JS

Joseph Selvin

Pondicherry University, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute

ORCID iD 0000-0001-9292-8145
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Born in Marthandam, Tamilnadu, India on 3 February 1972. Educated at Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Marthanam, 1977-1989; Graduated at Christian College, Marthandam, 1990-1993; Post graduate at Center for Environmental Sciences, M.S. University 1994-1996; Ph.D. at Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, 1997-2000.
Senior Research Fellow, Central Institute of Fisheries Technology 1996-1997; Senior Research Fellow, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute 1997-2000, Lecturer, MCC, M.S. University 2001-2004; Research Officer, ICFRE 2005; Assistant Professor, Bharathidasan University 2005-2011; BOYSCAST Fellow, University College Cork, Ireland 2010-2011; Professor, Bharathidasan University 2011-2012; Associate Professor by invitation, Pondicherry University 2012-till date; Course Director, National Workshop on ‘Biotechniques’, Malankara Catholic College on 22nd - 26th September 2003; Organizer, Indo-UK conference on Shrimp Aquaculture January 25-27, 2012, funded by Royal Society, UK, funded by Royal Society; Course Director, DBT sponsored short-term training course on Fermentation and Bioseparation Methods, January 2-17, 2015. Task-force in Marine Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Department of Biotechnology (2012-2013); Empowered task-force in Marine Natural Products, Department of Biotechnology-Ministry of Earth Sciences (2014-2016); Task-force in Kerala State Council (Biotechnology task-force) 2016-2017; Kerala Biotechnology Commission 2017-2018; Gujarat Marine Biotechnology Board 2016-2018; Chairman (2010-2011), Board of Studies in Microbiology, Bharathidasan University; Chairman of Board of Studies in Microbiology, Pondicherry University (2012-till date); Principal Investigator of Indo-Mexico collaboration on shrimp disease management (2014-2018).
Awards/Honours: Recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru Award by ICAR (2003); Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Young Scientist medal 2006; INSA-Prof. L.S.S. Kumar award 2006, INSA-Anil Kumar Bose award (2009), DST Young Scientist project (2004), UNESCO-TEMA grant and NPG award in ‘GRC on Marine Microbes’ (2006); DBT Young Investigator project (2008), ESCMID Grant in EUROBIOFILMS (2009); INSA- Anil Kumar Bose Memorial Medal, Indian National Science Academy - (2009); BOYACAST Fellow (2010), Editor of Blue Journal of Biotechnology and International Journal of Fisheries and Aquaculture; Key note address in Asia-Pacific Marine Biotechnology Conference (APMBC) 2017, University of Hawaii, USA, ICMR International Fellow, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)-2018, Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAAS)-2018.
Research Areas: Metagenomic exploration of marine sponge and coral microbiomes, shrimp disease management and marine bioactive compounds
Address: Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605014. Email: [email protected], Tel: 0413-2655358, mob: 9944263367.

Employment

  • Pondicherry University Professor
    2012 - Present

Education

  • Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute Ph.D
    1997 - 2000

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