- Responsible for purchasing lab chemicals
- Preparing Thai plant extracts prepared by maceration processes and crystallizing samples by spray drying or vacuum freeze-drying method
- Determining the viability of freeze-dried probiotic bacteria stored at room temperature or at 4 degrees Celsius
- Cytotoxicity evaluation of fibroblast, melanocyte & adipocyte cells
- Identifying chemical markers using HPLC
- To investigate research findings related to the selected area of study
- To screen lactic acid bacteria capable of hydrolyzing starch from naturally plaa-som samples
- To select amylolytic lactic acid bacteria (ALAB) that has the potential to be used as starter cultures
- To characterize and identify pure cultures of ALAB strains by using both phenotypic and genotypic characterization methods
- To preserve ALAB strains for long and short-term storage
- To investigate the influences of the potential strians to be used as starter cultures on quality and safety of plaa-som samples
- To determine technological properties of ALAB starters with respect to plaa-som attributes compared with spontaneous fermented plaa-som samples
- To detect the starter activity by relative quantitating the gene that is responsible for hydrolyzing starch for plaa-som fermentation
- To summarize the findings and write academic research papers