Welcome to National Facility for Marine Cyanobacteria
Name Dr D. Prabaharan drlu
Designation Associate Professor
Qualification M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D
Areas of research
Biofuels and Protein Engineering,Bioinformatics
Special Courses/ Training programmes Organized
Mar 8th - 19th, 2010 START - Shortterm Training on advanced Research Techniques Sponsored by Department of Biotechnology
(Govt. of India)
Research Achievements
  • Research papers published in reputed journals: National: 6
  • Research papers published in reputed journals: International: 8
  • Research papers presented at conferences/ seminars: National: 24
  • Research papers presented at conferences/ seminars: International: 13
  • Guided 1 PhD students and presently guiding Six students
  • Guided 2 M.Phil students and presently guiding one students
Sponsored Research Projects
  • Over expression of engineered SOD Enzyme in marine cyanobacteria for Bioremediation purposes
    DBT, Govt. of India, 2004-2007. Completed
  • Marine cyanobacteria - A potential target for renewable energy source
    DBT, Govt. of India, 2006-2009. Completed
  • Repository of Marine cyanobacteria as Biodiesel feedstock
    DBT, Govt. of India, 2009-2011.Ongoing
Awards/Honours received & Membership
    Awards
  • Best poster presentation award (1994), International conference of Association of Microbiologists of India, Mysore
  • Best poster presentation award (2006), International Conference on Applied phycology, New Delhi
  • Best poster presentation award I (2007), National symposium on Recent advances & trends in applied phycology, University of Punjab, Chandigarh
  • Honours
  • Young Scientist award (1996), IUMS Congress '96, Jerusalem, Israel
  • Long Term Overseas Associateship (2002), Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
  • Membership
  • Association of Microbiologists of India.
  • Phycological Society of India.
  • Seaweed Research & Utilization Association
  • Biological Research Society of India
Country Visited
  • Israel & United States of America
Collaboration with Industry
  • Ossein waster audit and effluent Treatment, Pioneer Jellice Pvt.Ltd, 2000- Till date
Publications
  • Subramanian, G., Sundararaman, M., Thajuddin, N., Prabaharan, D.and Sekar, S. (1987) Survey of cyanobacterial flora in the southern east coast of India. In: Advances in Applied Phycology-II (Ed.) A.C. Shukla, Today and Tomorrow's Printers Publishers, New Delhi. pp.307-321.
  • Prabaharan, D., Sumathi, M. and Subramanian, G. (1994) Ability to use ampicillin as a nitrogen source by marine cyanobacterium Phormidium valderianum BDU 30501. Current Microbiology. 28:315-320.
  • Subramanian, G. and Prabaharan, D. (1994) Cyanobacterial Hydrogen Production. J. Swamy Botanical Club. 11:1-11
  • Prabaharan, D. and Subramanian, G. (1995) Hydrogen production by marine cyanobacterium Dichothrix baueriana BDU 40481. Physiology & Molecular Biology of Plants. Vol. I(1): 45-57.
  • Prabaharan, D. and Subramanian, G. (1996). Oxygen free hydrogen production by the marine cyanobacterium Phormidium valderianum BDU 20041. Bioresource. Technology 57:111-116.
  • Sushanta Kumar Saha, Kalib, A., Uma, L., Prabaharan, D. and Subramanian, G. (2002) An inexpensive method for denatured and native multigel in a regular vertical slab gel system. Current Science, 84(1): 27-28. (0.60)
  • Premanandh J, Priya B, Teneva I, Balik D, Prabaharan D, Uma L. (2006) Molecular characterization of marine cyanobacteria from Indian subcontinent deduced from the sequence analysis of phycocyanin operon (cpcB- IGS- cpcA) and 16S-23S IPS region. J. Microbiology (0.38)
  • Priya B, Premanandh J, Dhanalakshmi, Seethalakshmi, D, Prabaharan D, and Uma L. (2007) Comparative analysis of cyanobacterial SOD - a canonical form , BMC Genomics Vol :8; 458 (4.03)
  • Uma, L., Prabaharan, D. and Subramanian G (2006) Microalgae -A Potent source of biotechnological products. In: Recent advances on applied aspects of Indian Marine Algae with references to Global Scenario. Vol.II. Application and Utilization, Food, Feed, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Drugs and Bioactive substances (ed).Tewari. A. CSMCRI Publications. Pp.52-86.
  • Subramanian, G., Uma, L., Priya, B. and Prabaharan, D (2007) Utilization of microalgae to address pollution problems. Indian Hydrobiology 10(2): 1- 25
  • Dharmar Prabaharan, Balakrishnan Priya, Lakshmanan Uma and Gopalakrishnan Subramanian (2008) Cyanobacteria - a promising candidate for biotechnology. College Sadhana 1(1): 55 - 72.
  • Chellapandi Pualchamy , Prabaharan Dharmaraj, Uma Laxmanan. (2008) A preliminary study on co-digestion of ossein industry waste for methane production. EurAsia J BioSci 2, 13, 110-114.
  • L. Uma, D. Prabaharan, B. Priya and G. Subramanian (2009). Role of cyanobacterial Oxidases in Bioremediation- An Overview. In : Algal Biology and Biotechnology. J.I.S. Khattar, D.P. Singh & Gurpreet Kaur (eds.). I.K. International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi. pp.251-261
  • Swaminathan Palanisami, Prabaharan Dharmar, Lakshmanan Uma (2009) Fate of few pesticide- metabolizing enzymes in the marine cyanobacterium Phormidium valderianum BDU 20041 in perspective with chlopyrifos exposure. Pesticide Physiology and Biochemistry, 94, 68-72 (1.45)
  • D. Prabaharan, D. Arun Kumar, L. Uma and G. Subramanian (2010), Dark hydrogen production in nitrogen atmosphere – an approach for sustainability by marine cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya valderiana BDU 20041. International of Hydrogen Energy. Impact Factor (4.5)
  • Balakrishnan Priya, Reddi K Sivaprasanth, Vincent Dhivya Jensi, Lakshmanan Uma, Gopalakrishnan Subramanian, Dharmar Prabaharan (2010), Characterization of manganese superoxide dismutase from a marine cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya valderiana BDU20041. Saline systems, 6.6, Impact Factor (2.28)
Contact Address Department of Marine Biotechnology
Bharathidasan University
Tiruchirappalli
Tamil Nadu - 620 024
Phone No &
Fax
91 431 2407084
Email dharmarpraba@yahoo.com

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