26^th World Nutrition Congress

Dr. Oluwatoyin Bolanle Oluwole is the current Director and Head of Department of Food Technology of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO) Lagos, Nigeria. She became the Director of the Department of Food Technology of the Institute on July 15th, 2015 and was an acting Director of the same department for about two years between August 2013 and July 14th 2018. Dr Oluwole currently coordinates at least twelve (12) research and development projects in the department and supervises at least forty (40) Research Scientists in various relevant disciplines to food in the department. Dr. Oluwole has numerous contributions to national development especially in the area of Food processing, value addition, product development and Food and nutrition security.

Food Science and Food Technology

Dr. Suresh Kaushik is currently working as a Chief Technology Officer (Research) at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. He received Ph.D. degree in the discipline of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. His thesis research work included transgenic technology and field trials of genetically modified Bt Brinjal with cry1Ab and cry1B genes. His current research work combines multidisciplinary approaches such as plant biotechnology, plant tissue culture, nanotechnology, soil microbiology, soil biochemistry, soil nutrients, trace elemental and heavy metals analysis using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry. His other research interests include: food quality and food safety issues, nanotechnology and genomics in food science, green nanomaterials, smart intelligent nanofertilizers, elemental speciation analysis using HPLC-ICP-MS. He has published many book chapters and research papers on the topics related to nanotechnology, biotechnology and plant nutrients in enhancing agricultural crop productivity.

Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Plant tissue culture, Nanotechnology, Soil microbiology, Soil Biochemistry, Soil nutrients