PHD SUPERVISORS

SL. No.	Department	Name of the Supervisor	Designation	Area of Specialisation	PhD Scholars
School of Life Sciences
1	Biotechnology	Dr Anthony Johnson	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Stress Biotechnology, Omics approaches - Abiotic Stress Biotechnological approaches and Biotic stress biotechnological approaches. Virology - Viral diagnostics, Viral Genomics, Edible Vaccines and Multivalent vaccines, Host-Virus interactions, Multi-omics approaches for Engineering virus resistance, CRISPR technologies for virus control. Bioremediation - Host-symbiont relationships, Heavy metal remediation, PGPR microbes. Bioinformatics - Genomics, Transcriptomics, Structural Modeling, Big data in biology, pathway engineering etc., Human Disease biology-based omics approaches, pathway analysis, diagnostics etc.,	2024 Sharon Sunil Samuel
2	Biotechnology	Dr Susan Mary Philip	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Antimicrobial resistance in the veterinary and plant production sectors Molecular and physiological plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses	-
3	Biotechnology	Dr Debarati Chattopadhyay	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Anti ageing and longevity Mechanisms of anti-obesity and adipogenesis Autophagy and metabolic pathways Plant polyphenols as modulators of longevity and anti-obesity	-
4	Biotechnology	Dr Nishanth M J	Assistant Professor	Area of Specialisation Plant metabolism Computational functional genomics	-

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