People

Dr. Anup Kesavan completed his PhD from School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. Later he did his Postdoctoral fellowship from Centre for Tuberculosis, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. At Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Kesavan worked on latency and reactivation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis using rabbit model. In 2011 he moved back to India and joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.  In 2020, Dr. Kesavan joined as a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, Kannur University. Here he is working on 

1) The molecular aspects of flavoproteins and its regulation in Mycobacterium smegmatis 

2) Characterization of cold protease from various Bacillus species 

3) Identification and screening of new electrogenic bacteria from nature.

TOPIC: Functional characterization of MSMEG-5136 (Rv0080) gene from Mycobacterium smegmatis

Ms. Manjusha completed her MSc in Microbiology from Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, Kannur University in 2020. Currently she is pursuing her PhD in Microbiology, working on the characterization of flavoprotein genes in Mycobacterium smegmatis.

TOPIC: Isolation, purification and characterization of peptidase from Bacillus species

Ms. Anusha completed her MSc in Microbiology from Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, Kannur University in 2020. She is doing her PhD in Microbiology, working on novel protease from Bacillus sp. isolated from Western Ghats.

TOPIC: Molecular Biology of Cephalopods.

Ms. Anju completed her MSc in Microbiology from CMS College, Coimbatore in 2015. She is pursuing her PhD in Microbiology, working on the molecular biology of Cephalopods.

TOPIC: Characterization of electroactive bacteria from Western Ghats

Ms. Aiswarya RS completed her MSc  in Microbiology. She is pursuing her PhD in Microbiology on the characterization of electroactive bacteria from Western Ghats

TOPIC: Functional characterization of flavoprotein gene from Mycobacterium smegmatis

Ms. Aiswarya Mohandas completed her MSc  in Microbiology. She is pursuing her PhD in Microbiology on the Functional characterization of flavoprotein gene from Mycobacterium smegmatis.

TOPIC: Isolation, purification and characterization of cold active lipases from psychrophilic bacteria

Ms. Prejina completed her MSc  in Microbiology. She currently working as an Assistant Professor at S.N. College, Kannur. She is pursuing her PhD in Microbiology on the characterization of cold active lipases from psychrophilic bacteria

TOPIC: Exploration of Cold active peptidase and insecticidal Cry protein purified from Bacillus thuringiensis VIID1 

Dr. Drishtant Singh completed his PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Guru Nanak Dev University. He is currently pursuing his postdoctoral fellowship at Department of Nutrition, Case Western University, Cleveland Ohio, USA.

TOPIC: Characterization of flavoprotein gene MSMEG_3955 from Mycobacterium smegmatis

Dr. Neha Khosla completed her PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Guru Nanak Dev University. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Khalsa College, Amritsar 

TOPIC: Cloning Expression Purification and Characterization of msmeg 2652 sirR gene from Mycobacterium smegmatis.

Dr.Sharad Thakur completed his PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Guru Nanak Dev University. Currently he is working as a Postdoctoral fellow at New Orleans