Department of Microbiology

Microbiology is scientific discipline that deals with the study of microorganisms. Microorganism’s exits everywhere and have enormous impact on human health and environment. The department of Microbiology was established in June 2015 with the vision of bridging the gap between classical microbiology and applied aspects of microbiology with research on infectious diseases, immunology, biofuels and bioenergy. The main objective of the department to impart quality education in the field of microbiology and to create trained microbiologist to contribute to the fields of food production, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, environment, agriculture and public health research. The Department of Microbiology aims at using Microbial research as a tool for the benefit of mankind. To meet the challenges and impart theoretical as well as research oriented training to the master’s and doctoral students, department of microbiology was established under the umbrella of School of Interdisciplinary and Applied Life Sciences (SIAL) in 2015. M.Sc and Ph.D. program in microbiology encompasses a wide area of study, consisting of immunology, medical microbiology, microbial genetics, virology, Environmental Microbiology Soil & Agricultural Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology, Microbial Physiology and Metabolism. Research in our department seeks to meet challenges and provide information to us to eliminate pathogens, prevent newly emerging infectious diseases, and vaccine development. In addition, another thrust area of department is to provide renewable biofuels and/or bioenergy to mitigate global warming and depleting conserved petroleum resources. Our faculties are trained and have research expertise in different field of microbiology and are engaged in several research projects funded by various organizations such as UGC and DST. Most of our faculties have postdoctoral experiences from abroad and doing cutting edge research in microbiology. The microbiology department also trains Ph.D. and support postdoctoral students. The doctoral program in the department began in July 2016. The vision of our department is to become an internationally renowned and ideal department through highest teaching standards and performing quality research. The department also wishes to contribute towards the development of the nation by providing quality training to the aspiring researchers and scientists.

Programs offered and Students Intake

Year	Program	Total Students Enrolled	Students Intake
2019-20	M.Sc.	53
	Ph.D.	10
2020-21	M.Sc.		31
	Ph.D.		6

Faculty of the Department

	Dr. Gunjan Goel (HOD) Designation: Associate Professor Qualification: Ph.D. (Microbiology) Specialization: Microbial Ecology of different environments, Food Microbiology Email ID: ggoel@cuh.ac.in Contact No.:9882125930
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	Dr. Surender Singh Designation: Associate Professor Qualification: Ph.D. (Microbiology) Specialization: Agro-waste management, Lignocellulosic ethanol, Bioremediation and Agricultural Microbiology Email ID: surendersingh@cuh.ac.in, surendersinghmicro@gmail.com Contact No.:9999440484
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	Dr. Avijit Pramanik Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: Ph.D. (Microbiology) Specialization: Email ID: avijit@cuh.ac.in Contact No.:
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	Dr. Puja Yadav Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: Ph.D. (Microbiology) Specialization: Email ID: puja819@gmail.com Contact No.:
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	Dr. Jitendra Saini Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: Ph.D. (Microbiology) Specialization: Email ID: jitendrasaini@cuh.ac.in Contact No.:
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	Dr. Vinod Yadav Designation: Assistant Professor Qualification: Ph.D. (Microbiology) Specialization: Email ID: vinodyadav17@gmail.com Contact No.:8199065338
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Student’s Achievements in 2019

CSIR/ICAR NET-JRF Qualified : 04
GATE Qualified : 06
Ms. Hemansi, Ph.D. scholar was awarded prestigious Bioenergy-Awards for Cutting Edge Research (B- ACER) award by Indo-US Forum for Science & Technology (IUSSTF)
Ms. Hemansi (Ph.D. Scholar) awarded best oral presentation on International Symposium on Microbial Technologies in sustainable Development of Energy, Environment and Health (AMI-2019)
Indonesian Scientist, Mr. Rusli Fridiyanto from Indonesian Institute of Sciences, was selected for prestigious ASEAN fellowship at Department of Microbiology, CUH, Mahendergarh for a period of 5 months (July-Nov, 2019)

Events organized in past year in 2019

Extension lecture on “Biology of Cyanobacteria” addressed by Dr. Radha Prasanna, Principal Scientist, Division of Microbiology, ICAR- IARI, New Delhi on 26^th April, 2019
Mini-symposium on ‘Recent Developments in Microbiology’ lectures by Prof. Rup Lal, Prof. J.S Virdi and Prof. Prince Sharma on 29^th July, 2019
Organized 5 days GIAN (Global Initiative for Academic Network) program entitled ‘Integrated lignocellulosic biorefinery for sustainable development’ sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Prof. Yinbo Qu from Shandong University, China as resource person
Organised International Symposium on Microbial Technologies in sustainable Development of Energy, Environment and Health (Association of Microbiologists of India 2019)

