Arise! Awake! And Stop not till the goal is reached!

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Arise! Awake! And Stop not till the goal is
reached!
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VIVEKANANDA INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MYCOLOGY
(VINSTROM)
RAMAKRISHNA MISSION VIDYAPITH CHENNAI- 600 004
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Service through Science
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VINSTROM 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

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Equipment 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
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Research Projects handled
Scheme - Year
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Amount Received
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Fungal cultures maintained

• Endophytes from trees of the Western Ghats - 545
• Endophytes from marine source - 210
• Litter fungi from Western Ghats forests - 105

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Ongoing 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)

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Collaborations
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
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Collaborations
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.  
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Suryanarayanan 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.
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Completed 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)

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Publications 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

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A 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.

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Visit 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..
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Visit 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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