Department of Microbiology Profile
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BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY Tiruchirappalli – 620 024, Tamil Nadu, India DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY PROFILE 2 National Recognitions UGC Non-SAP DST FIST (Leve-lI) DST-PURSE MHRD RUSA National Repository for Microalgae & Cyanobacteria – Freshwater (Sponsored by DBT, Govt. of India) 3 FACULTY MEMBERS Dr. N. Thajuddin Professor and Head Dr. K. Natarajaseenivasan Professor Dr. V. Rajesh Kannan Associate Professor Dr. D. Dhanasekaran Assistant Professor Dr. G. Muralitharan Assistant Professor Dr. P. Thiyagarajan Assistant Professor Dr. C. Nithya DST-INSPIRE Faculty 4 Department of Microbiology PREFACE This brochure is intended to provide an insight into the Department of Microbiology, Bharathidasan University for the benefit of prospective students, alumni, industries and the public. We hope this would convey the versatile dynamism and the infective enthusiasm of the young and active Microbiology Department. As a result of emphasis on research that erases the traditional academic boundaries, we collaborate closely with other departments of Bharathidasan University as well as other universities, institutions and industries within and outside the country. The department is reverberating with active research in both basic and applied aspects of microbiology encompassing wide areas such as biodiversity; ecobiology; & molecular taxonomy including DNA fingerprinting of bacteria, cyanobacteria, fungi, actinomycetes and microalgae; establishment of microbial repository; development of pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and bioenergy from various microbes. We work also on microbial nanoparticles; leptospirosis; molecular diagnostics; metagenomics; probiotics; marine bacterial endosymbionts and rhizosphere biology. The department is unique in having a host of faculty trained in advanced areas of research in different countries around the world. They are now engaged in developing the required manpower on modern microbiology, molecular biology and biotechnology in this country. The most important aim of the department is to motivate, encourage, enable and empower the student community. The educational process in the department is based on close student- faculty interaction which is bidirectional. All these lead to transition from student to peer, novice to authority and stranger to friend. No single formula guides this process. It is the dedication of the faculty, cooperation among stakeholders and the product of the intellectual climate of the department. I look forward to welcoming you in the Department of Microbiology very soon. Professor and Head 5 DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY The department emerged as a component of the School of Life Sciences in 1992 with Microbiology as one of the optional subjects in the Five-year Integrated M.Sc. Life Sciences Program. An exclusive two year post graduate course on Microbiology was started during 1994. Now, twenty students are admitted every year on merit cum reservation basis and the course structure is so framed as to enable the students to continue in research or seek employment or become an entrepreneur. So far, more than 60 of them have joined Ph.D. programs and others are in employment in India and outside. Since June 2007, the present Department of Microbiology was delinked from NFMC into a separate full-fledged department and Full Time M.Phil course was started in the same year. Within a short span of time the Department had procured both basic and advanced instrumentation facilities from the UGC and other funding agencies for successfully running the M.Sc., M.Phil and Ph.D. programs. It is a pride and an additional feather to the cap of the university that in 2016, the DBT has again funded a major infrastructural facility called National Repository for Microalgae and Cyanobacteria (NRMC) with a part replacing the NFMC for marine and the other part for the Department of Microbiology for freshwater Microalgae and Cyanobacteria. This is housed in a new and separate building fully equipped to maintain the germplasm and carry out basic as well as applied research on these organisms. The faculty of the Department are fully committed to provide high quality education at Post-graduate and Research levels and are well recognized for their research contributions at National and International Levels. They have successfully competed and obtained research projects with grants totalling ~Rs. 10 crores so far from various government funding agencies viz.: DOD (MoES), DBT, DST, ICMR, CSIR, UGC, IFS and INSA. Recently the department has received UGC-Non-SAP, DST-FIST and DST-PURSE funds for the establishment of state of art research equipment. The faculty in the department are all personally equipped with exposure to the best laboratories in the world and have risen to the level of editing professional journals; reviewing research publications; grant proposals; receive fellowships and awards from reputed institutions and sit in committees constituted by the Government of India as members as well as Chairman. 