Department of Microbiology

Microbiology

About Department

The Department of Microbiology was established in 1987 at Swami Shraddhanand College and it was the first college to offer honours course in Microbiology. The faculty members are specialized in various fields like Recombinant DNA Technology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Medical Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Environmental Microbiology, Virology, Agricultural Microbiology, Food and Dairy Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology, Bioprocess Engineering, Biomolecule Production, and Basic Research. The skill enhancement courses that are a part of the programme are designed to build a strong microbiology knowledge base in the students, and furthermore, acquaints the students with the applied aspects of this fascinating discipline, thus preparing the student for an eventual job in academia or industry. All the faculty members have several years of teaching and research experience. Besides the conventional blackboard teaching, power-point presentations, videos, interactive sessions, seminars, problem solving and revision classes are routinely used, with the goal of enhancing the competence of students and supporting them to make a mark in future.

Regular sessions for guidance by passed out students to the ongoing batches are arranged for their future entrance exams and research career in each academic session. Besides the well managed and up-to-date main college library, our Department also maintains a rich departmental library comprising of books gifted by teaching/non-teaching staff and ex- students. The laboratories are well equipped with all basic equipments and facilities. Our department gives the best possible platform to the incoming students to shape their careers well. The faculty is proud of the alumni and students as they have always brought laurels to the Department.

Faculty

	Dr. Renu Dutt Associate Professor : Ph.D. : renudutt@ss.du.ac.in View Profile
	Dr. S. K. Srivastava Associate Professor : Ph.D. : sksrivastava@ss.du.ac.in View Profile
	Dr. A. Archana Professor : M.Sc (Biotechnology), Ph.D. (Microbiology) : aarchana@ss.du.ac.in View Profile
	Dr. Lakshna Mahajan Assistant Professor : Ph.D. : lakshnamahajan@ss.du.ac.in View Profile
	Dr. Sanjay Kumar Gupta Assistant Professor : Ph.D. : sanjay@ss.du.ac.in, skg79sanjay@gmail.com View Profile
	Dr. Bhupender Kumar Assistant Professor : Ph.D, M.Sc. : bhupender@ss.du.ac.in, bhupender19@gmail.com View Profile
	Dr. Sakshi Talwar Assistant Professor : Ph.D. : sakshi@ss.du.ac.in View Profile
	Dr. Sweta Yadav Assistant Professor : Ph.D. : swetayadav@ss.du.ac.in View Profile

Alumni

S.No.	Name	Batch	Designation	University/Institution
1.	Prof. Vandana Gupta	1988-1991	Professor	Dept of Microbiology Ram Lal Anand College University of Delhi, Delhi.
2.	Dr. Sanjay Kumar Phogat	1989-1992	Vice President	R & D Head of Discovery, GSK Siena, Italy.
3.	Dr. Mahesh K. Daksh	1992-1995	Director (Clinical Project Scientist)	Janssen Pharmaceuticals, USA
4.	Dr. Anupam Mittal	2003-2006	Assistant Professor	Department of Translational and Regenerative Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh.
5.	Ms. Akanksha Setia,	2003-2006	PMP CMC Program Manager	Janssen Pharmaceuticals Spring house, Pennsylvania 19477, USA.
6.	Dr. Likhesh Sharma	2004-2007	Product Manager	Cell & Gene Therapy, Cytiva (South Asia), Bangalore, Karnataka.
7.	Dr. Kriti Tyagi	2004-2007	Assistant Professor	Department of Microbiology, Gargi College, Delhi University
8.	Dr. Kirtimaan Syal	2005-2008	Asst Professor and DBT-Ramalingaswami Re-Entry Fellow	Department of Biological Sciences, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus, Hyderabad, Telangana.
9.	Dr. Shubham Goel	2005-2008	Post-Doctoral fellow	National institute of Arthrits, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases(NIAMS), National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
10.	Dr. Sachin Sharma	2006-2009	Post-Doctoral Associate	College of Pharmacy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.
11.	Mr. Pradeep Kumar	2006-2009	Flow Facility and Equipment Specialist	Telethon Kids Institute, Perth Children's Hospital, 15 Hospital Ave, Nedlands WA 6009, Australia.
12.	Dr. Gaurav Tyagi	2007-2010	Assistant Professor	Special Centre for National Security Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
13.	Dr. Nitish Rai	2008-2011	Assistant Professor	Department of Biotechnology MLS University, Udaipur, Rajasthan.

