Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics
Open Access

Biography

Dr. Kondepudi is working as a Scientist, Food & Nutrition Biotechnology Division of National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute located in S. A. S. Nagar, Punjab, India. His research goal is to develop novel functional foods that could improve overall metabolic health. His work involves whole grains and their bioactives (proteins, dietary fibers, prebiotics and polyphenols); ingredients from spices and probiotics that could beneficially modulate gut microflora and contribute for the prevention and management of obesity and associated comorbidities. High-fat diet induced obese rodent models, nutrigenomic and metagenomic approaches for evaluating efficacy of bioactive ingredients and functional foods are being employed in their studies.

Research Interest

1. Adipocyte biology; nutrigenomic studies on obesity prevention using functional foods.
2. Gut microbiota, metabolic and mental health . 
3.Probiotic bacteria; immunomodulation, effects on human metabolism, antimicrobial peptides against enteric pathogens and exopolysaccharides.
4. Production of novel prebiotics like chito-, fructo-, galacto-, malto-, pectic-, xylo-, and gum arabic-oligosaccharides using microbial enzymes and designing ‘colonic foods'.

Publications

Altered Monoamine Metabolism in High Fat Diet Induced Neuropsychiatric Changes in Rats