个人简介

DrKiranisawardedaPhDdegreeinDairyMicrobiologybyNDRIDeemedUniversityin2014forherthesisentitled“Riboflavinoperoncharacterizationinlactobacilli”.HerareaofinterestsisLacticacidbacteria,foodandnutrition,ProbioticandPrebiotics.Dr.Kiranwasadjudgedthe“OutstandingOralPresenter”at7thAsianConferenceatLacticAcidBacteriaheldon6-8September,2013atIndianhabitatcentre,NewDelhi.Shealsohappenedtoattendworkshopon“HandsonPhenotypicMicroarrayfornewinsightsinMicrobialStudy”from25thto26thSep,2013organizedbySingaporeSocietyforMicrobiologyandBiotechnologyatNationalUniversityofSingapore”asaninvitedcandidate.ShehasalsobeenconferredBestPosterPresentationAwardatNationalConferenceBFHDMatNIFTEM,Sonepat,Haryana,Indiaon15-16Nov,2013.ShehasbeentoUniversityofAberdeenforherPosterPresentationforRowett-INRA2014Conference(co-hostedbyISAPP)“GutMicrobiology:fromsequencetofunction”,atAberdeen,Scotland,UKon16-19June,2014.SheisrecipientofInternationaltravelgrantunderNon-ICMRscientistsprogrammefortheyear2014.Further,shealsohappenedtodeliveranOralpresentationfor“InternationalSeminaronPharmaceuticalScienceandTechnology”atPadjadjaranUniversityatBandung,Indonesiaheldfrom16-19Sep,2014.ShehasattendedthisyeartheAnnualmeetingorganizedbyInternationalScientificAssociationforProbioticsandPrebiotics(ISAPP)asanoralspeakerforLatebrakingNewsatGeorgetownUniversity,WashingtonDC,USA(May18-21,2015).Attended2ndInternationalConferenceonNutraceuticalsandNutritionSupplementsheldonJuly18-19,2016Bangkok,Thailand.ThescientificrelevanceofherresearchworkseemstobedulyrecognizedbytheinternationalscientificcommunityasDr.KiranhasbeenabletopublishresearchpapersinFrontiersinMicrobiology,JournalofAgricultureandFoodChemistry,LWT-foodScienceandTechnology,and2peerreviewsinMicrobialbiotechnologyandCriticalreviewsinfoodscienceandnutrition,10populararticles,6researchabstracts,5technicalarticlesincompendiumsand14NCBIpartial16srRNAsequences.HerPhDthesishasbeenawarded“BestThesisaward”andDirector’sGoldmedalindairyprocessinggroupduringthethirteenthconvocationofNDRIDeemedUniversityin2015.