Pallaval Veera Bramhachari

Dr. Pallaval Veera Bramhachari is currently a Head & Senior Faculty member of the Department of Biotechnology at Krishna University, Machilipatnam, India. He has earlier served as a Postdoctoral research scientist at the Bacterial Pathogenesis Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR-Berghofoer Research Center),), Brisbane, Australia, and a DBT Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He completed...See more

Dr. Pallaval Veera Bramhachari is currently a Head & Senior Faculty member of the Department of Biotechnology at Krishna University, Machilipatnam, India. He has earlier served as a Postdoctoral research scientist at the Bacterial Pathogenesis Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR-Berghofoer Research Center),), Brisbane, Australia, and a DBT Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He completed his Ph.D. in Microbiology from Goa University, India. His major research interests are the investigation of the applied research in microbiology and cell biology including the biochemical mechanism of bacterial-biofilm formations, extracellular microbial polysaccharides, and the structure-function relationship of bacterial biosurfactants (glycolipids and rhamnolipids), pathogenic and virulence characteristics of bacteria, basic and translational cancer research. He has published more than 140 research articles in Scopus-indexed journals, authored and co-authored 7 international books and invited book chapters in prestigious peer-reviewed international and presented 50 abstracts at various national and international conferences. He has served as an editorial board and reviewer for several national and international journals. He is a member of numerous international scientific societies and organizations, most importantly, the Indian Science Congress & Society of Biological Chemists, India. He completed two major research projects from SERB, DST NRDMS, Govt of India. He was awarded a Travel Scholarship from QIMR-2007, Australia for attending the 4th Indo-Australian Biotechnology Conference in Brisbane, Australia, Awarded with a young scientist travel fellowship (2007) from the DST, Govt. of India for attending XVII Lancefield International Symposium at Porto Heli-Greece-2008, He was conferred with various prestigious awards, notably, Science Education Research Board (SERB), Government of India-Young Scientist award (2011) with a research project and Nominated as Associate Fellow of Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences (APAS)-2016, MASTER TRAINER: Andhra Pradesh English Communications Skills Project. British Council & APSCHE 2017, Andhra Pradesh State Best Scientist award-2017, Dr. V. Ramalingaswamy Memorial award for Biomedical Sciences-2019. He also obtained two Indian patents in 2017. He has more than 13 years of teaching and research experience at the university level. See less