Personal Information

Dr. Shiv Swaroop

Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry

M.Sc. (Biochemistry), Ph.D. (Biological Sciences and Bioengineering; Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Postdoctoral Training: Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science. CSIR-UGC NET- JRF; GATE, DBT Research Associate Fellowship

shivswaroop@curaj.ac.in
  • Protein Engineering and stability, Vaccine design, extremophilic bacteria and their enzymes
  • Assistant Professor (Dec 2016 – till present)- Department of Biochemistry, School of Life sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, Kishangarh, Ajmer, India. 
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep 2011- Dec 2016) - Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biochemistry 2012- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur.
  • M.Sc. in Biochemistry - CSJM University, Kanpur.

Fellowships/Awards

  • National Eligibility Test (NET)-CSIR-JRF, conducted by UGC & CSIR India, in 2003
  • Junior Research Fellowship of Indian Council of Medical Research, India, 2003
  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering and Technology (GATE) in Life sciences, 2003.
  • Received a travel award from Department of Science & Technology to attend a conference (Trends in enzymology, 2010) in Switzerland. (Not availed).
  • Received a travel award from Department of Biotechnology to attend 49th annual conference of Association of microbiologists of India (AMI), held in New Delhi. Nov 18th -20th , 2008.
  • Received post-doctoral fellowship, under DBT-Research associateship program, awarded by Department of Biotechnology India in Dec-2011.

Research Interests

1.      Survival strategies in Haloalkaliphilic bacteria found in soda lakes and its bioprospecting.

2.      Industrially important enzymes from Haloalkaliphilic bacteria.

3.      Design of epitope-based peptide vaccines against enveloped viruses.

S. No. Authors Title of Article Journal/Conference Details Journal/Conference Publication Year
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Publications in peer reviewed journals

 

Author(s)

Title

 Name of Journal

 

Volume

Page

Year

Contractor D, Globisch C, Swaroop S, Jain A.

Structural basis of Omicron immune evasion: A comparative computational study

Computers in Biology and Medicine

147

105758

2022

Meena D, Pandey J, Vasita R, Swaroop S.

Genome Sequence of Salipaludibacillus sp. Strain CUR1, Isolated from an Alkaline-Saline Lake in Rajasthan, India

Microbiol Resource Announcement

11

1-2

2022

 

 

 

 

 

Harish, V., Tewari, D., Gaur, M., Yadav, A. B., Swaroop, S., Bechelany, M., & Barhoum, A.

Review on Nanoparticles and Nanostructured Materials: Bioimaging, Biosensing, Drug Delivery, Tissue Engineering, Antimicrobial, and Agro-Food Applications

Nanomaterials

12

457

2021

Goyal D, Kumar S, Meena D, Solanki SS, Swaroop S, Pandey J.

Selection of ACC deaminase positive, thermohalotolerant and drought tolerance enhancing plant growth-promoting bacteria from rhizospheres of Cyamopsis tetragonoloba grown in arid regions

Letters in Applied

Microbiology

74(4)

519-535

2021

Manish Gaur, Charu Misra, Awadh Bihari Yadav, Shiv Swaroop, Fionn Ó Maolmhuaidh,

Mikhael Bechelany, Ahmed Barhoum

Biomedical Applications of Carbon Nanomaterials: Fullerenes, Quantum Dots, Nanotubes, Nanofibers, and Graphene

Materials

14

5978

2021

Debarghya Mitra, Janmejay Pandey, Alok Jain, Shiv Swaroop

 

In silico design of Multi-epitope-based peptide vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 using its spike protein

 

J Biomol Struct Dyn

 

doi: 10.1080/07391102.2020.1869092

 

 

2021

Shiv Swaroop, S. Thangminlal Vaiphei

Potential Roles of Long Non-Coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in Stress Response Regulation

Int. J. Res. Pharm. Sci.

 

 

 

12 (2)

1-5

2021

 

 

 

V Vamsee Aditya Mallajosyula, Shiv Swaroop* & Raghavan Varadarajan

(*Equal first author)

Influenza Hemagglutinin Head Domain Mimicry by Rational Design

The Protein Journal

39

434-448

2020

Arti Tripathi*, Shiv Swaroop*, Raghavan Varadarajan

(*Equal first author)

Molecular determinants of temperature-sensitive phenotypes

Biochemistry

58

1738-1750

2019

Sudipta Mondal, Shiv Swaroop, Ramanathan Gurunath, Sandeep Verma

A synthetic ditryptophan conjugate that rescues bacteria from mercury toxicity through complexation

Tetrahedron Letters

51

6111-6115

2010

Shiv Swaroop, P. Sughosh, Gurunath Ramanathan

 

Biomineralization of N,N-dimethylformamide by Paracoccus sp. strain DMF

Journal of Hazardous Materials

171

268-272

2009

 

Book Chapters

 

Title

Author(s)

Publisher

 

Year of publication

Anti-Microbial Drugs for Emerging and Re-emerging Microbial Diseases: Paradigm in the 21st Century

Shiv Swaroop, Nidhi Verma, Jay Kant Yadav and Janmejay Pandey

Bentham Science

2023

Survival Strategies in Cold-Adapted

Microorganisms

Deepika Goyal, Shiv Swaroop, Om Prakash & Janmejay Pandey

Springer

2021

Harnessing the Genetic Diversity and Metabolic Potential of Extremophilic Microorganisms through the Integration of Metagenomics and Single-Cell Genomics

Deepika Goyal, Shiv Swaroop and Janmejay Pandey

IntechOpen

2020
  • "Characterization of Extremophilic Bacterial Diversity and Their Industrially Important Enzymes from Haloalkaline Lakes of Rajasthan" 17 March 2022. PI: Dr. Shiv Swaroop;  Grant Amount: Rs. 30,30,500.00  Funding Agency: SERB.  (Ongoing)

Attended

  1. Design and Characterization of Bacterially Expressed Hemagglutinin Head Domain Immunogens. 19th Annual conference on Vaccine research, Baltimore, Maryland., from 18th -20th April-2016
  2. Catalytic degradationof Dimethylformamide by DMFase: A novel amidase from Paracoccus strain DMF. EMBO conference series on Catalytic Mechanism by Biological Systems, EMBL Hamburg, Germany, 5th-7th May 2010.
  3. Biomineralization of N,N-dimethylformamide by Paracoccus sp. strain DMF, 49th annual conference of Association of microbiologists of India (AMI), held in New Delhi. Nov 18th -20th , 2008.