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Research publications

Total number of papers published in refereed international journals: 100 Total number of papers presented at international conferences: 34 Total number of books: 4

Total number of chapters in books: 7

(a) International journal publications

1. P. Jaiswal, T. Soldati, and R. Baskar (2012) Conserved action of adenosine and its antagonist caffeine on aggregation and pattern formation in cellular slime molds. BMC Developmental. Bioogy. 12: 5.

2. P. Jaiswal, S.P. Singh, P. Aiyar, A. Rakhil and R. Baskar (2012) Regulation of multiple tip formation by caffeine in the cellular slime mold. BMC Developmental. Bioogy 12: 26.

3. V.G. Francis and S.N. Gummadi (2012) Biochemical and functional characterization of human phospho- lipid scramblase 4 (hPLSCR4). Biological Chemistry (in press).

4. V.G. Francis, A. Majeed and S.N. Gummadi (2012) Recovery of functionally active recombinant human phospholipid scramblase 1 from inclusion bodies using N-lauroyl sarcosine. Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 39: 1041–1048.

5. A. Rajasekharan and S.N. Gummadi (2012) Inhibition of biogenic membrane fl ippase activity in reconsti- tuted ER proteoliposomes in the presence of low cholesterol levels. Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters 17: 136–152.

6. T.K. Gayatri, M. Doble and S.N. Gummadi (2012) Production and downstream processing of (13)-- D-glucan strain from mutant strain of Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31750 Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Express 2: 31.

7. K. Hima Bindu, N. Shweta and S.N. Gummadi (2012) A statistical approach to optimize xylitol produc- tion by Debaryomyces nepalensis in vitro. Food and Nutritional Science 3: 1027–1036.

8. A.N. Naganathan (2012) Predictions from an Ising-like statistical mechanical model on the dynamic and thermodynamics effects of protein surface electrostatics. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 8: 4646−4656.

9. A.N. Naganathan. Coarse-grained models of protein folding as detailed tools to connect with experiments. Computational Molecular Science DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1133

10. M. Kanuru, R. Raman and G.K. Aradhyam (18 January 2013) Serine protease activity of calnuc: regu- lation by Zn2+ _{and G proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry 288(3): 1762–1773. doi: 10.1074/jbc.} M112.382846. Epub: 29 November 2012.

11. A. Jejurikar, X.T. Seow, G. Lawrie, D. Martin, A. Jayakrishnan, L. Grondahl (2012) Degradable alginate hydrogels crosslinked by macromolecular crosslinker alginate dialdehyde. Journal of Materials Chemistry 22: 9751–9758.

12. A.C. Borges, A. Jayakrishnan, P.-E. Bourban, C.J.G. Plummer, D.P. Pioletti and J.E. Månson (2012) Synthesis and photopolymerization of Tween 20 methacrylate-N-vinyl-2- pyrrolidone blends. Materials Science and Engineering C 32: 2235–2241.

13. S. Manju, C.V. Muraleedharan, A. Rajeev, A. Jayakrishnan and R. Joseph (2011) Evaluation of alginate dialdehyde cross-linked gelatin hydrogel as a biodegradable sealant for polyester vascular graft. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials 988: 139–149.

14. G. Sahu and A.K. Bera (2013) Contribution of intracellular calcium and pH in ischemic uncoupling of cardiac gap junction channels formed of connexins 43, 40, and 45: a critical function of C-terminal domain. PLOS ONE (in press).

15. S.M. Swain and A.K. Bera (2013) Coupling of proton binding in extracellular domain to channel gating in acid sensing ion channel. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience (in press).

16. B.S. Sahu, J.M. Obbineni, G. Sahu, P.K. Allu, L. Subramanian, P.J. Sonawane, P.K. Singh, B.K. Sasi, S. Senapati, S.K. Maji, A.K. Bera, B.S. Gomathi, A.S. Mullasari and N.R. Mahapatra (21 December 2012) Functional genetic variants of the catecholamine-release-inhibitory peptide catestatin in an Indian popula- tion: allele-specifi c effects on metabolic traits. Journal of Biological Chemistry 287(52): 43840–43852. 17. S.M. Swain, S. Parameswaran, G. Sahu, R.S. Verma, A.K. Bera (2012) Proton-gated ion channels in

mouse bone marrow stromal cells. Stem Cell Research 9(2): 59–68.

