Suruthi, S. S., K. K. Prashanth, and A. Baskaran*. "Pharmacophore-based virtual screening for identification of marine sponge bioactive compounds inhibitors against Alzheimer's disease." Chemical Physics Impact (2025): 100805. (Impact factor 3.9)

Ramesh, Rohini, Karuppanan Sathiyamurthy, Velmurugan Meganathan, and Baskaran Athmanathan*. "Induction and comparative resuscitation of viable but nonculturable state on Vibrio parahaemolyticus serotypes O3: K6 and O1: K25." Archives of Microbiology 206, no. 9 (2024): 1-10. (Scopus indexed) (impact factor 2.3).

Balagurusamy, R., Gopi, L., Kumar, D.S.S. Baskaran Athmanathan*. Significance of Viable But Non-culturable (VBNC) State in Vibrios and Other Pathogenic Bacteria: Induction, Detection and the Role of Resuscitation Promoting Factors (Rpf). Curr Microbiol 81, 417 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-024-03947-8 (Scopus indexed) (Impact factor 2.3).

Nirmala, Narasiman, Ghodke Praveen, Sharma AmitKumar, PanneerSelvam SundarRajan, Athmanathan Baskaran, Packiyadas Priyadharsini, SivaPerumal SanjayKumar et al. "A review on biological biohydrogen production: Outlook on genetic strain enhancements, reactor model and techno-economics analysis." Science of The Total Environment (2023): 165143. (IF 10.7).

Rao, Ronisha Shankar, Suvetha Panbhukarasu, Muhammad Waleed, Cassandra Rifflin Charles Raichel, Kidher Rahman, Kameshwaran Sivakumar, and Baskaran Athmanathan*. "Neutrophil-Derived S100A8/A9 in Cardiovascular Disease and Beyond." Current Pharmacology Reports (2023): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40495-023-00328-w.

Priyadharsini, P., N. Nirmala, S. S. Dawn, A. Baskaran, P. SundarRajan, K. P. Gopinath, and J. Arun. "Genetic improvement of microalgae for enhanced carbon dioxide sequestration and enriched biomass productivity: Review on CO2 bio-fixation pathways modifications." Algal Research 66 (2022): 102810. Doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2022.102810 (IF-5.2)

Gopalkrishna Sreejit, Sunil K. Nooti, Robert M. Jaggers, Baskaran Athmanathan, Ki Ho Park, Annas Al-Sharea, Jillian Johnson, Albert Dahdah, Man K.S. Lee, Jianjie Ma, Andrew J. Murphy, and Prabhakara R. Nagareddy. CIRCULATION. (2022). Retention of the NLRP3 inflammasome-primed neutrophils in the Bone Marrow essential for Myocardial Infarction-induced Granulopoiesis. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.056019 Circulation 2022;145:31-44.(Impact factor 40).

(*equal first author). GopalkrishnaSreejit, Ahmed Abdel-Latif, Baskaran Athmanathan*, Rahul Annabathula, Ashish Dhyani, Sunil K Noothi, Gregory A Quaife-Ryan, Annas Al-Sharea, Gerard Pernes, DraganaDragoljevic, Hind Lal, Kate Schroder, Beatriz Y Hanaoka, Chander Raman, Maria B Grant , James E Hudson, Susan Smyth, Enzo R Porrello, Andrew J Murphy, Prabhakara R Nagareddy. CIRCULATION. (2020). Neutrophil-Derived S 100A8/A8 Amplify Granulopoiesis Following Myocardial Infarction. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.043833. (Impact factor 40).

Yaqian Duan, Ram Prasad,Dongni Feng, Eleni Beli, Sergio Li Calzi, Ana Leda F. Longhini, Regina Lamendella,Jason L. Floyd, Mariana Dupont, Sunil K. Noothi, Gopalkrishna Sreejit, Baskaran Athmanathan, Justin Wright, Amanda R. Jensen, Gavin Y. Oudit, Troy A. Markel, Prabhakara R. Nagareddy, Alexander G. Obukhov, Maria B. Grant. Bone marrow- derived cells restore functional integrity of the gut epithelial and vascular barriersin a model of diabetes and ACE2 deficiency. Circulation Research2019;125:969–988. DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119.315743. (Impact factor 26.5)

