Expert Directory on Environmental Biotechnology
A. National Experts
1.National facility for Marine Cyanobacteria
Prof. L. Uma,
E.mail: uma@nfmc.res.in
Research Area:
Environmental Biotechnology includes Methane generation from animal wastes, tannin degradation by bacteria, degradation / detoxification / mineralization / decolouration / disinfection / metal accumulation / biosorption by marine cyanobacteria.
2. Institute of Microbial Technology
Dr. Girish Sahni, Director,
E.mail: sahni@imtech.res.in
Research Area:
Protein Chemistry & Molecular Biology
Dr. R.K. Jain,
E.mail: rkj@imtech.res.in
Research Area: Environmental Microbiology
Dr. Swaranjit Singh
E.mail: ssc@imtech.res.in
Research Areas:
Microbial Biochemistry & Applied Microbiology
Dr. Alok Mondal
E.mail: alok@imtech.res.in
Research Areas:
Microbial Genetics & Molecular Biology
3. NEERI (Environmental Biotechnology Division)
Dr. Tapan Chakrabarti,
E.mail: t_chakrabarti@neeri.res.in
Research Areas:
Environmental monitoring with special reference to toxic wastewater and hazardous sludges Biotechnological production of value added chemicals from wastes treatment and disposal of hazardous wastes Genotoxicity of toxic wastewaters and leachates.
Dr. Hemant J. Purohit, Head,
E-mail: hemantdrd@hotmail.com, hj_purohit@neeri.res.in
Research Area: Bioremediation
Dr A Juwarkar
E.mail: aa_juwarkar@neeri.res.in
Research Areas:
Microbiology, Environmental biotechnology
T K Ghosh
E.mail: tk_ghosh@neeri.res.in
Research Areas:
Environmental biotechnology
R A Pandey
E.mail: ra_pandey@neeri.res.in
Research Areas:
Environmental biotechnology
4. Agharkar Research Institute (Microbial Science Division)
Dr. Pradnya P. Kanekar,
E.mail: kanekarp@rediffmail.com
Research Area:
Bioremediation of hazardous waste waters; Biodegradation of toxic chemopollutants
Dr. K.M. Paknikar,
E.mail: paknikar@vsnl.com
Research area:
Metal-microbe interactions and their applications, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Microbial Culture Collections
Dr. D.R. Ranade,
E.mail: drranade@vsnl.com, drranade@aripune.org
Research Area:
Anaerobic bacteria, Treatment of industrial waste, Biogas technology, Microbial induced corrosion
Dr. Smita S. Nilegaonkar,
E.mail: smitanilegaonkar@rediffmail.com
Research Area:
Production of industrially useful chemicals and enzymes by microbial fermentation
Dr. Seema S. Sarnaik,
E.mail: Sarnaik@hotmail.com
Research Area:
Microbial treatment of industrial effluent, Production of industrially important enzymes
5. Rajib Gandhi Centre of Biotechnology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
Dr. Hari Krishnan K,
E.mail: harirgcb@yahoo.co.in, harikrishnan@rgcb.res.in
Research Areas:
Isolation of microbes from the polluted sites capable of bioremediation and microbial transformations of these chemicals. The metabolic pathways of xenobiotics, molecular characterization of microbes to elucidate the genes responsible for degradation.
Dr Sabu Thomas
E.mail: sabu@rgcb.res.in
Research Areas:
Biotechnology
Dr K Hari Krishnan
E.mail: harikrishnan@rgcb.res.in
Research Areas:
Biotechnology
6. IICB, Kolkata:
Dr. Nirmalendu Das
E.mail: dasnirmalendu@hotmail.com
Research Area:
Endotoxin mediated degradation in erythrocyte
7. ITRC (Environmental Microbiology Division), Lucknow
Dr. Ram Chandra,
E.mail: ramchandra_env@indiatimes.com, rc_env@yahoo.com
Research Area:
Bacterial detoxification of industrial waste ; Isolation and characterization of bacteria from soil, water and food
Dr. Ashwani Kumar,
E.mail: ashwani26@rediffmail.com
Research Areas:
Environmental Biotechnology (Cloning and characterization of degradative genes, bioremediation of contaminated soils, horizontal transfer of genes in the microbes).
