DR. Roshmi Thomas is Assistant Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Sanatana Dharma College. She joined the Department in 2018 as Assistant Professor (on Contract), moving on to Substantive Appointment in 2021. She has prior teaching experience at Assumption College, Changanacherry (2017-18) and S.B. College, Changanacherry (2006 -10). She holds a Doctoral Degree in Microbiology from School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala (2016) and was awarded Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by the Indian Council of Medical Research - ICMR (2015-17). Dr. Roshmi Thomas holds the credit of submitting seven gene sequences to NCBI gene bank. She has published 19 research articles and 2 book chapters with h-index of 15 and several conference presentations testify to her academic excellence. She is serving as a Member of the Board of Question Paper Setters in S.B. College (Autonomous) and Member of Board of Studies in Zoology, Assumption College (Autonomous), Changanacherry.
Title : Biomedical applications of microbially fabricated silver and gold nanoparticles
- Nanotechnology
- Clinical microbiology
- Agricltural Microbiology
- Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) - 2015 by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Delhi
- Best oral presentation award for the paper entitled “Exploration of silver nanoparticle biosynthesis using marine bacteria” on UGC sponsored National seminar; Nanotechnology: Applications of nanomaterials in Agriculture food and medicine (26/07/2012) conducted by B. K College for Women, Amalagiri, Kottayam.,Kerala, India.
11 years of Teaching experience in both UG and PG Programmes, 6 years of research experience, 2 years of industrial experience as Food Quality controller.
2018
1. Methodology and Perspectives of Science
2. Fundamentals of Microbiology
3. Microbial Diversity
4. Immunology
5. Microbial Genetics
6. Environmental Microbiology
7. Bacteriology
8. Food Microbiology
9. Biostatistics
10. Biofertilizer Technology
Microbiology Society of India
- Department level member of CLMC
- Department level member of MIS Executive Committee
- Department level member of Discipline Committee
- Staff Club Executive Committee Member
- Member of Women Cell Executive Committee
- Department level Member of NIRF Committee
- Department level Member of IEDC
- Member of panel of Examiners (Scrutiny)
- Department level Member of Antinarcotic club
1. Organized and coordinated a webinar on Bioinformatics-introduction, scope and application on 16/`12/2021
2.Organized and coordinated a Blood Detection camp in association with Naval NCC Subunit, S.D College Alappuzha on 23 June 2022.
3. Organized HACCP certificate course in November 2023.
4. Coordinated AIDS awareness programme in the campus on December 1 2013
1. Appointed as Judge in Voyage – 2015, Intercollegiate Paper Presentation competition held at Assumption College, Changanacherry on 10th December 2015
2. Resource person on the topic ‘Nanobiotechnology’ in the Department of Zoology at Assumption College, Changanacherry (December 2019).
3. Resource person in an International webinar on the topic ‘Biomedical applications of Nanotechnology’ conducted by the Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry, S.B College, Changanacherry (August,2020).
4.Invited talk on Scope and Opportunities of Microbiology in an Induction programme organized by S.B College Changanacherry.on 25th August 2022.
5. Invited speaker in a National Seminar on ‘NanoGenPro Triad:Exploring the Future science” organized by S.B College Changanacherry.on 10th January 2024.
1. Roshmi Thomas, Aswathy Viswan, Jyothis Mathew, Radhakrishnan EK. (2012). Evaluation of antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles synthesized by a novel strain of marine Pseudomonas sp. Nano Biomedicine and Engineering 4(3), 139-143.
