Kiran Thakur
National Dairy Research Institute, India
Biography
Dr Kiran Thakur has completed Ph.D in Dairy Microbiology at National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal, and Haryana, India. She is the member of Singapore Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology (SSMB) and International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP). She has been conferred BEST THESIS AWARD 2013-2014 for outstanding Doctoral Research work and Director’s Gold Medal for the same. Her PhD work has been recognized at various national and international platforms. She has attended Annual meeting organized by (ISAPP) at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA (May 18- 21, 2015) and International Seminar on Pharmaceutical Science and Technology at Padjadjaran University at Indonesia. She has been granted “Outstanding Oral Presenter” at 7th Asian Conference at Lactic Acid Bacteria held on 6- 8 September, 2013 at Indian habitat centre, New Delhi and also bagged Best Poster Presentation Award at National level. She has Presented Poste for Rowett-INRA 2014 Conference (co-hosted by ISAPP) “Gut Microbiology: from sequence to function”, at Aberdeen, Scotland, UK on 16-19 June, 2014. She has attended workshop at National University of Singapore Sep, 2013. She has published 9 Research and Review articles with high impact international and national journals. She has published 12 popular articles. She has submitted 15 partial 16s DNA sequences in NCBI. She is the authors of many articles in newspapers and magazines. She has also contributed for technical manuals and compendium at national levels. She has authored two books for Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. She is continuously seeking a dynamic & challenging career in Academics as well as Research and development in Food science and Technology and to promote the new research scenario as an ideal human resource.