Prabhakara R. Nagareddy, Gopalkrishna Sreejit, Mohamed Abo-Aly, Robert M.Jaggers, Lakshman Chelvarajan, Jillian Johnson , Gerard Pernes, Baskaran Athmanathan, Ahmed Abdel-Latif , Andrew J. Murphy. NETosis is required for S100A8/A9- induced granulopoiesis after myocardial Infarction. ArteriosclerThrombVasc Biol. 2020;40:00–00. DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.120.314807 (Impact factor 8.31)

Maria De Luca, Denise Vecchie, Baskaran Athmanathan, SreejitGopalkrishna,Jennifer A. Valcin, Telisha M. Swain, RogerioSertie , Kennedy Wekesa ,Glenn C. Rowe , Shannon M. Bailey and Prabhakara R. Nagareddy. Genetic Deletion of Syndecan-4 Alters Body Composition, Metabolic Phenotypes, and the Function of Metabolic Tissues in Female Mice Fed A High-Fat Diet. Nutrients 2019, 11, 2810; doi:10.3390/nu11112810. (Impact factor 6.3)

Bright Asare-Bediako, Sunil K. Noothi, Sergio Li Calzi, Baskaran Athmanathan, Cristiano P. Vieira, Yvonne Adu-Agyeiwaah, Mariana Dupont, Bryce A. Jones, Xiaoxin X. Wang, Dibyendu Chakraborty, Moshe Levi, Prabhakara R. Nagareddy and Maria B. Grant. Characterizing the retinal phenotype in the High-Fat Diet and Western Diet mouse models of Prediabetes. Cells.2020, 9(2), 464. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells9020464. (Impact factor 6.6).

Gobinath S, Anil KC, Asokan D, Baskaran A, Silvio HL Prasanna K, Christopher J D and Namakkal SR (2019). Exercise Mediated Nrf2 Signaling Protects the Myocardium From Isoproterenol-Induced Pathological Remodeling. Front. Cardiovasc. Med., 06 June 2019; https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2019.00068, (Impact factor 6.5). 

Sankar R, Baskaran A, Shivashangari K.S and Ravikumar V. (2015) Inhibition of pathogenic bacterial growth on excision wound by green synthesized copper oxide nanoparticles leads to accelerated wound healing in Wister Albino rats. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine. 26:214. DOI 10.1007/s10856-015-5543-y. (Impact factor 3.8)

Sureka I, Baskaran A, Dinesh Kumar S, Velmurugan M, Jennifer Emelda E, Jesuraj E.W and Sathiyamurthy K. (2015) Incidence and antibiotic-resistant profiles of pathogenic Salmonella spp. from different environmental and food samples. International Journal of Microbiology and Immunology Research. 3(6): 076-083. (Impact factor 1.6)

Velmurugan M, Baskaran A, Dinesh Kumar S, Sureka I, Jennifer Emelda, E and Sathiyamurthy K. (2015) Screening, stability and antibacterial potential or rhamnolipids from Pseudomonas sp., isolated from hydrocarbon contaminated soil. Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science. 5(8):26-33. (Impact factor 0.52) 

Sathiyamurthy K, Baskaran A and Dinesh kumar S. (2013) Prevalence of Vibrio cholerae and other vibrios from environmental seafood sources, Tamil Nadu, India. British Microbiology Research Journal 3(4), 538-549. 

Baskaran A, Sathiyamurthy K and Sangeetha S. (2011) Antagonistic activity of pathogenic vibrio isolated from marine environment. Journal of pharmacy Research.4 (12), 4491-4494, 2011.

Book Chapters

Sreejit G, Nooti SK, Athmanathan B,Nagareddy PR (2019). S100A8/A9 in Myocardial Infarction. Methods in Mol. Biol, 2019; 1929:739-754. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9030-6_46.

Awards

2010- 2011, University Research Fellowship, BMS, in Bharathidasan University

2011-2014- JRF, UCG Project, BMS,Bharathidasan University

2008- University of Madras -19th Rank holder in Microbiology

Awarded Travel fellowship from Centre for International Co-operation in Science (CICS) to attend Symposium on Diseases on Asian Aquaculture (DAA9), Ho Chi Minh City, VIETNAM, during November 24 -28, 2014.

2021-2022- Received Seed Money Grant of Rs. 75,000 from B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai

Best Innovative Faculty Award from Publishing Scientific Reports during October 15, 2023

Invited talks

Delivered a talk on Emerging pathogen- Vibrio fluvialis in National Conference on "Harnessing Biotechnology: Driving Innovation in Healthcare, Agriculture, and the Environment (NCBH-25)", sponsored by the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Government of India scheduled to be held on 8th & 9th August, 2025 at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai.  

