Dr. Nitin Trivedi, PhD

About

Dr. Nitin Trivedi is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Biotechnology at Gujarat Biotechnology University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He graduated with a post-graduation degree in Microbiology and obtained his Ph.D. in Biological Science from CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, in 2015. During his Ph.D., he explored marine microbial enzymes to produce biofuel from seaweeds, followed by designing a biorefinery process to extract value-added products from green seaweed. In 2015, he visited the University of Messina, Italy, as a guest researcher in the Indian-EU collaborative project “Biowalk4biofuels”. Later, he joined DBT ICT CEB, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, as a Postdoctoral fellow (2015-2017) and worked on seaweed growth optimization and sequential extraction of biobased products. Dr. Trivedi succeeded in receiving a prestigious DST INSPIRE Faculty fellowship (2017-2022) from DST (India) and continued working at DBT ICT CEB in the area of Marine Biotechnology. Since 2009, Dr. Trivedi has been working in Marine Biotechnology with a special emphasis on seaweed and marine microbial biotechnology. So far, he has published 30 publications in SCI journals, two patents, and one book. Since 2017, he has been teaching microbiology and biotechnology subjects in UG and PG courses. He has delivered several national and international talks as an invited speaker. He has also been affiliated as a research advisory committee member/examiner with institutes of national and international importance and associated with around 20 SCI journals as a reviewer. Recently, he has been appointed as an Editorial Board member of the Scientific Reports of Nature publishing group.

Background

• 2015: Ph.D. in Biological Science from CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, Gujarat under AcSIR, New Delhi
• 2008: M.Sc. in Microbiology from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
• 2006: B.Sc. in Microbiology from Sardar Patel University, Anand, Gujarat

Honours and Awards

• 2019: Visiting Scientist Fellowship at Centre of Marine Science, University of Algarve, Portugal
• 2017: DST INSPIRE FACULTY by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
• 2017: Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship. University Grant Commission, India
• 2016: Postdoctoral fellowship at Department of Plant, Food & Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University, Canada
• 2015: Postdoctoral fellowship, DBT-ICT Centre for Energy Biosciences, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India
• 2015: Agriculture Research Organization (ARO) Post-doctoral fellowship, Govt. of Israel, 2015
• 2015: Visited University of Messina, Messina, Italy from 10/03/15 to 25/03/15 as a part of EU collaborative project Biowalk4biofuel as a guest researcher.
• 2014: CICS International Travel Support, INSA, India
• 2014: 3rd Prize in Young Scientist in Bioprocessing in Bioprocessing India 2014 organized by ICT, Mumbai and IIT, Mumbai
• 2012: Senior Research Fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India
• 2011: Doctoral fellowship at Energy and Environment Fusion Technology Centre (E2FTC), Myongji University, South Korea (Not availed)
• Reviewer for: Energy & Fuel (ACS), Energy conversion & Management (Elsevier), Process Biochemistry (Elsevier), Rendiconti Lincei (Springer), 3 Biotech (Springer), Algal Research (Elsevier), Critical Review in Biotechnology (Taylor & Francis), Forensic Science International (Elsevier), Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (Springer), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B, Plant Breeding and Biotechnology (Korean Society of Breeding Science), CRC Press, Taylor & Francis group, Springer Nature

Research Group Overview

• Marine bioresources are gaining global attention as a source of food, feed, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and bioenergy. Among these, marine algae, including microalgae, macroalgae, and microbial diversity, have been studied for various applications; however, there is still significant potential to explore these resources for products of industrial importance. With research expertise in algal biotechnology and marine microbial biotechnology, my research lab is focusing on both fundamental and applied research on marine algae and diverse marine microbial populations. The potential bioresources/waste biomass will be utilized to produce products of industrial significance. The major research areas of the lab are:
  ▪Bioprospecting of Marine Bioresources for industrially relevant products
  ▪Marine Algal Biorefinery
  ▪Valorisation of waste biomass of marine/terrestrial origin into value-added products
  ▪Biotech strategies to mitigate marine pollution

Research Project:
1.Agro-waste derived biopolymer based composite aerogels for petrochemical/oil spill cleanup from the marine environment (ongoing).
2.Exploring the potential of algal nutrients for cell growth and understanding its mechanism at a molecular level (ongoing).
3.Mari-culture waste generated seaweed biomass for agriculture, bioenergy, and medical applications (completed).

Publications

• Mhatre A, Gore S, Mhatre A, Trivedi N, Sharma M, Odaneth AA, Lali AM (2019). Effect of multiple product extractions on bio-methane potential of marine macrophytic green alga Ulva lactuca. Renewable Energy, 132, 742-751 (IF-8.0)
• Mhatre A, Navale M, Trivedi N, Pandit R, Lali AM (2018). Pilot scale flat panel photobioreactor system for mass production of Ulva lactuca (Chlorophyta). Bioresource Technology 249, 582-591 (IF-9.64)
• Lakshmi, DS, Trivedi N and Reddy, CRK (2017). Synthesis and characterization of seaweed cellulose derived Carboxymethyl cellulose. Carbohydrate Polymers. 157, 1604-1610 (IF- 9.38)
• Trivedi N, Baghel RS, Bothwell J, Gupta V, Reddy, CRK, Lali AM, Jha B (2016). An integrated process for the extraction of fuel and chemicals from marine macroalgal biomass. Scientific Reports. 6, 30728 (IF-4.38)
• Trivedi N, Reddy CRK, Radulovich R and Jha B (2015). Solid state fermentation (SSF)-derived cellulase for saccharification of the green seaweed Ulva for bioethanol production. Algal Research. 48-54. (IF-5.0)

Books Edited

• Recent advances in seaweed Biotechnology: Biomass, Emerging Applications and Bioeconomy, Springer, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0519-4, Editors: Nitin Trivedi,CRK Reddy, Alan Critchley