Computational Approaches in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for Effectual Bio-hydrogen Production

Dr. P. Shukla is working as Head, Department of Microbiology at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India. Dr. Shukla is also working as General Secretary of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), which is 75 year old and one of the reputed scientific organizations in the world.

His research interests are in the fields of Enzyme technology and Protein Bioinformatics. He has more than 14 years research and teaching experience in reputed universities of India and abroad. He has written 2 Books, 13 book chapters, one patent and edited 3Biotech Journals (Springer) and published more than 60 peer reviewed international papers in reputed journals. He has also supervised or graduated 6 Ph.D. students. He has successfully carried out 6 R & D projects as Principal investigator and/or Co-investigator.

He received several awards, including ‘Prof. S.B. Saksena, F.N.A., Award’ in Life sciences (1999), Best presentation Award (Senior Category-2006) by NCSTC, India, NRF-DUT PDF Award in Enzyme Biotechnology (2008), Danisco India Award in Probiotics & Enzyme Technology (2010) and Indo-US Professorship Award (2014) by Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and American Society of Microbiology (ASM). He was selected as Scientist in Southern Ocean Expedition (2011). He is serving as Editor in Indian Journal of Microbiology (Springer) and as Editorial Board Member and Reviewer in many journals. He has also been Editor in Chief, Internet Journal of Microbiology, Internet Scientific Publishers, USA (2008-2009).

MVK Karthik had obtained his Masters in Bioinformatics from Birla Institute of Technology in Mesra, India and graduated in Biotechnology and simultaneously pursed GNIIT certificate course (Software Engineering) from NIIT. After graduation he worked for Google (2008-2009) where he was involved in developing tools for Google. During his sophomore year (December 2010) in Center for cellular molecular biology, he was involved indeveloping computational tools for analysis to identify conserved motifs among various genes which are expressed under environmental stress desiccation. His current research interests were Gene Regulation, Sequence Analysis, Algorithm designing & Programming, Intermolecular interactions, System biology and Statistical analysis.