Microbial Symbionts

Dr. Dhanasekaran Dharumadurai is working as Professor at the Department of Microbiology, and Principal Investigator at the National Repository for Microalgae and Cyanobacteria (NRMC-F), (Sponsored by the DBT, Govt. of India), Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. His current research focus is on actinobacteria, microalgae, fungi, and mushrooms for animal and human health improvement. He was awarded a UGC-Raman Post-Doctoral Fellowship and worked in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA. He has been elected as a Fellow of the Linnaean Society, London, UK, and awarded the INSA Visiting Scientist Fellowship by the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, Government of India. He is serving as State President of the Microbiologists Society, India for Tamil Nadu (2022-2024). He is serving as an Extraordinary Professor in Food Security and Safety at the Mafikeng Campus of the North-West University, South Africa. He has qualified for the Tamil Nadu State Eligibility Test (SET) for Lectureship in Life Science. He is serving as Subject Expert in the Board of Study Chairman and a member of Microbiology for 10 institutions and designed the structure of the M.Sc., M.Phil Microbiology Curriculum. He is an External member of the Research Advisory Committee (RAC), expert member of evaluation and screening committee, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) Idea Hackathon 3.0, University College of Engineering, Bharathidasan Institute of Technology (BIT) campus, Anna University, Tiruchirappalli, Food Safety Officers Examiner, Tamil Nadu, Food Safety and Drug Administration Department. He is currently working on microbiome profiling using metagenomics approaches, genome & comparative analysis of actinobacterial, cyanobacterial biosynthetic gene clusters. He has filed 2 Indian Patents. He has deposited 123 nucleotide sequences 16S rRNA, 20 draft genomes, 8 metagenomes in Gen Bank, 5 bioactive compounds in Pubchem, published 116 research and review articles including one paper in Nature Group Journal Scientific Report and 72 Book chapters. He has an H-index of 36 with a total citation of 4038 as per Google Scholar. He has edited 18 books for international publishers including the CRC press, Tailor & Francis Group, New York, Elsevier, Springer Nature, In-techopen access publisher, Eastern Europe. He has guided 13 Ph.D.candidates, and one Post-Doctoral Fellow and organized 10 national and international level symposia, conferences, workshops, and training programs. He received major research projects from the Department of Biotechnology, the University Grant Commission, the Indian Council for Medical Research, and the International Foundation for Science, Sweden. He is serving as member of editorial boards in National and International Journals, Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC), Trichy SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Guest editor in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Genes, Doctoral committee member, Board of study member in Microbiology and Reviewer in the scientific Journals and research grants. As per the reports of the Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, 51, 2013, Dr.Dhanasekaran Dharmadurai is rated in second position among the top five institutions in the field of Actinobacteria research in India.