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Tamil Chelvan S/O Meenakshi Sundram

Academic Qualifications

  • 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


  • Medical And Health ~ Medical And Health Sciences ~ Pharmacy ~ Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
  • Natural Science ~ Chemical Sciences ~ Organic Chemistry ~ Natural Products Chemistry
  • 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 ~ Systems Biology ~ Cellular Metabolomics - Plant metabolomics
  • Natural Science ~ Bioinformatics ~ Computational Molecular Biology ~ Gene Expression Analyses


Teaching Responsibilities


FINAL YEAR PROJECT 2 2020/2021
HERBS AND MEDICINAL PLANTS 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022
HERBS AND NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS 2023/2024 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019
INTERNSHIP 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018
MEDICINAL PLANT PRODUCTS 2019/2020 2018/2019
PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2025/2026 2024/2025 2022/2023 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018
PLANT CELL BIOLOGY 2017/2018
PLANT METABOLISM 2017/2018
PLANT NATURAL PRODUCTS 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019
PLANT PROTEOMICS 2018/2019
POSTHARVEST TECHNOLOGY 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024
PRINCIPLES OF CELL BIOLOGY 2025/2026 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023
TRADITIONAL HERBS AND MEDICINAL PLANTS 2025/2026 2024/2025
USRAH IN ACTION 1 2022/2023
USRAH IN ACTION 2 2022/2023


Supervision


Establishment Of Zingiber Officinale Var. Bentong Cell Suspension Culture For Production Of Secondary Metabolites.
Ph.D In Progress Co-supervisor
Establishment Of In Vitro Culture Of Zingiber Officinale Var. Bentong (Bentong Ginger).
Master Completed 2025 Main Supervisor
Identification And Computational Studies Of Kaurene Synthase In Stevia Rebaudiana Ms007.
Master Completed 2024 Main Supervisor
Screening Of Variation Through Callus Formation And Potential Plant Growth Promoting Endophytic Bacteria For Biohardening Of Tissue Culture Plantlets'S Etlingera Elatior.
Master Completed 2024 Co-supervisor
Elucidating The Influence Of Gamma Irradiation On The Morphological Traits, Genetic Variants And Biochemical Constituents Of In Vitro Regenerated Bentong Ginger. .
Master In Progress Main Supervisor


Research Projects


Completed
2022 - 2024 Empowering Socioeconomic of Rural Community at Sungai Ular, Kuantan Through Smart Farming Technology
2022 - 2025 Improving melons cultivation through sustainable agricultural practice for unemployed B40 community effected by flood occurrence
2022 - 2024 Coastal Regreening for Sustainable and livable "Keluarga Malaysia"
2019 - 2024 In Vitro (Tissue Culture) Propagation of Bentong Ginger (Zingiber Officinale Var. Bentong)
2019 - 2020 Bengkel: Kaedah Pengurusan Tanah Untuk Penanaman Halia Bentong
2019 - 2022 In vitro propagation of Etlingera elatior J. (Torch ginger) via indirect regeneration
2018 - 2022 Metabolic engineering of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (cyanobacteria) for biosynthesis of selected steviol precursors
2018 - 2021 SEPARATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS FROM ANISOPHYLLEA DISTICHA USING SUPERCRITICAL FLUID METHOD
On-Going
2024 - Present Mangrove Planting Initiative for Coastal Resilience Enhancement and Coral Conservation at Pantai Balok, Kuantan
2024 - Present Elucidating the influence of Gamma irradiation on the morphological traits, genetic variants and biochemical constituents of in vitro regenerated Bentong ginger
2024 - Present KAJIAN ETNOBOTANI BAGI SUKU KAUM ORANG ASLI PAHANG YANG TERPILIH DALAM MEMARTABATKAN WARISAN ALAM NEGERI PAHANG
2020 - Present Kaedah Pengurusan Pembajaan dan Tanah untuk Peningkatan Hasil Halia Bentong


