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Arun Sidram Kharat

Arun Sidram Kharat

Arun Sidram Kharat
Arun Sidram Kharat
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Life Sciences
Room No
210 Office, 441 -Laboratory of Applied Microbiology
Off. Phone
011-26733032
Email
askharat@mail.jnu.ac.in, arunkharat2007@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

Qualifications

M. Sc., Microbiology -93, Shivaji University, Kolhapur

Ph. D. Science, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore

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University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble France

Rockefeller University, New York, USA

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Areas of Interest/Specialization

  1. Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance Genes, Host-Pathogen Interaction, Environmental Microbiology
  2. Medicinal plant: Antimicrobial and Anticancer potentiality
Experience

Experience: 26 years

  1. September 2017 till date: Professor, School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, India
  2. August 2008 till Sept 2017: Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Subcampus Osmanabad, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, MS, India
  3. January 2007 till August 2008: Reader, Department of Biotechnology, Subcampus Osmanabad, Dr. Basaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, MS, India
  4. January 2001 till January 2007: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rockefeller University, USA
  5. July 1994 till January 2001: Lecturer, Department of Microbiology, Abasaheb Garware College, Pune, MS, India.
  6. June 1993 till July 1994: Scientific Assistant C, Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, MS, India.
Awards & Honours

Awards & Honours:

  1. Director, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Subcampus Osmanabad, June 17 till Sept 17.
  2. Director, UGC-Human Resource Development Center, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, 2013-2017
  3. Academic Director, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Subcampus Osmanabad June 2011-June 2013
  4. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Rockefeller University, 2001-2007Teacher Fellow: Indian Academy of Science, to participate in Adaptive Mutation symposium, Raman Research Laboratory, Bangalore, India -1996
  5. Researcher, A National Fellowship –French Ministry of Science, CNRS Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Work with the then Universite Joseph Fourier, presently known as University of Grenoble Alepes, Grenoble, France. 2000
  6. Travel Grant by Nobel Laureate, James D. Watson, to present work in Genetics of Bacteria and their Phages, August 1998, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA.
  7. Senior Research Fellow, Molecular Reproduction Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1998-1999
  8. Junior Research Fellow, Developmental Biology and Genetics Laboratory, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1996-98
International Collaboration/Consultancy

International Collaboration/Consultancy:

  1. Collaborated with Prof. Jean-Pierre, Laboratory of Molecular Microbial Genetics, University of Toulouse, France (2003)
  2. Participant of PREVIS, a multinational and intercontinental Research Project: Pneumococcal Resistance Epidemicity and Virulence: An International Study (2004-07)
Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5)

  1. Kharat AS, Mahadevan S (2000). Analysis of the β-glucoside utilization (bgl) genes of Shigella sonnei: evolutionary implications for their maintenance in a cryptic state. Microbiology, 146(8), 2039-2049.
  2. Kharat AS, Tomasz A (2003). Inactivation of the srtA gene affects localization of surface proteins and decreases adhesion of Streptococcus pneumoniae to human pharyngeal cells in vitro. Infection and immunity, 71(5), 2758-2765.
  3. Kharat AS, Tomasz A (2006). Drastic reduction in the virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae expressing type 2 capsular polysaccharide but lacking choline residues in the cell wall. Molecular microbiology, 60(1), 93-107.
  4. More NV, Kharat AS (2016). Antifungal and Anticancer Potential of Argemone mexicana L. Medicines, 3(4), 28.
  5. More NV, Kharat KR, Kharat AS (2017). Berberine from Argemone mexicanaL exhibits a broad spectrum antibacterial activity. Acta Biochim Pol 64(4):653-660.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3):

  1. Nandimath AP, Karad DD, Gupta SG, Kharat AS (2017). Consortium inoculum of five-thermotolerant phosphate solubilizing Actinomycetes for multipurpose biofertilizer preparation. Iran J Microbiol. 9(5):295-304.
  2. Kharat AS, Parte SG, More NS (2018). Microbes Ecofriendly Tools for Bioremediation of Pesticide-Contaminated Environments. In the Recent Advances in Environmental Management by Ram Narsh Bhargava, CRC Press.
  3. Parte SG, Kharat AS (2019). Aerobic degradation of Clothianidin to 2-Chloro-methyl Thiazole and Methyl-3(thiazol-yl) Methyl guanidine produced by Pseudomonas stutzeri smk. J. Environ Pub Health Mach 2019:4807913
Patents (if any)

 Patents (if any)

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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.