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	Dr. Seema Rawat, Professor School of Life Sciences Areas of Interest/Specialization: Molecular Microbial Ecology, Microbial Technology, Microbial Stress Physiology, Bioremediation, Plant Growth Promotory Rhizobacteria. Publications \| More >> Preeti Ranawat and Seema Rawat. 2017. Metal-tolerant thermophiles: Metals as electron donors and acceptors, toxicity, tolerance and industrial applications. Environmental Science & Pollution Research. 25(5): 4105�4133 Preeti Ranawat and Seema Rawat. 2017. Stress response physiology of thermophiles. Archives of microbiology. 199: 391-414 Preeti Ranawat and Seema Rawat. 2017. Radiation resistance in thermophiles: Mechanisms and applications. World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 33: 112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-017-2279-5. Sohail Dalal, Pradeep Singh, Smita Raghava, Seema Rawat and M.N. Gupta. 2008. Purification and properties of the alkaline lipase from Burkholderia cepacia ATCC 25609. Biotechnology and applied Biochemistry 51(Pt 1):23-31. C. Manoharachary, K. Sridhar, Reena Singh, A. Adholeya, T.S. Suryanarayanan, Seema Rawat and B.N. Johri. 2005. Fungal biodiversity: Distribution, conservation and prospecting of fungi from India. Current Science, vol. 89, 1, pp. 58-71 close
	Dr. Rajesh Vasita, Assistant Professor School of Life Sciences Areas of Interest/Specialization:Exploring interfacial properties of polymeric surface to answer complex biological queries and for the development of biomedical devices. Publications \| More >> Vasita R., Katti D.S. Structural and functional characterization of proteins adsorbed on hydrophilized Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) microfibers. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 7, 61-71 (2012). Vasita R., Mani G., Agrawal C.M., Katti D.S. Surface hydrophilization of electropsun PLGA micro-/nano-fibers by blending with Pluronic F-108. Polymer, 51 (16), 3706-3714 (2010). Sharma C.S., Vasita R., Upadhyay D., Sharma A., Katti D.S., Venkataraghavan R. Photoresist derived electrospun carbon nanofiber with tunable morphology and surface properties. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 49(6),27312739(2010). close
	Dr. Sunita Patel, Assistant Professor School of Life Sciences Areas of Interest/Specialization: Biochemistry, biophysical chemistry, RNA-protein interactions, protein chemistry, spectroscopy: application to biology. close
	Dr. Anju Pappachan, Assistant Professor School of Life Sciences Areas of Interest/Specialization:Structural and functional characterization of metabolic pathway proteins and adhesins from Leishmania; plant and microbial lectins; stress proteins from Lactobacillus sp. using protein engineering, macromolecular crystallography, biophysical techniques, biochemical assays Molecular Biology, and bioinformatics tools. Publications \| More >> Kulkarni PG, Shah N, Waghela BN, Pathak CM, Pappachan A Leishmania donovani adenylate kinase 2a prevents ATP-mediated cell cytolysis in macrophages. Parasitol Int. 2019 May 17;72:101929. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2019.101929. [Epub ahead of print] Patel B, Patel D, Parmar K, Chauhan R, Singh DD, Pappachan A. L. donovani XPRT: Molecular characterization and evaluation of inhibitors. Biochim Biophys Acta- Proteins and Proteomics. 2018 Mar,1866(3), 426-441. Patel DK., Shah KR., Pappachan A, Gupta S, Singh DD. Cloning, expression and characterization of a mucin binding GAPDH from Lactobacillus acidophilus. 2016 Int J Biol Macromol. 91: 338-346. Pappachan A, Subashchandrabose C, Satheshkumar PS, Savithri HS, Murthy MR. A single point mutation disrupts the capsid assembly in Sesbania Mosaic Virus resulting in a stable isolated dimer. Virology. 2009 Sep 30:392(2):215-21 (cover page article). Pappachan A, Savithri HS, Murthy MR. Structural and functional studies on a mesophilic stationary phase survival protein (Sur E) from Salmonella typhimurium. FEBS J. 2008 Dec;275(23):5855-64. Pappachan A, Subashchandrabose C, Satheshkumar PS, Savithri HS, Murthy MR. Structure of recombinant capsids formed by the �-annulus deletion mutant - rCP (?48-59) of Sesbania Mosaic Virus. Virology. 2008 May 25;375(1):190-6. (cover page article) close
	Dr. Swati Joshi, Assistant Professor(On Contract) School of Life Sciences Areas of Interest/Specialization: Industrial microbiology and biotechnology, metagenomics, extremozyme research, protein engineering, heterologous protein expression systems and downstream processing. close
	Dr. Nishant S Junnarkar, Assistant Professor(On Contract) School of Life Sciences Areas of Interest/Specialization: Bioremediation, microbial degradation of xenobiotics, waste water treatment, enzymology of xenobiotics degradation. close

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