Technical Staff

NAME	DESIGNATION	PHOTOGRAPH
Mrs. Rajpreet Sharma	Lab Assistant
Mr. Subhash Chand Sharma	Lab Assistant
Mrs. Geeta Devi	Lab Assistant
Mr. Subhash Bharti	Lab Attendant
Surender Rana	Lab Attendant
Mrs. Santosh	Lab Attendant
Mrs. Vasudha Saini	Lab Attendant
Mr. Anil Kumar	Lab Attendant
Mr. Shyan Singh	Lab Attendant

Programs/ Courses

SEMESTER	COURSE CODE	NAME OF THE COURSE	CREDITS
Core Courses
I	MICROB-CC101	Introduction to Microbiology and Microbial Diversity	L=4 P=2
I	MICROB-CC102	Bacteriology	L=4 P=2
II	MICROB-CC201	Biochemistry	L=4 P=2
II	MICROB-CC202	Cell Biology	L=4 P=2
III	MICROB-CC301	Microbial Physiology and Metabolism	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-CC302	Environmental Microbiology	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-CC303	Molecular Biology	L=4 P=2
IV	MICROB-CC401	Microbial Genetics and Genomics	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-CC402	Virology	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-CC403	Food and Dairy Microbiology	L=4 P=2
V	MICROB-CC501	Industrial Microbiology	L=4 P=2
V	MICROB-CC502	Immunology	L=4 P=2
VI	MICROB-CC601	Medical Microbiology	L=4 P=2
VI	MICROB-CC602	Recombinant DNA Technology	L=4 P=2
Discipline Specific Elective Courses (DSE)
V	MICROB-DSE501	Bioinformatics	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-DSE502	Instrumentation and Biotechniques	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-DSE503	Principles of Genetics	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-DSE504	Biomathematics and Biostatistics	L=4 P=2
VI	MICROB-DSE601	Microbial Biotechnology	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-DSE602	Advances in Microbiology	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-DSE603	Plant Pathology	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-DSE604	Biosafety and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-DSE605	Project Work	L=4 P=2
Generic Electives Courses (GE)
I	MICROB-GE101	Introduction and Scope of Microbiology	L=4 P=2
II	MICROB-GE201	Bacteriology and Virology	L=4 P=2
III	MICROB-GE301	Microbial Metabolism	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-GE302	Microbial Genetics and Molecular Biology	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-GE303	Applications of Microbes in Biotechnology	L=4 P=2
IV	MICROB-GE401	Industrial and Food Microbiology	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-GE402	Microbes in Environment	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-GE403	Medical Microbiology and Immunology	L=4 P=2
	MICROB-GE404	Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology	L=4 P=2
Skill Enhancement Elective Courses (SEC)
III-IV	MICROB-SE1	Microbial Quality Control in Food and Pharmaceutical Industries	L=2 P=2
	MICROB-SE2	Microbial Diagnosis in Health Clinics	L=2 P=2
	MICROB-SE3	Biofertilizers and Biopesticides	L=2 P=2
	MICROB-SE4	Food Fermentation Techniques	L=2 P=2
	MICROB-SE5	Management of Human Microbial Diseases	L=2 P=2
	MICROB-SE6	Microbiological Analysis of Air and Water	L=2 P=2
	MICROB-SE7	Fundamentals of Bioinformatics	L=2 P=2
	MICROB-SE8	Biostatistics	L=2 P=2

Teaching Plans

Lesson plan for II Semester 2022
Lesson plan for III Semester 2022
Lesson plan for V Semester 2022
Lesson plan for I Semester 2023

Research

Name	Publications
Dr. Renu Dutt
Dr. S. K. Srivastava
Dr. A. Archana
Dr. Lakshna Mahajan
Dr. Sanjay Kumar Gupta
Dr. Bhupender Kumar
Dr. Sakshi Talwar
Dr. Sweta Yadav

Projects

Delhi University Interdisciplinary Innovation Projects successfully completed by the faculty of microbiology department

