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Dr. Nagendra Thakur

Dr. Nagendra Thakur

Associate Professor, Head

DOJ: 23/04/2014 Dept: Microbiology nthakur@cus.ac.in

Academic record & distinction

MSc (Microbiology) Maharaja Sayajirao University

PhD (Biology) Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Post Doctorate Research, Louisiana State University Health Science Center (LSUHSC), Shreveport, LA, USA.

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Awards

1. Best Publication Award: Awarded by Sikkim University in the year 2019
2. Indian Overseas Research Associateship: Awarded by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India in the year 2018.
3. Senior Scientist Award: Awarded by Microbiologists Society, India. 2023.

 

Areas of Specialization

Environmental Microbiology and Virology. Dr. Nagendra Thakur research interest is in understanding the biology of microorganisms from extreme environments. It includes the characterization of thermophiles and psychrophiles obtained from hot springs and glaciers of Sikkim using culture dependent and culture independent techniques.

Latest Publications

1) Kumar, S., Najar, I.N., Sharma, P., Tamang, S., Ranjan, R.K., and Thakur, N. (2023).Temperature – A critical abiotic paradigm that governs bacterial heterogeneity innatural ecological system. Environmental Research. 234. 116547. ISSN 0013-9351.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.116547. (Impact factor: 8.3).

 

2) Das, S., Najar, I.N., Sherpa, M.T. Kumar, S., Sharma, P., Mondal, K., Tamang, S.,Thakur, N. (2023) Baseline metagenome-assembled genome (MAG) data of Sikkim hot springs from Indian Himalayan geothermal belt (IHGB) showcasing its potential CAZymes, and sulfur-nitrogen metabolic activity. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 39:179 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-023-03631-2. (Impactfactor: 4.1)

3) Das, S., Najar, I.N., Sherpa, M.T. Kumari, A., Thakur, N. (2023). Post-monsoon seasonal variation of prokaryotic diversity in solfataric soil from the North Sikkim hot spring. International Microbiology. May; 26(2):281-294.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10123-022-00298-x (Impact factor: 3.1).


4) Sharma, P., Mondal, K., Kumar, S., Tamang, S., Najar, I.N., Das, S., and Thakur, N.(2022) RNA Thermometers in Bacteria: Role in Thermoregulation. BBA - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 28;1865 (7):194871. doi: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2022.194871.(Impact factor: 6.3).

5) Thakur N, Das S, Kumar S, Maurya VK, Dhama K, Paweska JT, Abdel-Moneim AS,Jain A, Tripathi AK, Puri B, Saxena SK. (2022) Tracing the origin of Severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2): A systematic review and narrative synthesis. J Med Virol. 114. doi:10.1002/jmv.28060 (Impact factor: 20.69).

6) Sharma, P., Mondal, K., Mondal, K.C., Thakur, N. (2022) Hunt for α-amylase from metagenome and strategies to improve its thermostability: a systematic review. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 38, 203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-022-03396-0 (Impact
factor: 4.25)

7) Najar IN, Das S, Kumar S, Sharma P, Mondal K, Sherpa MT and Thakur N (2022) Coexistence of Heavy Metal Tolerance and Antibiotic Resistance in Thermophilic Bacteria Belonging to Genus Geobacillus. Front. Microbiol. 13:914037. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.914037. (Impact factor: 6.06)

8) Najar IN, Das S, Thakur N. 2020. Reclassification of Geobacillus galactosidasius and Geobacillus yumthangensis as Parageobacillus galactosidasius comb. nov. and Parageobacillus yumthangensis comb. Nov. respectively. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 70(12), 6518-6523 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004550 [ISSN: 1466-5026, Microbiology Society].
(Impact factor: 2.689).

9) Sherpa MT, Najar IN, Das S, Thakur N. 2020. Distribution of antibiotic and metal resistance genes in two glaciers of North Sikkim, India. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 203(111037). doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.111037 [IF= 7.129; Springer]. ISSN: 0147-6513. (Impact factor: 7.129)

10) Najar IN, Sherpa MT, Das S, Das S, Thakur N. 2018. Microbial ecology of two hot springs of Sikkim: Predominate population and geochemistry. Science of The Total Environment, 637-638(1):730-745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.0 37 [ISSN: 0048-9697 (print); Elsevier]. (Impact factor: 10.753)Google Scholar Citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=61Nwh2gAAAAJ&hl=en