Vishnu Agarwal

Associate Professor
Department of Biotechnology
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: vishnua[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: 05322271235(O) 9235682651(M)

Other Academic Achievements

Award and Honors:

• Infectious Disease (ID) Fellow Grant-2007 by American Society for microbiology (ASM) to present the research work at 47th ICAAC to be held at Chicago, USA during 17-20 Sept, 2007. • International travel award from DBT-Govt of India, to give an oral presentation in ‘YoungChem2006’ during 25-29th Oct, 2006 in Pultusk, Poland. • DBT-Postdoctoral Research Associateship 2009 • Invited American Chemical Society Lecture ‘ACS Lecture 2016’ on 5th May 2016 at SHIATS Allahabad. • Young Scientist Research Grant from DST, Govt of India. • Rapid Grant Award from DBT, Govt. of India. • EMR research Grant from SERB Govt. of India. • Extramural Research Grant by ICMR, Govt. of India. • Invited Talk on “Quorum sensing at the crossroad of Inter-kingdom signaling” at National Conference on Recent Advances and Trends in Biotechnology”, at School of Studies in Biotechnology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur 492 010, Chhattisgarh, during 10-12 January 2020. • Guest speaker in the expert lecture session at the Short term training program on "Intelligent Biomedical-Micro-Electro-Mechanical System". Our event is a week-long program to be held from 16-03-2020 to 22-03-2020 at the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad (IIIT-A). • Invited lecture on research ethics on 18th March 2021 in the national workshop on Research Methodology at Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies.

Conferences/ Workshops/Symposium/ Short-term Courses Organized:

Bio-prospecting: Access for Sustainable Development National Conference Department of Biotechnology. Feb 19-20, 2010.

International Conference on Health, Environment and Industrial Biotechnology . Biosangam 2013.

International Conference on Translational Biotechnology. Biosangam. 4-6 Feb 2016.

International Conference Biosangam 2018. 9-11 March 2018.

National Conference on Advances in Microscopy and Foldscope. 15-16 March 2019.

On-going Projects:

Designing and Development of a novel quorum quenching and lytic bacteriophage cocktail based therapeutic strategy by using QS regulated CRISPR-cas system to prevent Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its biofilm associated infections: ICMR Govt. of India

Projects Completed:

Development of Eucalyptus globules oil containing bioadhesive polymeric nanoprticles and estimation of its cytotoxicity potential and assay against biofilms: DST, GOI.

Study of antibody and human morphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) mediated phagocytosis of PNAG positive Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms and estimation of Caspase-3-like Protease (CLP) production: DBT, GOI.

Study of role of lactone signaling and alginate production on neutrophil interaction, apoptosis, and subsequent macrophage mediated phagocytosis against Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm associated infections: SERB, GOI.

Study of water and terrestrial biofilms using foldscope as a tool to address community health and sanitation issues. DBT, GOI.

Other Significant Achievements:

• Infectious Disease (ID) Fellow Grant-2007 by American Society for microbiology (ASM) to present the research work at 47th ICAAC to be held at Chicago, USA during 17-20 Sept, 2007. • International travel award from DBT-Govt of India, to give an oral presentation in ‘YoungChem2006’ during 25-29th Oct, 2006 in Pultusk, Poland. • DBT-Postdoctoral Research Associateship 2009 • Invited American Chemical Society Lecture ‘ACS Lecture 2016’ on 5th May 2016 at SHIATS Allahabad. • Young Scientist Research Grant from DST, Govt of India. • Rapid Grant Award from DBT, Govt. of India. • EMR research Grant from SERB Govt. of India. • Extramural Research Grant by ICMR, Govt. of India. • Invited Talk on “Quorum sensing at the crossroad of Inter-kingdom signaling” at National Conference on Recent Advances and Trends in Biotechnology”, at School of Studies in Biotechnology, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur 492 010, Chhattisgarh, during 10-12 January 2020. • Guest speaker in the expert lecture session at the Short term training program on "Intelligent Biomedical-Micro-Electro-Mechanical System". Our event is a week-long program to be held from 16-03-2020 to 22-03-2020 at the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad (IIIT-A). • Invited lecture on research ethics on 18th March 2021 in the national workshop on Research Methodology at Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies.

• Book Chapter on “Polymeric Nanoparticles: A Novel Carrier For Drug Delivery”, Vishnu Agarwal, Himanshu Pandey. 2013 PP: 33-46. Book Title: Advances in Biotechnology: A Practical Approach Eds. HK dhingra, PN Jha, P. Bajpai. Nova Publishers • Book Chapter on “Herbal product based remedies against microbial infections and resistance”, Vishnu Agarwal, Manisha sachan, Parul sirohi. 2014 PP: 343-370. Book Title: Recent Progress in medicinal plants (volume: 38) Eds. JN govil and Sanjib Bhaattacharya. • Book Chapter on “Protein, Methylated DNA and Micro RNA: Potential Candidates towards Sustainable Ovarian Cancer Diagnostics”, Puja Sinha, Meenal Rastogi, Vishnu Agarwal and Manisha Sachan*. June 2016. Recent Advances In Ovarian Cancer. • Book Chapter on “Environmental fate and Eco-toxicity of engineered nanparticles: current trends and future perspectives”, Anamika Kushwaha, Radha Rani, Vishnu Agarwal*. August 2016. In Advanced Nanomaterials for Wastewater Remediation. Pages 387–404. Print ISBN: 978-1-4987-5333-3 • Nandita Sharma, Devendra Singh, Radha Rani, Deepmala Sharma, Himanshu Pandey, Vishnu Agarwal (2017) Carboxymethyl Chitosan and It’s Nanocarriers: Applications and Opportunities. In: Nanomaterials in Plants Algae and Micro-Organisms: Concepts and Controversies. Elsevier, USA. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811488-9.00013-5. • Microbial Biofilms. Princy Choudhary, Sangeeta Singh and Vishnu Agarwal. Book Title: Bacterial Biofilms. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.90790. By: Intech Open. Year: 21st Feb. 2020. • Bacterial Biofilms and Host Immune Response. Pradeep Kumar Singh, Vivek Kumar Yadav, Deepmala Sharma, Vishnu Agarwal and Vandan Nagar. Microbial Biofilms: Current Research and Practical Implications (Edited by: Arindam Mitra). Caister Academic Press, U.K. (2020) Pages: 195-216. • Devendra Singh, Deepmala Sharma, Vishnu Agarwal (2021) Role of Material Science in Service of the Society, Nova Science Publisher, USA.