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Residence
  
India

Nationality
  
Indian


Name
  
Jayaraman Gowrishankar

Fields
  
Biology


Gowrishankar is new IISER director - Hindustan Times

Institutions
  
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics

Alma mater
  
University of Madras, University of Melbourne

Education
  
University of Melbourne, University of Madras

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Jayaraman Gowrishankar (born 1956) is an Indian medical microbiologist. Gowrishankar received his M.B.B.S. degree from the Christian Medical College, University of Madras. He holds Doctor of philosophy in bacterial genetics from the University of Melbourne.

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He was a Scientist and Group Leader at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad. In 2000, He is positioned as director for Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.

He was awarded in 1991, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Biological sciences category. He was awarded in 2013, the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, for his contribution towards the field of science.

Civilian Honours

  • Padma Shri in 2013 by the Government of India.

    • Research Awards

  • INSA Medal for Young Scientists, 1986
  • CSIR Young Scientist Award, 1987
  • BM Birla Prize. 1991
  • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for 1991
  • JC Bose Fellowship, 2007
  • The 2012 Moselio Schaechter Distinguished Service Award - American Society for Microbiology

    • Research highlights

  • Discovery of the operon and its exquisite osmotic regulation
  • Enunciation of a new hypothesis that toxic RNA-DNA hybrids (R-loops) are prone to occur from nascent untranslated transcripts in E coli.

    • References

    Jayaraman Gowrishankar Wikipedia
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