Dr. Hemant K. Gautam

Principal Investigator
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India


Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Microbiology from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, India

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Area of Interest:

Molecular Sciences
Microbial Biotechnology
Bioactive Molecules
Enzyme and Biosensors
Natural Products

Selected Publications

  1. Rakesh, O.D., R. Pathak, A.S. Dhaker, R. Arora, R. Kumar, R. Rajaram and H.K. Gautam, 2011. Isolation, characterization and bioactivity of deep sea bacteria with special reference to induction of antibacterial and antioxidant metabolites following gamma irradiation. Can. J. Pure Applied Sci., 5: 1363-1370.

  2. Pathak, R., R. Singh, A. Singh, H. Gautam and A.S. Dhaker et al., 2011. Assessment of anti-bacterial and free radical scavenging activity in psychrophilic arthrobacter. Pharmacologyonline, 1: 344-355.

  3. Gupta, A.K., R. Pathak, B. Singh, H. Gautam and R. Kumar et al., 2011. Proteomic analysis of global changes in protein expression during exposure of gamma radiation in Bacillus sp. HKG 112 isolated from saline soil. J. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 21: 574-581.
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  4. Dhaker, A.S., R. Marwah, R. Damodar, D. Gupta, H.K. Gautam, S. Sultana and R. Arora, 2011. In vitro evaluation of antioxidant and radioprotective properties of a novel extremophile from mud volcano: Implications for management of radiation emergencies. Mol. Cell Biochem., 353: 243-250.
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  5. Tyagi, A., V. Bajpai, V.K. Gupta, H.K. Gautam and R.K. Gaur, 2010. Isolation and characterization of soil microbes of Shekhawati region, Rajasthan. Proceedings of the Zonal Seminar on Physiological and Molecular for Yield and Quality Improvement in Crop Plants, Oct. 17-18, SVPU, Meerut, pp: 158-159.

  6. Pathak, R., N. Kasama and H.K. Gautam, 2010. Microbiome: A fusion of metagenomics and metabolomics. Proceeings of the National Symposium on Molecular Approaches for Management of Fungal Disease of Crop Plants, Dec. 27-30, Bangalore, pp: 47-49.

  7. Gautam, H.K., 2010. Recent trends in fruit microbiome for novel bioactive molecules. Proceeings of the National Symposium on Molecular Approaches for Management of Fungal Disease of Crop Plants, Dec. 27-30, Bangalore, pp: 47-49.

  8. Venugopalan, V., N. Verma, H.K. Gautam, P.P. Saradhi and R.H. Das, 2009. 9-cis-canthaxanthin exhibits higher pro-apoptotic activity than all-trans-canthaxanthin isomer in THP-1 macrophage cells. Free Radic. Res., 43: 100-105.
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  9. Vijayalatha, V., B. Singh, T.C. Bora, R.H. Das and H.K. Gautam, 2008. Selective antimicrobial profile of a newly isolated thermostable Brevibacillus borstelensis. Biosci. Biotechnol. Res. Asia, 4: 595-602.

  10. Venugopalan, V., B. Singh, N. Verma, P. Nahar, T.C. Bora, R.H. Das and H.K. Gautam, 2008. Screening of thermophiles from municipal solid waste and their selective antimicrobial profile. Curr. Res. Bacteriol., 1: 17-22.
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  11. Venugopalan, S., A. Sharma, V. Venugopalan and H.K. Gautam, 2008. Comparative study on the antioxidant activities of extracts from Piper betle leaves. Biomed. Pharmacol. J., 1: 115-120.

  12. Singh, B., V. Venugopalan, R.H. Das and H.K. Gautam, 2008. A rapid and economical method for separation of Humic substances and DNA for PCR and cloning from soil samples. J. Pure Applied Microbiol., 2: 205-210.

  13. Gautam, H.K. and A. Kumar, 2008. Development of enzymatic membrane for the detection of cholesterol in serum. Int. J. Biotech. Biochem., 4: 253-262.

  14. Venugopalan, V., R.H. Das and H.K. Gautam, 2007. Alkane degradation by Dietzia sp. K44 and partial cloning of putative alkane hydroxylase gene. J. Pure Applied Microbiol., 1: 225-230.
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  15. Mishra, G., H.K. Gautam and R.H. Das, 2007. Serine/Threonine kinase dependent transcription from the polyhedrin promoter of SpltNPV-I. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 358: 942-947.
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  16. Chaudhury, I., S.K. Raghav, H.K. Gautam, H.R. Das and R.H. Das, 2006. Suppression of inducible nitric oxide synthase by 10-23 DNAzymes in murine macrophage. FEBS Lett., 580: 2046-2052.
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  17. Tulsani, N.B., H. Vikram, H. Kumar, Suman, R. Chaudhary, K. Rani and A. Kumar, 2001. Arsenazo III test strip for rapid detection of hardness of water. Indian J. Chem. Technol., 8: 252-254.
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  18. Tulsani, N.B., A. Kumar, Q. Pasha, H. Kumar and U.P. Sarma, 2000. Immobilization of hormones for drug targeting. Artif. Cells Blood Substit. Immobil. Biotechnol., 28: 503-519.
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  19. Kumar, H., A. Kumar, P. Kumari, S. Jyotirmai and N.B. Tulsani, 2000. A rapid estimation of urea in adulterated milk using dry reagent strip. Indian J. Chem. Technol., 7: 146-147.
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  20. Kumar, H., A. Kumar, P. Kumari and N.B. Tulsani, 2000. A biostrip for urea determination in human serum. Indian J. Clin. Biochem., 15: 1-8.