Alumni
Year Graduated
Thesis Tittle
Current Position
1996
Arginase and arginine catabolism in the acidogenic fungus – Aspergillus niger
Roche Diagnostics, USA
Email: subita.sudershana@roche.com
1998
4-Aminobutyrate (GABA) metabolism in Aspergillus niger
University of Texas Medical College, USA Email: sakumar@utmb.edu
1999
L-arginine catabolism in Aspergillus niger
USV Pharma, Mumbai, India
Email: meera.shankarkutti@usv.co.in
2001
Molecular approaches to study arginine catabolism in Aspergillus niger
Aurigene, Bangalore, India
Email: anuradha_ramanathan@yahoo.com
2004
Towards generation of new tools for Aspergillus niger transfromation
Biocon, Bangalore, India
Email: lprabha02@yahoo.com
2005
NADP-Glutamate dehydrogenase and nitrogen metabolism in Aspergillus niger
University of Maryland, USA
Email: noors22@gmail.com
2005
Fungal laccases: sequence, structure and biochemical analysis
Semanticbits India Pvt Ltd
Email: kumars.sv@gmail.com
2006
Arginase from Aspergilli: A molecular analysis
Dr. Reddy’S Laboratories Ltd., India
Email: jayashri_pramod@yahoo.co.in
2008
NADP-GDH from Aspergillus terreus and Aspergillus niger-A comparision
University of North Carolina, USA
Email: rajarshi_choudhury@med.unc.edu
2008
Phosphinothricin resistance in Aspergillus niger: Applications in genetic engineering
University of Kansas, USA
Email: manmeeta@gmail.com
2011
Aspergillus niger citrate synthase promoter: Attributes and utility
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Email: kashyapdavv@gmail.com
2013
Ureohydrolases from Aspergillus niger: Role of ureohydrolases
University of North Carolina, USA
Email: sunildavv@gmail.com
2014
Allosteric interactions in NADP-Glutamate dehydrogenase from Aspergillus niger
Postdoc at Luxembourg Center for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg
Email: adhish145@gmail.com
2015
Aspergillus niger arginase: Contribution to arginine and manganese metabolism.
Email: saritakeni@gmail.com
2015
Maipulating Aspergillus niger metabolism through genetic engineering.
Email: khyatimehta@iitb.ac.in
2018
4-Guanidinobutyrase from Aspergillus niger: a Molecular metabolic approach
Scientist at Mynvax Pvt. Ltd., IISc Bangalore
Email: tejaswini.iitb@gmail.com
2018
Relevance of Autophagy in acidogenic metabolism of Aspergillus niger
Research Associate at Department of Microbiology, South Campus Delhi University
Email: ballichohan@gmail.com
2018
Understanding the structure-function relationship of glutamate dehydrogenase from Aspergillus niger
Email: prem.prakash.iitb@gmail.com
Post Doc (2008-2010)
Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation of Aspergillus niger
Columbia University, USA
Email: rekhab@rediffmail.com
Post Doc (2002-2006)
Interaction of Mn[II] ions in Aspergillus niger
Ciba Specialty Chemicals (India) Ltd, Mumbai, India
Email: neetu_20022@rediffmail.com
Recent M.Sc Alumni
| Alumni | Year | Project Title | Current Position |
| Gargi Kulkarni | 2003-2004 | Inhibitors of Aspergillus niger glutamine synthetase | California Institute of Technology (CalTech) (post-doc) gkulkarn@caltech.edu |
| Rahul Banerjee | 2004-2005 | Isolation and characterization of Aspergillus niger mutants resistant to dimethylisophthalate inhibition | University of Minnesota baner025@umn.edu |
| Timsi Rao | 2005-2006 | Targeting Aspergillus niger mutants of nitrogen metabolism through antimetabolite resistance | University of Colorado champsteffy@yahoo.co.in |
| Hemanshu Mundhada | 2006-2007 | Purification and characterization of arginase from Agaricus bisporus | Ph.D.: University of Bremen Post Doc: RWTH Aachen University hemu4684@gmail.com |
| Saurabh Tak | 2008-2009 | Role of Cysteine in maintaining activity in NADP-GDH | Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany tak.saurabh@ymail.com |
| Vinny Negi | 2009-2010 | Secretory signals of filamentous fungi | Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi, India negi.vinny@gmail.com |
| Latika Matai | 2009-2010 | Genomic arginase sequence of Aspergillus niger NCIM 565 and its promoter analysis | National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi, India latika.matai@gmail.com |
| Ghalsasi Vihang Vivek | 2010-2011 | Characterization of EGFP expressed from citA promoter of A. niger | Heidelberg University, Germany vihang8846@gmail.com |
| Shweta Kumari | 2010-2011 | Secretory signals and promoter sequences of filamentous fungi | shwetasept@gmail.com |
| Suman Punia | 2011-2012 | Expression of EGFP in Aspergillus niger and its proteolysis | suman.punia89@gmail.com |
| Tejaswani Saragadam | 2011-2012 | Ureohydrolase in Aspergillus niger: Molecular Metabolic Approach | Department of Biosciences & Bioengineering, IIT Bombay tejaswini.iitb@gmail.com |
| Madhavi Adusumilli (M.Sc-PhD integrated) | 2011-2012 | Regulatory elements in citA promoter of Aspergilus niger | Santa Biotech, Hyderabad madhavi.iitb@gmail.com |
| Surendra Kumar | 2012-2013 | Cloning, over-expression and purification of arginase from Aspergillus niger | Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay surendraverma2816@gmail.com |
| Priyank Singhvi | 2012-2013 | Proteome analysis of arginase deleted strain of Aspergillus niger | National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi, India singhvipriyank177@gmail.com |
| Arun Kumar | 2013-2014 | Purification, characterization and crystallization of arginase from Aspergillus niger | |
| Basanti Haiburu (M.Sc-PhD integrated) | 2013-2014 | Cloning and gene expression studies on beta-glucosidase in Aspergillus niger and other fungi | |
| Thuithung Sophronea | 2016 | Purification and crystallization of arginase from Aspergillus niger | |
| Shravasti Misra | 2016 | Altering ureohydrolase substrate specificity by site directed mutagenesis. | |
| Debleena Roy | 2017 | Expression of Aspergillus niger β-carbonic anhydrase as EGFP fusions | |
| Sandeep Yadav | 2018 | Directed evolution of A. niger 4-guanidinobutyrase: Altered substrate specificity mutants through error prone PCR | |
| Maroof Hashmi | 2019 | Metabolism of 3-guanidinopropionate in Candida parasilopsis |
Recent Project Students
| Alumni | Year | Project Title | Current Position |
| V. Devi Prasad | Dec 2012-May 2013 | Carbonic anhydrases from Aspergillus niger | Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India vdeviprasad.ibt@gmail.com |
| R. Venkatraman | Dec 2013-May 2014 | Exploring beta-carbonic anhydrase (G3Y785) from Aspergillus niger | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India venkatramanravi92@gmail.com |
| Pranali Karanjkar | May-2015 | Exploring the role of N149D mutation in Aspergillus niger arginase catalysis. | |
| Sudhiksha Unnikrishnan | 2016 | Characterization of A. niger β-carbonic anhydrase | |
| Tasneem | 2019 | Thioredoxins and A. niger metabolism | |
| Janhavi Borkar | 2019 | Molecular basis of allostery in NADP-GDH from Aspergilli |