Back News
Congratulations to Dr. Susan Eapen
Posted 4 years ago
Congratulations to Dr. Susan Eapen for the great achievement of being a member in the list of Stanford’s top 2% Indian scientists in the world among ‘Plant Biology and Botany’ category.
Prof. Susan Eapen Ph.D.
Stanford University has recently included Dr. Susan Eapen in the World 2% top ranking Scientists in the category ‘Plant Biology and Botany’. A 15th Batch BARC Training School Scientist in ‘Biology and Radio-biology’, she retired in the year 2011. Currently she is engaged in motivating scientific temper among faculty and students at Union Christian College, Aluva as an Adjunct Professor in Biosciences Group.
She is considered one of the pioneers in transgenic plant research and her interest varies from plant biotechnology, production of secondary metabolites from in vitro cultures and phyto-remediation. She has published 140 research papers, contributed several book chapters and presented papers in several national and international symposia. Her latest paper is on ‘Phytoextraction of Uranium using Vetiver plants (2020).
During an Indo FRG bilateral program in 1986 at Free University, Berlin she developed the first transgenic grain legume from protoplasts using 3 different techniques. Later she developed transgenic plants which could take up heavy metals and degrade organic pollutants. She was also involved in the “Cotton Mini Mission” project of Government of India and was a collaborator for several BRNS funded programs all over India.
Scientists from Russia, Cuba and Syria have come to her lab to get trained in latest techniques. She had been in the editorial board of international journals “In-Vitro Plant” and “BMC Biotechnology”. She received Elsevier Award in 2010 for the best quoted paper of the year. She is also a recipient of UNESCO and British Council fellowships.
Below Mentioned are some newspaper cuttings and links
Keralite Dr Susan Eapen among Stanford’s top 2% Indian scientists in world – https://www.newindianexpress.com/good-news/2020/nov/08/keralite-dr-susan-eapen-among-stanfords-top-2-indian-scientists-in-world-2220983.html
Comments (
