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Visiting PhD student from Thailand

Ms Srisuda Chaikitkaew has a Royal Golden Jubilee PhD scholarship awarded by the Thai Research Fund for a 10 month reseach visit to BIO.

Srisuda Chaikitkaew
Srisuda Chaikitkaew
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Chandini Ratnadevi

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Ms Srisuda is a PhD student at the Department of Biology, Thaksin University in Thailand, where she is supervised by Dr. Sompong O-Thong. Her research focuses on investigating carbon dioxide capture and utilization from biogas to organic acids such as  acetic acid by biological process. She will work on the enrichment, culturing and metagenomics of homoacetogenic bacteria for acetic acid production from the natural sources.