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Dr. Kaushik Banerjee, BOYSCAST Fellow

Senior Scientist (Agricultural Chemistry)

·        Post Doctorate in Environmental Organic Geochemistry
INFU, University of Dortmund, Germany

·        Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Agricultural Chemicals
Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi

·        P.G. Diploma in Marketing and Sales Management
YMCA, New Delhi

Current Area of Research

·        Mass spectrometry based single and multi-residue analytical method development and validation for the monitoring of the residues of agricultural chemicals and other contaminants in food and environment matrix.

·        Environmental fate of pesticides – persistence, metabolism and sorption.

Recognitions / Awards / Fellowships

  • Chaired a session on 10th June at the 2nd Latin American Pesticide Residue Workshop, 8-11th June 2009 at Santa Fe, Argentina. http://www.laprw2009.unl.edu.ar/invited_speakers.html (http://www.laprw2009.unl.edu.ar/final_programme.html)

and presented Invited lead talk on “Management of pesticide residues in Indian grapes for export through comprehensive pre-harvest residue monitoring – a success story” on 11th June 2009

  • Guest Editor of the Journal of AOAC International for a special section on “New Methods of Pesticides Residue Analysis” - 2009
  • Invited lead talk on “GCxGC-TOF Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Pesticide Residues” presented at the 121st Meeting of the AOAC International, 16-20 September 2007 at Anaheim, California, USA.
  • Invited talk on “Multiresidue analysis of Pesticide Residues in Grapes” at the Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis on 12th September 2007.
  • Member, Expert Review Panel of the AOAC International for “Pesticide Residues in Soft Drinks” in 2006-2007.
  • GITS Award for the Best Paper on Marketing conferred by All India Food Processors’ Association conferred on 18th December 2004 at Bangalore, India.
  • BOYSCAST fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India for post-Doctoral research in Environmental Organic Geochemistry conferred in 2003.
  • Award for the Best Research Paper at International Conference on Pesticides, Environment, Food Security, 19-23 November 2001, Organized by the Society of Pesticide Science, New Delhi.

Research Experience

Designation

Period

Area of Research

Institute

Chief, National Referral Laboratory and Senior Scientist, Agricultural Chemistry

April 2005 to till date

·        Residue analysis method development and validation for food and environmental contaminants.

·        Persistence and Metabolism of pesticides and plant hormones in grapevines and environment.

·        Monitoring and management of pesticide residues in grape, mango and pomegranate for export to the European Union countries.

National Research Centre for Grapes, Pune, India.

Post – Doctoral Scientist

June 2003 to June 2004

·        Environmental organic geochemistry: Spectroscopic Investigation on Trifloxystrobin in Soils of Different Geographic Origins

INFU, University of Dortmund, Germany

Scientist, Agricultural Chemistry

March 1996 to March 2005

·        Persistence and Metabolism of pesticides in plant and environment.

National Research Centre for Grapes, Pune, India.

Selected Publications (Click for details) 

Visiting Scientist abroad

  • Laboratorio de Investigaciones y Servicios Ambientales Mendoza (LISAMEN), CCT-CONICET-Mendoza. P.O. Box 131, 5500 Mendoza, Argentina, 13-15th June 2009.
  • Mass Spectrometry Centre of Waters Corporation at Atlas Park, Manchester, UK, 15-17th October 2008.
  • GC-MS application Centre of ThermoFisher Scientific, Austin, Texas, USA, 25-27th September 2008.
  • 122nd AOAC Annual Meeting of the AOAC International at Dallas, Texas, USA, 21-24th September 2008.
  • European Pesticide Residue Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 2-5th June 2008.
  • Institute of Environmental Research (INFU), Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, 6-7th June 2008.
  • 121st AOAC Annual Meeting of the AOAC International at Anaheim, California, 16-20th September 2007.
  • Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, Davis, 9-14th September 2007.
  • Centre for Analytical Chemistry, California Department of Food and Agriculture, 12th September 2007.
  • US Environment Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs, Analytical Chemistry Branch, Ft. Meade, Maryland, USA on 15th December 2006.
  • Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, USA during 13-16 December 2006.
  • Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Maryland, USA on 13th December 2006.
  • Microbial Biophysics and Residue Chemistry Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Centre, United States Department of Agriculture, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, USA, during 12th and18th December 2006.
  • Chemical Residue Laboratory, Florida State Department of Agriculture, Tallahassee, Florida on 11th December 2006.
  • Leco Corporation, Florida, USA during 7-10 December 2006 to attend workshop on application of 2D (GCxGC)-TOF mass spectrometry in chemical analysis.
  • 120th Annual Meeting of the AOAC International at Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA during 17-21 September 2006.
  • The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan, USA on 22 September 2006.
  • Central Science Laboratory and Pesticide Safety Directorate, Government of the UK, York, United Kingdom during 26-30 September 2005.
  • Institute of Environmental Research, University of Dortmund, Germany during June 2003 to June 2004 as visiting post-Doctoral Scientist.

Email: kbgrape@yahoo.com

Phone: 020-2691-4245 / 5573 / 5574 (O)

Postal Address 

National Research Centre for Grapes, P.B. No. 3, Manjri Farm Post, Solapur Road, Pune - 412 307, Maharashtra, India.

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