18. B.S. Sahu, J. Mohan, G. Sahu, P.K. Singh, P.J. Sonawane, B.K. Sasi, P.K. Allu, S.K. Maji, A.K. Bera, S. Senapati and N.R. Mahapatra (1 May 2012) Molecular interactions of the physiological anti-hyperten- sive peptide catestatin with the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Journal of Cell Science 125(9): 2323–2337.

19. S. Srivastava and A.K. Srivastava (2012) Azadirachtin production by hairy root cultivation of Azadirachta

indica in a modifi ed stirred tank reactor. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering 35(9): 1549–1553.

20. R. Reddy, S. Srivastava and A.K. Srivastava (2012) Development of a mathematical model for growth and oxygen transfer in in vitro plant hairy root cultivations. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 167(6): 1831–1844.

21. S. Srivastava and A. Srivastava (2012) Strategies to overcome oxygen transfer limitations during hairy root cultivation of Azadiracta indica for enhanced azadirachtin production. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 167(6): 1818–1830.

22. S. Srivastava and A.K. Srivastava (2012) Statistical medium optimization for enhanced azadirachtin production in hairy root culture of Azadirachta indica. In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology—Plant 48: 73–84.

23. S. Srivastava and A.K. Srivastava (2012) In vitro cultivation of azadirachtin production by hairy root culti- vation of Azadirachta indica in nutrient mist bioreactor. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 166(2): 365–378.

24. N. Boddapati, K. Anbarasu, R. Suryaraja Ashish V. Tendulkar and S. Mahalingam (2012) Sub-cellular distribution of human putative nucleolar GTPase, GNL1 is regulated by a novel arginine-lysine-rich and GTP-binding domains in a cell cycle dependent manner. Journal of Molecular Biology 416: 346–366. 25. R. Suryaraja, M. Anitha, K. Anbarasu, G. Kumari and S. Mahalingam (2013) The E3 ubiquitin ligase Itch

regulates tumor suppressor protein RASSF5/NORE1 stability in an acetylation dependent manner. Cell Death and Disease (in press).

26. M. Michael Gromiha, K. Harini, R. Sowdhamini and K. Fukui (2012) Structure–function relationship in olfactory receptors and discrimination of mutants with enhanced specifi city. BMC Bioinformatics 13 (Suppl 7): S1.

27. A.M. Thangakani, S. Kumar, D. Velmurugan and M. Michael Gromiha (2012). How do thermophilic proteins resist aggregation? Proteins 80: 1003–1015.

28. L.-T. Huang and M.M. Gromiha (2012) Real value prediction of protein folding rate change upon point mutation. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 26: 339–347.

29. M.M. Gromiha (2012) Development of RNA stiffness parameters and analysis on protein–RNA binding specifi city: comparison with DNA. Current Bioinformatics 7: 173–179.

30. T.R. Priyadarzini, J.F. Selvin, M. M. Gromiha, K. Fukui and K. Veluraja (2012) Theoretical investigation on the binding specifi city of sialyldisaccharides with hemagglutinins of infl uenza A virus by MD simula- tions. Journal of Biological Chemistry 287: 34547–34557.

31. M.M. Gromiha, A.M. Thangakani, S. Kumar and D. Velmurugan (2012) Sequence analysis and discrimi- nation of amyloid and non-amyloid peptides. Communications in Computer and Information Science 304: 447–452.

32. M.M. Gromiha, M.C. Pathak, K. Saraboji, E. Ortlund and E. Gaucher (2013) Hydrophobic environment is a key factor for the stability of thermophilic proteins. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics (in press). 33. M.M. Gromiha and R. Nagarajan (2013) Computational approaches for predicting the binding sites and

understanding the recognition mechanism of protein–DNA complexes. Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology (in press).

34. M.M. Gromiha and Y.-Y. Ou (2013) Bioinformatics approaches for functional annotation of membrane proteins. Briefi ngs in Bioinformatics (in press).

35. S. Bairgai, J. Gopal, A.A. Nathan, Babu, N.P. Kumar and M. Dixit (2012) Glucose induced increase in circulating progenitor cells is blunted in anovulatory subject. Human Reproduction 27(3): 844–853. 36. H. Giri, M. Illayaraja, M. Dhar, K. Rathnakumar, R. Uma and M. Dixit (2012) Protein tyrosine phospha-

tase SHP2 mediates chronic insulin induced endothelial infl ammation. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 32: 1943–1950.

