Personable education professional and avid researcher driven to inspire students to achieve personal and academic success.
Strives to create a challenging and engaging learning environment in which students become life-long scholars and learners.
Highlights Innovative teaching methods, specialized to teach subjects like Molecular Biology, Environmental Biotechnology, Molecular Diagnostics and Bioinformatics.
Expertized to work in research environments like plant biotechnology and Environmental Biotechnology.
Excellent skills in communication and collaboration.
My area of research is mainly focused on development of molecular approaches for plant improvement with following components -
1) Application of contemporary genetic and genomic technologies to study genome variations and inheritance of complex traits in plants.
2) Development and application of genomics assisted breeding strategies for crop improvement.
3) Molecular genetics and integrated functional genomics of plant adaptation to stress environments.
2023
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Vinay Kumar, Neha Sharma, Poonam Janghu, Ritu Pasrija, Mridul Umesh, Pritha Chakraborty, Suma Sarojini, Jithin Thomas, Synthesis, and characterization of chitosan nanofibers for wound healing and drug delivery application, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, Volume 87, 2023, 104858, ISSN 1773-2247, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jddst.2023.104858
Journal Article
- Vinay Kumar, Neha Sharma, Poonam Janghu, Ritu Pasrija, Mridul Umesh, Pritha Chakraborty, Suma Sarojini, Jithin Thomas, Synthesis, and characterization of chitosan nanofibers for wound healing and drug delivery application, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, Volume 87, 2023, 104858, ISSN 1773-2247, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jddst.2023.104858.
- Parvathy, R., Thomas, J. Evaluation of Morphological Malformities and hsp70 Gene Response on Aristolochic Acid Exposed Neocardina davidi (Red Shrimp). Biol Bull Rev 13, 352–356 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079086423040084.
- Vinay Kumar, Sivarama Krishna Lakkaboyana, Neha Sharma, Pritha Chakraborty, Mridul Umesh, Ritu Pasrija, Jithin Thomas, Vishal U. Kalebar, Iyyappan Jayaraj, Mukesh Kumar Awasthi, Theerthankar Das, Akeem Adeyemi Oladipo, Damia Barcelo, Ludovic F. Dumee, A critical assessment of technical advances in pharmaceutical removal from wastewater – A critical review, Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Volume 8, 2023, 100363, ISSN 2666-0164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cscee.2023.100363.
- Vinay Kumar, Neha Sharma, Lucky Duhan, Ritu Pasrija, Jithin Thomas, Mridul Umesh, Sivarama Krishna Lakkaboyana, Rodrigo Andler, Alisa S. Vangnai, Meththika Vithanage, Mukesh Kumar Awasthi, Wen Yi Chia, Pau LokeShow, Damià Barceló, Microbial engineering strategies for synthetic microplastics clean up: A review on recent approaches, Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 98, 2023, 104045, ISSN 1382-6689, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etap.2022.104045.
- Jithin Thomas and Vempala Dominic (2016). Assessment of Genetic diversity and relationship among coastal salt tolerant rice accessions using SSR markers. Journal of Plant molecular breeding. 4(1): 35-42.
- Jithin Thomas and Dominic V.J. (2015). Isolation of High-Quality DNA from Pulverized Rice Grain Samples by Tri-Phase Method. Int. J. of Sci. and Res. 4(11): 524-527.
- Dominic VJ and Jithin Thomas (2014). Assessment of genetic diversity in pokkali (VTL) cultivars of rice using simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. Ind. J. Sci. Res. and Tech. 2(5):134-139.
- Dominic VJ and Jithin Thomas (2012). Response Mechanism of Oryza sativa to Boron and NaCl Stresses. Science Research Reporter. 2(1): 41-45.
- Dominic VJ and Jithin Thomas (2012). Effect of NaCl and boron toxicity in proline biosynthesis of Oryza Sativa (Pokkali VTL-4). International Journal of Life science, Biotechnology and Pharma research. 1(3): 75-83.
- Organized State Level Workshops and Seminars on “Biological Techniques”, in 2023 at Mar Athanasius College, Kerala, India, in conjunction with the Departments of Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Microbiology
- Organized a UGC-sponsored webinar on ”Covid Diagnosis: Current Scenario”’, under the Paramarsh scheme in August 2020 in association with the Departments of Biotechnology, Biochemistry, and Microbiology at Mar Athanasius College, Kerala, India.
- Participated in organizing an RUSA-sponsored International Conference on Science and Technology of Advanced Materials at Mar Athanasius College, Kerala, India, 2020 and 2023
- Served on the Organizing Committee for the DBT-sponsored International Conference on Innovative and Sustainable Aquaculture, at Mar Athanasius College, Kerala, India, in 2020