Delivered a lecture on Vibrio fluvialis- a neglected pathogen during National Science Day 2024 organized by SLS, BSARCIST with TNSCST, Chennai and National Council for Science and Technology Communication on 28/02/2024. 

Delivered a special lecture for the students of University of East London, UK, under Turning Scheme, Govt of UK on 11.07.2024

Presented an invited talk in VIT, School of BioScience and Technology, entitled “Vibrio fluvialis- an emerging pathogen” on 29th April 2022.  

Presented interactive webinar series on “Outcome bases curriculum design” from 01.08.2022 to 05.08.2022.

Presented an invited talk on Six weeks students Turing scheme study mobility exchange programme at SLS, BSACIST during the period of 04.07.2022 to 13.08.2022. 

Presented a invited talk in 16th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Disease and Nutrition ASCODD 2022, 11-13 November 2022. Organized in association with ICMR, NICED, India.

Delivered a special talk for the students of Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women, Chennai during 16.12.2022.

Seminars/conferences

Presented a poster titled “Nlrp3 inflammasome-primed macrophages contribute to reticulated thrombopoiesis in Type2 Diabetes” in Kern Lipid conference, Metabolic Regulation of Immunity, Cardiometabolic Diseases and Cancer: New therapeutic approaches, Aug13-15, 2018, Vail, Colorado, USA.

Presented in Live activity titled “CCVC 2016 5th Annual Symposium, Focus Ischemic Heart Disease” in Mountain Brook, AL on 09/30/2016. The activity was designated for 6.00 AMA PRA category 1 credits. University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA.

Presented a paper in 9th symposium on “Frontiers in Biomedical” organized by Dr.B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical research, in University of Delhi, Delhi during April14-16, 2014.

Presented a poster in 2nd International Science Symposium on HIV & Infectious Diseases conducted by Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University during 30-1 Feb, 2014. 

Presented a poster in 46th Annual Joint Panel Meeting on “Cholera and other Bacterial Enteric Infections” organized by National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases, (NICED) Kolkata, India, a US – Japan Medical Science Program during December 13-15, 2011, Kolkata.

Presented a paper in the National Level Conference on “Recent Advances in BioMedical Research on Infectious and Non-infectious Diseases” organized by Department of BioMedical Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, during October 13th& 14th 2011.

Presented a paper in International Conference on Aquatic Microbiology (Status, Challenges and Opportunities) held at the Centre of Advanced study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University during September 2-4, 2010.

Presented a poster in “National Level Symposium” and “State Level Seminars” conducted by D.K.M College for women, Vellore and Sri Sankara Arts & Science College, 2008

Participated “One day workshop on Instrumental methods of analysis” in V.I.T- Vellore on 7th January 2006. 

Participated in “5th International Conference on Frontiers of Cancer Biology and Biotechnology for Next-Gen Innovations” organized by School of Life Sciences and Association of Cancer Education and Research (ACER), B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India in association with W. M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, USA on 14-15, November 2025.

FPD and Workshop

Five days FDP on “Recent Trends in Life Sciences” organized by Valliammal College for Women, Chennai, 06/10/2025 to 10/10.2025.

NEP 2020 orientation and sensitization programme under Malaviya Mission Teacher Training programme (MM-TTP) of UGC organized by IIT, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, Chennai, during March 5-14, 2024.

Twelve-week FDP on Genome Editing and Engineering, organized by Swayam and NPTEL during July-Dec 2024

Participated in one week FDP on “Recent trends in Bioprocess Technology” conducted from 15 -19 January 2024.

Participated in five days FDP on Advancements and Innovations in Cellular Communication and Signal Transduction, organized by IIT, Noida during 17th to 21st July 2023.

Five Days Faculty Programme on Tools for Research Paper Presentation and indexing during March 15-19, 2023. organized by Scientific Research Reports, Chennai, India.

Participated in five days FDP on Recent Advancements in Science and Technology, Mar 6-10, 2023, Department of Science, Alliance University, Bangaluru.

Participated in three-week FPD on "Technology based Entrepreneurship Development Program in Aquaculture" Organized by Centre for Ocean Research, Sathyabama Technology, Supported by DST, 18.04.2023 to 09.05.2023.

Participated six days FDP on Challenges and Advances in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry from 6-11, Feb 2023, organized by Department of Petroleum Engineering & HRDC, AMET, Chennai.

