Jayaraman Gowrishankar

Jayaraman Gowrishankar
Born 1956 (age 61–62)
Chennai, India
Residence India
Nationality Indian
Alma mater University of Madras, University of Melbourne
Scientific career
Fields Biology
Institutions Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics[1]

Jayaraman Gowrishankar (born 1956) is an Indian medical microbiologist. Gowrishankar received his M.B.B.S. degree from the Christian Medical College, Vellore. He holds Doctor of philosophy in bacterial genetics from the University of Melbourne.

He was a Scientist and Group Leader at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad. In 2000, He is positioned as director for Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.[2]

He was awarded in 1991, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Biological sciences category.[3] He was awarded in 2013, the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, for his contribution towards the field of science.[4]

Civilian Honours

Research Awards

Research highlights

  • Discovery of the operon and its exquisite osmotic regulation
  • Enunciation of a new hypothesis that toxic RNA-DNA hybrids (R-loops) are prone to occur from nascent untranslated transcripts in E coli.

References

  1. ↑ Image: Dr. J Gowrishankar part of Dr.Jayaraman Gowrishankar awarded the prestigious Moselio Schaechter Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Microbiology
  2. ↑ The American Society for Microbiology honors Jayaraman Gowrishankar
  3. ↑ INSA
  4. 1 2 "Padma Awards Announced" (Press release). Ministry of Home Affairs. 25 January 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
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