S. No.	Project Title and Code	Funding Agency and Duration	Faculty Involved
1.	‘Isolation, identification and process optimization of fungal lipases for their potential application/s in industry’, (SSNC 201), along with Department of microbiology.	Delhi University-Innovative Project 2014-15.	Dr. Anjana Kapoor
2.	‘Assessment of Microbial & Chemical quality of drinking water samples from various localities of Delhi NCR and checking the efficacy of various technologies available to make it potable’, (SSNC-205), along with Department of Chemistry.	Delhi University-Innovative Project 2014-15.	Dr. A. Archana Dr. Parvinder Kaur
3.	‘Plasmonic Nanostructures in Chemical and Biological Sensing’, (SSNC-302), along with Department of Physics.	Delhi University-Innovative Project 2015-16.	Dr. A. Archana Dr. Parvinder Kaur

Seminars/ Talks/ Workshops

WEBINARS

“Advancements in the Development of Second-Generation Biofuels” by Dr. Syed Shams Yazdani, Group Leader, Microbial Engineering, ICGEB, Delhi on 11^th October, 2021

Convenor: Dr. Anjana Kapoor

Co-Convenors: Dr. Sweta Yadav and
Dr. Nitin Chauhan

"Journey from B.Sc. Microbiology to Industry-How core foundation plays a role" by Dr. Sanjay Phogat, VP (R&D), Head Discovery Performance Unit, GSK, Italy on 3^rd September, 2021.

Convener: Dr. Anjana Kapoor

Coordinators: Dr. Lakshna Mahajan and Dr. Sweta Yadav

“Food Safety in Covid-19” by Dr. Shalini Sehgal, Department of Food Technology, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, Delhi University on 19^th May, 2020.

Convenor- Dr. A. Archana

Co-Convenor- Dr. Sweta Yadav

“Own your ideas: Intellectual Property Rights” by Ms. Ruchita Singh, Registered patent agent & IP facilitator on 23^rd May, 2020.

Convenor-Dr. A. Archana

Co-Convenor- Dr. Parvinder Kaur

Moderator: Dr. Sweta Yadav

“Unlocking the Secrets of Healthy Ageing” by Ms. Anita Jatana, Chief Dietician, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital Delhi, New Delhi on 11^th June, 2020.

Convenor-Dr. A. Archana

Co-Convenor- Dr. Lakshna Mahajan

“Hypertension: How to tame a silent killer” by Dr. Sunil Modi, D.M. Cardiology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital New Delhi, India and

“COVID-19, a Cardiologist’s perspective”, Dr. Ranjan Modi, D.M. Cardiology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi on 3^rd July, 2020

Convenor-Dr. Anjana Kapoor

Co-Convenor- Dr. Lakshna Mahajan

“Understanding Diabetes: A menace” by Dr. Shaan Khetrapal, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi on 7^th July, 2020.

Convenor-Dr. Anjana Kapoor

Co-Convenors- Dr. Parvinder Kaur And Dr. Sweta Yadav

“Questioning skills: Mind is a thinking machine, heart is the engine” by Prof. O. P. Katare, University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab University, Chandigarh on 1^st August, 2020.

Convenor-Dr. Anjana Kapoor

“SOOKSHMA Alumni Career Counselling Webinar Series 2020-2021” organized regularly by our Department.

Convenor- Dr. A. Archana

Coordinator- Dr. Sweta Yadav

WORKSHOPS

“UGC sponsored Add-On course” on “Industrially Relevant Aspects of Food Safety and Microbiology” for undergraduate students of Microbiology (Honours) between 13^th to 25^th February 2020 at our college, where various imminent speakers were invited.	Convenor- Dr. A. Archana Co-Convenor- Dr. Sweta Yadav
Industry-Academia Interaction titled “Bridging the Gap” in association with MagGenome Technologies Pvt. Ltd. was organized on 22^nd&23^rd February, 2019. The interaction included: a) Hands-on training on “Biological applications of Nanoparticles: Isolation of DNA using Nanoparticles” and b) a lecture on “Biotech Industry Startup: Entrepreneurship prospects in India”, delivered by Dr. C. N. Ramchand, Chief Executive Officer, MagGenome Technologies Pvt. Ltd, CEO, Saksin Lifesciences Pvt Ltd.	Convenor- Dr. A. Archana Coordinator- Dr. Lakshna Mahajan
“Entrepreneurship Skill Development Program (ESDP)”funded by Ministry of Micro, Small, Medium scale Entrepreneurship (MSME-Development Institute at Okhla, New Delhi), held in July-August, 2011.	Coordinated - Dr. A. Archana and Dr. Anjana Kapoor
Add-on Course on “Environmental Biotechnology”which was conducted for 3 years (2005-2008).	Coordinator- Dr. S.K.Srivastava