DOI: 10.5101/nbe.v4i3.p139-143 (Impact Factor: 0.78)
2. Roshmi Thomas, Jasim B, Jyothis Mathew, Radhakrishnan EK. (2012). Extracellular synthesis of sliver nanoparticles by endophytic Bordetella sp. isolated from Piper nigrum and its antibacterial activity analysis. Nano Biomedicine and Engineering 4(4), 183-187(Impact Factor: 0.78)
3. Anju Janardhanan, Roshmi Thomas, Rintu T Varghese, Soniya EV, Radhakrishnan EK. (2013). Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles by a novel Bacillus strain of marine origin. Material science Poland. 31, 173–179 (Impact Factor: 0.91)
4. Vidhya Lakshmi Das, Roshmi Thomas, Rintu T Varghese, Soniya EV, Jyothis Mathew, Radhakrishnan EK. (2013). Extracellular synthesis of silver nanoparticles by the Bacillus strain CS11 isolated from industrialised area. 3 Biotech. 4:121–126. DOI
10.1007/s13205-013-0130-8 (Impact Factor: 1.8)
5. Roshmi Thomas, Anju Janardhanan, Rintu T Varghese, Soniya EV, Jyothis Mathew, Radhakrishnan. (2014). Antibacterial properties of silver nanoparticles synthesized by marine Ochrobactrum sp. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, 45, 1221-1227 (Impact Factor: 2.43)
6. Roshmi Thomas, Aswathi P. Nair, Soumya KR, Jyothis Mathew, Radhakrishnan EK. (2014). Antibacterial activity and synergistic effect of biosynthesized AgNPs with antibiotics against multi drug resistant biofilm forming Coagulase Negative Staphylococci isolated from clinical samples. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 173, 449–460(Impact Factor: 2.28)
7. Roshmi Thomas, Soumya KR, Jyothis M, Radhakrishnan EK. (2015). Inhibitory effect of silver nanoparticle fabricated urinary catheter on colonisation efficiency of Coagulase Negative Staphylococci. J photochemistry Photobiology B: Biology, 149:68-77(Impact Factor: 4.38)
8. Roshmi Thomas, Soumya KR, Jyothis Mathew and Radhakrishnan EK. (2015). Electrospun polycaprolactone membrane incorporated with biosynthesized silver nanoparticles as effective wound dressing biomaterial. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 176:2213-2224(Impact Factor: 2.28)
9. Roshmi Thomas, Soumya KR, Jyothis Mathew and Radhakrishnan EK. (2015). Effect of biofabricated gold nanoparticle-based antibiotic conjugates on minimum inhibitory concentration of bacterial isolates of clinical origin. Gold Bulletin, 48:63- 71(Impact Factor: 1.7)
10. Jishma P, Roshmi Thomas, Rakhie Narayanan, E. K. Radhakrishnan. (2016). Exploration of photocatalytic properties of microbially designed silver nanoparticles on Victoria blue B. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 39:1033–1040 (Impact Factor: 2.42)
11. Roshmi Thomas, Jishma P, Radhakrishnan EK. (2016). Photocatalytic and antibacterial effects of silver nanoparticles fabricated by Bacillus subtilis SJ 15. J Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic, and Nano-Metal Chemistry (Impact Factor: 0.83)
12. Jasim B, Roshmi Thomas, Jyothis Mathew, Radhakrishnan EK. (2016). Plant growth and diosgenin enhancement effect of silver nanoparticles in Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.). Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal. (Impact Factor: 2.9)
13. Roshmi Thomas, Shiji Mathew, Soumya KR, Jyothis M, Radhakrishnan EK. (2017). Microbially and phytofabricated AgNPs with different mode of bactericidal action were identified to have comparable potential for surface fabrication of central venous catheters to combat Staphylococcus aureus biofilm. J photochemistry Photobiology B: Biology (Impact Factor: 4.38)
14. Vidyalakshmi N, Roshmi Thomas, Gayatri G.P, Radhakrishnan E.K, Remakanthan A. (2017). Comparative analysis of the effect of silver nanoparticle and silver nitrate on morphological and anatomical parameters of banana under in vitro conditions. J Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic, and Nano-Metal Chemistry (Impact Factor: 0.83)
15. Jishma P, Rakhie N, Snigdha, Roshmi Thomas, Radhakrishnan EK. (2018). Rapid Degradative Effect of Microbially Synthesized Silver Nanoparticles on Textile Dye in Presence of Sunlight. Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology. 14; 410-417. (Impact Factor: 2.8)
