In January 2022, the Global Programs office welcomed seven visiting scholars from our partner institution, the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, India. The World Bank-Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) awarded funds to the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (UAS-D) under National Higher Education Project (NAHEP) an Institutional Development Plan (IDP) titled “Augmenting Quality and Relevance of Higher Agricultural Education through Enhanced Learning Outcome and Entrepreneurship Development.” One of the major objectives of this project is to improve the academic ambiance and technology competence of faculty through the international training program. As a part of this program, seven young faculty from the diverse disciplines of Agricultural Sciences are undergoing a 3-month training program at Iowa State University. The program dates for the visiting scholars are January 15- April 15, 2022.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Archana Gopalrao Lamdande, Assistant Professor, Food Processing and Technology Department

Hosted by: Dr. Greg Curtzwiler, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

UASD: Research focus on Photo-oxidation of light-sensitive foods presents in retail display cases.

ISU: Working on extracting nutrients in light-sensitive foods and photo-oxidation of those nutrients during storage at display cases.

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Dr. Chandrakant D. Soregaon, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding

Hosted by: Dr. Arti Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy

UASD: Research focus on pigeon pea breeding.

ISU: Working on legume breeding research with a focus on soybean.

 

 

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Dr. Deepthi, Assistant Librarian, College of Forestry Library, Sirsi

Hosted by: Hannah Scates Kettler, Digital Scholarship and Initiatives, Department Head, University Library 

UASD: Working on IACRD activities, information consolidation products, social media, digital library, use, user, and usage studies.

ISU: Focusing on Digital Scholarship Initiatives being conducted at Park’s Library. The planning, programming, and workflow of Islandora 8, Aviary, DSpace, Metadata creation, Copyright clearance, Ingesting of Digital Collections, building institutional IR.

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Dr. Ramya Ganesh, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Engineering (Processing & Food Engg​.​), Department of Food Technology,

Hosted by: Dr. Buddhi Lamsal, Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

UASD: Research focus on nutritional and functional properties in plant proteins.

ISU: Focus on extracting lentil protein isolates using different sonication parameters and physicochemical and functional properties of lentil protein isolates using sonication.

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Ravikumar Hosamani, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology

Hosted by: Dr. Madan Bhattacharyya, Professor, Department of Agronomy

UASD: Exploring the utility of hypergravity as a novel tool for inducing desired phenotypes for improving crop plants.

ISU: Receiving training in CRISPR gene-editing technique.

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Dr. Shaik Mohammed Akbar, Scientist in Biochemistry

Hosted by: Dr. Buddhi Lamsal, Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

UASD: Research insect-plant interactions, insecticidal proteins, and enzymology.

At ISU: Working on research on engineering and technological properties of plant proteins.

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Dr.Vinayak Upadhya, Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Products and Utilization, College of Forestry, Sirsi

Hosted by: Shrishail S Navi, Research Scientist III, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology

UASD: Apart from teaching, a major focus is on Ethnomedicine and Plant Systematics – (a) documentation of medicinal plants and evaluation, and (b) Pharmacognostic and Phytochemical analysis of medicinal plants and related forest products.

ISU: Working on extracting toxins from fungi-based biocontrol agents previously isolated from Iowa soils and evaluating the toxins extracted against some of the major soybean pathogens.