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AUTHOR’S PUBLICATION

Journals (International)

[1] Agrahari S., Wadhwa N., “Isolation and characterization of Feather degrading

enzymes from Bacillus megaterium SN1 isolated from Ghazipur poultry waste site”,

Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology (InPress) [Indexed SCOPUS, Impact factor

0.67] (Accepted on 7th December 2010)

[2] Agrahari S., Wadhwa N., “Production of extra cellular milk clotting enzyme from

isolated Bacillus sp.”, Journal of Pharmacy Research, vol.3 (12), pp. 2924-2927, 2010.

[Indexed in SCOPUS, DOAJ Impact factor: 1.09].

[3] Agrahari S., Wadhwa N., “Degradation of Chicken Feather a Poultry Waste Product

by Keratinolytic Bacteria Isolated from Dumping Site at Ghazipur Poultry Processing

plan”, International Journal of Poultry Science vol. 9 (5), pp. 482-489, 2010. [Indexed

in DOAJ and SCOPUS]

[4] Wadhwa N., Asawa K., Agrahari S., “Response Surface Methodology and Resilient

Back Propagation Based Yield Prediction of Protease from Bacillus megaterium SN1”,

Journal of Pharmacy Research. (InPress) [Indexed SCOPUS and DOAJ, Impact

factor 1.09] (Accepted on 27th December 2010)

[5] Kaushik P., Batra E., Juneja N., Tushar, A., Kohli S., Suchit, A., Agrahari S., Rani V.

and Wadhwa N., “Phytochemical screening of developing garlic and effect of its

aqueous extracts on viability of cardiac cell line: A comparative study”, Journal of

Pharmacy Research. (InPress) [Indexed SCOPUS and DOAJ, Impact factor 1.09]

(Accepted on 26th January 2011)

[6] Gaur S., Agrahari S., Wadhwa N., “Purification of protease from Pseudomonas

thermaerum GW1 isolated from poultry waste site,” The Open Microbiology vol. 4, pp.

67-74, 2010. [Indexed in Pubmed Central, Cab Abstracts and DOAJ]

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International Conference (Abroad)

[7] Agrahari S., Wadhwa N., “Production of industrially important food and feed enzymes

from Bacillus thuringiensis SN2 isolated from Ghazipur poultry waste site” (Oral

presentation) at ICBFE 2010: “International Conference on Biotechnology and Food

Engineering” Singapore, 25th -27th August 2010. (Travel grant was awarded by

Department of Biotechnology) [Indexed in DOAJ]

[8] Wadhwa N., Asawa K., Agrahari S., “Optimization studies of medium components for

protease production from Pseudomonas thermaerum GW1”, Submitted to Enzyme

Engineering XXI , An ECI Conference Series, September 18-23, 2011, Vail, Colorado.

USA

[9] Asawa K., Wadhwa N., Agrahari S., “Resilient Back Propagation Based Yield

Prediction of Keratinase from Bacillus megaterium SN1” (Oral presentation) at

IASTED Technology Conferences 2010 November 1–3, 2010 Cambridge,

Massachusetts, USA [Indexed in Web of Science, Scopus]

[10] Gaur S., Gupta S. and Wadhwa N., “Isolation of Protease and Keratinase from

Microbes Isolated From Ghazipur Poultry Waste Site, Ghaziabad, India”, (Oral

Presentation), at SIM Annual Meeting and Exhibition Industrial Microbiology and

Biotechnology, Toronto, Canada. July. 26–30, 2009.

International Conference (India)

[11] Gupta S., Gaur S. and Wadhwa N., “Production of extracellularly secreted keratinase

and protease from bacteria of poultry waste site” (Oral presentation) at International

Conference on Emerging trends in Environmental Research (St Albert's College,

Ernakulam) Kerala, 14th -16th August 2009.

[12] Gupta S., Gupta P., Tyagi S., Gupta S., Gaur S. and Wadhwa N., “Potential

application of Protease from senesced leaves of banana (Musa paradisiaca)” (Poster

presentation) at International conference on Emerging trends in Biotechnolgy (ETBT)

and 6th annual convention of the Biotech Reserch Society India (BRSI) at Banaras

Hindu University, Varanasi, 4-6 December 2009.

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