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Volume 8 Journal of Biotechnology & Biomaterials
ISSN: 2155-952X Biotech Congress 2018 & Enzymology 2018
March 05-07, 2018
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20th Global Congress on Biotechnology
3rd International Conference on Enzymology and Molecular Biology
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March 05-07, 2018 London, UK
Biography
Jennifer A Littlechild is an Emeritus Professor of Biological Chemistry and has established the Henry Wellcome Centre for Biocatalysis at Exeter University in 2003. Her
research studies involve the structural and mechanistic characterisation of a range of enzymes from thermophilic bacteria and archaea that have industrial applications.
She has published over 200 publications in refereed high impact journals and presented her research work internationally. She has coordinated EU related project THER-
MOGENE and was a partner in a consortium grant HOTZYME. In UK she is funded from BBSRC and Innovate UK. These grants involve both large industrial companies
and SME enterprises. She has supervised over 40 PhD students and acts as External Examiner for other PhD and Masters Students. She is the UK representative and
Vice Chair of the European Section of Applied Biocatalysis and a Member of EU advisory committees for Industrial Biotechnology.