Shanmugam Mayilraj
Senior Principal Scientist
Microbial Technology
CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology
India
Biography
Past Research Achievements: Exploration of marine actinobacterial diversity and genomic analysis of novel taxa. Microbial Characterization of explosive degrading microbes and development of microbes on a solid support Man as a Super organism : Understanding the Human Microbiome Achievements: Technical brief award-NASA UNESCO Fellow, DFG Fellow, Raman Fellow, DAAD Fellow, JSPS Fellow Proposed more than 60 novel taxa (genus/species) and announced 25 draft genomes.Past Research Achievements: Exploration of marine actinobacterial diversity and genomic analysis of novel taxa. Microbial Characterization of explosive degrading microbes and development of microbes on a solid support Man as a Super organism : Understanding the Human Microbiome Achievements: Technical brief award-NASA UNESCO Fellow, DFG Fellow, Raman Fellow, DAAD Fellow, JSPS Fellow Proposed more than 60 novel taxa (genus/species) and announced 25 draft genomes.
Research Interest
Culture collection related activities, research on microbial taxonomy- MTCC (CSIR-DBT) Development of bioremediation technology for Explosive compounds (DRDO); Water quality monitoring of The Ganga river from Gomukh to Hooghly to National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)
Publications
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Kaur, G., Arora, A., Sathyabama, S., Mubin, N., Verma, S., Mayilraj, S. and Agrewala, J. N. (2016) Genome sequencing, assembly, annotation and analysis of Staphylococcus xylosus strain DMB3-Bh1 isolated from stool of laboratory mouse BALB/c reveals genes responsible for pathogenicity. BMC Gut Pathogens. 8, 55.
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Pal, D., Kumar, R. M., Bala, M., Kaur, G., Kaur, N., Singh, N. K., Krishnamurthi, S. and Mayilraj, S. (2017) Bacillus maritimus sp. nov., a novel member of the genus Bacillus isolated from marine sediment. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 67, 60-66.
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Kaur, G., Mual, P., Kumar, N., Verma, A., Srinivasan Krishnamurthi, S., and Mayilraj, S. (2016) Microbacterium aurelia sp. nov., a novel member of the genus Microbacterium isolated from Aurelia aurita, the moon Jelly fish. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 66, 4665-4670
