Professional Experience

Project Scientist - C (Aug 2018 - till date)

National Centre for Coastal Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Chennai, India


Curator/Research Associate (Sep 2014 - Aug 2018)

National Facility for Marine Cyanobacteria, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India

NCBI-Bioproject Submissioins

  1. PRJNA609414 (eDNA studies on Coastal waters of Tuticorin, India)

  2. PRJNA609033 (Marine Genome sequencing)

  3. PRJNA857433 (Environmental DNA study of coastal waters)


Field Experience

Soil & fresh water habitats

Isolated different morphotypes of cyanobacteria from from soil and aquatic habitats of North Coastal Andhra Pradesh, India


Hypersaline habitats

Isolated different morphotypes of cyanobacteria from saltpans of Coromandel coast, India


Marine habitats

Collected water and Sediment samples from Bay of Bengal and Arabian sea for Microbiological analysis of seawater and sediments

Field Pics