37. S. Abhijit, R. Bhaskaran, A. Narayanasamy, A. Chakroborty, N. Manickam, M. Dixit, V. Mohan and M. Balasubramanyam (2012) Hyperinsulinemia-induced vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) migra- tion and proliferation is mediated by converging mechanisms of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 373(1–2): 95–105.

38. K. Rushendhiran, U.R. Potunuru, B. Nastasijevic, T. Avaneesh, G. Joksic and M. Dixit (2013) Inhibition of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation by Gentiana lutea root extracts. PLoS One (accepted). 39. A. Raheja, A. Agarwal, V. Muthuvijayan, T.S. Chandra and T.S. Natarajan. Studies on encapsulation of

BSA, lysozyme and insulin through coaxial electrospinning. (accepted).

40. C. Aneesh, D. Ghoshdastidar and S. Senapati (2012) Groove binding mechanism of Ionic liquids: a key factor in long-term stability of DNA in hydrated ionic liquids? Journal of the American Chemical Society 134: 20330.

41. N. Kathiresan, J. Mohan and S. Senapati (2012) Relating nucleotide dependent conformational changes in free tubulin dimer to tubulin assembly. Biopolymers doi: 10.1002/bip.22153.

42. N. Kathiresan and S. Senapati (2012) Understanding the basis of drug resistance of the mutants of -tubulin dimer via molecular dynamics simulations. PLOS ONE 7(8): e42351.

43. N. Aggarwal, P.K. Mandal, N. Gautham and A. Chadha (2013) Expression, purifi cation, crystallization and preliminary X ray diffraction analysis of carbonyl reductase from Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330. Acta Crystallographica F69: 313–315.

44. S.R. Reddy, S. Stella and A. Chadha (2012) Simplifi ed procedure for TEMPO catalyzed oxidation: selective oxidation of alcohols, -hydroxy esters, and amides using TEMPO and calcium hypochlorite. Synthetic Communications 42: 3493–3503.

45. S. Stella and A. Chadha (2012) Biocatalytic reduction of -keto amides to (R) -hydroxy amides using Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330. Catalysis Today 198: 345–352.

46. T. Saravanan, R. Selvakumar, M. Doble and A. Chadha (2012) Stereochemical preference of Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330 mediated deracemization: E- versus Z-aryl secondary alcohols. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 23: 1360–1368.

47. P. Mahajabeen and A. Chadha (2011) One-pot synthesis of enantiomerically pure 1, 2-diols: asym- metric reduction of aromatic a-oxoaldehydes catalysed by Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 22: 2156–2160.

48. S.V. Mohanasundaram, P. Shyam, N.P. Ratchagar, A. Chadha, E. Bhattacharya and S. Pavan (21 January 2013) A miniaturized pH sensor with an embedded counter electrode and a readout circuit. IEEE Sensors Journal (accepted).

49. B.S. Sahu, J. Mohan, G. Sahu, P.K.R. Allu, L. Subramanian, P.J. Sonawane, P.K. Singh, B.K. Sasi, S. Senapati, S.K. Maji, A.K. Bera, B.S. Gomathi, A.S. Mullasari and N.R. Mahapatra (2012) Functional genetic variants of the catecholamine-release-inhibitory peptide catestatin in an Indian population: allele- specifi c effects on metabolic traits. Journal of Biological Chemistry 287: 43840–43852 (featured in Nature India: http://www.nature.com/nindia/2012/121201/ full/ nindia. 2012. 177.html).

50. B.S. Sahu, J. Mohan, G. Sahu, P.K. Singh, P.J. Sonawane, B.K. Sasi, P.K.R. Allu, S.K. Maji, A.K. Bera, S. Senapati and N.R. Mahapatra (2012) Molecular interactions of the physiological anti-hyperten- sive peptide catestatin with the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Journal of Cell Science 125: 2323–2337.

