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Dr Natarajan Velmurugan

Dr Natarajan Velmurugan

Designation : Scientist E

Education : Ph.D

ID. No.: 1254

Contact Details: +91 0360-2244220 | Fax: 0360-2244220

Email id : natarajan@neist.res.in

Research Interest

Microbial Bioprocessing and Bioengineering

Projects(Ongoing & Completed)

  • “Laboratory Scale production and evaluation of nutritionally enriched indigenous fruit peel waste composite as aquaculture feed in Arunachal Pradesh”; On-going.
  • “Construction of metabolically stable artificial bacterial symbiotic system for improving medicinal plants and crop productivity in Arunachal Pradesh”; On-going.
  • “Evaluation of metabolically stable bacterial endophytes for improving the medicinal plants and crop productivity in net house conditions in different altitudes of Arunachal Pradesh"; On-going.
  • “Characterization of culturable Thraustochytrids of Antarctica for their polyunsaturated fatty acids and carotenoids contents with emphasis on fish feed formulation”; On-going.
  • “Deciphering the mechanism(s) of host-endophytes coevolution, enhanced secondary metabolite production and crop productivity”; Completed.
  • “Nutritional enrichment of agricultural wastes with essential fatty acids producing Thraustochytrids as improved feed for aquaculture”; Completed.
  • “Expanding endophytes of Paris polyphylla as a model to study co-evolution relationships with emphasis on functional metabolites production”; Completed.
  • “Development of bioprocessing and metabolic engineering of haptophycean microalgae for the direct production of C18 hydrocarbons as jet fuels”; Completed.
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List of Publications

  • DK Saikia, C Chikkaputtaiah, N. Velmurugan*. Nutritional enrichment of fruit peel wastes using lipid accumulating Aurantiochytrium strain as feed for aquaculture in the North-East Region of India. Environmental Technology. 2024. 45:1215-1233.
  • R Ahmed, S Sonowal, C Chikkaputtaiah, E Basar, N Velmurugan*. Bifunctional and metabolically stable Himalayan endophytic bacterium Pantoea sp. enhances microalgal productivity. Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. 2024. 14:18907 18922.
  • S Sonowal, R Ahmed, C Chikkaputtaiah, E Basar, N Velmurugan*. A comprehensive characterization of culturable endophytes of Paris polyphylla reveals their potential role in microalgal growth in co-culture. Applied Soil Ecology. 2022. 174:104410.
  • S Sonowal, NP Palani, R Ahmed, J Debbarma, C Chikkaputtaiah, E Basar, N. Velmurugan*. Himalayan bacterial endophytes enhance microalgal cell numbers and chlorophyll content in synthetic co-culture. Journal of Applied Phycology. 2022. 34:2383-2400.
  • D Deka, R Marwein, C. Chikkaputtaiah, SS Kaki, T Azmeera, HPD Boruah, N Velmurugan*. Strain improvement of long-chain fatty acids producing Micractinium sp. by flow cytometry. Process Biochemistry. 2020. 96:90-101.

Awards

 Selected and participated in 43rd Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica (ISEA), MoES, Govt. India. Scientific visit to Larsemann Hills and Schirmacher Oasis of Antarctica from Dec. 2023 to Mar. 2024.

 DST-Scheme for Young Scientists and Technologists (DST-SYST) Grant Award, DST, Govt. of India, SEED Division, 2020-2023.

 SERB-Early Career Research (ECR) Grant Award, DST, Govt. of India, Life Sciences Division, 2017 2020.

 DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award, DST, Govt. of India, 8th Batch, Plant and Agriculture Division, 2015 2020.

 MPGI Travel Grant Award to attend Algal Biomass Summit 2015 (ABS 2015) held in Washington D.C., award provided by Microbial and Plant Genomic Institute, MN.

 Best Poster Award in 3rd Asian-Oceania Algae Innovation Summit – AOAIS 2014 held in Daejeon, South Korea.  Best Poster Award in Young Asian Biochemical Engineers Conference – YABEC 2012 held in Tokushima, Japan.

 CityU-Molitoris Scholarships for Marine Mycology (2011), provided by City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

 Outstanding Poster Award in Asian Mycological Congress 2011 and 12th International Marine and Freshwater Mycological Symposium (AMC and IMFMS 2011) held in Incheon, South Korea.

 BK21 Post Doctoral Fellowship from Dec. 2010 to Feb. 2013, and BK21 Plus Post Doctoral Fellowship from Jun. 2014 to Sep. 2014 at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST.

 Research Training Fellowship Award 2005, provided by University of Madras, Chennai, and worked in Department of Biotechnology, University of Madras during May 2005 to June 2005.

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https://www.mpbpl-csirneist.com/

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