Dr. N, Manockam,
E.mail: nmanickam@rediffmail.com, nmanickam2005@yahoo.com
Research Area:
Microbial degradation of environmental pollutants and characterization of degradative genes. Environmental Biotechnology and environmental genomics
8. NBRI, Lucknow
Dr. S. N. Singh,
E.mail: drsn_s@rediffmail.com
Research Area:
Ecotoxicology and bioremediation
Dr. R. D. Tripathi,
E.mail: tripathi_rd@rediffmail.com
Research Area:
Ecotoxicology and bioremediation
Dr. Chandra Shekhar Nautiyal,
E.mail: csnnbri@yahoo.com nautiyalnbri@lycos.com
Research Area:
Molecular biology and genetic engineering
9. IIT, Kharagpur
Dr. Debabrata Das, Professor,
E.mail: ddas@hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in
Research Area:
Biochemical Engineering , Environmental Biotechnology , Microbial Biotechnology
Dr. N. Mallic,
E.mail: nm@agfe.iitkgp.ernet.in
Research Area:
Environmental Biotechnology, Stress Physiology
Dr. Ramkrishna Sen,
E.mail: rksen@hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in
Research Area:
Biochemical Engineering, Bioprocess Development and Optimization, Microbial Biotechnology, Environmental Biotechnology, Enzyme and Bio-fuel Technology
10. Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
Dr. Rita Kumar,
E.mail: rita@igib.res.in
Research Areas:
Environmental biotechnology and environmental bioinformatics
Dr. V. C. Kalia,
E.mail: vckalia@igib.res.in
Research Areas:
Bioenergy from waste
11. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Dr. Rajinder K. Gupta,
E.mail: rkg67ap@yahoo.com
Research Area:
Natural products from microorganisms & plants, microbiology & physiology of actinomycetes, biotransformations, biocontrol agents/biopesticides, and biofuels and biomass conversion/utilization.
12. School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Prof Asis Datta
Email: ncpgr02bol@net.in asisdatta@hotmail.com
Area of Research: Molecular Biology, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology.
13. Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligard Muslim University
Dr. M. Saleemuddin,
E.mail: btisamua@nde.vsnl.net.in, msaleemuddin@rediffmail.com
Research Area:
Membrane biochemistry and enzyme technology. Use of protein-protein interactions in the stabilization of enzymes of industrial and analytical utility. Construction of field effect, optical and other sugar biosensors and used successfully in the FIA systems also the usefulness of anti-enzyme antibodies directed against the specific regions of the enzymes like the glycosyl and those where the unfolding process may begin.
14. Department of Bio Science and Biotechnology, Roorke University
Dr. R.P.Mathur,
E.mail: biost@rurkiu.ernet.in
Area of Research:
Environmental Pollution Abatement. In the current area of research emphasis is laid on use of microbial agents (fungus, yeast and bacteria) in degradation of refractory recalcitrant materials. The materials being targetted are Lignocellulosic Compounds, dyes in textile industries and Cdor (melaonidin) is distillery wastes.
15. Department of Environmental Biology, University of Delhi
Prof. P. Pardha Saradhi,
E.mail: saradhi@ndf.vsnl.net.in, ppsaradhi@hotmail.com
Research Areas:
Plant Stress Physiology, Environmental Biotechnology, Remediation of Wastelands
16. School of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT-Bombay
Dr. N. S. Punekar, Professor
E.mail: nsp@iitb.ac.in
Research Areas:
Microbial Biochemistry and Molecular Enzymology (Major fields) , Microbial Metabolic Regulation, Understanding Metabolism through biochemical & recombinant DNA techniques, Fungal Molecular Genetics and its Applications to Metabolic Engineering.
17. IIT, Madras
Dr. G.K. Suraishkumar,
E.mail: gk@iitm.ac.in, gk@biotech.iitm.ac.in
Research Areas:
Induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) to improve productivities of bioreactor cultures from a genetic view-point. Production of many bioproducts such as enzymes, xanthan gum, etc. Strategy of oxygen supply to aerobic bioreactors, which eliminates the gas-liquid transport resistance, improvement of productivities of viscous and shear-sensitive fermentations. Development of novel biosorbents for toxic trace metal removal with high uptake capacities; they resulted in two patents.
