Ganesh Kumar C
Principal Scientist
Chemical Technology
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology
India
Biography
Dr. C. Ganesh Kumar obtained his Ph.D. degree in Microbiology (1997) from NDRI, Karnal, Haryana under the guidance of Prof. M.P. Tiwari. Subsequently he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at various reputed organizations like Bose Institute, Kolkata (1999-2001), College of Medicine, Inha University, Inchon, South Korea (2001-2003) and at the Research Institute of Genome-based Biofactory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Sapporo, Japan (2003-2005) on different extremophiles and their metabolites.
Research Interest
Microbiology of Extreme Environments, Enzymology and Molecular biology of Extremophiles, Fermentation and Bioprocess development for enzymes, biopolymers, biosurfactants and other metabolites, Purification and characterization of bioactive compounds, enzyme inhibitors, quorum sensing inhibitors, Bioethanol from Sweet Sorghum Juice and Syrup, Delignification methods and Cellulosic bioethanol
Publications
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Kumar, C.G. and Poornachandra, Y. (2015) Biodirected synthesis of Miconazole-conjugated bacterial silver nanoparticles and their application as antifungal agents and drug delivery vehicles. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 125: 110–119.
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Kumar, C.G., Poornachandra, Y. and Chandrasekhar, C. (2015) Green synthesis of bacterial mediated anti-proliferative gold nanoparticles: Inducing mitotic arrest (G2/M phase) and apoptosis (Intrinsic pathway). Nanoscale 7(44): 18738–18750.
