Dr.Ranjana Pande

About

Dr. Ranjana Pande is currently an Assistant Professor in the department of Life Sciences, Sharda University Greater Noida U.P. She holds a Ph.D. in Food Science and Processing from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal. Before joining Sharda University, she worked as an Assistant Professor in Ganpat University, Mehsana in the Department of Food Technology. Dr. Pande contributed to three book chapters, six research papers and twelve national and international conferences. She is full member for Association of Food Scientists and Technologies (India), honorary member of 3E Innovation foundation New Delhi and Associate editor in Food science and Technology Letters. Dr. Pande also served as Professional Scientific Advisory Committee Member in Phytoelixir Pvt.Ltd.  (Recognition No. DIPP99296 under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, GoI) is an Innovation based Biotech Startup, Nashik. Till now she guided many M.Sc. and B.Sc. students for their dissertation work. Apart from the teaching and research work she also hold an academic responsibility Board of Studies Member and NAAC 1 criterion from Food Science and Technology Programme. 

Experience

• 6 years 

Qualification

• Ph.D

Award & Recognition

• Awarded with two travel grants from All India Coordinated Research project on Harvest and Postharvest Technology Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), India and Department of Biotechnology, India for attending ASABE conference at Louisville, Kentucky, USA    
• Senior Research Fellowship by Post harvest and Technology Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), India.
• Junior Research Fellowship by Post harvest and Technology Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), India.

Research

Book Chapter Publications:

• Smita Tripathi, VR Sinija, S Bag, V Shibby, Ranjana Pande (Co-author), Astha Deswal, HN Mishra. (2018). Chapter Title: Rapid Methods for Food Quality Analysis. In: Editor HN Mishra. Book Title: “Food Product and Process Innovations Volume 2.” New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, India.  ISBN: 978-93-86546-95-1  
• Ranjana Pande (First author), Gayatri Mishra, Shubhangi Srivastava, HN Mishra. (2018). Chapter Title: Safe Storage of Food Grains. In: Editor HN Mishra. Book Title: “Food Product and Process Innovations Volume 2.” New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi, India. ISBN: 978-93-86546-95-1  
• Ranjana Pande ((First and corresponding author), Shalini Mishra., HN Mishra., MN Singh. (2012). Chapter Title: Role of entomopathogenic fungi (Beauveria bassiana) in stored food grain safety. In: Editor Tiwari, SP, Singh RS, Sharma, R. Book Title: “Recent Advances in Microbiology”. Nova science publisher, Inc. New York, USA (Published, pp575-588). ISBN No. 978-1-61470-632-8. 

Journal Articles: 

• Ranjana Pande (First and corresponding author), HN Mishra. (2022). Postharvest storage of green gram (Vigna radiata) seeds. Food and Bioprocess Technology. (Submitted)
• Ranjana Pande (First and corresponding author), HN Mishra. (2018). Efficacy of non formulated entomopathogen (Beauveria bassiana) to control the storage insect pests of green gram (Vigna radiata) seeds. Indian Journal of Agricultural Research. 52(3): 295-299. (NASS Rating– 4.86 and Impact factor- 0.37, SJR – 0.147). ISSN No. 0367-8245  
• Ranjana Pande (First and corresponding author), HN Mishra. (2015). Influence of microwave and fungal treatments on nitrogen solubility index of stored green gram (Vigna radiata) seeds. Asian Journal of Dairy and Food Research, 34 (2): 116-122. (NASS Rating– 4.20). ISSN No. 0971-4456
• Ranjana Pande (First and corresponding author), HN Mishra. (2015). Fourier Transform Near-Infrared spectroscopy for rapid and simple determination of phytic acid content in green gram seeds (Vigna radiata). Food Chemistry. 172: 880-884. (Impact factor – 6.306) ISSN No. 0308-8146
• Ranjana Pande (First and corresponding author), HN Mishra. (2014). Influence of microwave heating on moisture sorption isotherm and drying characteristics of green gram (Vigna radiata) seeds. Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, 39 (5): 458-468. (Impact factor – 1.405) ISSN No. 1745-4549
• Ranjana Pande (First and corresponding author), HN Mishra. (2013). Effect of fluidized bed heat treatment on insect mortality, proximate composition and antinutritional content of stored green gram (Vigna radiata) seeds. Journal of Food Chemistry and Nutrition, 01 (02): 94-99. ISSN No. 2308-7943.
• Ranjana Pande (First and corresponding author), HN Mishra., MN Singh. (2012). Microwave drying for safe storage and improved nutrition quality of green gram seed (Vigna radiata). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 60: 3809-3816. (Impact factor – 3.610) ISSN No. 0021-8561

Certifications

• Completed certification of Nptel course conducted by Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur on the topic Novel technologies for food processing and shelf-life extension in 2019.

Area of Interest

• Food Processing and Preservation, Food Microbiology