Microbes are gold. FY 23-24 ends with 4% rise in earnings. We cross 4 Cr INR landmark on 6th year again. Thanks to all our stakeholders for availing microbial strains and allied services. Thanks Ashish Lele
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory and CSIR, India for support.
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Latest publication in the area of biopolymer production from flower waste using indigenously isolated bacterium and it's use in fruit coating as anti staling property. Elsevier
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Mahesh Dharne
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NCIM is pleased to share latest study published in Biomass and Bioenergy (Elsevier) 'Microbial conversion of biomass derived HMF to FDCA' by Parate et al. (from Dr Dharne's group) in collaboration with Dr Rode's group in CEPD. CSIR, India Roopa
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Interesting study by Dr Syed's team published in ACS Journal of natural product. A novel bioactive compound isolated from rare actinomycetes and active against MRSA isolates and named as Enceleamycin, to honor the institute name CSIR-NCL. CSIR, India
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India's one of the oldest microbial collection National Collection of Industrial Microorganisms CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory caters services related to supply of standard microbial strains to pharma, biotech, agro sector from 1951. Also we provide sequencing, biochemical and phenotypic identification services.

Congratulations to Dr. Syed Dastager for being invited to be an Associate Editor for journal ‘Microbiological Research’. Earlier, he served this journal as a member of the Board of the Editors from 2019 and will continue it for next 3 years. CSIR, India CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Elsevier

Excellent study by Dr Syed Dastager group published in ACS-APPLIED BIO MATERIALS collaboration with CSIR.NIIST. Bacterial nano cellulose for design and development of scalable, photothermal evaporator systems that reduce micro plastic pollution. CSIR, India CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory CSIR.NIIST

Dr Dharne group has published review article 'Microbial production and commercial potential of gamma PGA polymer'. It is expensive polymer having use in Agri, Nutrition, healthcare. IP protected process is in place.CSIR, India CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Collaborative study on Basmati Rice aroma enhancement using Rhizobacteria, from Syed G Dastager research group.
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Congratulations to our student Dr. Kushal Gohil for successful PhD viva voce. He worked on 'Genetic and genomic diversity, adaptation mechanisms and resistomic aspects of human-associated microorganisms'.
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2021 begins at NCIM microbial collection with high spirit of 2020 earnings despite 2 months facility shutdown. Microbes for pharma, biotech, agro, food, environment, start ups and so on. Exciting Jan Feb Mar...
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Heartiest congratulations Dr Syed and team

Another publication of NCIM strain for bioremediation of oily sludge polluted soil employing novel strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa NCIM 5514 and evaluation of phytotoxicity on germination of Vigna radiata seed in pots.
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Study by Swathy et al., showed cellulase from NCIM 2353 Cellulomonas uda has potential for biohydrogen production from waste date seeds. NCIM cultures are useful for Industrial use. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Interesting article by Lodha et al., on biomass valorization using NCIM cultures.
Optimised cellulase production from fungal co-culture of Trichoderma reesei NCIM 1186 and Penicillium citrinum NCIM 768 under solid state fermentation.
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Proud to see our Poly-Ti face mask manufacturing is now on super fast track. Wear mask, else you will be masked by covid. It's important to wear mask to prevent yourself from airborne spread of virus. Now buy in medical shops in Pune CSIR, India

Thank you SERB DSTIndia for approving proposal under Short term Covid Grant to study genomic surveillance of covid 19. CSIR, India Shekhar Mande CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Oxford Nanopore

We are back n resumed services for industrially important bugs for QA, QC, lyophilization, Sanger, NGS, Vitek-MS, AST. Contract Research Services in agri, nutrition, biotech, environment, enzymes, drug discovey. Serving microbial biotech sector since 1951.

Our lab developed indigenous face mask finally reached in the market. NANOCELLULOSE coating based SITRA certified technology.
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More stakeholders welcome for licensing.
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CSIR–NCL has set up Mist Sanitizer System for quick Sanitization. The person walking through the system is subjected to the mist for 10 -15 seconds. Sodium hypochlorite solution as suggested by WHO is used to create the disinfection mist CSIR, India Ashwini Kumar Nangia Prabhakar Ingle