Mandayam Chakravarti Srinivasan

Biography

Mandayam Chakravarthi Srinivasan graduated from Presidency College, Madras (now Chennai) with Botany as his principal subject and was awarded Fyson Prize for the best botanical collections. He obtained PhD (Mycology and Plant Pathology) from University of Poona under the guidance of Professor MK Patel and Dr MJ Thirumalachar. He joined the Division of Biochemical Sciences, National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune (1957) and worked there until his retirement as the Head of Biochemical Sciences Division. He was deputed to study at the Microbiology Laboratory of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA under Professor VR Srinivasan and visited several research centres in Japan, Europe and USA to interact with leading researchers in the area of cellulose bioconversion under the sponsored UNDP projects.

Research Interest

Mycology, Industrial Microbiology & Enzyme Technology