Dr. Sk Verma
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences
India
Biography
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Verma obtained master's degree from Banaras Hindu University with specialization in cyanobacteria and applied phycology before completing PhD in the area of Environmental Biotechnology from the same university. He worked as post doctoral fellow at University of Hyderabad in the area of microbial and molecular genetics. Currently he is working as professor of biological sciences and University Dean Academic Research Division at BITS, Pilani . Prof Verma has handled several research projects related to bioremediation and biodegradation of toxic industrial waste, development of recombinant bacterial biosensor for environmental application, bioactive compounds from native microalgae & higher plants from Shekhawati region and biodiesel production by microalgae, funded by DAE, CSIR, UGC, DST, MoM and WIPO. His major research interest lies in environmental biotechnology, microbial physiology & genetics.
Research Interest
Environmental Biotechnology
Publications
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Senthil Nagappan and S K Verma (2016) The static extraction of lipid from microalgae Desmodesmus sp MCC34. Res J Biotechnology 11 (5) 80-87.
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Nagappan S, Verma SK. Growth model for raceway pond cultivation of Desmodesmus sp. MCC34 isolated from a local water body. Engineering in Life Sciences. 2016 Jan 1;16(1):45-52.
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Raja Hari Gudlavalleti, Member IEEE, Subash Chandra Bose, Sanjay Kumar Verma, Punit Khatri, Joy Scaria, Shripal Dhewa, Vinod Kumar Chaubey (2017) A Novel Fluorometric Bio-sensing based Arsenic Detection System for Groundwater IEEE Sensors Journal. Vol 17 (17) 5391-5398.