Six days Faculty Development programme on " Challenges and Advances in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry" from 06.02.2023 to 11.02.2023 organized by Department of Petroleum Engineering & HRDC, AMET, Deemed University, Chennai.

Two-day workshop/FDP on " strategies in inorganic synthesis." held in National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal during 6th and 7th May, 2022.

Attended a Workshop on " Art of Writing Letters of Recommendations" organized by Centre for International relations, B S A R Crescent institute of Science & Technology, Dec, 2022.

One day workshop on "Biomass valorization using Hydrothermal Reactor (HTL)"-organized by Centre for Waste Management and Department of Chemical Engineering, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Aug 29, 2022.

One day workshop on HTL & GC-Flam Ionization Detector-Thermal Conductivity Detector (GC-FID/TCD, organized by Centre for Waste Management and Department of Chemical Engineering, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, during18.11. 2022.

One day workshop on Sustainable Techniques to Process Wastewater and Solidwaste on World Ozone Day -organized by Centre for Waste Management and Department of Chemical Engineering, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, 16-09-2022.

Hands-on Workshop on Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter (FACS) in association with DST- FIST, Govt of India, organized by the Department of Biotechnology, School of Bioengineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Dec, 15-17, 2022.

Workshop on “Art of Writing Letters of Recommendation” organized by centre for International Relations, BSARCIST in collaboration with Education USA, USIED on 01.12. 2022.

Webinar series on " Applications of Advanced Nanocomposites" organized by Department of Science, Alliance University, Bangaluru.15-17 March, 2023.

Participated in Two Days webinar on Fermentation: Interplay of Microbes, Immunity and Nutrition, organized by Department of Rural Development & Agricultural Production North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus, Meghalaya held on 3-4 Feb 2023.

Participated online session on Scientific Writing and Publishing, organized by Springer Nature held on 20 Feb 2023.

Invited Talks

Delivered a lecture on Vibrio fluvialis- a neglected pathogen during National Science Day 2024 organized by SLS, BSARCIST with TNSCST, Chennai and National Council for Science and Technology Communication on 28/02/2024. 

Presented an invited talk in VIT, School of BioScience and Technology, entitled “Vibrio fluvialis- an emerging pathogen” on 29th April 2022.  

Presented interactive webinar series on “Outcome bases curriculum design” from 01.08.2022 to 05.08.2022.

Presented an invited talk on Six weeks students Turing scheme study mobility exchange programme at SLS, BSACIST during the period of 04.07.2022 to 13.08.2022. 

Presented a poster in 16th Asian Conference on Diarrhoeal Disease and Nutrition ASCODD 2022, 11-13 November 2022. Organized in association with ICMR, NICED, India.

Delivered a special talk for the students of Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women, Chennai during 16.12.2022.

Reviewer in National and International journals

Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology (Springer)

In-Silico Pharmacology (Springer)

Current Pharmacology reports (Springer)

3D Biotech (Springer)

Research and Reviews: A journal of Life Sciences (RRJOLS, STM)

Indian Journal of Science and Technology

Current Vascular Pharmacology (Bentham Science Publishers)

BioFuel (Elsevier)

Event organized 

Two weeks Hands on workshop/FDP on Bioinformatics unleashed: Exploring sequences to simulation, during September 17 to October 1, 2004. (Revenue generated of Rs. 1Lakhs/-).

Two-weeks Faculty Development Programme on Current Advances and Applications in Life Sciences. During March 15-28, 2024.

Organized a national level symposium on Bioinformatics during 19-20 March 2024.

Organized an National level seminar on “Applications of Bioinformatics and Biosimulations” from SLS, BSARCST during June 01 2023. 

Workshop on Extraction and phytochemical analysis of natural products- In-vitro, In-silico and In-vivo approaches on Zebra Fish handling and drug toxicity testing during 20-24 September 2022.

Organized a technical and non-technical event in “Bioinfothon” during 17-19 April 2023.

Organized a technical and non-technical event in Bioinformatics “Bioconnect” during 23-24 September, 2024.

Trainings

Fifteen days Intensive training on “Resourceful Waste Conversion Technologies (ReConverT-2022)” organized by Centre for Waste Management and Department of Chemical Engineering, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, 18/7/2022 to 10/8/2022.

One week training on Heavy Metal detection from Wastewater using Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS) organized by Centre for Waste Management and Department of Chemical Engineering, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Aug 30, 2022.

