Jayaraman Gowrishankar

Jayaraman Gowrishankar
Born	1956 (age 59–60) Chennai, India
Residence	India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Biology
Institutions	Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics^[1]
Alma mater	University of Madras, University of Melbourne

Jayaraman Gowrishankar (born 1956) is an Indian medical microbiologist. Gowrishankar received his M.B.B.S. degree from the Christian Medical College, University of Madras. He holds Doctor of philosophy in bacterial genetics from the University of Melbourne.

He was a Scientist and Group Leader at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad. In 2000, He is positioned as director for Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics.^[2]

He was awarded in 1991, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Biological sciences category.^[3] He was awarded in 2013, the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, for his contribution towards the field of science.^[4]

Civilian Honours

Padma Shri in 2013 by the Government of India.^[4]

Research Awards

INSA Medal for Young Scientists, 1986
CSIR Young Scientist Award, 1987
BM Birla Prize. 1991
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for 1991
JC Bose Fellowship, 2007
The 2012 Moselio Schaechter Distinguished Service Award - American Society for Microbiology

Research highlights

Discovery of the operon and its exquisite osmotic regulation
Enunciation of a new hypothesis that toxic RNA-DNA hybrids (R-loops) are prone to occur from nascent untranslated transcripts in E coli.

References

↑ Image: Dr. J Gowrishankar part of Dr.Jayaraman Gowrishankar awarded the prestigious Moselio Schaechter Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Microbiology
↑ The American Society for Microbiology honors Jayaraman Gowrishankar
↑ INSA
1 2 "Padma Awards Announced" (Press release). Ministry of Home Affairs. 25 January 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science

Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan (1960) M. S. Swaminathan (1961) Bimal Kumar Bachhawat (1962) Jagannath Ganguly (1963} Dilbagh Singh Athwal (1964) Chirayathumadom Venkatachalier Subramanian (1965) Hari Krishan Jain (1966) Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao (1966) Arun Kumar Sharma (1967) Tathamangalam Ananthanarayanan Venkitasubramanian (1968) Madhu Sudan Kanungo (1971) Narayana Balakrishnan Nair (1971) Birendra Bijoy Biswas (1972) Satish Chandra Maheshwari (1972) Bhyravabhotla Radhakrishna Murty (1973) Sardul Singh Guraya (1973) John Barnabas (1974) Obaid Siddiqi (1975) Archana Sharma (1975) Guru Prakash Dutta (1976) Kishan Singh (1976) Trichnopoly Chelvaraj Anand Kumar (1977) V. Sasisekharan (1978) Amar Nath Bhaduri (1979) M. K. Chandrashekaran (1979) Asis Datta (1980) Jamuna Sharan Singh (1980) Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane (1981) Sushil Kumar (1981) Sunil Kumar Podder (1982) Ramamirtha Jayaraman (1982) Govindarajan Padmanabhan (1983) Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian (1984) K. R. K. Easwaran (1984) Chhitar Mal Gupta (1985) M. Vijayan (1985) Madhav Gadgil (1986) Avadhesha Surolia Sudhir Kumar Sopory Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya (1988) M. R. S. Rao (1988) Subhash Chandra Lakhotia (1989) Manju Ray Samir K. Brahmachari (1990) Virendra Nath Pandey (1991) Srinivas Kishanrao (1991) Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam (1992) Dipankar Chatterji (1992) Raghavendra Gadagkar (1993) M. R. N. Murthy (1993) Ramakrishnan Nagaraj (1994) Alok Bhattacharya (1994) Seyed E. Hasnain (1995) Kalappa Muniyappa (1995) Ghanshyam Swarup (1996) Vishweshwaraiah Prakash (1996) Jayaraman Gowrishankar (1997) Kanury Venkata Subba Rao (1997) K. VijayRaghavan (1998) Debi Prasad Sarkar (1998) Siddhartha Roy (1999) Valakunja Nagaraja (1999) Dinakar Mashnu Salunke (2000) Jayant B. Udgaonkar (2000) Umesh Varshney (2001) Raghavan Varadarajan (2002) Amitabha Chattopadhyay (2002) Satyajit Mayor (2003) Gopal Chandra Kundu (2004) Ramesh Venkata Sonti (2004) Tapas Kumar Kundu (2005) Shekhar C. Mande (2005) Vinod Bhakuni (2006) Rajesh Sudhir Gokhale (2006) Upinder Singh Bhalla (2007) Narayanaswamy Srinivasan (2007) Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava (2008) L. S. Shashidhara (2008) Amitabh Joshi (2009) Bhaskar Saha (2009) Sanjeev Galande (2010) Shubha Tole (2010) Amit Prakash Sharma (2011) Rajan Sankaranarayanan (2011) Shantanu Chowdhury (2012) Suman Kumar Dhar (2012) Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan (2013) Roop Mallik (2014) Balasubramanian Gopal (2015) Rajeev Kumar Varshney (2015) Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya (2016) Rishikesh Narayanan (2016)

All the branches	Biological Science Chemical Science Engineering Science Mathematical Science Medical Science Physical Science Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences

Padma Shri awards

1954–59 1960–69 1970–79 1980–89 1990–99 2000–09 2010–19

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