Gokul Iyer

Gokul did his undergraduate (B.Tech) in Chemical Engineering in Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India. He then obtained his Masters degree in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India where his research was focused on microbial methods of caffeine degradation. His research work here is on delivery of drugs for cardiac regeneration. He spends his leisure time listening to music, especially Carnatic music.

Publications

S.Gokulakrishnan, K.Chandraraj, Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi. (2005) Microbial and enzymatic methods for the removal of caffeine. Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 37, 225-232.

S.Gokulakrishnan and Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi. (2006) Cell growth kinetics and caffeine utilization of Pseudomonas sp. GSC1182. Process Biochemistry, 41, 1417-1421.

S.Gokulakrishnan, K.Chandraraj, Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi. (2007) Caffeine degradation by Pseudomonas sp. GSC 1182. International Journal of Food Microbiology, 113, 346-350.

Conferences

Gokulakrishnan and Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi ‘Caffeine degradation by Pseudomonas sp’ oral presentation in “International Symposium on Biocatalysis and Bioprocess Engineering- ISBBE 2005” held in East China University of Science and Technology in Shangai, October 2005.

S.Gokulakrishnan, K.Chandraraj and Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi ‘Degradation of caffeine by Pseudomonas sp. GSC 1182’ Poster presentation in “National symposium on molecular basis of diseases” held in Indian Institute of Technology- Madras, Chennai January 2005.

R.Ganesh and S.Gokulakrishnan ‘Implementing fuzzy control in process control’ Oral presentation (Best paper of the session) in “CHEMCON-2001” conducted by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineeers (IIChE) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) December 2001.