16. Jishma P, Roshmi Thomas, Rakhie Narayanan, E. K. Radhakrishnan. (2018). Kinetic Study of Gold Nanoparticles Mediated Photocatalytic Degradation of Victoria Blue. 3 Biotech (Impact Factor: 1.8)
17. Roshmi Thomas, S. Snigdha, K. B. Bhavitha, Seethal Babu, Anjitha Ajith, E. K. Radhakrishnan. (2018). Biofabricated silver nanoparticles incorporated polymethyl methacrylate as a dental adhesive material with antibacterial and antibiofilm activity against Streptococcus mutans. 3 Biotech (Impact Factor: 1.8)
18. Jishma P, Roshmi Thomas, Jimtha C. John, Radhakrishnan E. K. (2019). Biogenic Gold Nanoparticle Supplementation to Plant Beneficial Pseudomonas monteilii was Found to Enhance its Plant Probiotic Effect. Current Microbiology (Impact Factor: 1.75)
19. Roshmi Thomas,P.Jishma,S.Snigdha,K.R.Soumya,JyothisMathew,E.K.Radhakrishnan. (2020). Enhanced antimicrobial efficacy of biosynthesized silver nanoparticle based antibiotic conjugates. Inorganic Chemistry Communications (Impact Factor: 1.94)
1. Roshmi Thomas, Jyothis Mathew and Radhakrishnan EK. “Recent Advances in Microbial Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles” in the book “RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY published by Studium Press LLC, USA,2013(Volume10).
2. Aswani R, Roshmi Thomas, Radhakrishnan E.K . “Induction of plant defense response by endophytic microorganisms” in the book BIOCONTROL MECHANISMS OF ENDOPHYTIC MICROORGANISMS published by Elsevier, 2021.
Two day seminar on ‘Coconut, its processing and health effects on consumers’ conducted by B.C.M. College, Kottayam,Kerala, India on 19 th and 20 th October 2006
Seminar on Organic Farming, Waste Management and Integrated Pest Management held at S.B College, Changanacherry, Kottayam, India on October 22 nd 2007
Participated in 24th Kerala Science Congress held from 29-31 January 2012 at the Rubber Research Institute of India, rubber Board, Kottayam, Kerala, India
Sort term training programme in Analytical Instrumentation (Microscopic and Chromatographic Techniques), organized by the Advanced Centre of Environmental Studies and Sustainable Development(ACESSD) – An Inter University Centre, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam held during February 1-3, 2012 at the School, of Environmental Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India
Participated in the National seminar on Nanotechnology: Applications of nanomaterials in Agriculture, Food and Medicine on 25 th and 26 th July, 2012, conducted by B. K College for Women, Amalagiri, Kottayam.,Kerala, India.
Participated in the DST-PURSE sponsored workshop on Frontiers of Spectroscopy and Microscopy held at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India from 10 th to12th September 2012
Participated in the KSCSTE sponsored two day national seminar on Solid waste management and its impact on ecosystems held at Assumption College,Changanacherry, Kerala, India from 7 th & 8th December 2017
Participated in the “e-DARSHAN Webinar Lecture Series-2020” on “Horizons of Virtual Teaching” organized by Department of Commerce & IQAC, T.K Madhava Memorial College, Nangiarkulangara on 26th May 2020.
Participated in a Webinar on ‘Life and Health – A Microbiome Perspective’ organized by Kerala Biotechnology Commission on 24 th May 2021.
Participated in a webinar on “Management Information System – Need of the Hour” organized by Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha on 27/05/2021.
Participated in a webinar on “Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)” organized by Research, Consultancy & Innovation Cell”, Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha on 29/05/2021
Participated in a webinar on “Academic Leadership”organized by Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Sanatana Dharma College, Alappuzha on 31/05/2021.
Participated in a webinar on ‘Detection of SARS CoV2 using RT-PCR’ organized by School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala on 31/05/2021.
Participated in 3 days workshop on Research to Commercialization conducted by Business Innovation and Incubation Centre, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India in association with Kerala startup mission from 24 th to 26 th November 2022.