Dr. Rakhee Khandeparkar is working in the field of enzymes since last 20 years.  Her major research and technological development interests are industrial & environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels, waste to wealth & energy, industrial enzymes, etc.  She is working on xylanases which offers a cost-effective way for mills to realize a variety of benefits in bleaching mainly helping the industry to keep environment clean. Economic growth led the plastic producing industries flourish as it is a convenient material to use, thus leading to plastic pollution.  With the current scenario Dr. Khandeparker is working on a sustainable way to replace non-biodegradable and non-renewable polymers by giving an alternative of Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) which are produced by bacteria. She has studied amino acids composition of marine fish silage made by organic acid using HPLC and after successful production of organic-acid mediated fish silage she is working on production of biological fish silage as organic bio fertilizer which is rich in free amino acids. To her credit she has 32 publications in the international journals and 2 book chapters. 

Dr. Supriya Tilvi (PI) has 18 years of research experience in the field of Marine Natural Product Chemistry. Her research focuses on exploring and exploiting bioactive principle from marine organisms and their associated microbes, which have higher potential to yield novel molecules for drug applications and other industrial use. Extracts and purified compounds of these organisms are studied for several therapeutically and industrially significant biological activities, including anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antiviral and anticoagulant activities by applying a wide variety of screening tools, as well as for ion channel/receptor modulation and plant growth regulation. Bioactive molecules are isolated and characterized using modern chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques. Her contribution to the field of marine natural product chemistry includes: Identification of the most significant group of bioactive metabolites, bromotyrosines, cyclodepsipeptides, pyrrole-2-amino imidazole alkaloids (P-2-AI), ceramides etc. using modern spectroscopic techniques (1D & 2D NMR and Mass spectrometry). She has also successfully employed tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS) for analysis of complex mixture as a means for identifying minor constituents, without prior purification. To her credit she has 36 publications in the international journals and 5 book chapters. The laboratory is well equipped with all the analytical facilities like HPLC, FTIR, UV-Vis spectrophotometer, molecular tools like SDS-PAGE, RT-PCR. The work by PI has been extended towards the valorization of waste biomass including fishery waste for value added products. Our preliminary work on Goan jellyfish species gave interested results with tryptophan rich type I collagen and the manuscript is under review.