Pattanathu Rahman's profile
What I do
Affiliations
Current affiliations
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- Position
- Senior Lecturer in Biotechnology
- Company
- University of Teesside, UK
- Duration
- 2003 - Present
- Further information
Past affiliations
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- Position
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Company
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA
- Duration
- 2001 - 2002
- Further information
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- Position
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Company
- University of Ulster, UK
- Duration
- 2000 - 2001
- Further information
Location
- City:
- Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom
- Hub:
- North-East England
Interests
Identifying novel bacteria for industrial applications
Biosurfactant (Rhamnolipid) production and characterisation
Bioremediation of hydrocarbons using biostimulation and bioaugmentation techniques
Biotechnological approaches for nanomaterials processing
Optimising microbioreactors for bioprocesses
Enzymatic reduction of metallic pollutants
Projects
Principal Investigator
1.FROPTOP (March 2008) – ‘Exploring the biocatalytic pathways of the microbial biosurfactant production from biodiesel industry residual glycerine’ funded by Bioscience for Business KTN.
2.University Research Fund (2004-05) – Bioleaching of waste oils in oily mill scale using biosurfactant
3.University Research Fund (2004-05) – Determination of the optimum conditions for the production and extraction of biosurfactants by microbial fermentation using isolates from the Tees Valley Region
4.Peter Berg Foundation for Scientific Research (2003-04) – Screening of Industrially important, eco-friendly bacteria from the contaminated sites of Teesside
Co-investigator
1.EU Life III Environment Programme (2005-10) Biomass, Remediation, Regeneration (BioReGen): Reusing Brownfield Sites for Renewable Energy Crops
2.Defra Waste and Resources R&D Programme (2005-07) – Bio-recycling: Resource recovery and reduction of oily hazardous wastes via biosurfactant washing and bioremediation
3.European Regional Development Fund, North East England Objective 2 (2003-05) –Bioremediation – SME support project
Publications
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Rahman PKSM and Gakpe E. Production, characterisation and applications of biosurfactants - Review, Biotechnology , 360-370 (2008)
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KSM Rahman, G Street, R Lord, G Kane, TJ Rahman, R Marchant and IM Banat. Bioremediation of petroleum sludge using bacterial consortium with biosurfactant Environmental Bioremediation Technologies , 391-408 (2006)
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Thomas, K. R., Rahman, P.K.S.M. . Brewery wastes. Strategies for sustainability. A review Aspects of Applied Biology , 147-153 (2006)
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Rahman, K.S.M. and Murthy, M.A.V. . Stabilisation of chromium by reductase enzyme treatment (Book Chapter) Stabilisation/solidification treatment and remediation , 347-355 (2005)
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Rahman, K.S.M., Street, G., Lord, R., Kane, G., Banat, I.M. . Bioremediation of hydrocarbon contaminated gasoline station soil by a bacterial consortium Environmental Studies , 401-407 (2004)
Contact
- email:
- ksmrahman [ at ] yahoo.com
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