Awards & Recognition


12 Jun, 2024 Silver Medal - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia National
30 Nov, 2023 Outstanding Researcher Award (University) - International Islamic University Malaysia University
23 Aug, 2023 Productivity champion (TALENT) - Malaysia Productivity Corporation National
17 Jun, 2023 GOLD AWARD 3RD UNIVERSITY IN ACTION SYMPOSIUM - International Islamic University Malaysia University
12 Sep, 2022 IIUM GRAND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (CE) 2022 PROJECT DAY - INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA University


Publications


Articles

2025 In vitro callus induction and identification of DNA variation in Etlingera elatior using Inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers. Ornamental Horticulture, 31 () pp. 1-9
2025 Potential endophytic bacteria from E. elatior’s roots for plant growth-promoting activities. Journal of Sustainability Science and Management, 20 (4) pp. 766-786
2024 Exploring the beneficial endophytes of Zingiberaceae. Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences, 13 (5) pp.
2024 Preliminary studies on optimization of surface sterilization technique and effects of selected carbon source on in vitro callus induction of mango ginger (Curcuma Mangga Val.). Revelation and Science, Special Issue: Plant Science 2 () pp. 79-91
2023 In vitro callus induction of sacha inchi (plukenetia volubilis), a pufa-rich plant. Revelation and Science, 1 (1) pp. 88-100
2023 Molecular characterization and phylogenetic analysis of kaurene synthase protein in Stevia rebaudiana MS007. Asia Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, 31 (1) pp. 1-13
2023 Molecular modelling and dynamics of Kaurene Synthase involved in Stevia Rebaudiana (Accession MS007) Terpene Biosynthesis. Asia Pacific Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (APJMBB), 31 ((2) suppl.) pp. 82-82
2022 Current status and biotechnological development of Etlingera elatior, a promising horticultural and medicinal plant. The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, 97 (4) pp. 429-436
2022 In Silico analysis and 3D structure prediction of putative UDP-Glycosyltransferase 76G1 protein in Stevia rebaudiana MS007. Journal of Tropical Life Science, 12 (3) pp. 377-387
2021 Commercial potentials and agronomic status of etlingera elatior, a promising horticulture plant from zingiberaceae family. AGRIVITA, Journal of Agricultural Science, 43 (3) pp. 665-678
2021 Optimisation of Culture Condition for Sacha Inchi (Plukenetia Volubilis) Callus Induction. Tropical Agroecosystems, 2 (2) pp. 87-90
2021 Transcriptome profiling of Stevia rebaudiana MS007 revealed genes involved in flower development. Turkish Journal of Biology, 45 () pp. 1-10
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 Items

2023 Callus induction and identification of DNA variation in callus derived from Etlingera elatior in vitro culture using ISSR marker. In: IIUM Postgraduate Colloquium 2023,
2021 In silico CHARACTERIZATION OF UGT76G1 PROTEIN IN Stevia rebaudiana BERTONI ACCESSIONS MS007. In: 4th International Conference on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (4th ICMBB2021), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
2021 In silico identification and characterization of Kaurene Synthase protein in Stevia rebaudiana MS007. In: 4th International Conference on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology 2021 (ICMBB2021),
2021 In vitro callus induction of Plukenetia Volubilis (Sacha Inchi), a PUFA-rich plant. In: International Conference on Bioscience and Biorefinery 2021,
2021 Optimisation of culture condition for Sacha Inchi (Plukenetia volubilis) Callus induction. In: International Conference on BioScience and Biorefinery,
2021 Plant Growth-Promoting Features of Bacterial Endophytes Isolated from Etlingera Elatior. In: International Congress of the Malaysian Society for Microbiology 2021 (ICMSM2021),
2019 Plant tissue culture as a tool for sustainable production of bentong ginger (Zingiber officinale var. Bentong) plantlets. In: Kuantan Research Day 2019,
2016 Discovery and characterization of diterpene synthases participating in the biosynthesis of Vitex agnus-castus diterpenoids. In: Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS) Phd Student Conference,
Book Sections

2021 Current trend in biotechnology and molecular biology of fig (Ficus carica L.). In: Noor Publishing, ISBN: 9786203860047, pp. 55-65