Talks/ Symposia organised by “Sookshma”, the Microbiology Society

A health talk on “Cancer Awareness” by Dr. Poonam Gambhir, Senior Medical Officer and Dr. Jai Gopal Sharma, Consultant; Preventive Oncology from BLK Cancer Centre, BLK Hospital, New Delhi on 26^th September, 2019.
A lecture on “Thalssemia; An insight” by Dr. Shaan Khetarpal, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences (HIMSR) on 21^st February, 2019.
A talk on“Heart Attack- How, Why, When, To whom and What can prevent it?” by an eminent and Senior Consultant, Sunil Modi, MD, DM, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi on 7^th February, 2019.
One Day Symposium on “Intellectual Property Rights” with eminent speakers Ms. Pooja Kumar, Founder and Director of Innove Intellects and Ms. Ruchita Singh,a registered patent agent, on 11^th October, 2018. Competitions on Poster Making and Crossword puzzle were organized and the certificates and prizes were distributed to the students of various departments of the college.
A talk by Prof. R. K. Saxena, Head, Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, Delhi, India. 25th March, 2014, Convened by Dr. S.K.Srivastava..
A talk by Prof. M. M. Chaturvedi, Cluster for Innovation Centre, Delhi University, Delhi, India, 27th March 2014, Convened by Dr. S.K.Srivastava.

