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PROJECT MONITORING COMMITTEE, INDIA SALBS
US-India Consortium for development of Sustainable Advanced Lignocellulosic Biofuel Systems
(SALBS)

K. Gurumurthi
(Chairman), Former Director
Institute of Forest Genetics and
Tree Breeding-Coimbatore

Jayant Modak K. J. Mukherjee A.K. Panda V. V. Ranade
Indian Institute Jawaharlal National National
of Science, Nehru Institute of Chemical
Bangalore University, Immunology, Laboratory,
New Delhi New Delhi Pune

Ramaswami (Vice Chancellor, Tamil Nadu task leads - Dr. A. Ashok Kumar (Work Package
Agricultural University, Coimbatore). 1), Dr. C. Ganesh Kumar (Work Package 2), and
The PSC consists of Dr. David Hoisington (Deputy Dr. Beena Patel (Work Package 3) coordinate
Director General-Research, ICRISAT, Patancheru, the execution of the respective Work Packages
Hyderabad), Dr. B.D. Kulkarni (NCL, Pune), Dr. by closely interacting with the investigators. Each
Pankaj Patel (Abellon Clean Energy Pvt. Ltd., principal investigator is responsible for meeting the
Ahmedabad) and Dr. P. Gunasekaran (Thiruvalluvar deliverables/ milestones defined in their respective
University, Vellore). The PSC meets once a year to work package(s).
review the overall progress and suggest suitable In the US consortium, WP1 is led by Dr. Shibu Jose
opinions to meet the proposed milestones. (University of Missouri), WP2 is led by Dr. Wilfred
Vermerris (University of Florida) and WP3 is led by Dr.
The Project Coordinator, Dr. Ahmed Kamal Janaki Alvalapati (Virginia Tech).
coordinates the project implementation, while the

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