ONGOING / COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS

(IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS)

 

Dr. P. GUNASEKARAN

 

1.      Indo-UK project & DST - Levan production and its application in food industry

2.      DBT - Role of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria in integrated nutrient management

3.      DST - Genetic regulation of sucrase genes in Zymomonas mobilis

4.      UGC - Molecular differences in extra-cellular enzyme production by filamentous fungi  A.niger in solid state and submerged fermentation

5.      CSIR - Microbial polysaccharide (levan) production by Zymomonas mobilis

6.      INDO-FRENCH - Molecular characterization of levansucrase gene of Zymomonas mobilis.

7.      ICAR – Molecular cloning and characterization of B-actin promoter in Indian catfish L.rohita and H.fossilis

8.      DBT - Mushroom cultivation and training program

9.      CSIR - Penicillin acylase production by Bacillus sp.

10.  DBT - Production and Application of Neem and other plant based biopesticides for Insect Control.

 

Dr. S. Mathavan

 

11.  World Bank/CSB  - Sericulture Research and Development: A Biotechnological approach

 

12.  DBT - Genetic Engineering of Nuclear polyhedrosis Virus for the Biological Control of insect pests

 

13.  CSB - Creation of Bibliographical data-base on sericulture

 

14.  CSIR - Production of human parathyroid hormone (hPTH) in Bombyx mori larvae  and    BmN cells using baculoviurs expression system 

 

15.  DBT - Sperm-mediated gene transfer for transgeic silkworm production  - an attempt

 

 

16.  DBT - Development of transgenic fish technology

 

17.  DBT - Development of mariner element vector for transformation of  Bombyx mori

 

18.  (NISSAT/DSIR) - Creation of bibliographical data base on silkworms                           

Dr. C. Rajamanickam

 

19.  ICMR - Oncogenes, transcription factors   and extracellular factors:  A relationship with cardiac hypertrophy

 

20.  DBT    - A high molecular weight serum protein specific for cardiac       hypertrophy: A molecular signal

 

21.  DST -  Molecular cloning and characterisation of cDNA specific for a novel serum protein of molecular weight 182 kDa induced during cardiac hypertrophy

 

22.  ICMR - Studies on the epidemiology, culture, immunology and molecular biology of Rhinospordium Seeberi 

 

23.  IFCPAR- Homologous recombination and the cardiacmyosin binding protein-C gene   (Indo-French)

 

Dr. Rm. Pitchappan

 

24.  DBT - Studies on the T-Cell subtypes, T-Cell Receptor (TCR) usage and major histocompatability complex (MHC) haplotypes in tuberculosis susceptability in South Inida

25.  DBT – Anthropological analysis of Indian Population by oligonucleotide typing of HLA cla Genes : A multicentric study.

26.  ICMR - Studies on the Epidemiology culture, immunology and molecular biology of Rhinosporidium seeberi

27.  CEC – HLA Restriction of Immune Responses in Tuberculosis

28.  Welcome Trust UK – Genetics and Acquired resistance to Malaria and mycobacterial Disease

Dr. Kailash Paliwal 

29.  NSF - Effect of light quality and quantity on the developmental ecology of the Indian tropical forest trees.

30.  MOEN – Ecological monitoring of structure and functional properties of the Indian mangroove forest ecosystem in the Gulf of Mannar

31.  ICFRE – Photosynthesis and water relation and growth of casuarina equsetifolia clones

32.  MNES – Biomass research centre 

Dr. G. Shanmugam

33.  DBT – Assessment of anticancer potential of Cleistanthins (GS)

34.  DST – Oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes and growth control (GS)

Dr. Hussain Munavar

35.  DST – Transcription control in E.coli

36.  UNESC0 – Ecological and Sociological Relevance of conservation of Sacred Groves in Tamil nadu (KSS)

37.  MOEN – Phytosociology and population ecology of selected endemic and key stone tree species of forest at Kodayar in Agastyamalai hills of Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu (KSS)