Indira P. Sarethy, Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, has been in teaching and research for fourteen years, working at Lady Doak College, Madurai, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi and Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Noida before taking up the present assignment at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University, Noida. She has done her post graduation and PhD. from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai on stress-related aspects using in vitro propagation systems of plants. Her research interests are in natural products (for therapeutic and industrial applications) from microbial and plant sources. Microorganisms from niche habitats are identified and characterized for bioactive compounds. Another area of work is in vitro propagation of endangered medicinal plants and effect of culture conditions on bioactivity. She is CSIR-UGC-NET and GATE qualified and has been the recipient of CSIR Junior and Senior Research Fellowships for doctoral studies. She has organized conferences and workshops (DBT-sponsored one-day National conference on ‘Biodiversity and Agribiotechnology’- April 25, 2009, five days Workshop on ‘Plant Bio-products And Industrial Scale-Up’ - July 5-9, 2010 in collaboration with Sanat Products Ltd.) and was co-organizer of International Conferences on ‘Bioproducts from Natural Sources’ (Feb.3, 2011), and ‘Bioproducts and the OMICS Revolution’ (March 16-17, 2013), in collaboration with Scientity Inc., U.K.

Natural products from Microbial and Plant sources