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Vani B.

pilani Biological Sciences

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Environmental Biotechnology
Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.
kvani70@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in
+91 1596 255 645

Publications

CONFERENCE ATTENDED / PAPERS PRESENTED

31. Poster presented - Monika M. Jangir, B. Vani, Shibasish Chowdhury. Na+/H+ Antiporters: The Panacea for Alkaline Stress in Cyanobacteria, American Society for Microbiology-World Microbe Forum, (online event) USA, 20th-24th June 2021. Dr. Monika was Bill and Melinda Gates abstract awardee for presenting the poster.

30. Presented a Technical talk in CROSS-CAMPUS WEBINAR ON Bio@BITS-2020 RESEARCH in
B I O S C I E N C E S during JULY 16-18, 2020. Title of the talk is "Na+/H+ antiporters and their role in alkaline pH acclimation in Arthrospira platensis"

29. Monika M. Jangir, B. Vani, Shibasish Chowdhury. Differential Response of Photosynthetic Apparatus in Arthrospira platensis NIES-39 and PCC 7345 towards High Alkaline pH Treatment. Poster presentation at “European Microbiology Research Conference” held at Hotel Medium Valencia, Spain during 3-4th Dec 2018.

28. Attended a National Workshop during March 26th - 27th, 2018 on "Improving Synergy between Teaching and Research in Indian Academia" (ISTRIA 2018) organized by Teaching Learning Centre, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan – 333 031 and presented a paper titled "TEACHING ORIENTED TO RESEARCH and RESEARCH ORIENTED TO TEACHING" & got Certificate in this regard. 

27. Bilateral BITS-TAU Workshop on Food Safety and Security November 21st -22nd, 2016, Birla Institute of Technology and Sceince, Pilani, Rajasthan - 333 031.

26. National Seminar on Reproductive Health Awareness for Adolescents on 10th & 11th September, 2016, Birla Balika Vidyapeeth, Pilani, Rajasthan – 333 031.

25. Seminar & Workshop on Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Organized by Department  of Pharmacy in Collaboration with Waters India Private Limited, August 23rd-24th, 2016, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani , Rajasthan - 333 031.

24. BITS Conference on Gene and Genome Regulation February 18th-20th, 2016 (BCGGR - 2016). Department of Biological Sciences, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus – 333 031, Rajasthan, India.

23. I had participated as a resource person in DBT and DU-DST Purse funded “Hands on training and capacity building for training workshop for photosynthesis assessment methods and data interpretation” being organized by the Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi from February 11th to February 16th, 2015.

22. Monika M. Jangir, Jyoti S Kashyap, B. Vani, Shibasish Chowdhury. National Conference on Innovative Research in Agriculture, Food Science, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture, Animal Sciences, Biodiversity, Environmental Engineering and Climate Change (AFHABEC-2015). Organized by “Krishi Sanskriti” on 31st October and 1st November, 2015, Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. We presented a review article entitled as- “The Role of Cyanobacteria in Agriculture”.

21. Monika M. Jangir, Jyoti S Kashyap, B. Vani, Shibasish Chowdhury. 3rd International Plant Physiology Congress - Challenges and Strategies in Plant Biology Research on 11th - 14th December, 2015 in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Poster was presented entitled as “Elucidating the Alkaline Tolerance Mechanism of Arthrospira platensis: An In-silico study”.

20. Monika M. Jangir, Jyoti S Kashyap, B. Vani, Shibasish Chowdhury. Trends in Cell and Molecular Biology, TCMB 2015 , 19th - 21st December, 2015 at BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus. Poster was presented entitled as - Study of Alkaline Tolerance Mechanism in Arthrospira platensis NIES-39 - Sensitivity at different pH Regimes.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

19. Monika M, Bhagavatula Vani and Shibasish Choudhury (2021) "Differential Response of Photosynthetic Apparatus towards Alkaline pH Treatment in NIES-39 and PCC 7345 Strains of Arthrospira platensis", International Microbiology journal. (Accepted): In press. 
 
18. Srivastava, S., Vani, B. & Sadistap, S. Handheld, smartphone based spectrometer for rapid and nondestructive testing of citrus cultivars. Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11694-020-00693-w (In collaboration with CEERI, Pilani). 
 
17. Satyam Srivastava, B. Vani & Shashikant Sadistap 2020 Machine-vision based handheld embedded system to extract quality parameters of citrus cultivars. Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization Volume 14, pages 2746–2759. (In collaboration with CEERI, Pilani).
 
