Personal Information

Dr. Shiv Swaroop

Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry

M.Sc. (Biochemistry), Ph.D. (Biological Sciences and Bioengineering; Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Postdoctoral Training: Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science. CSIR-UGC NET- JRF; GATE, DBT Research Associate Fellowship

shivswaroop@curaj.ac.in

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  • Protein Engineering and stability, Vaccine design, extremophilic bacteria and their enzymes
  • Assistant Professor (Dec 2016 – till present)- Department of Biochemistry, School of Life sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, Kishangarh, Ajmer, India. 
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep 2011- Dec 2016) - Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biochemistry 2012- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur.
  • M.Sc. in Biochemistry - CSJM University, Kanpur.

Fellowships/Awards

  • National Eligibility Test (NET)-CSIR-JRF, conducted by UGC & CSIR India, in 2003
  • Junior Research Fellowship of Indian Council of Medical Research, India, 2003
  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering and Technology (GATE) in Life sciences, 2003.
  • Received a travel award from Department of Science & Technology to attend a conference (Trends in enzymology, 2010) in Switzerland. (Not availed).
  • Received a travel award from Department of Biotechnology to attend 49th annual conference of Association of microbiologists of India (AMI), held in New Delhi. Nov 18th -20th , 2008.
  • Received post-doctoral fellowship, under DBT-Research associateship program, awarded by Department of Biotechnology India in Dec-2011.

Research Interests

1.      Survival strategies in Haloalkaliphilic bacteria found in soda lakes and its bioprospecting.

2.      Industrially important enzymes from Haloalkaliphilic bacteria.

3.      Design of epitope-based peptide vaccines against enveloped viruses.

S. No. Authors Title of Article Journal/Conference Details Journal/Conference Publication Year
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Publications in peer reviewed journals

Author(s)

Title

 Name of Journal

 

Volume

Page

Year

Manish Gaur, Sarita Maurya, Ritu Tripathi, Mukesh Pasupuleti, Md. Sohail Akhtar, Shiv Swaroop, Awadh Bihari Yadav

Lung SPLUNC1-derived anti-biofilm peptide in polymeric nanoparticles: A novel strategy against S. aureus biofilms and antimicrobial

resistance

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

149

149552

2025

Nidhi Verma, Mamta Bajiya, Ragini Dolhey, Surabhi,  Abhishek Singh Yadav, Chhavi Chaudhary, Dhankesh Meena, Hemant Arya, Tarun K. Bhatt, Jay Kant Yadav, Jayendra Nath Shukla, Shiv Swaroop, Janmejay Pandey*

Mechanistic Insights into the Antibiofilm Activity of Simvastatin and Lovastatin against Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Pharmaceutics

22

2793-2722

2025

Contractor D, Globisch C, Swaroop S, Jain A.

Structural basis of Omicron immune evasion: A comparative computational study

Computers in Biology and Medicine

147

105758

2022

Meena D, Pandey J, Vasita R, Swaroop S.

Genome Sequence of Salipaludibacillus sp. Strain CUR1, Isolated from an Alkaline-Saline Lake in Rajasthan, India

Microbiology Resource Announcement

11

1-2

2022

 

 

 

 

 

Harish, V., Tewari, D., Gaur, M., Yadav, A. B., Swaroop, S., Bechelany, M., & Barhoum, A.

Review on Nanoparticles and Nanostructured Materials: Bioimaging, Biosensing, Drug Delivery, Tissue Engineering, Antimicrobial, and Agro-Food Applications

Nanomaterials

12

457

2021

Goyal D, Kumar S, Meena D, Solanki SS, Swaroop S, Pandey J.

Selection of ACC deaminase positive, thermohalotolerant and drought tolerance enhancing plant growth-promoting bacteria from rhizospheres of Cyamopsis tetragonoloba grown in arid regions

Letters in Applied

Microbiology

74(4)

519-535

2021

Manish Gaur, Charu Misra, Awadh Bihari Yadav, Shiv Swaroop, Fionn Ó Maolmhuaidh,

Mikhael Bechelany, Ahmed Barhoum

Biomedical Applications of Carbon Nanomaterials: Fullerenes, Quantum Dots, Nanotubes, Nanofibers, and Graphene

Materials

14

5978

2021

Debarghya Mitra, Janmejay Pandey, Alok Jain, Shiv Swaroop

 

In silico design of Multi-epitope-based peptide vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 using its spike protein

 

J Biomol Struct Dyn

 

doi: 10.1080/07391102.2020.1869092

 

 

2021

Shiv Swaroop, S. Thangminlal Vaiphei

Potential Roles of Long Non-Coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in Stress Response Regulation

Int. J. Res. Pharm. Sci.

