Dr. Nagendra Thakur
Designation: Assistant Professor
Date of Joining: 23/04/2014
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Academic record & distinction
MSc (Microbiology) Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda, Gujarat, India
PhD (Biology) Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
PhD Topic: “Functional characterization of the 40 bp internal repeats of Murine Gamma Herpesvirus-68”
Areas of Specialization
Virology, Immunology and Environmental Microbiology
Latest Publications
Google Scholar Citations: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=61Nwh2gAAAAJ&hl=en
- Sherpa, M. T., Najar, I. N., Das, S. and Thakur, N. 2020. Distribution Of Antibiotic And Metal Resistance Genes In Two Glaciers Of North Sikkim, India. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Saftey. 203. (4):111037 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2020.111037 [IF= 6.29; Springer]. ISSN: 1350-0872.
- Das, S., Roy, G., Najar, I.N., Sherpa, M.T., Thakur, N. 2021. Diversity and composition of the North Sikkim hot spring mycobiome using a culture independent method. Folia Microbiologica, 66. htpps://doi/10.1007/s12223-021-00859-z. (IF: 2.09)
- Najar, I. N., Das, S., Thakur, N. 2020. Reclassification of Geobacillus galactosidasius and Geobacillus yumthangensis as Parageobacillus galactosidasius comb. nov. and Parageobacillus yumthangensis comb. Nov. respectively. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70(12):6518-6523 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004550 [IF= 2.4; Microbiology Society].
- Sherpa, M.T., Najar, I.N., Das, S., Thakur, N., 2020. Exploration of microbial diversity of Himalayan glacier moraine soil using 16S amplicon sequencing and phospholipid fatty acid analysis. Current Microbiology. 78(1):78-85. htpps://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-02259-x. (IF: 1.746)
- Najar, I. N. and Thakur, N. 2020. A Review On Geobacillus And Its Applications. Microbiology. 166(9):800-816. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.000945. [IF= 2.18; Elsevier]. ISSN: 1350-0872
- Najar, I. N., Sherpa, M. T., Das, S., Thakur, N. 2020. Bacterial diversity and functional metagenomics expounding the diversity of xenobiotics, stress, defense and CRISPR gene ontology providing eco-efficiency to Himalayan Hot Springs. Functional & Integrative Genomics, 20, 479–496. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10142-019-00723-x. [IF= 3.6; Springer].
- Najar, I. N., Sherpa, M. T., Das, S., Das, S., Thakur, N. 2020. Diversity analysis and metagenomic insights into the Antibiotic Resistance and Metal Resistances among Himalayan Hot Spring Bacteriobiome- insinuating inherent environmental baseline levels of Antibiotic and Metal tolerance. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance. 21, 342-352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2020.03.026. [IF= 4.03; Elsevier].
- Sherpa, M. T., Najar, I. N., Das, S., Thakur, N. 2018. Bacterial diversity in an alpine debris-free and debris-cover accumulation zone glacier ice, North Sikkim, India. Indian Journal of Microbiology,58(4): 470-478. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12088-018-0747-8 [IF= 2.46; Springer].
- Najar, I. N., Sherpa, M. T., Das, S., Verma, K., Dubey V. K., Thakur, N. 2018. Geobacillus yumthangensis sp. nov., a novel thermophilic bacterium isolated from a north-east Indian hot spring. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 68: 3430-3434. https://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003002 [IF= 2.4; Microbiology Society].
- Najar, I. N., Sherpa, M. T., Das, S., Das, S., Thakur, N. 2018. Microbial ecology of two hot springs of Sikkim: Predominate population and geochemistry. Science of The Total Environment, 637-638(1):730-745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.0 37 [IF= 7.963; Elsevier].