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Tamil Chelvan S/O Meenakshi Sundram

Academic Qualification

  • Ph.D in Science (Plant and Environmental Sciences) - Doctor of Philosophy, University of Copenhagen

Tamil Chelvan S/O Meenakshi Sundram (Dr.)

Assistant Professor
IIUM Kuantan Campus

KULLIYYAH OF SCIENCE

tamil@iium.edu.my
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Area of Specialisation


  • Biotechnology ~ Biotechnology ~ Plant Biotechnology ~ Transgenic Plant (Including Transgenic Crops from the Aspects of Pest and Disease Resistance, Increase Shelf Life, Colour and Nutritional Enhancement, Drought, Salinity and Flooding Resistance)
  • Biotechnology ~ Biotechnology ~ Plant Biotechnology ~ Tissue Culture
  • Biotechnology ~ Biotechnology ~ Molecular Biology ~ Gene Transformation
  • Natural Science ~ Bioinformatics ~ Computational Molecular Biology ~ Gene Expression Analyses
  • Natural Science ~ Bioinformatics ~ Systems Biology ~ Cellular Metabolomics - Plant metabolomics
  • Medical And Health ~ Medical And Health Sciences ~ Pharmacy ~ Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
  • Natural Science ~ Chemical Sciences ~ Organic Chemistry ~ Natural Products Chemistry


Teaching Responsibilities


FINAL YEAR PROJECT 2 2020/2021
HERBS AND NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019
INTERNSHIP 2017/2018 2018/2019 2020/2021 2019/2020
MEDICINAL PLANT PRODUCTS 2019/2020 2018/2019
PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2018/2019 2020/2021 2017/2018 2019/2020
PLANT CELL BIOLOGY 2017/2018
PLANT METABOLISM 2017/2018
PLANT NATURAL PRODUCTS 2019/2020 2020/2021 2018/2019
PLANT PROTEOMICS 2018/2019


Research Projects


Completed
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On-Going
2020 - Present Kaedah Pengurusan Pembajaan dan Tanah untuk Peningkatan Hasil Halia Bentong
2019 - Present In Vitro (Tissue Culture) Propagation of Bentong Ginger (Zingiber Officinale Var. Bentong)
2019 - Present In vitro propagation of Etlingera elatior J. (Torch ginger) via indirect regeneration
2019 - Present Bengkel: Kaedah Pengurusan Tanah Untuk Penanaman Halia Bentong
2018 - Present Metabolic engineering of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (cyanobacteria) for biosynthesis of selected steviol precursors
2018 - Present SEPARATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS FROM ANISOPHYLLEA DISTICHA USING SUPERCRITICAL FLUID METHOD


Publications


Article

2020 De novo transcriptome dataset of Stevia rebaudiana accession MS007. Data in Brief, 28 () pp. 1-3
2019 A Review of approaches in steviol glycosides synthesis. International Journal of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, 2 (3) pp. 145-157
2019 Antioxidant and cytotoxic effects of Curcuma mangga and Bosenbergia rotunda ethanolic extracts on Mcf-7 cancer cell lines. Science Heritage Journal (GWS), 3 (2) pp. 10-14
2018 Biosynthesis of bioactive diterpenoids in the medicinal plant Vitex agnus-castus. Plant Journal, 93 (5) pp. 943-958
2018 science@iium. science@iium, (December 2018) pp. 1-40
2018 Science@iium. science@iium, () pp. 1-40
Conference or Workshop Item

2019 Plant tissue culture as a tool for sustainable production of bentong ginger (Zingiber officinale var. Bentong) plantlets. In: Kuantan Research Day 2019,