B Janarthanam
Poonga Biotech Research Centre, India
Biography
B Janarthanam has completed his PhD degree in the subject of Botany from University of Madras. He has also worked as Chief Scientist & Project Principal Investigator in OMNI GREEN Organic Bio Park Private Limited, as Project Co-PI & Research Associate in PG & Research Department of Botany, Pachaiyappa’s College, Chennai and as Project Co-PI & Junior Research Fellow in Shri A M M Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre, Tharamani, Chennai. He has more 10 years of research experience in various fields of Secondary Metabolite production, Enzyme assays, Antioxidant activity and plant tissue culture techniques. He has served as Project Principal Investigator & Co-Principal Investigator in projects sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, National Medicinal Plant Board, New Delhi and M/s Shrivathsa Herbs & Species Pvt. Ltd. He has guided more than 40 project students from various colleges and Universities for their BTech/MSc/MTech dissertation work. He has 18 international scientific publications in reputed journals and has participated and presented his research findings in more than 25 international and national conferences. He has also given oral presentations as Invited Speaker in the “Asia Pacific Conference of Plant Tissue Culture and Agribiotechnology” (APaCPA 2007) held in Malaysia and in the “International conference on Natural Products and Biomedical Technology”, ICNPBT 2011, at Annamalai University.