Training on Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter (FACS) in association with DST- FIST, Govt of India, organized by the Department of Biotechnology, School of Bioengineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Dec, 15-17, 2022.

T. Ramamurthy in NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES (NICED), Kolkata from 16 -29 Feb.2012 and May 27 – June 21, 2013.

Comprehensive training on “Routine Laboratory Procedures & Operations” conducted by BD –BBL Crystal Autoreader system on 28-30 January 2010.

Completed the “Handson Summer Training Programme in Biomedical Laboratory Science” in Vidyasagar Institute of Biomedical Technology and Science (VIBS) at Medical Research Foundation, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai from 14 May to June 2, 2007.

Fifteen days Intensive training on Resourceful Waste Conversion Technologies (ReConverT-2022) organized by Centre for Waste Management and Department of Chemical Engineering, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, 18/7/2022 to 10/8/2022

Hands-on Workshop on Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorter(FACS) in association with DST- FIST, Govt of India, organized by the Department of Biotechnology, School of Bioengineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Dec, 15-17, 2022.

Chaired a session in the Indo-USA international conference on Applications of Nanotechnology in Biology, Biotechnology and Biopharmaceuticals (ICNB3)", organized by SLS B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Aug 11, 12, 2022.

Chairperson in the panel of “3rd Internation conference on Applications of Natural compounds, Nanomaterials, Oncolytic in cancer Biology and Biotechnology (ICANNOCB-22)” organized by SLS, BSARCIST in association with Purdue University, USA during 27th and 28th October 2022.

Special talk for the students of University of EAST LONDON, UK during the "Six weeks students turning scheme study mobility exchange programme" in SLS, during 04.07.2022 to 13.08.2022.

Special talk for the students of University of EAST LONDON, UK during the "Seven weeks students turning scheme study mobility exchange programme" in SLS, (BSACIST), Chennai, India, funded by Turing Scheme, Govt of UK during 03.07.2023 to 12.08.2023.

Special talk for the students of University of EAST LONDON, UK during the "Seven weeks students turning scheme study mobility exchange programme" in SLS, (BSACIST), Chennai, India, funded by Turing Scheme, Govt of UK on 11.07.2024.

Additional Responsibilities

Student coordinator for value-added courses in association with IIT Bombay (spoken Tutorial) for the students during 2023-2024.

Member of U.G and P.G board, COE, Anna University, Question paper scrutinizing committee during 2022-2025.

UG and PG Question paper setter for the Autonomous Semester Examinations for Erode Arts & Science College, Erode during 2023 and 2024.

Faculty-Coordinator for Crescent Bioinformatics Association, SLS, BSARCIST (2022-2-24). outcomes, 3 Volumes of magazines, workshop, seminars and symposium.

Doctoral Committee members for Research Scholars from School of Pharmacy, BSARCIST, Chennai 

Coordinators for the Departmental Academic Audie Committee Report (DAAC) in charges 2022-2024.

Best Innovative Faculty Award from Publishing Scientific Reports during October 15, 2023.

Mar 2022- May 2025: - Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai, TN, India.

April 2021- Mar2022 :– Post Doctoral Researcher at Shiv Nadar University, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai, TN, India.

July 2019 - Mar2021:- Research Associate 2B/H- at The Ohio State University, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Columbus, Ohio, USA. (NIH funded research projects- APP1142938).

April 2016 - June 2019: - Post Doctoral Researcher at University of Alabama at Birmingham, 331 Shelby Biomedical Research Building, 1825 University Boulevard, Alabama, USA. (NIH funded research projects-APP1106154).

Dec 2014 - April 2016: - Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Sri Sankara Arts & Science College, (Autonomous) Enathur, Kanchipuram, TN, India.

Mar 2010 - June 2014: -Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of Biomedical Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India. (UGC- Major Research project).

Aug 2008 - Mar 2010: - Stem cell Technologist (Cord Blood Processing Unit, R& D), Life Cell International Pvt., Ltd., Chennai, TN, India. (An AABB and NABL accredited Laboratory).

American Heart Association (2016 – 2022)

Microbiological Society of India (Life member)

Mycoasia (Life member)

Funded Research Projects: (Worth – Rs.75,000)

Received a fund of Rs 75,000 from Crescent Seed Money (CSM) from B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Vandalur, Chennai 600 048, for the project titled “Molecular characterization of …… Vibrio cholerae”