Draft:J. Rajendhran

Jayaprakash Rajendhran is an Indian biologist specialised in microbiology, genetics and genomics. He is noted for his works in the field of microbial genomics, metagenomics, human microbiomics and host-pathogen interactions. He works as an assistant professor at the Department of Genetics of School of Biological Sciences (SBS) of Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU). He is also an editorial board member of Journal of Genetics and Genomics. He is one of the Editorial Board Members of Journal of Microbiology and Genetics as well. Rajendhran is also elected Member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), Biotechnology Research Society of India (BRSI) and Aqua-Terr Society for Biological Sciences (ATSBS).

Education
Rajendhran studied as a Junior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow and Research Associate at the School of Biological Sciences of Madurai Kamaraj University where he was supervised for his Ph.D. by Gunasekaran Paramasamy. He completed his UGC-Raman Postdoctoral fellowship from the Department of Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology of Yale University, New Haven, USA.

Career
Rajendhran started his professional career as a lecturer in PKN Arts and Science College where he served from 1999 to 2001. Later, he joined Madurai Kamaraj University as a lecturer at the UGC- Networking Resource Centre for Biological Sciences (UGC-NRCBS) of Madurai Kamaraj University in 2009 before becoming a full time Assistant Professor at the Department of Genetics of School of Biological Sciences of Madurai Kamaraj University.

Awards

 * 2007: Young Scientist Award from Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI)
 * 2014: SBS-MKU Genomics Award from Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI)
 * 2017: Travel Grant from Osaka University, Japan
 * 2018: Indo‐US Research Professorship from American Society for Microbiology (ASM)