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Hire Dr. Venkateswara R N.

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Bioprocess Expert, Bio-Industry Problem Solver, AI for science, 13 years of experience in science and research

Profile Summary

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.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Biotechnology & Bioengineering
• ★ Recombinant Protein Expression
• ★ Food & Beverage Manufacturing
• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Evolutionary Biology
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Mathematical Biology
• ☆ Enzyme Activity Assays
• ☆ Binding Assays
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ PCR
• ☆ Molecular Cloning
• ☆ Marine Biology
• ☆ Biophysics
• ☆ Nanobiotechnology
• ☆ Biomedical Engineering
• ☆ Biomechanics
• ☆ Bionics
• ☆ Biomimetics
• ☆ Microscopy
• ☆ Light Microscopy
• ☆ Fluorescence Microscopy
• ☆ Biological Engineering
• ☆ Food Engineering
• ☆ Food Additives
• ☆ Nutrition Science
• ☆ Food Microbiology
• ☆ Food Preservation
• ☆ Food Safety
• ☆ Flavor & Fragrance Chemistry
• ☆ Food Processing
• ☆ Food Testing
• ☆ Nutritional Analysis
• ☆ Biomarker Discovery
• ☆ Industrial Biotechnology
• ☆ Synthetic Biology
• ☆ Agricultural Biotechnology
• ☆ Chemical Biology
• ☆ Recipe Formulation
• ☆ Drug Development
• ☆ Preclinical Research
• ☆ Vaccine Development

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Medical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Meta-Research, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Business Strategy Consulting, Operations Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting, Manufacturing Consulting

Data & AI Image Analysis, Algorithm Design-ML, Data Visualization

Product Development Formulation, Recipe Development, Stability/Shelf Life Testing, Manufacturing, Prototyping, Reverse Engineering

Work Experience

Chief Operating Officer

Om Saver International Pvt. Ltd.

October 2024 - Present

DBT - Research Associate

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

March 2022 - February 2024

Research Associate

International Centre For Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology New Delhi

April 2021 - September 2021

Senior Researcher

Prayoga

November 2020 - April 2021

Research Associate

EID Parry (India) Ltd

January 2020 - June 2020

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Biosciences and Bioengineering)

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

July 2014 - March 2021

Bachelor of Technology (Biotechnology)

National Institute of Technology Warangal

August 2010 - August 2014

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

BOOK CHAPTER

Abhilasha K. Rani, Venkateswara R. Naira, Anurag S. Rathore (2023). Method for Inclusion Bodies Production via E. coli Host System: rGCSF as Model Biotherapeutic Protein . Methods in Molecular Biology.

Venkateswara R. Naira, Mukul S. Kareya, Asha A. Nesamma, Pannaga P. Jutur (2023). Mass spectrometry . Handbook of Biomolecules.

(2021). Biomedical Applications of Nanozymes: Disease Diagnosis and Therapy . Handbook of Consumer Nanoproducts.

(2020). Biorefinery Approaches for the Production of Fuels and Chemicals from Lignocellulosic and Algal Feedstocks . Biorefinery of Alternative Resources: Targeting Green Fuels and Platform Chemicals.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2020). A novel bubble-driven internal mixer for improving productivities of algal biomass and biodiesel in a bubble-column photobioreactor under natural sunlight . Renewable Energy.

Mahesh, R., Naira, V.R., Maiti, S.K.(2019). 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. p. 231-241.

Singh, N.K., Naira, V.R., Maiti, S.K.(2019). Production of biodiesel by autotrophic Chlorella pyrenoidosa in a sintered disc lab scale bubble column photobioreactor under natural sunlight . Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology. 49. (3). p. 255-269.

Naira, V.R., Das, D., Maiti, S.K.(2019). 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. 284. p. 43-55.

Naira, V.R., Das, D., Maiti, S.K.(2018). Designing a CO<inf>2</inf> supply strategy for microalgal biodiesel production under diurnal light in a cylindrical-membrane photobioreactor . Bioresource Technology. 250. p. 936-941.