 

 

 

12 (2)

1-5

2021

 

 

 

V Vamsee Aditya Mallajosyula, Shiv Swaroop* & Raghavan Varadarajan

(*Equal first author)

Influenza Hemagglutinin Head Domain Mimicry by Rational Design

The Protein Journal

39

434-448

2020

Arti Tripathi*, Shiv Swaroop*, Raghavan Varadarajan

(*Equal first author)

Molecular determinants of temperature-sensitive phenotypes

Biochemistry

58

1738-1750

2019

Sudipta Mondal, Shiv Swaroop, Ramanathan Gurunath, Sandeep Verma

A synthetic ditryptophan conjugate that rescues bacteria from mercury toxicity through complexation

Tetrahedron Letters

51

6111-6115

2010

Shiv Swaroop, P. Sughosh, Gurunath Ramanathan

 

Biomineralization of N,N-dimethylformamide by Paracoccus sp. strain DMF

Journal of Hazardous Materials

171

268-272

2009
  1. Books/Reports/Chapters/General articles etc.

 

Title

Author(s)

Publisher

 

Year of publication

Anti-Microbial Drugs for Emerging and Re-emerging Microbial Diseases: Paradigm in the 21st Century

Shiv Swaroop, Nidhi Verma, Jay Kant Yadav and Janmejay Pandey

Bentham Science

2023

Survival Strategies in Cold-Adapted

Microorganisms

Deepika Goyal, Shiv Swaroop, Om Prakash & Janmejay Pandey

Springer

2021

Harnessing the Genetic Diversity and Metabolic Potential of Extremophilic Microorganisms through the Integration of Metagenomics and Single-Cell Genomics

Deepika Goyal, Shiv Swaroop and Janmejay Pandey

IntechOpen

2020

Extramural Research Project Grants

 

 

S. No.

Title of Project

PI/Co-PI

Source of Funds

Amount

Duration

(from – to -- )

1.

Characterization of Extremophilic Bacterial Diversity and Their Industrially Important Enzymes from Haloalkaline Lakes of Rajasthan

PI

SERB

30.3 Lakhs

17.03.2022 to 16.03.2025

2.

Development of IgM Fc as an adjuvant for Th1 biased immune response: A biochemical and immune analysis, using a candidate HSV2 subunit vaccine as a model system.

Co-PI

ICMR

40 lakhs

09-02-2024 to 08/02/2027

Attended

  1. Characterization of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria from mungbean (Vigna radiata) rhizosphere obtained from the arid regions of Rajasthan and their effect in drought stress tolerance. Natinal conference on "Biotechnology for Sustainable Development (BSD-25)", March 27th

  2. to 29th, 2025, at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi.

  3. Design and Characterization of Bacterially Expressed Hemagglutinin Head Domain Immunogens. 19th Annual conference on Vaccine research, Baltimore, Maryland., from 18th -20th April-2016
  4. Catalytic degradationof Dimethylformamide by DMFase: A novel amidase from Paracoccus strain DMF. EMBO conference series on Catalytic Mechanism by Biological Systems, EMBL Hamburg, Germany, 5th-7th May 2010.
  5. Biomineralization of N,N-dimethylformamide by Paracoccus sp. strain DMF, 49th annual conference of Association of microbiologists of India (AMI), held in New Delhi. Nov 18th -20th , 2008.

Organized

  • Special Grant

Received funding for organizing a workshop from DST as a Co-PI.

Project scheme: Conduction of national levelConferences/ Workshops/ Seminars/brain storming sessions etc of three days duration

Workshop title: Perspective of big data analysis in Biological Sciences.

Amount sanctioned by DST: Rs. 700000 (Seven Lakhs)