Anand Kumar Bachhawat

Indian geneticist and biochemist (born 1958)

IIT Kanpur

Known forStudies on microbial geneticsAwards

2000 N-BIOS Prize

Scientific careerFields

Genetics
Biochemistry

Institutions

IISER Mohali

Anand Kumar Bachhawat (born 1 October 1958) is an Indian geneticist, biochemist, professor in biological sciences and the dean of faculty at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.^[1] Known for his studies on microbial genetics,^[2] Bachhawat is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies namely Indian Academy of Sciences,^[3] National Academy of Sciences, India^[4] and Indian National Science Academy.^[5]

Bachhawat, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur from where he secured a PhD,^[6] heads the Bachawat Lab at the Department of Biological Sciences of IISER Mohali.^[7] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles^[8] and the online repository of scientific articles of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 29 of them.^[9] He also holds patents for the biochemical processes he has developed.^[10] The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2000.^[11]

Selected bibliography

Chapters

Iqbal Ahmad; Anand Kumar Bachhawa; Anil Kumar Yadav (3 August 2010). "Metabolic Pathways as Drug Targets: Targeting the Sulphur Assimilatory Pathways of Yeast and Fungi for Novel Drug Discovery". In Mohammad Owais; Mohammed Shahid; Farrukh Aqil (eds.). Combating Fungal Infections: Problems and Remedy. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 327–. ISBN 978-3-642-12173-9.

Articles

Anup Arunrao Deshpande1, Muskan Bhatia1, Sunil Laxman, Anand Kumar Bachhawat (2017). "Thiol trapping and metabolic redistribution of sulfur metabolites enable cells to overcome cysteine overload". Microbial Cell. 4 (4): 112–126. doi:10.15698/mic2017.04.567. PMC 5376351. PMID 28435838.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Amandeep Kaur, Ruchi Gautam, Ritika Srivastava, Avinash Chandel, Akhilesh Kumar, Subramanian Karthikeyan, Anand Kumar Bachhawat (2017). "ChaC2: An Enzyme for Slow Turnover of Cytosolic Glutathione". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292 (2) (published 2016): 638–651. doi:10.1074/jbc.M116.727479. PMC 5241738. PMID 27913623.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Shailesh Kumar, Hariom Kushwaha, Anand Kumar Bachhawat, Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava, Kaliannan Ganesan (2012). "Genome Sequence of the Oleaginous Red Yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides MTCC 457". Eukaryot Cell. 11 (8): 1083–1084. doi:10.1128/EC.00156-12. PMC 3416060. PMID 22858828.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

References

^ "Anand Kumar Bachhawat - Professor in Biological Sciences and Dean Faculty". IISER Mohali. 24 November 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
^ "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^ "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 12 November 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
^ "NASI fellows". National Academy of Sciences, India. 12 November 2017. Archived from the original on 17 July 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
^ "INSA Year Book 2016" (PDF). Indian National Science Academy. 24 November 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
^ "Dr Anand Kumar Bachhawat on Vidwan". Vidwan. 24 November 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
^ "Department of Biological Sciences". IISER Mohali. 24 November 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
^ "On ResearchGate". 23 November 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
^ "Patents by Inventor Anand Kumar Bachhawat". Justia Patents. 24 November 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
^ "Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development" (PDF). Department of Biotechnology. 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2017.