About
Dr.K.Manjusha is a Post-Graduate in Microbiology from Dr.G.R.Damodaran College of Science, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. She qualified her CSIR –UGC NET for Lectureship in 2004. She completed her PhD in Microbiology under the guidance of Dr.A.V. Saramma from the Department of Marine Biology, Microbiology & Biochemistry, School of Marine Sciences Cochin University of Science and Technology in 2012. She has over eleven years of teaching to her credit . She was working as Assistant Professor in Microbiology in St.Xavier’s College for Women, Aluva for 8 years prior to joining KUFOS. She has also worked as Lecturer in Microbiology on FIP deputation vacancy in the Department of Microbiology, SreeSankara College, Kalady for a period 3 months and for 2.8 years as Guest lecturer in Union Christian College, Aluva. She is the Co-Principal Investigator of a major project (on-going) funded by Kerala State Council for Science Technology & Environment entitled ‘ Diversity & Biotic Potential of Yeasts from the Mangroves of Central Kerala’. She is a Member of the Board of Examiners for PhD Thesis Adjudication Yenepoya (Deemed to be University, Mangalore), Microbiology Board of Studies member of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayama, Expert Committee member of P.G Microbiology Syllabus revision M.G University. Her research interest is in the area of bioactive compounds from microbes.
Subject
Microbiology
Books
- Cells and Organs of Immune System 2019 Microbiology Text book series published by Zoological Society of Kerala ISBN:978-81-936818-0-0
Papers
- Manjusha K Jayesh P Divya Jose Sreelakshmi B Priyaja P PremGopinath A V Saramma and Bright Singh IS 2013 Alkaline protease from a non-toxigenic mangrove isolate of Vibrio sp V26 with potential application in animal cell culture Cytotechnol 65:199-212
- Jose Divya Manjusha K Seena Jose A Mohandas and Bright Singh IS 2017 Purification and characterization of highly active Las B protease from Pseudomonas aeruginosa MCCB123 Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 55:303-310
- Aneesa P Alikunju Susan Joy Mujeeb Rahiman Emilda Rosmine Ally C Antony Solly Solomon K Manjusha A V Saramma K PKrishnan A A Mohamed Hatha 2018 A Statistical Approach to Optimize Cold Active β-Galactosidase Production by an Arctic Sediment Pscychrotrophic Bacteria Enterobacter ludwigii (MCC 3423) in Cheese Whey Catalysis Letters 148:712–724
Citations
Projects
- KERALA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT funded major project entitled “ Diversity and Biotic Potential of Yeasts from the Mangroves of Central Kerala Rs 12,51,800
- Funded Student Project (5/ SPYTiS-II/2016/KSCSTE)-under the SPYTiS-II scheme of entitled An Investigation on the Antimicrobial Activity of Ferrite Nanoparticle
Patents
Awards
- Best Oral Presentation for paper entitled ‘Use of protease from non-toxigenic Vibrio sp
- V26 in dissociation of cell lines’ October 2014 awarded during the UGC sponsored National seminar on New Vistas in Microbial Sciences Organized by Department of Microbiology, MA College Kothamagalam
- Best poster award
- Nefla N, K Manjusha, Aneymol VS and Sreedevi N Kutty 2020 Diversity of Yeasts from the mangroves of Mulavukadu: A pre and post Kerala floods study
- 32 nd Kerala Science Congress- Won best poster award in the category Environmental Science, Forestry and Wildlife