Engineering Project
Resume:
ASHISH GUPTA
Permanent Home address:
SF -*, Anand Arch Apartment
Old Survey Road
DehraDun, Uttarakhand
India, Pin Code – 248001
Current Address:
43A St. George Close
Sheffield, S3 7HL
United Kingdom
Phone: +447*********
email: ******.***@*****.***
Objective:
To seek a career within an organization where I can apply my knowledge and skills for the success of the company as well as continue to learn and enhance my knowledge.
Education:
2009 – 2010 MSc. Biological and Bioprocess Engineering
University of Sheffield
Research project: Optimization of lipid composition in algal biodiesel
production. (Supervisor – Dr. S. J. Wilkinson)
Biodiesel obtained from algae is environment friendly as it generates zero net carbon emission. The algae use the photosynthesis process to fix the carbon dioxide to produce lipids. These lipids are then separated from the algal biomass, transesterified and finally washed. This project focuses on optimization of lipid production in algae grown in photobioreactor. A possible method of doing this is by stressing the cells eg: limiting the nutrients essential like nitrogen or phosphorus required for the growth. Also investigating the effect of different stresses on lipid content of the cell
Techniques worked on: Nile red test, gravimetric method, chlorophyll content, nitrogen content test. Also worked using Poultry manure.
Algae samples worked on: Dunaliella salina, Nannochloropsis, Tetraselmis etc.
Subjects studied: Principles of Biochemical engineering, Microfluids, Biopharmaceutical bioprocessing, Bioenergy, Biosystems Engineering & Computational biology, Research methods in Biological and Bioprocess engineering, Bionanotechnology
2004 – 2008 Btech (Bachelors of Technology) in Biotechnology (First class)
Vellore Institute of Technology, India
Modules include: Downstream processing, Metabolic Engineering,
Biological Spectroscopy, Bioinformatics, Protein Engineering,
Molecular Modeling and Drug Design, Chemical reaction engineering,
Mass transfer and separation Thesis Project etc.
o Bachelors Thesis, Reliance Life Science, India (Dec ’07 – May ’08)
Project: “Purification & Characterization of Therapeutic Proteins”. Also worked in the fermentation lab during the same duration.
Techniques worked on: Coomasie gel, silver staining, tangential flow filtration (TFF) , chromatography techniques (Ion exchange, affinity, size exclusion, immune-affinity, hydrophobic interaction), HPLC, Western Blot
o Vellore Institute of technology, Vellore, India (Jun ’07 – Nov ’07)
Project: “Production and purification of Bacteriocin”.
o National Institute of Pharmaceutical and Education Research, Mohali, India (Dec’06 - Jan’07)
Techniques/ experiments worked on: regulation of blood glucose level in normal and diabetic rats, western blotting, SDS – PAGE, tri reagent – RNA/ DNA/ protein isolation reagent, blood urea nitrogen etc.
o Alembic, Baroda, India (Apr ’06 - May ’06)
Project: “To certify each and every product that was manufactured and marketed by the company”. Also got a chance to visit microbiology lab where test were carried in order to know their effect on the micro-organisms.
Techniques worked on: Karl Fischer, Determination of Optical rotation and specific optical rotation, determination of pH values, fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer, gas chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography, ultraviolet and visible absorption spectrophotometry.
Work Experience:
o Home fund raising – worked for ‘OXFAM 365’ – Oct 2010 - Nov’ 2010 (part time)
o Infosys Technologies Limited, Mysore, India as a Software Engineer. Tools worked on SSIS, SSAS, SSRS used for Data Warehousing. - Nov’ 2008 - May’ 2009
Poster / Paper Presentation/ Conferences:
March 2007 Optima – Presented Paper on “Biodiesel production from algae
using Carbon-dioxide” organized at IIT Kharagpur.
Feb 2007 Biohorizon: ‘Indo – Korean International Biotechnology
Symposium’ - Presented Poster on “Biodiesel production from
algae using Carbon dioxide” organized at IIT New Delhi.
Feb 2007 Bio Xplore: ‘National Seminar on Emerging Trends in
Biotechnology’ - Presented paper on “Electricity generation in
microbial fuel cells – Bioelectricity” organized at Vivekanadha
College of Engineering, Erode.
Nov 2006 International Symposium on Biochromatography &
Nanobiotechnology, VIT, India
Centre for Bio separation Technology, India & Society of Biochromatography & Nanoseparation, France
Extra Curricular Activities / Achievements:
o Developed the website, poster & pamphlets for the departmental fest named Replicon ‘06 at VIT University.
o 6months CISCO networking course during the undergraduate course.
o Active participant in class seminar, group discussion and debates.
o NIIT Degree for C++.
Languages/ Software known:
Languages: C, C++, SQL
Software: Rasmol, Swiss PDB, FASTA, EMBL, Swiss Prot, Perl, Unix, Mathematica, R,
Autocad (Beginners)
Operating systems: 98/ 2000/ Me / Vista
References:
1. Dr. Stephen Wilkinson
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Mappin Street
S1 3JD, Sheffield, UK
Tel: +44 (0-114-***-****
Email id: *.*.*********@*********.**.**
2. Prof. David James
Course Director
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
The Sheffield Bioincubator
50 LeavyGreave Road
S3 7RD, Sheffield, UK
Tel: +44 (0-114-***-****
Email id: *.*.*****@*********.**.**
3. Prof. Will Zimmerman
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Mappin Street
S1 3JD, Sheffield, UK
Tel: +44 (0-114-***-****
Email id: *.*********@*********.**.**
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