Ramamirtha Jayaraman

Ramamirtha Jayaraman
Born(1937-10-10)10 October 1937
Tamil Nadu, India
Died14 April 2019(2019-04-14) (aged 81)
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
NationalityIndian
Known forGenetics of Escherichia coli
Awards1982 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize
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Ramamirtha Jayaraman (10 October 1937 – 14 April 2019[citation needed]) was an Indian geneticist, known for his studies on bacteria, especially on Escherichia coli.[1] His researches on the control of transcription of bacteria are known to have evidenced the participation of accessory factors in transcription and their interactions with RNA polymerase.[2] He was a professor at the Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU)[3] and a former scientist at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.[4] Post his retirement, he served as an emeritus scientist at MKU.[5] He authored the reference manual, Jayaraman Laboratory Manual in Molecular Genetics[6] and several pamphlets[7] and articles; PubMed, an online repository of medical papers has listed 59 of them.[8] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1982, for his contributions to biological sciences.[9]

He died on 13 April 2019.[10]

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References

  1. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. p. 31. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  3. ^ D. P. Burma (2011). From Physiology and Chemistry to Biochemistry. Pearson Education India. pp. 238–. ISBN 978-81-317-3220-5.
  4. ^ "Letter from Ramamirtha Jayaraman to James D. Watson". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  5. ^ R. Jayaraman (August 2008). "Joshua Lederberg's legacy to bacterial genetics". Resonance. 13 (8): 716–729. doi:10.1007/s12045-008-0079-9. S2CID 55533341.
  6. ^ Kunthala Jayaraman, R. Jayaraman (1980). Jayaraman Laboratory Manual in Molecular Genetics. John Wiley & Sons. p. 48. ISBN 978-0852264294.
  7. ^ E.B. Goldberg, R. Jayaraman (1971). Transcription of Bacteriophage T4 Genome In Vivo. Cold Spring Harbor symposia on Quantitative Biology. ASIN B00N182AHY.
  8. ^ "Jayaraman R on PubMed". PubMed. 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  9. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  10. ^ M.Hussain Munavar and K.Dharmalingam. 2020. R. Jayaraman (1937–2019). Current Science, 118(3):488-489.