51. R.S. Friese, C. Ye, C.M. Nievergelt, A.J. Schork, N.R. Mahapatra, F. Rao, P.S. Napolitan, J. Waalen, G.B. Ehret, P.B. Munroe, G.W. Schmid-Schönbein, E. Eskin and D.T. O’Connor (2012) Integrated computational and experimental analysis of the neuroendocrine transcriptome in genetic hypertension identifi es novel control points for the cardio-metabolic syndrome. Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics 5: 430–440. (recommended as being of special signifi cance in its fi eld by F1000 Faculty: http://f1000. com/717953948).

52. P. Sreejit and R.S. Verma. Natural ECM as biomaterial for scaffold based cardiac regeneration using adult bone marrow derived stem cells. Stem Cell Reviews and Reports. doi: 10.1007/s12015-013-9427-6. 53. M. Andiyappan, S. Sundaramoorthy, P. Vidyasekar, N.T. Srinivasan and R.S. Verma. Characterization

of electrospun fi brous scaffold produced from Indian eri silk fi broin. International Journal of Materials Research doi: 10.3139/146.110888.

54. D. Anjana, K. Anitha Nair, N. Somashekara, M. Venkata, R. Sripathy, R. Yelucheri, H. Parmar, R. Upadhyay, S.R. Verma and C.N. Ramchand. Development of curcumin based ophthalmic formulation. American Journal of Infectious Diseases 8(1): 41–49.

55. M. Mitra, M. Kandalam, A. Harilal, R.S. Verma, U. Maheswari, S. Swaminathan, S. Krishnakumar. EpCAM is a putative stem marker in retinoblastoma and aneffective target for T-cell-mediated immuno- therapy. Molecular Vision 17. Impact factor: 2.54. Citation: 4.

56. M. Venkata, R. Sripathy, D. Anjana, N. Somashekara, A. Krishnaraju, S. Krishanu, M. Murali, S.R. Verma and C.N. Ramchand. In silico, in vitro and in vivo assessment of safety and anti-infl ammatory activity of curcumin. American Journal of Infectious Diseases 8(1): 26–33.

57. J. Madhumathi and R.S. Verma. Therapeutic targets and recent advances in protein immunotoxins. Current Opinion in Microbiology 15: 300–309. Impact factor: 7.92. Citation: 1.

58. S.M. Swain, S. Parameswaran, G. Sahu, R.S. Verma and A.K. Bera. Proton-gated ion channels in mouse bone marrow stromal cells. Stem Cell Research 9: 59–68. Impact factor: 5.12.

59. P. Sreejit, Dillip K. Bishi and Rama S. Verma. Generation of mesenchymal stem cell lines from murine bone marrow. Cell and Tissue Research 350(1): 55–68. doi: 10.1007/s00441-012-1458-9. Impact factor: 3.11. 60. C. Tekkatte, P. Vidyasekar, N.K. Kapadia and R.S. Verma. Enhancement of adipogenic and osteogenic

1 differentiation of human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells with umbilical cord blood serum supplementation. Cell and Tissue Research 347(2): 383–395. Impact factor: 3.11.

61. S. Mathapati, D.K. Bishi, S. Guhathakurta, K.M. Cherian, J.R. Venugopal, S. Ramakrishna, R.S. Verma. Biomimetic acellular detoxifi ed glutaraldehyde cross-linked bovine pericardium for tissue engineering. Materials Science and Engineering Materials for Biological Applications doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2012.12.062. Impact factor: 2.68.

62. S.B. Prasad, K.B. Ramachandran and G. Jayaraman (2012) Transcription analysis of hyaluronan biosyn- thesis genes in Streptococcus zooepidemicus and metabolically engineered Lactococcus lactis. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 94: 1593–1607.

63. V. Saranya, Poornimakkani, M.S. Krishnakumari, P. Suguna, C. Binuramesh, P. Abirami, V. Rajeswari, K.B. Ramachandran, R. Shenbagarathai (2012) Quantifi cation of intracellular polyhydroxyalkanoates by virtue of personalized fl ow cytometry protocol. Current Microbiology 65(5): 589–594.

64. V. Kandasamy, H. Vaidyanathan, I. Djurdjevic, E. Jayamani, K.B. Ramachandran, W. Buckel, G. Jayaraman and S. Ramalingam (2013) Engineering Escherichia coli with acrylate pathway genes for propionic acid synthesis and its impact on mixed-acid fermentation. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 97(3): 1191–1200.