6 To confirm the saying “Like begets like”, the students of the department excel by themselves in team spirit and winning laurels and fellowships like: SERB N-PDF, DSKPDF, DST Fast Track Young Scientist Fellowship, CSIR, ICMR Fellowships, DST-INSPIRE Fellowship, Non-SAP Fellowship, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, Rajiv Gandhi National Fellwoship, Maoulana Azad Minority Fellowship, University Research Fellowship and TNSCST student projects for M.Sc students. As the proof of the pudding is in eating, the quality of the level of research in the department will be evident from the publications in reputed, peer reviewed, high impact journals which abound from this department. The department not content with self- development, tries its best to develop others by conducting regularly training workshops; seminars; symposia; refresher courses; summer courses; DST-INSPIRE programs for school students etc. to benefit the entire country. Students for their part regularly conduct from 2007, annual intercollegiate meet to train and test talent amongst students of colleges and departments of the universities called Cenitterz. VISION: To set a global standard in research and teaching of Microbiology and be the pioneer worthy of emulation. Mission: To provide wholesome experience and knowledge to students to develop into exemplary leaders of the future in academic and outside arena. To pursue and promote world-class research and training at the frontiers of microbiology To move up through International & national alliances and collaborative initiatives to excel globally in Microbiology and Biotechnology research and education. Quality Policy To pursue standards of excellence in research, teaching, training & consultancy and remain accountable through continuous self-assessment and improvement. To be open to constructive criticism and learn from experience. 7 RESEARCH INTEREST Dr. N. THAJUDDIN Faculty I Professor and Head Area of Research/Specialization: Cyanobacteria Microalgal Taxonomy Biotechnology Achievements made in Teaching/Research/Extension No. of Research Publications : 305 No. of papers presented in Conferences : International: 80 & National: 353 H-Index : 31 I-10 Index : 84 Total Citations : 4206 Patents Granted/Filed : Filed - 4 Products Developed : 3 Projects Completed/Ongoing : 13 / 03 Awards and Recognitions 1. Indian Botanical SocietyMerit Certificate (1989). 2. DBT Overseas Associateship Award [Long-term] (1994-1995) from the Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. 3. Certificate of Appreciation from Bharathidasan University for the research work leading to the development of valuable new technologies in the area of marine cyanobacteria (2001). 4. Professor Probir Chatterjee Memorial Lecture Award 2008, University of Culcutta, Kolkotta, West Bengal, India. 5. Best Research Advisor Award 2013, Eco Club, H.H. The Rajah‟s Govt. College, Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu, India. 6. Dr. G. S. Venkataraman Memorial NABS-Best Scientist Award of National Academy of Biological Sciences for the year 2014. 7. BSR - One Time Grant from University Grants Commission, New Delhi (2015–2016). 8 8. Professor T.V. Desikachary Endowment Lecture Award 2017, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. 9. Tamil Nadu Scientist Award(TANSA-2014) in Biological Sciences from Tamil Nadu State Council for Science & Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. 10. Prof. V. Krishnamurthy Endowment Lecture Award 2018 of Seaweed Research and Utilization Association, Madras Christian College (MCC), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Research Group Members Ph.D 1. G. Narchonai (Full – Time) 2. R. Thangaraj (Full – Time) 3. Lavaniya Ramachandran (Full – Time) 4. C. Arutselvan (Full – Time) 5. K. Peer Muhamed Noorani (Full – Time) 6. S. Soundararajan (Part – Time) 7. Anju Majeed (Part – Time) 8. Monalisa Das (Part – Time) PDF 1. Dr. A. Suresh 2. Dr. R. Thenmozhi 3. Dr. R. Vijayakumar Past Members Ph.Ds 17. Dr. A. Ilavarasi 1. Dr. A. Nagasathya 18. Dr. D. Vijayan 2. Dr. R. Shyam Kumar 19. Dr. A. Parveez Ahamed 3. Dr. V. Thiyagarajan 20. Dr. N. Reehana 4. Dr. G. Muralitharan 21. Dr. E. Baldev 5. Dr. I. Anandavalli 22. Dr. F. Lewis Oscar 6. Dr. H. Syed Jahangir PDFs 7. Dr. R. Nazeerullah 23. Dr. C. Nithya 8. Dr. K. Moorthy 24. Dr. N. Kumaraguru 9. Dr. M. Sathesh Kumar 25. Dr. Segal Kiran 10. Dr. N. Amaresan 26. Dr. Beema Safreen 11. Dr. Mohd. Rasheeduddin 27. Dr. D. Bakkiyaraj 12. Dr. S. Rajalaksmi 28. Dr. A. Hemalatha 13. Dr. D. Mubarak Ali 29. Dr. K. Manivannan 14. Dr. V. Thennarasu 30. Dr. Dharitri Borah 15. Dr. R. Praveen Kumar 31. Dr. S. Sumathi 16. Dr.