Anura Kurpad
St. John’s Medical College, Bengaluru
Anura Kurpad is a Professor of Physiology at St John’s Medical College, Bengaluru. He received his MD in 1988 and PhD in 1992. His interests are in the physiology of nutrient metabolism and requirements, and adaptations in clinical conditions. He was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Session 1D: Inaugural Lectures by Fellows/Associates
Mitali Mukerji
Farming the microbiome for nutrition
Indians, in general, are thought to have monotonous and predominantly cereal-based vegetarian diets with very little animal-food intake. As a consequence, their intake of micronutrients, particularly the B vitamins, is low. It is possible that there is an additional and physiologically significant source of some micronutrients for homeostasis in humans, coming from de novo colonic microbial synthesis of these nutrients $in vivo$. If so, this could be relevant to adapting to marginal diets with predominantly cereal intakes in human nutriture.