Dr. S.mayilraj
Senior Principal Scientist and Professor
Actinobacteria Division
Institute of Microbial Technology
India
Biography
Dr. S.Mayilraj, MSc., MTech.,Ph.D Senior Principal Scientist and Professor (AcSIR) UNESCO Fellow, DFG Fellow, Raman Fellow, DAAD Fellow, JSPS Fellow Actinobacteria Division Microbial Type Culture Collection(MTCC) An International Depositary Authority (IDA) Institute of Microbial Technology(CSIR-IMTECH) Sector 39-A, Chandigarh.160 036. INDIA. Area of Research: For the past one decade our group has been studying the bacterial diversity of different ecological niches of India and described several novel bacterial taxa. Currently our group is working on culture collection related activities and exploration and exploitation of unseen prokaryotic diversity using polyphasic approach. Recently we have extended it to next generation sequencing and comparative genomics. Our group has also initiated work on development of bioremediation technology for explosives, focusing on NRPS and PKS through culturable and metagenomic approach; understanding the Human Microbiome. Current Projects: Culture collection related activities, research on microbial taxonomy- MTCC (CSIR-DBT); Development of bioremediation technology for Explosive compounds (DRDO); Man as a Super organism: Understanding the Human Microbiome (CSIR); Water quality monitoring of The Ganga river from Gomukh to Hooghly to National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG). Significant recognition: Awards, fellowships, international funding of distinction, technologies transferred/licensed etc.: MIRCEN-UNESCO Fellow (1998) DFG-INSA Fellow (2005) NASA Technical Brief Award (2008) Raman Research Fellow (2009) DAAD Fellow (2012) JSPS Fellow (2012)
Research Interest
Bacterial diversity of different ecological niches of India and described several novel bacterial taxa. Currently our group is working on culture collection related activities and exploration and exploitation of unseen prokaryotic diversity using polyphasic approach. Recently we have extended it to next generation sequencing and comparative genomics. Our group has also initiated work on development of bioremediation technology for explosives, focusing on NRPS and PKS through culturable and metagenomic approach; understanding the Human Microbiome.
Publications
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Genome sequencing of Serinicoccus chungangensis strain CD08_5 isolated from duodenal mucosa of celiac disease patient (2016). Atul Munish Chander*., Gurwinder Kaur*., Girish Nair., Devinder Kumar Dhawan., Rakesh Kumar Kochhar., Shanmugam Mayilraj# and Sanjay Kumar Bhadada#. GenomeA.
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Understanding the mechanism of biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles using culture supernatant of Ochrobactrum rhizosphaerae strain ARC-61 and its antimicrobial activity (2016). Geeta Gahlawat,Sristy Shikha, Baldev Singh Chaddha, Saumya Roy Choudhuri, Shanmugam Mayilraj, Anirban Roy Choudhury. Microbial Cell Factories.
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"Re-classification of Bacillus isronensis Shivaji et al., 2009 as a member of the genus Solibacillus as Solibacillus isronensis comb. nov. and emended description of genus Solibacillus Krishnamurthi et al., 2009" (2016). Poonam mual; Nitin Kumar Singh; Ashish Verma; Peter Schumann; Srinivasan Krishnamurthi; Syed Dastager; Shanmugam Mayilraj. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol .
