Keynote Speakers Andrea Goldson-Barnaby
Dr. Andrea Goldson-Barnaby from an early age always knew that she wanted to become a Food Technologist. She is a graduate of The University of the West Indies, Jamaica where she pursued a BSc, doing a double major in Chemistry and Food Chemistry followed by a M Phil in Applied Organic Chemistry. While at The University of the West Indies she also worked as a synthetic chemist at Tanaud International BV. A Commonwealth Scholar, she pursued doctoral studies in Food Science at the University of British Columbia, Canada where she was the recipient of several awards. Currently she is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica where she serves as the Head of the Food Chemistry Division and Coordinator for the M Sc in Food and Agro Processing Technology Programme. She has published 29 peer reviewed articles, 1 book chapter and was the recipient of the Principal’s Award for Most Outstanding Researcher/Research Activity, for the 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 academic years as well as best research publication in 2019. Dr Goldson-Barnaby is involved in capacity building of the local Food Industry and has been conducting Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance, Human Food Workshops since 2017, training over 150 Preventive Controls Qualified Individuals. She is the Faculty Advisor for the American Chemical Society Jamaica International Student Chapter and is involved in various outreach initiatives. The chapter has been conducting science outreach Chemistry Festivals since 2019. conducting postdoctoral research at Sloan Kettering and the University of Pennsylvania she joined IIT-Bombay in 2008 as an Assistant Professor. Her laboratory employs a combination of X-ray Crystallography, Cryo-EM, biochemical and biophysical tools to understand molecular mechanisms with implications to human health. Her current research interests follow a multipronged approach where she has contributed to two major areas, antimicrobial resistance and biosensors development. Towards the first goal of combating drug resistance, she focuses both on unearthing enzyme systems that can serve as new therapeutic targets as well as is involved in understanding the origins of antibiotic resistance itself. Her recent work with bacterial transcription factors has paved the way to structure-guided development of biosensors for aromatic pollutants. Since 2016, she has been serving on the Editorial Advisory board for ACS Sensors and RSC Chem Soc Reviews. She was the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Fellowship (FNASc) in 2019 and also won the National Women Bio-scientist Award, Department of Biotechnology, in 2018 and was awarded the CRSI bronze medal for 2020. She is also the recipient of the DBT-Wellcome Trust Alliance Senior Fellowship in 2020. She was admitted as a fellow to the Indian Academy of Science (IASc) in 2022. Ruchi Anand Ruchi Anand completed her PhD in 2004 from the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, USA. After
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