Dr. Anju Chadha, Professor
E.mail: anjuc@iitm.ac.in, anjuc@biotech.iitm.ac.in
Research Area:
Bioorganic Chemistry: Biocatalysis and Enzyme Mechanisms
Dr. T.S. Chandra, Professor,
E.mail: chandra@iitm.ac.in, chandra@biotech.iitm.ac.in
Research Area:
Biotechnology for food, feed and fuel Riboflavin enriched animal feed supplement , rib gene expression ,lipase and membrane fluidity changes by fluorescent probes in ascomycetes fungi. Nutraceuticals , phenolic antioxidant activity ,wound healing and anti-glycaemic effects in millet diet. Molecular Microbial Diversity in compost, vermicompost of sugar industry wastes (pressmud, bagasse ,trash etc) Low temperature biogasification, psychrotrophic microbes and cold-tolerant industrial enzymes (xylanases, cellulose , B-galactosidase etc).
Dr. K.B. Ramachandran, Professor
E.mail: kbram@iitm.ac.in
Research Areas:
Bioreactor Design and Analysis, Modeling, Simulation and Control of Bioprocesses, Enzyme Engineering and Environmental Biotechnology.
18. School of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University
Prof. Subir Kundu, Professor and Coordinator,
E.mail: subirbhu@gmail.com
Research Areas:
Microbial Engg., Enzyme Engineering, Bioreactor-kinetics, Modelling and Scale-up, Downstream Processing, Bioconversion, Bioinformatics, Food Engineering, Nanobiotechnology
Dr. S. K. Srivastava, Professor,
E.mail: sksri_2512@bhu.ac.in
Research Areas:
Enzyme Engg., Bio-conversion, Wastewater Engg., Downstream Processing, Instrumentation and Process Control.
Dr. Mira Debnath (Das), Reader,
E.mail: mdevdas1@rediffmail.com
Research Areas:
Ferment.Tech., Microbial Engg., Enzyme Engg., Genetics Engg., Instrumentation and Process Control
19. Centre for Biotechnology, JNU
Dr. Rakesh Bhatnagar, Professor
E.mail: rakeshbhatnagar@mail.jnu.ac.in
Research Area:
Search for Novel bioinsecticides from xenorhabdus nematophilus, Strategies to Control Anthrax Lethal Factor Binding Domain of Protective Antigen of Anthrax Toxin.
Dr. Uttam K. Pati, Professor,
E.mail: uttam@mail.jnu.ac.in
Research Area:
Identification, purification and characterization of active hypoglycaemic principle from Momordica charantia, Bovine immunodeficiency Virus: Isolation, Molecular Characterization and Development of diagnostics.
Dr. Aparna Dixit, Professor,
E.mail: adix2100@mail.jnu.ac.in
Research Area:
Investigations into Botanical Based Products and their studies at molecular levels in identified therapeutic areas.
20. School of Biotechnology, Devi Ahilya University
Dr. Anil Kumar, Professor & Head,
E.mail: ak_sbt@yahoo.com , bioinfo@sancharnet.in
Research Areas:
Genetic Engineering and Enzyme Technology.
21. IIT, Delhi
Dr. A.K. Srivastava, Professor & Head,
E.mail: hoddbeb@dbeb.iitd.ac.in
Research Areas:
Modelling, simulation, optimization & control of bioprocesses. Plant/animal cell fermentation for the roduction of commercially important metabolites. Propionic acid fermentation, Poly-Beta-hydroxy-butyrate (PHB) production. Software development for data acquisition and control, Bioreactor development.
Dr. G.P. Agarwal, Professor,
E.mail: gopal@dbeb.iitd.ac.in
Research Areas:
Bioprocess engineering of low value but high volume bio-chemicals; Application of membranes for water purification; Downstream Processing of bio-chemicals via high throughput membrane based separation methods; Methods for therapeutic proteins, peptides, antibiotics and recombinant bio-molecules purification using Ultrafiltration (UF), Nanofiltration and Immobilized Metal ion Affinity Chromatography (IMAC); Biosensor design and application; Bioinformatics: (i) Study of large data bases of genomes and its annotation (ii) Teaching of bioinformatics at UG & PG level (iii) Application of bioinformatics tools to study comparative microbial genomics.
