| Designation | Senior Scientist |
| Discipline | Veterinary Microbiology |
| Division | Nutrition, Genetics and Biotechnology Division |
| Specialization | Veterinary Microbiology |
| Phone | +91- 044 – 24618817 Ext: 103 |
| Lalitha.N@icar.gov.in | |
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- Brief Profile
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- Best 5 Publications during the Career
- Best 3 Publications during last 3 years
Dr. Lalitha, N., is a scientist at CIBA. After taking a master's in Veterinary Microbiology in 2005. Joined ARS in the discipline of Veterinary Microbiology during 2008. I currently work in the division of the Nutrition, Genetics and Biotechnology Division in CIBA. Having 16 years of experience in research. My research areas are functional feed development, gut microbiome studies in P. vannamei, water and soil microbiome of the aquaculture ponds, vertebrate and invertebrate cell culture, development of microbial ameliorants for the greenhouse gases, , bioremediation in the aquaculture environment, gut, water and soil probiotics, environment microbiology and viral vaccine production
- Bioremediation in aquaculture environment
- Water and soil probiotics
- Environment microbiology
- Invertebrate Cell culture
| No | Title | Funded By |
| 1 | Development of water and soil health card for environmental management of brackish water aquaculture system | Institute |
| 2 | National innovations on climate resilient agriculture | ICAR |
| 3 | Invertebrate and finfish diseases in brackishwater aquaculture and development of prophylactic and therapeutic strategies | Institute |
1. Lalitha, N., Ronald, B.S.M., Ananda Chitra, Ashok Kumar Jangam, Vinaya Kumar Katneni, P.N. Suganya, P.N., Hemalatha, S., Senthilkumar, T.M.A., Muralidhar,M., 2023. Exploration of the candidate beneficial bacteria for Penaeus vannamei culture by core microbiome analysis using amplicon sequencing. Letters in Applied Microbiology, 76:8, ovad087, https://doi.org/10.1093/lambio/ovad087.
2. Lalitha, N., Ronald, B.S.M., Ananda Chitra, M., Hemalatha, S., Senthil kumar, T.M.A., Muralidhar, M., 2022. Characterization of lactic Acid bacteria from the gut of Penaeus vannamei as potential probiotic. Indian Journal of Animal Research, 56: 1499-1505, doi10.18805/IJAR.B-4983
3. Lalitha, N., Ronald, B.S.M., Ananda Chitra, M., Hemalatha, S., Senthil kumar, T.M.A., 2022. Histomorphometry dynamics of hepatopancreas and midgut trunk (intestine) of Penaeus vannamei in brackishwater culture ponds. Journal of Experimental Zoology, India , 25: 2477-2484, DocID: https://connectjournals.com/03895.2022.25.2477
4. Patil, P.K., Antony,L., Avunje,S., Viswanathan,B., Lalitha,N., Jangam,A.K., Kumar,D., Solanki, H. G., Reddy, M.A., Alavandi, S.V., and K.K..Vijayan. 2021. Bioaugmentation with nitrifying and denitrifying microbial consortia for mitigation of nitrogenous metabolites in shrimp ponds, Aquaculture, 541, 736819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.736819
5. Lalitha, N., Patil, P.K., Rajesh, R., and Muralidhar, M., 2019. Usage of Pluerotus ostreatus for degradation of oxytetracycline in varying water salinities in brackishwater aquaculture systems. Journal of Coastal Research. Special issue: 86, 138-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.2112/SI86-021.1
- N.Lalitha, M.Muralidhar, R.Saraswathy, P.Kumararaja and A.Nagavel. 2017. Effect of cassava waste on bioremediation of nitrogenous metabolites and shrimp growth. Journal of environmental biology, 38 (4), 611 – 617.
- Vasanth, M., Muralidhar, M., Saraswathy, R., Nagavel, A., Syamadayal, J., Jayanthi, M., Lalitha, N., Kumararaja, P., and Vijayan, K.K., 2016. Methodological approach for the collection and simultaneous estimation of greenhouse gases emission from aquaculture ponds. Environment Monitoring and Assessment. 188;671. doi:10.1007/s10661-016-5646-z.
- Krithika, G., Saraswathy, R., Muralidhar, M., Thulasi, D., Lalitha, N., Kumararaja, P., Nagavel, A., Arun balaji and Jayavel, R., 2016. Zinc oxide nanoparticles – synthesis, characterization and antibacterial activity. Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology. DOI: 24.08.2016