About Us

Name: Dr. Poonam Bhargava
Designation: Scientist B
Personal Details:
Mobile No.: + 91 8890589795
Email: pbhargava16@gmail.com, scib1-gbrc@gujarat.gov.in


Research Interest:
Microbiology, Environmental Genomics, Metagenomics, Proteomics, Enzyme Technology.
Currently the research group is focusing on development of competitive enzyme technologies for production of microbial enzyme and high value microbial products through strain improvement technologies. The group is also involved in development of mass screening tools for the bioprospecting studies of microbes.

Education:

• Ph.D.(Botany)
• MSc.(Biochemistry)
• BSc.(Botany, Chemistry)

Research Experience:

• Post Doc research experience of 10 years
  Working as Scientist B in GBRC since 2016

Publications:

• M Bhatt, P Mistri, I Joshi, H Ram, R Raval, S Thoota, A Patel, D Raval, P Bhargava, S Soni, S Bagatharia, M Joshi (2018) Molecular survey of basidiomycetes and divergence time estimation: An Indian perspective. PlosOne.
• Narayan, O.P., Kumari, N., Bhargava, P., Rajaram, H., Rai, L.C. (2016) A single gene all3940 (Dps) overexpression in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 confers multiple abiotic stress tolerance via proteomic alterations. Functional and Integrative Genomics 16(1):67-78.
• Pandit, A.S., Joshi, M.N., Bhargava, P., Shaikh, I., Ayachit G.N., Raj, S.R., Saxena, A.K., Bagatharia, S.B. (2015) A snapshot of microbial communities from the Kutch: one of the largest salt deserts in the World. Extremophiles 19 (5): 973-87.
• Rawal, R.M., Joshi, M. N., Bhargava, P., Shaikh, I., Pandit, A.S., Patel, R. P., Patel S, Kothari K, Shah M, Saxena A, Bagatharia SB (2015) Tobacco habituated and non-habituated subjects exhibit different mutational spectrums in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. 3 Biotech, 5, 685-696.
• S Mishra, P Bhargava, S P Adhikary, A Pradeep, L C Rai (2014) Weighted morphology: a new approach towards phylogenetic assessment of Nostocales (Cyanobacteria). Protoplasma 252(1)
• M N Joshi, S V Dhebar, P Bhargava, A S Pandit, R P Patel, A K Saxena, S B Bagatharia (2014) Metagenomic Approach for Understanding Microbial Population from Petroleum Muck. Genome Announcements 05/2014; 2(3).
• M N. Joshi, S V. Dhebar, S V. Dhebar, P Bhargava, A Pandit, R P. Patel, AK Saxena, S B. Bagatharia (2014) Metagenomics of petroleum muck: Revealing microbial diversity and depicting microbial syntrophy. Archives of Microbiology 05/2014; 196(8).