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PhD | Research Consultant for biotech industry & academia| Microbial Engineering | Scientific Writing, teaching & Mentor

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I am Dr. Anantha Barathi Muthukrishnan, a scientist, consultant, and founder with over a decade of experience in molecular biology, microbiology, synthetic biology, and gene expression research. I specialize in: Engineering microbial systems for pathway optimization. Designing and analyzing gene circuits using synthetic biology. Gene expression and stress response profiling using qPCR, live-cell imaging, and transcriptomics. Supporting early-stage biotech and academic labs with research design, data interpretation, and scientific communication. After earning my PhD in Biotechnology from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, I worked with leading institutions such as IIT Madras and NUS, and now lead Celldzyne Life Sciences, a startup focused on microbial engineering. 🧪 Services I offer: Research consulting (design, execution, troubleshooting) Academic consulting (Industry relevant courses, lectures and internships) Scientific writing/editing (grants, papers, SOPs) Mentorship for PhD/postdoc researchers Workshop delivery on synthetic biology tools and molecular biology methods 📬 Feel free to connect with me for collaboration, consulting, teaching, or mentoring opportunities.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Microbiology
• ☆ Zoology
• ☆ Animal Biotechnology
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ PCR
• ☆ Molecular Cloning
• ☆ Synthetic Genomics
• ☆ Gene Expression Analysis
• ☆ Recombinant DNA
• ☆ Biotechnology & Bioengineering
• ☆ Plant Biotechnology
• ☆ Synthetic Biology

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Creative Writing, Newswriting, Audio Transcription, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Product Development Reverse Engineering

Work Experience

Principal Scientist - Biotechnology

IIT Madras and Celldzyne, IIT Madras Research Pak

September 2015 - Present

Education

PhD

Tampere University, Finland

January 2011 - October 2014

Certifications

• State Eligibility Test (SET) for Lectureship in the field of Life Science

  Government of Tamil Nadu

  March 2006 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Sasikaladevi Rathinavelu, Govindaraj Divyapriya, Angel Joseph, Indumathi M. Nambi, Anantha Barathi Muthukrishnan, Guhan Jayaraman (2022). Inactivation behavior and intracellular changes in Escherichia coli during electro-oxidation process using Ti/Sb–SnO2/PbO2 anode: Elucidation of the disinfection mechanism . Environmental Research.

Rathinavelu, S., Divyapriya, G., Joseph, A., Nambi, I.M., Muthukrishnan, A.B., Jayaraman, G.(2022). Inactivation behavior and intracellular changes in Escherichia coli during electro-oxidation process using Ti/Sb–SnO₂/PbO₂ anode: Elucidation of the disinfection mechanism . Environmental Research. 210.

Sivapuratharasan, V., Lenzen, C., Michel, C., Muthukrishnan, A.B., Jayaraman, G., Blank, L.M.(2022). Metabolic engineering of Pseudomonas taiwanensis VLB120 for rhamnolipid biosynthesis from biomass-derived aromatics . Metabolic Engineering Communications. 15.

Beal, J., Farny, N.G., Haddock-Angelli, T., Selvarajah, V., Baldwin, G.S., Buckley-Taylor, R., Gershater, M., Kiga, D., Marken, J., Sanchania, V., et al.(2020). Robust estimation of bacterial cell count from optical density . Communications Biology. 3. (1).

Gupta, A., Lloyd-Price, J., Oliveira, S.M.D., Yli-Harja, O., Muthukrishnan, A.-B., Ribeiro, A.S.(2014). Robustness of the division symmetry in Escherichia coli and functional consequences of symmetry breaking . Physical Biology. 11. (6).

Muthukrishnan, A.-B., Martikainen, A., Neeli-Venkata, R., Ribeiro, A.S.(2014). In vivo transcription kinetics of a synthetic gene uninvolved in stress-response pathways in stressed Escherichia coli cells . PLoS ONE. 9. (9).

Häkkinen, A., Muthukrishnan, A.-B., Mora, A., Fonseca, J.M., Ribeiro, A.S.(2013). CellAging: A tool to study segregation and partitioning in division in cell lineages of Escherichia coli . Bioinformatics. 29. (13). p. 1708-1709.

Muthukrishnan, A.-B., Kandhavelu, M., Lloyd-Price, J., Kudasov, F., Chowdhury, S., Yli-Harja, O., Ribeiro, A.S.(2012). Dynamics of transcription driven by the tetA promoter, one event at a time, in live Escherichia coli cells . Nucleic Acids Research. 40. (17). p. 8472-8483.

Kandhavelu, M., Lihavainen, E., Muthukrishnan, A.B., Yli-Harja, O., Ribeiro, A.S.(2012). Effects of Mg ²⁺ on in vivo transcriptional dynamics of the lar promoter . BioSystems. 107. (3). p. 129-134.

Lloyd-Price, J., Lehtivaara, M., Kandhavelu, M., Chowdhury, S., Muthukrishnan, A.-B., Yli-Harja, O., Ribeiro, A.S.(2012). Probabilistic RNA partitioning generates transient increases in the normalized variance of RNA numbers in synchronized populations of Escherichia coli . Molecular BioSystems. 8. (2). p. 565-571.

Kandhavelu, M., Lloyd-Price, J., Gupta, A., Muthukrishnan, A.-B., Yli-Harja, O., Ribeiro, A.S.(2012). Regulation of mean and noise of the in vivo kinetics of transcription under the control of the lac/ara-1 promoter . FEBS Letters. 586. (21). p. 3870-3875.

PREPRINT

Anantha-Barathi Muthukrishnan, Antti Häkkinen, Velvizhi Devi Rajendran, Anupama Kozhiyalam, Guhan Jayaraman (2020). In vivosingle-cell analysis using calcofluor - white staining detects high expression phenotype inL. lactiscultures engineered for hyaluronic acid production .

OTHER

Muthukrishnan, A.-B., Häkkinen, A., Rajendran, V.D., Kozhiyalam, A., Jayaraman, G.(2020). In vivo single-cell analysis using calcofluor - white staining detects high expression phenotype in L. lactis cultures engineered for hyaluronic acid production . bioRxiv.

B P Kailash, D Karthik, Mousami Shinde, Nikhita Damaraju, Anantha Barathi Muthukrishnan, Shashi Bala Prasad, Guhan Jayaraman(2019). ChassiDex: A microbial database useful for synthetic biology applications . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Kailash, B.P., Karthik, D., Shinde, M., Damaraju, N., Muthukrishnan, A.B., Prasad, S.B., Jayaraman, G.(2019). ChassiDex: A microbial database useful for synthetic biology applications . bioRxiv.