Title: Arise! Awake! And Stop not till the goal is reached!
1Arise! Awake! And Stop not till the goal is
reached!
2VIVEKANANDA INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MYCOLOGY
(VINSTROM)
RAMAKRISHNA MISSION VIDYAPITH CHENNAI- 600 004
3Service through Science
4VINSTROM was started on 08.04.2005 till the year
2013, twenty three papers have been published in
peer reviewed journals such as
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Botanica Marina
- Canadian Journal of Microbiology
- Current Science
- Fungal Biology
- Fungal Biology Reviews
- Fungal Diversity
- Journal of Basic Microbiology
- Mycological Progress
- Mycological Research
- Mycology
- Mycosphere
- Sydowia
5Equipment Maintained in VINSTROM
Air conditioners Refrigerators Deep
freezer Spectrophotometer UV transilluminator Rota
vapour Glass distillation unit Digital pH
meter Autoclave Automatic shaker Electrophoresis
unit Binocular microscope Hot air oven Microwave
oven Water bath Incubator Laminar Air Flow chamber
HP scan jet 2400 Light chambers Magnetic
stirrer Nikon Bright field Phase contrast
microscope NUV lamps Refrigerated
centrifuge Electronic balance Trinocular
Microscope CXR II and Motic BA 300 Vortex
Mixer Pentax 80-200 Zoom lens Computer with Laser
jet printers Digital cameras (Sony,
Olympus) Ricoh 35mm SLR camera Vaccum pump High
speed internet facility
6Research Projects handled
Scheme - Year
7Amount Received
8Fungal cultures maintained
- Endophytes from trees of the Western Ghats - 545
- Endophytes from marine source - 210
- Litter fungi from Western Ghats forests - 105
9Ongoing projects
- 2012-2015-Department of Biotechnology (Government
of India), Twinning Programme - North East grant
for the project Endophytic fungi of endemic
plants of Arunachal Pradesh Diversity and novel
metabolites. (Rs.14.80 lakhs) - 2011-2014 - IndoGerman Collaborative Project (in
collaboration with University of Goettingen,
Germany) funded by Department of Biotechnology
(Government of India) on The potential of fungal
endophytes as biocontrol organisms. (Rs. 36.59
lakhs)
10Collaborations
Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher, Department of Plant
Biochemistry, Westphalian Wilhelm's University
Muenster, Germany. Dr. Florenz Sasse, Helmholtz
Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig,
Germany. Prof. Stan Faeth, School of Ecological
Sciences, Arizona State University, USA. Prof.
John Johnson, University of New Brunswick, St.
John, Canada. Prof. R. Sukumar, Centre for
Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore. Prof. Mukesh Doble, Dept. of
Biotechnology, IIT Madras. Prof. S. N. Gummadi,
Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology,
IIT Madras. Dr. N. Thirunavukkarasu, Assistant
Professor, Department of Plant Biology Plant
Biotechnology, RKM Vivekananda College,
Chennai. Contd
11Collaborations
Prof. R. Uma Shaanker, Department of Crop
Physiology, University of Agricultural Sciences,
Bangalore. Prof. M. S. Reddy, Department of
Biotechnology, Thapar University, Patiala,
India. Prof. N. P. Money, Department of Botany
and Western Program, Miami University, Oxford,
OH, United States. Dr. T. S. Murali, Division of
Biotechnology, Manipal Life Sciences Centre,
Manipal University, Manipal. Dr. Venkat Gopalan,
Department of Chemistry Biochemistry and Center
for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University,
Columbus, USA. Prof. Dr. Stefan Vidal,
Department of Crop Sciences, Agricultural
Entomology, Georg-August-University, Göttingen,
Germany. Prof. Petr Karlowsky, Department of
Molecular Pathology and Mycotoxin Research,
Georg-August-University, Göttingen,
Germany. Prof. Dinkar Sahal, Research Scientist,
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology, New Delhi.
12Suryanarayanan was invited to give the Key Note
Address at the 25th Genetics of Microorganisms
Congress, São Paulo, Brazil, March
2006. Suryanarayanan delivered the Keynote
address at Intergovernmental Framework for
European Cooperation in Science Technology
(COST Action FA1103), Trento, Italy Nov. 2012.
Suryanarayanan was invited by the Centre for
Biotechnology, Manaus, the Amazon, Brazil for
discussion on the use of endophytes in
biocontrol.
13Completed projects
- 2008-2011 Department of Biotechnology
(Government of India), research grant for the
project. Pharmaceuticals from marine and
marine-derived fungi assocaited with seagrasses
and seaweeds of Tamil Nadu coast. (Rs. 15.09
lakhs) - 2007-2010 Indo-German Collaborative Project (in
collaboration with University of Muenster,
Germany)-Department of Biotechnology (Government
of India) research grant for the project.
Enzymes of pharmaceutical importance from
tropical microfungi. (Rs. 27.84 lakhs)
14Publications Cited in
- Nature
- Biological Reviews
- Evolution
- Annual Review of Phytopathology
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Science,
NY. - Fungal Diversity
- Mycological Research
- Canadian Journal of Botany
- Canadian Journal of Microbiology
- Ecology Letters
- Fungal Biology Reviews
- Phytopathology
- New Phytologist
- Journal of Natural Products
15A brief note of Achievements
- Prof. Sidney Altman, Nobel Laureate (1989) and
Sterling Professor. Yale University, visited
VINSTROM (April 26th 2008) and discussed with
students and gave a lecture on his field of
research. - Suryanarayanan was Awarded Fulbright Nehru
Senior Research Fellowship for studying the
feasibility of using endophytes for greener
biofuel at Dept. of Biochemistry, Ohio State
University, USA to study. September 2011 March
2012.
16Visit by Scientists
Prof. Sidney Altman (Nobel Laureate), Yale
University, USA Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, MSSRF,
Chennai Mr. Erwin Wendland, German Consulate,
Germany Prof. J. Johnson, Univ. New Brunswick,
CanadaProf. B. Moerschbacher, University of
Munster, Germany Dr. F. Sasse, German Centre for
Biotechnology, GermanyProf. Jim White, Rutgers,
New Jersey, USA Prof. C.A. Reddy, East Lansing,
Michigan, USA Dr. R. Geeta, University of Stony
Brooke, USA Contd..
17Visit by Scientists
Dr. Sujaya Rao, Oregon State University, USA. Dr.
Venkat Gopalan, The Ohio State University,
USA. Dr. Baskar, Indian Institute of Technology
Chennai. Prof. A. Raman, University of Sydney,
Australia. Prof. B. Moeschbacher, University of
Muenster, Germany. Dr. N.E. El Gueddari,
University of Muenster, Germany. Dr. F. Sasse,
GBF, Germany. Dr. A. Srinivasan, Harward,
USA. Prof. J.L. Azevedo, University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil. Prof. P.T. Lacava, Brazil. Dr. H. de
Melo, Brazil. Dr. M.A. Zaman, Dhaka University,
Bangladesh. Dr. Stefen Vidal, George-August-Univer
sity, Goettingen,Germany.
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