Department of Biotechnology | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai
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Vani Janakiraman

Associate Professor

Ph.D., INSERM-UPMC, Paris

Block 2, BT 102

044 2257 4141

vani[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

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  • Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis.Tuberculosis claims about 2 million lives annuallyand is the leading cause of death worldwide due to a single bacterial agent. The situation is particularly alarming in several developing countries including India, with

  1. Sankaranarayanan, S., Mohkhedkar, M., Janakiraman, V. (2022). "Mutations in spike protein T cell epitopes of SARS-COV-2 variants: Plausible influence on vaccine efficacy", Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, 1868, pp. 166432, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2022.166432.
  2. Kuzhandai Shamlee, J., Swamy, V.V.L., S Rajamani, A., ... Janakiraman, V., Sai, V.V.R. (2022). "A U-bent fiberoptic absorbance biosensor array (ArFAB) for multiplexed analyte detection", Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X, 12, pp. 100271, DOI: 10.1016/j.biosx.2022.100271.
  3. Menon, S.S., Dutta, S., Rajamani, A.S., ... Janakiraman, V., Sai, V.V.R. (2023). "Metal-Organic Framework Based Fiber Optic Ammonia Sensor", IEEE Sensors Letters, 7, pp. 1–4, DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2023.3330317.
  4. Prakash, C.M., Janakiraman, V. (2023). "Secretory protein Rv1987, a ‘probable chitinase’ from Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a novel chitin and cellulose binding protein lacking enzymatic function", Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 684, pp. 149120, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.149120.
  5. Sharma, D., Rawat, P., Greiff, V., Janakiraman, V., Gromiha, M.M. (2024). "Predicting the immune escape of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies upon mutation", Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, 1870, pp. 166959, DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2023.166959.