Venkateswara Rao Naira

About

Dr. Naira is a Scientific researcher and space-exploration enthusiast. He obtained his PhD degree from IIT Guwahati in the area of Biosciences and Bioengineering. Later he gained 4+ years' of experience by working in various industry and academia labs. He is awarded with DBT-RA fellowship (2022 - 2024) from Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. He has proven skills in the areas of bioprocess engineering, biopharmaceuticals development, strain engineering, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and enzyme production. He has contributed ten scientific publications that include original articles, reviews, book chapters, and protocols. He is highly regarded for positive attitude, result-driven, innovative, self-starting, problem solving, continuous learning, mentoring, team/project manager and multi-tasking. He also has great managerial skills like mentoring/supervising Bachelors and Masters students, organizing member of workshops and seminars, new project proposal writing, multiple project management, and knowledge of establishing new laboratory at IITs.

Skills and abilities
• Experienced in designing DNA expression constructs in silico, transformation, cloning and expression of enyzmes and proteins in bacterial and yeast systems, i.e., E.coli.
• Experienced in CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology.
• Experienced in working with newly isolated fungi (non-model fungi) for optimization lipase enzyme and bioremediation of waste-cooking oils.
• Experienced in working with various bioinformatics tools for in silico analysis of enzymes and protein modelling.
• Experience in screening/biomass optimization of microalgal strains (i.e., Chlorella, Chromochloris, Parachlorella,) for lipids, specific carotenoids (i.e., astaxanthin, lutein, beta/alpha-carotene, etc.) by using analytical instrumentation such as HPLC, GC-FID, GC-MS, UV-Vis, Adcanced microscopy.
• 11 years experience in optimizing culture conditions at benchtop and bioreactor scales (shake-flask, 500 mL, 5L, and 10 L) to maximize bioproducts such as biodiesel, specific carotenoids in terms of final titers, rate, and yields.
• Sound knowledge and understanding the cellular dynamics of biological cells subjected to nutrient supplementation using multi-omics platform to identify relevant enzyme-encoding genes and evaluate mechanisms in microorganisms that will contribute towards the engineering of regulatory networks of non-model/model strains for increased cell biomass and bioproducts.

Employment

• Om Saver International Pvt. Ltd. Chief Operating Officer
  2024 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi DBT - Research Associate
  2022 - 2024
• International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology New Delhi Research Associate
  2021 - 2021
• Prayoga Senior Researcher
  2020 - 2021
• EID Parry (India) Ltd Research Associate
  2020 - 2020

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
  2014 - 2021
• National Institute of Technology Warangal Bachelor of Technology
  2010 - 2014

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (9)

• Method for Inclusion Bodies Production via E. coli Host System: rGCSF as Model Biotherapeutic Protein
  Methods in Molecular Biology 2023 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2930-7_18
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• Mass spectrometry
  Handbook of Biomolecules 2023 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-91684-4.00012-8
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• Biomedical Applications of Nanozymes: Disease Diagnosis and Therapy
  Handbook of Consumer Nanoproducts 2021 DOI: doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6453-6_91-1
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• A novel bubble-driven internal mixer for improving productivities of algal biomass and biodiesel in a bubble-column photobioreactor under natural sunlight
  Renewable Energy 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2020.05.079
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• Biorefinery Approaches for the Production of Fuels and Chemicals from Lignocellulosic and Algal Feedstocks
  Biorefinery of Alternative Resources: Targeting Green Fuels and Platform Chemicals 2020 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-1804-1_7
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• Concomitant production of fatty acid methyl ester (biodiesel) and exopolysaccharides using efficient harvesting technology in flat panel photobioreactor with special sparging system via Scenedesmus abundans
  Bioresource Technology 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.01.091
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• Production of biodiesel by autotrophic Chlorella pyrenoidosa in a sintered disc lab scale bubble column photobioreactor under natural sunlight
  Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology 2019 DOI: 10.1080/10826068.2018.1536991
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• Real time light intensity based carbon dioxide feeding for high cell-density microalgae cultivation and biodiesel production in a bubble column photobioreactor under outdoor natural sunlight
  Bioresource Technology 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.03.102
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• Designing a CO<inf>2</inf> supply strategy for microalgal biodiesel production under diurnal light in a cylindrical-membrane photobioreactor
  Bioresource Technology 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.11.087
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