Ashwani Kumar (scientist)

Ashwani Kumar is an Indian bacteriologist, biotechnologist and the principal scientist at the Institute of Microbial Technology (ImTech). He is known for his studies on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The Department of Science and Technology has awarded him Swarnajayanti Fellowship for year 2016-2017. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2017–18.

Ashwani Kumar
Born
New Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
Known forStudies on Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorVani Brahmachari

Biography

Ashwani Kumar is a principal scientist at the Institute of Microbial Technology (ImTech)[1] where he heads a laboratory, popularly known as Ashwani Kumar's Lab.[2] and serves as a principal investigator.[3] He is known to have done extensive research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis and has served as a member of MDRIpred project,[4] an open source server for predicting inhibitors against drug-tolerant M.tb H37Rv.[5] He has published a number of articles;[6] [note 1] ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 48 of them.[7] He has also published two books, Recent Advances in Plant Biotechnology and Its Applications[8] and Plant Cell and Tissue Culture - A Tool in Biotechnology: Basics and Application,[9] both co-authored with Karl-Hermann Neumann. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for him contributions to biosciences, in 2017–18.[10]

Selected bibliography

Articles
  • Kumar, Ashwani (2016-06-23). "House of cellulose – a new hideout for drug tolerant Mycobacterium tuberculosis". Microbial Cell. 3 (7): 299–301. doi:10.15698/mic2016.07.515. ISSN 2311-2638. PMC 5354596. PMID 28357368.
  • Kumar, Ashwani; Bhatt, Deepak; Mavi, Parminder Singh; Trivedi, Abhishek (2016-04-25). "Thiol reductive stress induces cellulose-anchored biofilm formation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis". Nature Communications. 7: 11392. doi:10.1038/ncomms11392. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4848537. PMID 27109928.
  • Singh, Nisha; Vats, Asheema; Sharma, Aditi; Arora, Amit; Kumar, Ashwani (2017-06-21). "The development of lower respiratory tract microbiome in mice". Microbiome. 5 (1): 61. doi:10.1186/s40168-017-0277-3. ISSN 2049-2618. PMC 5479047. PMID 28637485.
  • Nupur, L. N. U.; Vats, Asheema; Dhanda, Sandeep Kumar; Raghava, Gajendra P. S.; Pinnaka, Anil Kumar; Kumar, Ashwani (2016-05-26). "ProCarDB: a database of bacterial carotenoids". BMC Microbiology. 16 (1): 96. doi:10.1186/s12866-016-0715-6. ISSN 1471-2180. PMC 4882832. PMID 27230105.
  • Sarkar, Dibyendu; Kumar, Ashwani; Sevalkar, Ritesh Rajesh; Singh, Nisha; Bansal, Roohi; Goyal, Rajni; Kumar, Vijjamarri Anil (2016-09-02). "EspR-dependent ESAT-6 Protein Secretion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Requires the Presence of Virulence Regulator PhoP". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291 (36): 19018–19030. doi:10.1074/jbc.M116.746289. ISSN 1083-351X. PMC 5009273. PMID 27445330.

See also

Notes
  1. Please see Selected bibliography section

References
  1. "Ashwani Kumar - ImTech profile". Institute of Microbial Technology. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  2. "Ashwani Kumar's lab - Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH)". ResearchGate. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  3. "Addgene: Ashwani Kumar Lab Plasmids". www.addgene.org. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  4. "MDRIpred: A webserver for predicting inhibitors against drug resistant M.Tuberculosis". crdd.osdd.net. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  5. "Welcome to MDRIpred". crdd.osdd.net. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  6. "Ashwani Kumar - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  7. "Ashwani Kumar Institute of Microbial Technology - IMTECH · Molecular Mycobacteriology 28 36 ·". ResearchGate. 2019-01-14. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  8. Karl-Hermann Neumann; Ashwani Kumar (2008). Recent Advances in Plant Biotechnology and Its Applications: Prof. Dr. Karl-Hermann Neumann Commemorative Volume. I. K. International Pvt Ltd. ISBN 978-81-89866-09-9.
  9. Karl-Hermann Neumann; Ashwani Kumar; Jafargholi Imani (28 April 2009). Plant Cell and Tissue Culture - A Tool in Biotechnology: Basics and Application. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-3-540-93883-5.
  10. "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2019. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
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