu R and Woodley, JM. 2015. Application of Enzyme Coupling Reactions to Shift Thermodynamically Limited Biocatalytic Reactions. ChemCatChem, 7, 3094–3105.
4. Gundersen MT, Abu R, Schürmann M. and Woodley, JM. 2015. Amine donor and acceptor influence on the thermodynamics of ω-transaminase reactions. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 26, 567–570.
5. Abu R, Gundersen, MT and Woodley, JM. 2015. Thermodynamic Calculations for Systems Biocatalysis. In 12th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering and 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering Elsevier, 37, 233–238.

Conferences

1. Abu R, Joana Lima-Ramos and John M. Woodley. Thermodynamic Evaluation of the Production of Chiral Amines from Long-Chain Aliphatic Alcohols. 3rd Multistep Enzyme Catalyzed Processes Congress (MECP14), 7-10 April 2014, Madrid, Spain.
2. Ain SN and Abu R. (2012). Effect of Different Types of Solvent on Extraction of Antioxidant Phenolic Compounds from Cosmos caudatus. 26th Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers (SOMChe-2012) in Conjunction with 4th International Conference on Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering (ICCBPE-2012).