Godwin Basil D’Cunha
Cape Breton University, Canada
Biography
Godwin Basil D’Cunha completed his PhD in Biochemistry from The University of Mumbai, India in 1995 and did his Post-doctoral work in Protein Chemistry and Enzymology from 1995-1997 at The University of Mumbai. He relocated to USA in 1997 and was an Adjunct Assistant Professor (City University of New York, 1999 – 2001), and then relocated to Canada in 2001. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Cape Breton University (CBU), Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada (currently in his 14th year of service at CBU). His research group works on fundamental and applied aspects of Phenylalanine Ammonia Lyase (PAL), an enzyme with considerable medical, industrial, and biotechnological significance. He has published 13 papers in peer-reviewed reputed journals and has made 32 presentations of his work at national and international conferences.