Awards

S.No.	Name of Faculty	Awards / Recognitions / Fellowships
1.	Dr. S. K. Srivastava	Conferred with the Brain of the University Award in B.Sc (Hons.) program of G.B. Pant University for the Best Overall and All-Round Performance. Awarded the ICAR Junior Research Fellowship during his M.Scstudies and research. Awarded the IARI Senior Fellowship for doing course work and pursuing research for his Ph.D. Awarded the Prestigious Prof. M. J Narsihman Award for excellent Research by the Indian Phytopathology Society, India, 1989. Honored with the YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD at the Indian Science Congress held at Cochin in 1990. Awarded the DST-Visiting Fellowship of Biotechnology at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 1990. Awarded the Indo-German DAAD Fellowship for learning German atGottingen University, and doing advanced research in Molecular Virology at Universitat Hamburg, Germany, 1991- 93. Awarded Visiting Professorship by UGC for academics and collaborativeresearch with Universities of Australia and Singapore. Awarded with Third Prize for the Best Paper in the National Symposium on Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, IIT Delhi, 2004. Awarded with First Prize for the Best Paper “Viral Nanotechnology” in International Indo-French Workshop cum Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Ansal Institute of Technology, Gurgaon, October, 2009. Obtained the Best Paper Award in the Indo-German conference and workshop jointly organized by DFG,Germany and Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University, 2011. Best Performer Award in GIAN Course on Cancer Biology: Drug Discovery, Biochemical and Molecular mechanism of Cancer drugs and clinical Implications, Organized by the faculty IllinoisInstitute of Technology, Chicago USA hosted at Jamia Millia Islamia University, October 2017. Achieved 100 % marks in the Bacterial Genomics Course of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK, 2018. Became the Quiz Winner of the National Workshop cum Course on Gene Editing and Phage Display and Therapy by the Indian Virological Society, 21-22 February, 2020.
2.	Dr. Anjana Kapoor	During D.Phil. (Ph.D.) got Senior Research Fellowship from Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) at Department of microbiology, Allahabad University. Research Associate fellowship (1985-86) from ICAR project (AP Cess fund) on “Identification of plant pathogenic fungi and preparation of disease maps”, at Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. Research Associate fellowship in INDO – US PROJECT (1987-90) entitled “Synergistic effect of VAM with Rhizobium” at the Division of Microbiology at IARI, New Delhi. Research Associatefellowship(U.G.C.) (1990-91) on “Biotechnological aspect of thermophilic Fungi.” at Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi, South Campus New Delhi.
3.	Dr. A. Archana	Best Oral Presentation in 7th International E-Conference on "Challenges And Opportunities in Medical, Environmental and Biotechnological Research" GenoPro2020 (10^th -11^th December, 2020). Best Teacher Award (to Delhi University Faculty) by Delhi Government in 2020. Deutscher AkademischerAustauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) - DAAD Fellowship, through University Grants Commission for carrying out post doctoral research at Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich from July 1999 to September 2000. Young Scientist Award at 38^th AMI Conference at New Delhi in 1997. AMI Best Poster Award at Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI) 33^th Annual Conference at Goa in 1992. Qualified UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for receiving Junior Research Fellowship, Senior Research Fellowship and eligibility for Lecturership in 1990.
4.	Dr. Parvinder Kaur	AMI Young Scientist Award (Industrial Microbiology) at52^nd Annual conference of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI) held at Panjab University, Chandigarh in Nov’2011. Young Scientist Award (First position) for Oral presentation at International Conference on Microorganisms in Environmental Management and Biotechnology(ICMEMB-2011), Barkatullah University, Bhopal in July’ 2011 Recipient of short-term DAAD(German Academic Exchange Service) scholarshipthrough University Grants Commission to pursue research at Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germanyfor 6 months (1st July’ 04-31st Dec’ 04)as part of doctorate degree.Successfully completed a project on‘Isolation of phytase genes from Pichia anomala and Arxulaadeninivorans’while there. Qualified Joint CSIR-UGC JRF and LS-NET in Life Sciences in Dec’ 2000 and received Fellowship for pursuing Ph.D.
5.	Dr. Lakshna Mahajan	Member of Editorial Board as Review Editor in Molecular Innate Immunity, part of the journal(s) Frontiers in Immunology, since last three years. Jury Member for Session: LifeSciences, Oral Presentations, Self Reliant India, India International Science Festival, Dec 2020, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Ministry of Health and Family and Welfare, Govt. of India. DBT Post-Doc fellowship at National Institute of Immunology, Delhi, NII, May 2009-June 2010. National Eligibility Test (NET) for University Grants Commission, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) fellowship for five years Ph.D. program. Qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) -2001 Travel Grant for poster presentationat “Annual AAAAI Meet-2006” organized by AmericanAcademy of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology at Miami, Florida, USA held from 3^rd-7^th March 2006 awarded by “Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India”. “IndianNationalScienceAcademy (INSA), Government of India” provided living expenses. Selected for “8th FIMSA/IIS, Advanced Immunology Course”, organized by the Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA) and Indian Immunology Society (IIS) with support from the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) and Immunology Foundation, India, held from March 1-5, 2006, in New Delhi, India.
6.	Dr. Sweta Yadav	Financial Grants were received from University of Delhi and Department of Biotechnology (DBT) to attend “European Congress of Biotechnology 2013” held at Bratislava, Slovakia. Awarded Junior and Senior Research Fellowship (JRF and SRF) sponsored by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in March, 2011. Best oral presentation award in the international conference “European Congress of Biotechnology 2013” held at Bratislava, Slovakia (May, 16-19 2013), on “Butanol: Conversion of glycerol into biobutanol by Clostridium acetobutylicum: turning bacteria into biofuel factories”. Best poster presentation award in the international conference “Asian Congress on Biotechnology 2013” under the aegis of Asian Federation of Biotechnology, held at IIT, New Delhi (December 15-16, 2013), India on “Potential of Clostridium acetobutylicum KF158795 for ABE fermentation using glycerol as a raw material”. Participated and got an appreciation letter from M.S. Swaminathan, Chairman, Genetics Congress Trust in the workshop on “Microbes and Environment” conducted by XVth International Genetics Congress Trust at Department of Genetics, South Campus, Delhi University on 6th and 7th February’ 2009. Selected twice in the Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprise’s BEST India (Biotechnology Entrepreneurship Student Teams) 2012 and 2013.
7.	Dr. Nitin Chauhan	Awards Prof. Mira Madan Memorial Excellence Award for the Best Ph.D Work (2017), CRDT, IIT Delhi. Awarded First prize in e-Poster presentation, XIIth Joint Annual Conference of Indian Society for Malaria & Other Communicable Diseases, Sept. 2017, AFMC Pune, India. Excellent Paper Award, International Institute of Engineers and Researchers, ISERD 52nd Conference, October 2016, Athens, Greece. CSIR NET-2010