India Partnering Award: Development and application of lactic acid bacteria as designer probiotics

Lead Research Organisation: Quadram Institute
Department Name: Gut Microbes and Health

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Description The first meeting was held in India in September 2014 and plans for collaboration were agreed.
Indian collaborator visited IFR and developed skills in gene knockout in Lactococcus lactis. The work is now continuing in CFTRI and is progressing well
A PhD student visited QIB for 5 months between November and was trained in functional analysis of probiotics. A manuscript is has been drafted for publication.
2nd workshop of the participating partners was held in February 2018 at National Dairy Research Institute in Karnal, India where the partnership progress was discussed and further collaborations were planned. The final workshop was held in Pune in August 2019 where future collaboration plans were finalised.
Exploitation Route The project will provide knowledge exchange between researchers form UK and India and to develop future more substantial joint funding grants.
A joint grant application for a fellowship to further develop this UK-India link has was successfully submitted and a postdoc who originally trained at NDRI will come to QIB for collaborative research to enhance the collaborations set up during this partnership.
The partnership has led to further collaborations between NDRI and QIB but with another research Leaser within QIB with expertise in food colloids.
The plans are to explore further funding via funding sources in India and Newton funding in UK.
Sectors Agriculture, Food and Drink,Creative Economy,Healthcare,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology
 
Description The award resulted in further interactions with Indian partners that allowed 2 PhD students from Amritsar University and from ICAR institute in Delhi to undertake collaborative research at Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB). This interaction benefited both the research of QIB in the area of probiotics and also provided valuable training to the students who have both completed their PhD qualifications and have gained permanent positions in academia. Further collaborations between QIB and Indian Institutes are planned.
First Year Of Impact 2023
Sector Agriculture, Food and Drink
Impact Types Societal
 
Description Oversears DBT fellowship
Amount ₹2,500,000 (INR)
Organisation Ministry of Science and Technology India 
Department Department of Biotechnology, India
Sector Public
Country India
Start 08/2018 
End 07/2019
 
Description Functional analysis of probiotics 
Organisation Guru Nanak Dev University
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Provided training to the PhD student from Guru Nanak Dev University, Sumanpreet Kaur Saini. She undertook collaborative research in QIB and acquired skills in whole genome, sequencing, bioinformatics, Tissue culture and antimicrobial and antibiofilm assays.
Collaborator Contribution They provided manpower, bacterial strains and background information on the strains
Impact Sequence data and experimental that can be published in the future
Start Year 2017
 
Description Joint workshop 
Organisation Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Department Central Food Technological Research Institute
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Provided travel costs for the delegates attending the meetings and workshops.
Collaborator Contribution Hosted two meetings and provided free accommodation and subsistence to the delegates.
Impact 1. Multidisciplinary network meeting. 2..agreement on the future collaboration
Start Year 2014
 
Description Joint workshop 
Organisation National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
Country India 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Dr Ramachandra Gadre attended both the kick off meeting as well as the 1st joint workshop held in CFTRI, Mysore, as well as the 2nd workshop meeting in NDRI, Karnal India
Collaborator Contribution Dr Gadre gave a presentation at the workshop and contributed to the planning and execution of the joint networking workshop
Impact Multidisciplinary network meeting with agreement on the future collaboration
Start Year 2014
 
Description workshop India 
Organisation Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Department Central Food Technological Research Institute
Country India 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution QI planned and organised the workshop and gave a presentation and contributed to the discussion.
Collaborator Contribution NDRI hosted the meeting, gave a presentation and contributed to the discussions CFTRI and NCL gave a presentation and contributed to the discussions
Impact 1. Multidisciplinary network meeting. 2.agreement on the future collaboration
Start Year 2014
 
Description workshop India 
Organisation Government of India
Department ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute
Country India 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution QI planned and organised the workshop and gave a presentation and contributed to the discussion.
Collaborator Contribution NDRI hosted the meeting, gave a presentation and contributed to the discussions CFTRI and NCL gave a presentation and contributed to the discussions
Impact 1. Multidisciplinary network meeting. 2.agreement on the future collaboration
Start Year 2014
 
Description workshop India 
Organisation National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
Country India 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution QI planned and organised the workshop and gave a presentation and contributed to the discussion.
Collaborator Contribution NDRI hosted the meeting, gave a presentation and contributed to the discussions CFTRI and NCL gave a presentation and contributed to the discussions
Impact 1. Multidisciplinary network meeting. 2.agreement on the future collaboration
Start Year 2014