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Senthamarai M

Assistant Professor

Education

Ph. D.

Dr. M. Senthamarai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Life Sciences. She has a Ph.D from Anna University, Chennai. Her research interest lie in developing value added food products from under-utilized plant parts and their effects on human microbiome. She also works in endophytic fungi and its industrial applications. She is also having experience in mentoring students for startups.

Research Publications

  • 1. Senthamarai Manogaran and Kannan Kilavan Packiam, Utilization of Industrial waste - Liquid Cheese whey for the submerged fermentation of Lovastatin using Fusarium nectrioides (MH173849) an endophytic fungi: Screening, Production and Characterization, Chemosphere. 2023.
  • 2. Senthamarai Manogaran, Kannan KP , Moni Philip Jacob K , Vijayakumar L, “ A preliminary investigation on the production of Lovastatin from an endophytic fungus Nigrospora sp. isolated from Cymbopogon schoenanthus”, Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment, 2023. vol,27, no.1, pp, 104-110.
  • 3. Senthamarai Manogaran, Kannan Kilavan Packiam, Vijayakumar Lakshmi Narayanan, Chadhurthika Krishnamurthy, Devi Vijayarangam and Moni Philip Jacob Kizhakedathil, “Production of Lovastatin using Liquid Cheese Whey by Fusarium nectrioides (MH173849), an Endophytic Fungi Isolated from Euphorbia hirta, Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology,vol.16, no.3, pp.1 -11
  • 4. Senthamarai, M, Kannan, KP, Kowsalya R, Harish. R and Govardthni G, “Screening and Production of Lovastatin Producing Endophytic Fungus from Phyllanthus reticulatus using Oyster Mushroom Extract, International Journal of Current Research and Review, vol. 13, no.4, pp. 76 -82
  • 5. Senthamarai, M & Kannan, KP 2019, ‘Optimization of Lovastatin production by Fusarium nectrioides (MH173849) using response surface methodology and fuzzy logic system’, Journal of Environmental Biology’, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 1036-1044

Expertise

  • Check Icon Fermentation and scale up
  • Check Icon Food proximate analysis
  • Check Icon Upstream and Downstream Processing

Authored Books

  • Check Icon Fungal Metabolites: bioactive natural products” in Fungi Bio-Prospects in Sustainable Agriculture
  • Check Icon Kannan Kilavan Packiam, MadhanKumar Dhakshinamoorthy and Senthamarai Manogaran, ‘Endophytic Fungi – Producing High Value Plant Secondary Metabolites. In the Text Book of Recent Advnaces in Biotechnology (Eds)’, Dr. Vandana Rai. Shree Publishers & Distributor, New Delhi. 2017, pp. 45 -70.
  • Check Icon Abinaya, B, S. Sri Vidhya, M. Senthamarai and K.P.Kannan. (2010). Priliminary Investigation on the Extractio of Gibberlic Acis (GA 3) and Indole – 3 – Acetic Acid (IAA) from Coprophilous fungi isolated from Herbivorous dung. In Current Scenario in 12 Microbial Biotechnology. (Eds) Dr.P. Ponmurugan and Dr. V. Balakrishnan. Excel India Publlishers, New Delhi, pp8 – 10
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