65. P. Biswa and M. Doble (March 2013) Production of acylated homoserine lactone by Gram posi- tive bacteria isolated from marine water. FEMS Microbiology Letters (accepted). Available online. doi: 10.1111/1574-6968.12123.

66. K. Vani, S.T., V. Prabhawathi, T. Boobalan, S. Sawant and M. Doble (February 2013) In-vitro biocom- patiblity of modifi ed polycarbonate as a biomaterial. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces (in press). Available online. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2013.01.067.

67. M.V. Kirthana, F.N. Khan, P.M. Sivakumar, M. Doble, P. Manivel, K. Prabakaran and V. Krishnakumar (January 2013) Antithyroid agents and QSAR studies: inhibition of lactoperoxidase-catalyzed iodin- ation reaction by isochromene-1-thiones. Medicinal Chemistry Research (accepted). Available online. doi: 10.1007/s00044-013-0475-x.

68. S. Raman, L. Karunamoorthy, M. Doble, R. Kumar and R. Venkatesan (March 2013) Barnacle adhesion on natural and synthetic substrates: adhesive structure and composition. International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives 41: 140–143. doi: 10.1016/j.ijadhadh.2012.11.003.

69. J. Sangeetha, S. Thomas, J. Arutchelvi, M. Doble and J. Philip (2012) Functionalization of iron oxide nanoparticles with biosurfactants and biocompatibility studies. Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology 9: 1–13. doi: 10.1166/jbn.2012.1590.

70. V. Nandakumar, G. Venkatachalam, C. Samual and M. Doble (February 2013) High glycolic poly- (DL-lactic-co-glycolic-acid) nanoparticles for controlled release of meropenem. Biomedicine and Pharmacotheraphy (in press). Available online. doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2013.02.004.

71. V. Nandakumar, S. Ganesan, C. Samuel, M. Doble (16 January 2013) Synthesis and characterization of hydrophilic high glycolic acid–poly(dl-lactic-co-glycolic acid)/polycaprolactam/polyvinyl alcohol blends and their biomedical application as a ureteral material. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 52(2): 751–760. doi: 10.1021/ie3022253.

72. H. Shanmugam and M. Doble (15 January 2013) Combination of phenylpropanoids with 5-fl uorouracil as anti-cancer agents against human cervical cancer (HeLa) cell line. Phytomedicine 20(2): 151–158. doi: 10.1016/j.phymed.2012.10.009.

73. N.V. Lakshmi, P.M. Sivakumar, D. Muralidharan, M. Doble and P.T. Perumal (2013) Expeditious synthesis, antibacterial activity evaluation and GQSAR studies of 3-bisoxindoles, 2-oxindolyl-2-hydroxy- indan-1,3-diones and 2-oxindolyl-2-hydroxyacenaphthy len-1-ones, RSC Advances 3(2): 496–507. doi: 10.1039/c2ra01215d.

74. T. Saravanan, R. Selvakumar, M. Doble and A. Chadha (15 October 2012) Stereochemical preference

of Candida parapsilosis ATCC 7330 mediated deracemization: E- versus Z-aryl secondary alcohols.

Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 23(18–19): 1360–1368. doi: 10.1016/j.tetasy.2012.09.014.

75. V. Nandakumar, K. Krishnasamy, J. Dhavamani, S. Shroff and M. Doble. (September 2012) Comparative characterization of renal calculi from patients with clinical disorders. Clinical Biochemistry 45(13–14): 1097–1098. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2012.04.015.

76. P.M. Sivakumar, N. Vignesh, G.R. Kumar and M. Doble (September 2012) Computational approaches to enhance activity of taxanes as antimitotic agent. Medicinal Chemistry Research 21(9): 2557–2570. doi: 10.1007/s00044-011-9779-x.

77. L.N. Ramya, M. Doble, V.P.B. Rekha and K.K. Pulicherla (August 2012) L-Asparaginase as potent anti- leukemic agent and its signifi cance of having reduced glutaminase side activity for better treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 167(8): 2144–2159. doi: 10.1007/s12010-012-9755-z.