Dr. V.S. Bisaria, Professor ,
E-mail: vbisaria@dbeb.iitd.ac.in
Research Areas:
Biotechnology of Lignocellulose Conversion - biosynthesis and applications of cellulase, xylanase and related enzymes, conversion of xylose to ethanol, microbial upgradation of agro-residues to animal feed. Production of secondary metabolites by fermentation.
Dr. Chand Subhash, Professor ,
E-mail: subhashc@dbeb.iitd.ac.in
Research Areas:
Bioprocessing of industrial/agricultural feedstock using Immobilized cells/enzyme system. Microbial production, purification & characterization of industrial enzymes. Application of enzymes in process in microaqueous media. Management issues in industrial biotechnology.
Dr. S.N.Mukhopadhyay, Professor ,
E.mail: snmukho@dbeb.iitd.ac.in
Research Areas:
Bioprocess Engineering. Bioconversion. Oxygen mass transfer and process analysis. Food Biotechnology. Environmental Biotechnology. Cellulase-cellulose process biotechnology, Tools of r-DNA technology (Restriction enzymes), Transfectional fermentation biotechnology in animal cell engineering.
Dr. T.R. Sreekrishnan, Associate Professor ,
E.mail: sree@dbeb.iitd.ac.in
Research Areas:
Waste Engineering and Environmental Biotechnology-Development, modelling and optimization of aerobic and anaerobic biological treatment processes for high strength and toxic industrial waste streams. Biodegradation of xenobiotic compounds. Production of biodegradable polymers. Development of biosensors for monitoring environmental pollutants.
22. School of Environmental Science, Mahatma Gandhi University
Dr. E.V.Ramasamy, Lecturer,
E.mail: ev_ramasamy@yahoo.com
Research Areas:
Environmental Biotechnology : Anaerobic wastewater treatment technologies Solid Waste Management : High-solid digestion, Composting, Vermicomposting Bioremediation : Phytoremediation of domestic wastewater, Soil bioremediation with Earthworms
23. National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIST)
(Formerly Regional Research Laboratory)
Dr. Ashok Pandey, Head, Biotechnology Division,
E-mail: pandey56@yahoo.co.in,ashokpandey56@yahoo.co.in
Trivandrum - 695 019, Tel: 0471-2515279, 09447072265, Fax: 0471-2491712, Telefax: 0471-2475949
Research Area: Biopolymers (including bio-degradable plastics)
24. University of Madras (CAS in Botany)
Dr. N. Anand, Director
Email: botany@vsnl.com
Research Areas: Cyanobacteria,Algal biotechnology
Dr.S.S. Gnanamanickam, Professor
Email: gmanick@vsnl.com
Research Area: Plant in microbiology - management of plant health with microbial nioculants also rice pathology, Pseudomonass Xanthromonas.
25. Vector Control Research Centre,Indian Council of Medical Research
Dr. K. Balaraman, Deputy Director
Email: rk_bala@yahoo.com
Research Area: Microbial Pesticides,
Pathogenes
26. Bacardi Martini India Ltd
Dr.T.N. Bhavanishankar, General Manager
Email: tbhavnis@bacardi.com
Research Area: Biological treatment of organic waster,
Installation/handling/or running oflarge scale effluent Distillery treatment plant, Mycotoxins,Fermented foods,Intestinal microflora
27. Gujarat University, Microbiology & Biotechnology
Dr.S.R.Dave, Professor & Head
Email: shaileshrdave@yahoo.co.in
Research Area: Bioremediation of metallic pollutants, Bioleachig of metals from sulphidic minerals, Biodiversity of microorgnisms , Misrobial EPS.
28. Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Division of Microbiology
Dr. Y.D. Gaur, Emeritus Professor
Email: ydg_mbio@iari.res.in
Research Area: Soil microorganisms, Taxonomy, Bacteriorins , Immunodiagnostic of Microorganisms
29. CAS in Botany, University of Madras,
Dr. P.T. Kalaichelvan, Professor
Email: Manikavi53@yahoo.com
Research Area: Mycology, Edible mushrooms,white-rot fungi(wood-decaying fungi)utilization of white-rot fungi in biodegradation of xenobiotics
30. DOS in Applied Botany & Biotechnology,University of Mysore
Dr. S.R. Niranjana, Professor
Email: srniranjana@hotmail.com
Research Area: Seed Mycology, Plant Pathology, Microbial Technology, Seed Biotechnology,
Biological Control
