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Vijai Kumar Gupta
PeerJ Author
1,070 Points

Contributions by role

Author 135
Preprint Author 35
Editor 900

Contributions by subject area

Microbiology
Biodiversity
Mycology
Biotechnology
Biogeography
Environmental Sciences
Taxonomy
Freshwater Biology
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Ecology
Genomics
Molecular Biology
Agricultural Science
Biochemistry
Plant Science
Soil Science
Genetics
Marine Biology
Biosphere Interactions
Ecotoxicology
Food Science and Technology
Dermatology
Drugs and Devices

Vijai Kumar Gupta

PeerJ Author

Summary

Dr. Vijai Kumar Gupta, is currently working as working as Senior Research Scientist, Microbial Biotechnology at ERA Chair of Green Chemistry, Tallinn University of Technology (TUT), Tallinn, Estonia. His areas of research and work expertise are: Microbial Biotechnology, Applied Mycology, Bio-fuels & Bioenergy Research, and Plant-Microbial Interactions.

He is a Fellow of The Linnaean Society, London, UK; Fellow of Hind Agri Society, India and Fellow of International Society of Contemporary Biologist, India. He has been honoured with several awards including Indian Young Scientist Award-2009.

He has broad experience of scientific and technical editorship, including several books that he has edited for publishers such as Wiley-Blackwell; CRC Press; Springer; Elsevier; Nova Science Publisher; and CABI. In addition, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Fungal Biology (Springer, USA), and Biofuels and Bio-refineries (Springer, Germany); a Senior Editor of Fungal Biology and Biotechnology, BioMed Central (UK); BMC Microbiology; Mycosphere etc.

Biochemistry Biodiversity Biotechnology Molecular Biology Mycology Plant Science

Past or current institution affiliations

Tallinn University of Technology

Work details

Senior Scientist

Tallinn University of Technology
November 2016
Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, ERA Chair of Green Chemistry, School of Science, TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia

Lead Researcher

NUI Galway, Ireland
July 2010 - November 2016
Molecular Glyobiotechnology Group, Department of Biochemistry School of Natural Sciences

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Preprints 1
  • Edited 8
June 9, 2016
Detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria endowed with antimicrobial activity from a freshwater lake and their phylogenetic affiliation
Zothanpuia, Ajit K. Passari, Vijai K. Gupta, Bhim P. Singh
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2103 PubMed 27330861
March 31, 2016 - Version: 1
Isolation and characterization of halophilic soil fungi from the salt desert of Little Rann of Kutch, India
Kartikeya Rajpal, Ram Prasad, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Ajit Varma
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1914v1

Academic Editor on

August 25, 2016
Rapid induction of GFP expression by the nitrate reductase promoter in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum
Lili Chu, Daniela Ewe, Carolina Río Bártulos, Peter G. Kroth, Ansgar Gruber
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2344 PubMed 27635322
June 28, 2016
Using homogenization, sonication and thermo-sonication to inactivate fungi
Daniela Campaniello, Antonio Bevilacqua, Milena Sinigaglia, Maria Rosaria Corbo
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2020 PubMed 27375964
May 24, 2016
Strategies for improved rhamnolipid production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA1
Alexandre Soares dos Santos, Nei Pereira Jr, Denise M.G. Freire
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2078 PubMed 27257553
May 11, 2016
Selenium uptake, tolerance and reduction in Flammulina velutipes supplied with selenite
Jipeng Wang, Bo Wang, Dan Zhang, Yanhong Wu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1993 PubMed 27547513
April 21, 2016
Growth and physiological responses of submerged plant Vallisneria natans to water column ammonia nitrogen and sediment copper
Zhengjie Zhu, Siyuan Song, Pengshan Li, Nasreen Jeelani, Penghe Wang, Hezhong Yuan, Jinghan Zhang, Shuqing An, Xin Leng
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1953 PubMed 27123381
February 18, 2016
The structure and diversity of freshwater diatom assemblages from Franz Josef Land Archipelago: a northern outpost for freshwater diatoms
Sergi Pla-Rabés, Paul B. Hamilton, Enric Ballesteros, Maria Gavrilo, Alan M. Friedlander, Enric Sala
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1705 PubMed 26925329
February 11, 2016
The effect of agmatine on trichothecene type B and zearalenone production in Fusarium graminearum, F. culmorum and F. poae
Matias Pasquali, Emmanuelle Cocco, Cédric Guignard, Lucien Hoffmann
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1672 PubMed 26893962
October 13, 2015
Antityrosinase activity of Euphorbia characias extracts
Francesca Pintus, Delia Spanò, Angela Corona, Rosaria Medda
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1305 PubMed 26500815