16. Monika Jangir, B.Vani and Shibasish Chowdhury. 2019 Analysis of seven putative Na+/H+ antiporters of Arthrospira platensis NIES 39 using transcription profiling and in silico studies: An indication towards alkaline pH acclimation. Physiology and Molecular Biology of plants (Accepted).
 

15. Jangir,M. M., Kashyap, J. S., Vani B. and Chowdhury,S. 2015. The role of cyanobacteria in agriculture. Journal of Agroecology and Natural Resource Management, Vol.2 (5), 345-350.

14. Snigdha Nigam, Sandhya Mehrotra, B.Vani, Rajesh Mehrotra “Lipase Immobilization Techniques for Biodiesel Production: An Overview" Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 664708, International Journal of Renewable Energy & Biofuels, 16 pages, DOI: 10.5171/2014.664708.

13. Logeswaran P K, V Kohli, B.Vani, (2011) Interplay between nitrate assimilation by and calcium influx in Spirulina platensis. Afr. J. Microbiol. Res.5(30): 5438 - 5443.

12. Pradeep Kumar L and Vani B. (2011) “Nitrogen acquisition in cyanobacteria”; In Current Topics in Biotechnology and Microbiology : (eds. Harish Kumar Dhingra, Prabhat Nath Jha and Pratima Bajpai) Lambert Academic Publishing. Pp 196-216.

11. Pradeep Kumar Logeswaran, Swapnil Srivastav, Krithika Karunakaran, Vinky Kohli, Priya Munjal and Bhagavatula Vani (2011) Effect of Nitrate availability on expression of multi sensor histidine kinase gene in Spirulina platensis PCC7345 Phsiol. Mol. Biol.Plants, Volume 17, Number 3, pp. 239-245(7)

10. Prasanna Mohanty and B.Vani: (2004) Stress triggered phosphorylation and migration of light harvesting complex of photosystem II. Indian Journal of Plant Physiology Sp Issue. 178-183.

9. Prasanna Mohanty, Bhagavatula Vani and Jogadhenu S.S. Prakash: (2002) Elevated temperature treatment induced alteration in thylakoid membrane organization and energy distribution between the Two photosystems in Pisum sativum. Z. Natureforsch, 57c 836-842.

8. B.Vani, P. Pardha Saradhi and Prasanna Mohanty: (2001) Characterization of High Temperature Induced Stress Impairments in Thylakoids of Rice Seedlings. Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Vol. 38, pp220-229.

7. B.Vani, P. Pardha Saradhi and Prasanna Mohanty: (2001) Alteration in chloroplast structure and thylakoid membrane composition due to in vivo heat treatment of rice seedlings: correlation with functional changes. Journal of Plant Physiology, Vol.158, 583-592.

6. B.Vani, P. Mohanty, P. Eggenberg, B.J. Strasser and R.J. Strasser: Heat stress on rice leaves probed by the fluorescence transient OKJIP. (1999). XI International congress on photosynthesis. Kluwer Academic press. Pp. 3837- 3840.

5. B.Vani, P. Pardha Saradhi and Prasanna Mohanty: Differential sensitivity of photo-functions of thylakoid membranes to in vivo elevated temperature stress in Oryza Sativa (Var. Kalinga III) seedlings. (1999) XI International Congress on Photosynthesis, Kluwer Academic press. Pp. 3841-3844.

4. BalaKrishna, K., Joshi, M.K., Vani B. and Prasanna Mohanty: Structure – function correlation during etioplast – chloroplast transition in cucumber (Cucumis Sativus) cotyledonary leaves: Quantitative analyses. (1999) Photosynthetica 36(1-2): 199-212.

3. P. Pardha Saradhi , Sandeep Arora , Vani B. And Jos, T. Puthur: Alteration in NAD/NADH ratio regulates salt stress induced proline accumulation in Vigna Radiata. (1996) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., India. 66 (B): 100.

2. B.Vani, P. Pardha  Saradhi and Parsanna Mohanty: Effect of short term heat treatment of rice seeding on sensitivity of thylakoid membranes to photo-inhibition ( 1996 ) Biologia Plantarum . 38 ( 4) : 501- 509.

1. P. Pardha Saradhi, Alia and B.Vani: Inhibition of mitochondrial electron transport is the prime cause behind proline accumulation during mineral deficiency in Oryza Sativa. (1993) Plant and Soil. 155/156: 465–468.

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