Ranjith Kumar Rajavaram has over 9 years of experience in microbiology research. He has expertise in microbial fermentation processes, strain development, and production of biofertilizers, bipesticides, and probiotics. At DuPont, he helped establish their microbial culture collection center and developed industrial microbial mutants. He has experience optimizing fermentation processes for products like bio-butanol. He has a PhD in Microbiology from Kakatiya University and publications in peer-reviewed journals.

1. Ranjith Kumar Rajavaram +91-9912268982
ranjithku2@gmail.com
Profile
A dynamic professional with 9+ years of extensive research experience in areas like microbiology,
lab scale microbial fermentation process, evolutionary engineering in strain development,
production of bio-fertilizer, bio-pesticide, probiotic and bio-transformation of different drugs,
intermediate analysis using HPLC & GC, molecular biology related to unicellular and multicellular
microorganisms from industries and academia as well.
Recognized for ability to:
o Established DuPont Microbial culture collection Centre at DuPont
Knowledge Centre.
o Microbial culture Curator for DuPont Knowledge Centre
o Expertize in increase productivity of microbial fermentation process by
conducting shake flask experiment for end product titer improvement.
o Developed industrial microbial mutants for better growth and titer in highly
privileged projects like bio butanol
Accomplishments
E.I. DuPont India Pvt Ltd, DuPont knowledge Centre, Hyderabad. 2011 - present
Research Associate II Hyderabad
o Professional with five years of industrial experience in Research & Development in a
science driven company with its primary focus not limited to Bio-based materials,
Agriculture & Nutrition and advance Materials and provide sustainable, innovative, and
market-driven solutions.
o Supporting fermentation process team by generating shake flask data to increase the
productivity.
o Privileged to work on top priority projects Bio-butanol, industrial application of enzymes,
and heterologous flavonoid (nutraceutical) production and fermentation process
optimization projects.
o Professionally skilled in revival different microbial strains in pure condition. Good
knowledge in metabolic engineering and pathway optimization.
TechnicalExpertise
Bio-Butanol project:
o Generated butanol tolerant strains with high titer and high growth by evolutionary
engineering protocols.
o High through put screening for tolerant strains by using Q-PIX.
o Conducting shake flask experiments to support bio butanol fermentation process.
o Scale down fermentation using high cell density and low cell density.
o Yeast MAT type identification and MAT type switch and haploid and diploid generation
from vice versa.
Industrial application of enzymes (exploratory project):
o Application of microbial enzymes to mitigate risks in amino acid fermentation process,
like foam controlling, fermentation media viscosity reduction and titer improvement.
o Application of enzymes in contaminant mitigation in processes-fermentation, shake flask
evaluations. A project to find alternatives to usage of antibiotics in fermentation (notice of
investigation (NOI) filing is under process).

2. Heterologous Flavonoid production:
o Constructed heterologous pathway in yeast to produce flavonoids and evaluated by scale
down fermentation process.
o Developed protocols in flavonoids production optimization.
University Grants Commission India (UGC New Delhi) 2007-2010
Junior Research Fellow(JRF) Warangal
o Selected for the position of Junior Research Fellow (JRF) for the project “Bio-diversity of
thermophilic fungi and their biotechnological applications” funded by University Grants
Commission, India. (UGC New Delhi).
o Isolation techniques: Isolated thermophilic fungi from different ecological niches by using
new methods.
o Screening for industrial important enzymes like protease, pectinase, lipase and asparaginase
and phytase by thermophilic fungi.
o Optimization of enzyme production by using different carbon and nitrogen sources
o Biotransformation of diclofenac by using thermophilic fungi.
o Analysis of secondary metabolites of bio transformed compounds using HPLC
o Molecular level identification of thermophilic fungal species
Education
 Ph. D in Microbiology from Kakatiya University Warangal awarded in the year of 2011
Thesis title: “Biodiversity of thermophilic fungi and their biotechnological
applications”.
 Passed M.Sc. in Micro Biology from University College, Kakatiya University
Warangal in the year 2006.
 Passed Graduation in B.Sc. (Microbiology, Botany and Chemistry) from Sadhana
Degree College, Yellandu, Khammam, Kakatiya University, Warangal, in the year
2004.
 Passed Pre-Degree in Botany, Zoology, Physics and Chemistry as core subjects,
Sadhana Junior College, Yellandu in the year 2001.
 Passed S.S.C from Jawahar Public School in the year 1999.
Publication
PUBLICATIONS ACCETED:
1. “Incidence of thermophilicfungi indifferent substrates.” International Journal of Pharma
and Bio Sciences. Vol.1/Issue-3/Jul-Sep.2010.
2. “L-asparginase activity of different thermophilic fungi” Trade science Journal of
Biotechnology India. Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2010
Presentations
International:
1. Awarded second place on “Seed mycoflora of finger millet” in poster session of Second
Asian conference on Mycology and Plant Pathology which is held in Department of
Botany, Osmania University, Hyderabad on 19 - 22 December 2007.

3. 2. Participated in International conference on Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology
held in Department of Biotechnology, Kakatiya University, Warangal on 15 -17th August
2008.
National:
1. Presented a paper on “Effect of temperature on production of exo-polysaccharides and
biomass from white rot fungi” in National Seminar “Recent Trends in Biotechnology”
organized by Lal Bahadur college, Warangal on November 30th and December 1st, 2007.
2. Awarded second best poster on “Factors influencing the production of Bio
fuel(Hydrogen) by Rhodopseudomonas acidophila” held in Department of
Biotechnology, Kakatiya University, Warangal on 3rd& 4th January 2008.
3. Participated in National seminar on “Recent advances in Molecular Microbiology and
Microbial Technology”, held in Department of Microbiology, Kakatiya University,
Warangal from January 23rd – 25th, 2008.
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Professionalskills
Microbial physiology
Industrial strain development
Microbial Fermentation process
Analytical
Molecular biology