Congratulations to our PI for being selected as an official guest for stay during the current academic year 2024 by the Academic Board of The University of Tours, France.
Congratulations to Ritu Sinha on her selection for the International Immersion Experience (IIE) travel award (5th cycle), sponsored by the Office of Global Engagement at IITM. We are pleased to announce that she will be embarking on a collaborative journey at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Tours, France. During her visit from April 2024 to October 2024, Ritu will be working in collaborative research on "Strategies to overcome cryptic biosynthesis of host plant-associated metabolites in endophytes."
Congratulations! Aparajitha Srinivasan and Chitra Srikantan for the grant of patent on “Bioprocess Technique for production of secondary metabolites from plant cells using textile dye effluents”.
2023
Congratulations to Dr. Sarayu M on successfully defending her PhD thesis, titled "Strategies to enhance camptothecinproduction in cell/tissue cultures of Nothapodytes nimmoniana".
We congratulate our PI for receiving CSR Changemaker Award 2023
We congratulate our PI for being one of IIT Madras' 10 award-winning women professors, recognized for remarkable research achievements.
We congratulate our PI for receiving “Outstanding Women Researcher” award as part of Venus International Women Awards 2023.
2022
Hearty Congratulations to Babu R !! For IInd Prize in a poster presentation titled “An optimised bioreactor cultivation process of Viola odorata plant cells for sustainable production of its key bioactive principles.” at the 8th International Bioprocessing India Conference, held at NCL Pune, December 16-18, 2022.
We congratulate Fenita Hephzibah for receiving the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship!
Congratulations to our PI on her selection for the WLI- Women Leading IIT program organized by IIT Madras and Mckinsey & Co and GLOW.
We congratulate Shakunthala Natarajan for being awarded the DAAD KOSPIE Scholarship. She will be visiting the Faculty of Life Sciences, TU Braunschweig for her collaborative work on "Elucidation of Camptothecin Biosynthesis Pathway in the novel plant endophyte Alternaria burnsii NCIM 1409– a Bioinformatics & Targeted Multiomics Approach" between September 2022 to March 2023.
Congrats to Divya Dharshini for her new position as PhD Student at Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Sustainable Innovation Office, Denmark!
We congratulate the PI for guest editing the issue on “Developing High-Yielding Plant Cell Bio-factories for High-Value Low-Volume Phytochemicals” in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science.
Cheers to the lab for collaborating with Hyclone Life Sciences Solutions India Private Limited as a part of their CSR initiative for the year 2022-23 !
Congrats to the lab for collaborating with L&T Technology Services as a part of their CSR initiative for the year 2021-22 !
2021
The Camptothecin technology has been selected for the “ All IIT R&D research fair ”, Cheers to the lab!
Hearty congratulations Dr. Khwajah on defending his PhD thesis titled “Bioprospecting of a sustainable and high-yielding microbial source of camptothecin: An alternative to the red-listed Nothapodytes nimmoniana”
We congratulate Sarayu M for receiving the Women Leading IITM Fellow scholarship.
2020
Vidya Muthulakshmi M, hearty congratulations on receiving the prestigious Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship!
Wishing Dr. Chitra the best and plenty of success in her new job as Research scientist, Mahesh Value Products pvt ltd, Chennai
We congratulate Dr. Aparajitha for joining as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania
We congratulate Dr. Aparajitha Srinivasan for successfully defending her thesis on “Strategies for enhanced production of Alpha-tocopherol in cell culture of Helianthus annuus L.".
Congratulations Dr. Chitra Srikantan for successfully defending her thesis on "Studies on phytoremediation of textile dyes by hairy root culture of Helianthus annuus".
PCT lab congratulates Khwajah for filing the patent on “Sustainable production of camptothecin in the suspension culture of the endophyte from Nothapodytes nimmoniana".
2019
Babu R, Congratulations on receiving the Prestigious SERB’s Prime Minister's Fellowship for Doctoral research!
Special mention to our alumni Karthik for designing our lab logo.
2018
Congratulations! Aparajitha Srinivasan and Chitra Srikantan for filing the patent on “Bioprocess Technique for production of secondary metabolites from plant cells using textile dye effluents”.
2017
Wishing Aarthi Venugopalan on her next step in her research career as a PhD scholar at University of Utah, United States.
We congratulate Dr. Narayani. M for her position as Visiting Faculty at National Institute of Technology, Calicut.
We congratulate Dr. Narayani. M for successfully defending her thesis on "Production of cyclotides in the Indian medicinal plant Viola odorata and its in vitro cultures".
2016
Congratulations Narayani. M for receiving the best poster award at International Conference on Current Trends in Biotechnology ,Vellore, India, December 2016 on “Identification and Characterization of cyclotides in in vitro cultures of Viola odorata”.
We congratulate Aparajitha Srinivasan for receiving the best poster award at 2nd International Conference on Natural Products Utilization, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, October 2016 on “Metabolic engineering of alpha-tocopherol in Helianthus annuus L”.
2015
PCT Lab congratulates Aarthi Venugopalan for successfully defending her MS by Research Thesis titled: “Bioprocess development for in vitro production of camptothecin from the endophyte, Fusarium solani”.
2013
Congratulations! Aarthi Venugopalan for the grant of patent on “An optimized bioprocess for enhancing camptothecin yield from endophytes”
