Research

Major Research Areas

• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genomics and Proteomics

• Molecular Modeling, Computational Drug Designing, Chemo-informatics, Immunoinformatics and Computational Systems Biology

• Microbial Biotechnology, Medical (antimicrobial resistance), Environmental and Food Microbiology

Major Research Contributions

His major research focuses on are selection and screening of novel natural therapeutic against probable drug targets of SARS-CoV-2 and several multidrug-resistant organisms isolated from various sources by structure-based virtual screening approaches. He has modeled and validated novel drug targets for several pathogenic bacteria and viruses by computational biology approaches. He has screened novel chromophoric and fluorophoric therapeutic metabolites from symbiotic bacteria associated with marine sponges towards drug-resistant bacteria. He has identified several novel thermophilic bacterial consortia screened from extreme environments that can degrade low- and high-density polyethylene and polypropylene.

Research Outcome

Publications 

• Number of citations: 2054 (As of 25 October 2024)

• h-index-22; i10-index-40

• Number of international publications-81

• Cumulative impact factor (SCI indexed journals): 267.629 

• Text book: 01

• Book chapters: 16

• Articles in Scientific magazines and periodicals: 03

• Conference abstracts (National & International)- 87

Research guide-ship 

• PhD ongoing: 02

• PG (M. Tech): 12

• UG (B.E & B. Sc): 85

• Number of PhD thesis evaluated: 06

• Number of PhD defense as external examiner: 04