78. P.M. Sivakumar, N.V. Selvaraj, G. Ramesh, J. Mohanapriya, V. Prabhawathi and M. Doble (July 2012) Computational approaches to improve aggrecanase-1 inhibitory activity of (4-keto) phenoxy) methyl biphenyl-4-sulfonamide: group based QSAR and docking studies. Medicinal Chemistry 8(4): 673–682. doi: 10.2174/157340612801216247.

79. N.S. Devi and M. Doble (July 2012) Leukotriene C4 synthase: upcoming drug target for infl ammation. Current Drug Targets 13(8): 1107-1118. doi: 10.2174/138945012802009053.

80. V. Nandakumar, C. Samuel, V.M. Kurian and M. Doble (2013) Characteristics of implant material associ- ated bacterial biofi lm in clinical practice. Polymer Journal 45: 137–152. doi: 10.1038/pj.2012.130. 81. P.M. Sivakumar, G. Iyer and M. Doble (June 2012) QSAR studies on substituted 3- or 4-phenyl-1,8-naph-

thyridine derivatives as antimicrobial agents. Medicinal Chemistry Research 21(6): 788–795. doi: 10.1007/ s00044-011-9564-x.

82. G.T. Kalyanasundaram, M. Doble and S.N. Gummadi (June 2012) Production and downstream processing of (13)--D-glucan from mutant strain of Agrobacterium sp. ATCC 31750. AMB Express 2: 31. doi: 10.1186/2191-0855-2-31.

83. V. Prabhawathi, P.M. Sivakumar and M. Doble (April 2012) Green synthesis of protein stabilized silver nanopar- ticles using Pseudomonas fl uorescens, a marine bacterium, and its biomedical applications when coated on polycaprolactam. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 51(14): 5230–5239. doi: 10.1021/ie2029392. 84. P. Gopinath, K. Ramalingam, K.M. Muraleedharan and D. Karunagaran (2013) Benzisothiazolones arrest

the cell cycle at the G2/M phase and induce apoptosis in HeLa cells. Medicinal Chemistry Communications 4: 749–752.

85. S. Tiwari, G.K. Suraishkumar and A. Chandavarkar (2013) Robust near-infra-red spectroscopic probe for dynamic monitoring of critical nutrient ratio in microbial fermentation processes. Biochemical Engineering Journal 71: 47 – 56.

86. S. Tiwari, A. Chandavarkar, and G.K. Suraishkumar (2012) Robust productivity in industrial fermen- tations: regulation of phosphofructokinase activity through easily measurable, critical nutrient ratio. Biochemical Engineering Journal 68: 138–151.

87. S. Archanaa, S. Moise and G.K. Suraishkumar (2012) Chlorophyll interference in microalgal lipid quan- tifi cation through the Bligh and Dyer method. Biomass and Bioenergy 46: 805–808.

88. B.S. Chander and V.S. Chakravarthy. A computational model of neuro-glio-vascular loop interactions. PLOS ONE (accepted).

89. D. Sukumar, M. Rengaswamy and V.S. Chakravarthy. Modeling the contributions of basal ganglia and hippocampus to spatial navigation using reinforcement learning. PLOS ONE (accepted).

90. V. Deepesh, R.J. Pardikar, K. Karthik, A. Sricharan, V.S. Chakravarthy and K. Balasubramanian. Automatic defect recognition (ADR) system for real-time radioscopy (RTR) of straight tube butt (STB) welds. Journal of Non-destructive Testing & Evaluation (accepted).

91. M. Maya, V.S. Chakravarthy and B. Ravindran (2012) An oscillatory neural network model for birdsong learning and generation: Implications for the role of dopamine in song learning. International Journal of Mind, Brain and Cognition (accepted).

92. A. Agarwal, A. Raheja, T.S. Natarajan and T.S. Chandra (2012) Development of universal pH sensing electrospun nanofi bers. Sensors and Actuators B 161: 1097–1101.

93. K.K. Kiran, P. Koteswaraiah and T.S. Chandra (2012) Production of halophilic -amylase by immobilized cells of moderately halophilic Bacillus sp. strain TSCVKK. British Microbiology Research Journal 2(3): 146–157.

94. R. Jayakumar, K. Steger, T.S. Chandra and S. Seshadri (15 March 2013). An assessment of temporal varia- tions in physicochemical and microbiological properties of barmouths and lagoons in Chennai (southeast coast of India). Marine Pollution Bulletin. Available online.