Dr Tushar Kaushik

Name : Sai Hivarkar

Designation : PhD Student

Brief Background :

  • Quality Control officer in Microbiology department of a biopharma industry
  • Project assistant on an industry-funded project on wastewater treatment plant
  • Cleared GATE (2016)
  • Junior research fellow on an industry-funded project on biomethanation of lignite

Contact Details :

  • BSc. (Microbiology) from Savitribai Phule Pune University in the year 2012

  • MSc. (Microbiology) from Savitribai Phule Pune University in the year 2014

Anaerobic digestion, Biofuel production, Comparative genomics, Cultivation of anaerobes, Lignocellulolytic anaerobic bacteria from hot-spring & rumen environments

PhD topic “Investigating diversity of thermophilic anaerobic bacteria from hot spring environments for utilization of agricultural biomass”

Joshi, A., Vasudevan, G., Engineer, A., Pore, S., Hivarkar, S.S., Lanjekar, V.B., Dhakephalkar, P.K. and Dagar, S.S., 2018. Genomic analysis of Actinomyces sp. strain CtC72, a novel fibrolytic anaerobic bacterium isolated from cattle rumen. Genome9(10).