Sponsored Research Grants

	Title	Funding Agency	Duration	Total Amount Sanctioned	Year of grant
1	Improving thermal and inhibitor stress tolerance in yeast for cost-effective second generation bioethanol production: An adaptive evolution based approach	DST-SERB	3 years	50.60 lacs	2017
2	Identification and cloning of siderophore biosynthetic gene cluster from Vibrio alginolyticus and heterologous expression of siderophore in E. coli for further characterization and utilization	DST-SERB	3 years	45 lacs	2017
3	Identification and functional characterization of G4 DNA in Helicobacter pylori: a novel therapeutic target	DST-SERB	3 years	40 lacs	2017
4	Isolation and characterization of bacterial strains inhibiting phytopathogenic fungi Bipolaris oryzae and Bipolaris sorokiniana for development as biocontrol agent	UGC	2 years	10 lacs	2017
5	Transcriptional regulation of ICAM-1 gene expression in human monocyte and macrophage cells	DST-SERB	3 years	48 lacs	2018
6	Diveristy of white rot fungal laccase from north-east India	DBT	3 years	32.1 lacs	2019
7	Waste to wealth: development of technology to utilize dietary fibers from fruit wastes in the form of nutraceutical products	DST-FICCI	5 months	2.75 lacs	2019
8	Dietary fibers from underutilized crops and agrowastes for application in food and feed	AISTDF	2 years	30 lacs	2020
9	Development of probiotic fermented foods for the prevention of childhood diarrhea against Indian diarrheal pathotypes	Pronat SC, Spain	3 years	37 lacs	2020

Departmental Publications

Total publications: 59

Publications in 2019: 7

Recent Publications

Poria, V., Saini, J.K., Singh, S., Nain, L. and Kuhad, R.C., 2020. Arabinofuranosidases: Characteristics, microbial production, and potential in waste valorization and industrial applications. Bioresource Technology, p.123019.

Chauhan, R., Bansal, S., Azmi, W. and Goel, G., 2020. Increased thermal tolerance in Cronobacter sakazakii strains in reconstituted milk powder due to cross protection by physiological stresses. Journal of Food Safety, p.e12810.

Singh, N., Kaur, R., Singh, B.P., Rokana, N., Goel, G., Puniya, A.K. and Panwar, H., 2020. Impairment of Cronobacter sakazakii and Listeria monocytogenes biofilms by cell-free preparations of lactobacilli of goat milk origin. Folia Microbiologica, 65(1), pp.185-196.

Abiraami, T.V., Singh, S. and Nain, L., Soil metaproteomics as a tool for monitoring functional microbial communities: promises and challenges. Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, pp.1-30.

Nayak, S.L., Sethi, S., Sharma, R.R., Sharma, R.M., Singh, S. and Singh, D., 2020. Aqueous ozone controls decay and maintains quality attributes of strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa Duch.). Journal of Food Science and Technology, 57(1), pp.319-326.

Sagia, S., Sharma, A., Singh, S., Chaturvedi, S., Nain, P.K.S. and Nain, L., 2020. Single cell oil production by a novel yeast Trichosporon mycotoxinivorans for complete and ecofriendly valorization of paddy straw. Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, 44, pp.60-68.

Rajawat, M.V.S., Singh, R., Singh, D., Yadav, A.N., Singh, S., Kumar, M. and Saxena, A.K., 2020. Spatial distribution and identification of bacteria in stressed environments capable to weather potassium aluminosilicate mineral. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, pp.1-14.

Narwal, E., Choudhary, J., Singh, S., Nain, L., Kumar, S., Dotaniya, M.L., Panwar, A.S., Mishra, R.P., Ghasal, P.C., Meena, L.K. and Kumar, A., 2020. Microbial Biofuels: Renewable Source of Energy. Frontiers in Soil and Environmental Microbiology, pp.181-192.

National and International R&D Collaborations

Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Indonesia
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Shangdong University, China
National Agri- Food Biotechnology Institute, Mohali
National Dairy Research Institute (ICAR), Karnal
Alagappa University, Tamil Nadu
Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR), New Delhi
Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi
Research Institute of Food Science (CIAL), Spain