Dr. A.Baskaran

Designation	:	Assistant Professor
Nature of Employment	:	Regular
Date of Joining	:	18/03/2022
Qualification	:	Ph.D
Phone	:	+91 7904204745
Email ID	:	baskaran@crescent.education
Google Scholar link	:	https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=rfJmVToAAAAJ&hl=en
Scopus Link	:	https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57205653546
Orcid Id	:	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6236-6708.

Educational Background

Ph.D : Department of Biomedical Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli –2015
M.Sc: Sri Sankara Arts & Science College, Enathur, Kanchipuram 2008
B.Sc: Sri Sankara Arts & Science College, Enathur, Kanchipuram 2006

Teaching and research Experience

Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, B S Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Vandalur, Chennai, March 2022- current
Post doctoral Research Fellow Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, April 2021- March 2022
Research Associate 2B/H The Ohio State University, Columbus, OHIO, USA, July 2019 – March 2021
Post doctoral Research Fellow University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, January 2017 – June 2019
Post doctoral Research Fellow University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, April 2016 – December 2016
Assistant Professor Sri Sankara Arts & Science College, Enathur, Kanchipuram, December 2014 – March2016

Honors and Awards

University Research Fellowship in Bharathidasan University, 2010- 2013.
Travel fellowship from Centre for International Co-operation in Science (CICS) to attend Symposium on Diseases on Asian Aquaculture (DAA9), Ho Chi Minh City, VIETNAM, during November 24 -28, 2014.
19th rank in M.Sc., Microbiology (2006-2008) University of Madras,.

Research areas

Research outcomes

a. Research grants

Ongoing

Name of the PI	Title of the grant	Name of the Funding agency	Name of the Scheme	Amount granted in Rs.
Dr. A. BASKARAN	Molecular characterization……Vibrios	B S Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology	Crescent Seed Money-Centre for Sustainable Development	50000/-

Publications

Number of Research Publications: 20

List of publications

P.Priyadharsini, N. Nirmala, S.S. Dawn, A. Baskaran, P. SundarRajan, K.P. Gopinath, J. Arun Genetic improvement of microalgae for enhanced carbon dioxide sequestration and enriched biomass productivity: Review on CO₂ bio-fixation pathways modifications Algal Research Vol 66 (2022).102810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2022.102810. (Scopus indexed) (Impact factor 5.2)

c. Research guidance: Ph.D

Ongoing: 01

S.No	Name of the scholar	Title of the thesis	Year of registration	Year of Completion	Scholarship details	Outcomes
1	Suruthi SS	Anti-tumor metabolites from marine sponge associated microbes	2022	pursuing

M.Sc/M.Tech

Completed projects :5

S.No	Name of the student	Title of the project	Year of award	Outcomes
1	S. Kameshwaran	Incidence of Vibrio cholerae and other vibrios from different seafoods and environmental sources	2023	Paper Communicated: 01, Conference presentations: 02, Sequences deposited: 03
2	Bhavani B.K	Production of bioethanol and bio-oil from Prosopis juliflora: An alternate source for biogas	2023	Paper Communicated: 01, Conference presentations: 01
3	Pavithra. P	Production and characterization of bioethanol from Moringa oleifera biomass	2023	Paper Communicated: 01, Conference presentations: 01
4	Mahima Caroline	Different survival strategies on food-borne pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus under starvation conditions at different temperatures.	2023	Paper Communicated: 01, Conference presentations: 03
5	Aqsa yashfeen	The role of PARP in age-related cardiac failure	2023	–