Biography:

Ahmed S. Zahran is a Professor of food microbiology, Minia University, Egypt. Graduated from the University of Edinburgh (UK), department of Microbiology. His main area of interest is probiotic foods and functional foods. Published more than 80 research papers in the field of bacterial enzymes, probiotic foods, functional foods and antibacterial substances isolated from lactic acid bacteria. He has his expertise in evaluation and passion in improving the quality of probiotic foods. He supervised 30 graduate students in the field of food microbiology, microbioal biochemistry and synbiotic foods. He teaches to both undergraduate and postgraduate students courses in fermentation technology and biochemistry, microbial enzymes, food poisoning and probiotic foods.