Title of post doctoral research: Mangrove sediment bacteria as a source of pigments with antibiofilm activity on food pathogens
Research area: Main area of my research is bioactive compounds from microorganisms which include bacteriocins, pigments and other compounds. I am also studying the genomic mining of bacteria for bioactive properties. The major aim of whole genome mining and comparative genomic analysis is to study the probiotic nature of bacteria especially Bacillus probiotics.

List of major publications:
Ellathuparambil Saidumohamed, B., Ganapathy Bhat, S., (2021). Indian Oil Sardine (Sardinella longiceps) gut derived Bacillus safensis SDG14 with enhanced probiotic competence for food and feed applications. Food Research International 110475. doi:10.1016/j.foodres.2021.110475. I.F. 6.475

Saidumohamed, B., Baburaj, A., Johny, T., Sheela, U., Sreeranganathan, M., & Bhat, S. (2021). A Magainin-2 like bacteriocin BpSl14 with anticancer action from fish gut Bacillus safensis SDG14. Analytical Biochemistry, 114261. doi:10.1016/j.ab.2021. 114261. IF. 3.365

Jessy Simon, Sony Udayan, E.S. Bindiya, Sarita G. Bhat, Namboothiri, M. Kailasnath (2020) Optical characterization and tunable antibacterial properties of gold nanoparticles with common proteins, Analytical Biochemistry, 612 (2021) 113975. IF. 3.365

Bindiya, E. S., Tina, K. J., Sasidharan, R. S., & Bhat, S. G. (2019). BaCf3: highly thermostable bacteriocin from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens BTSS3 antagonistic on food-borne pathogens. 3 Biotech, 9(4), 136. IF. 2.405

Johny, T. K., Saidumohamed, B. E., Sasidharan, R. S., & Bhat, S. G. (2018). Inferences of gut bacterial diversity from next-generation sequencing of 16S rDNA in deep sea blind ray Benthobatis moresbyi. Ecological Genetics and Genomics, 9, 1-6.

Johny, T. K., Saidumohamed, B. E., Sasidharan, R. S., & Bhat, S. G. (2018). Metabarcoding data of bacterial diversity of the deep sea shark, Centroscyllium fabricii. Data in Brief.21,1029–1032.

Jaya Gupta, Bindiya ES, Sarita G Bhat (2018) Modelling and Computational Sequence Analysis of a Bacteriocin Isolated from Bacillus licheniformis strain BTHT8, International Journal for Computational Biology (IJCB), Vol.7, No.1, pp. 29-34

Bindiya ES, Bhat SG (2016) Marine Bacteriocins: A Review. J Bacteriol Mycol Open Access 2(5): 00040. DOI:10.15406/jbmoa.2016.02.00040

Bindiya ES, Tina KJ, Raghul Subin S, Sarita G Bhat, Characterization of Deep Sea FishGut Bacteria with antagonistic potential, from Centroscyllium fabricii (Deep Sea Shark),Probiotics & Antimicro. Prot. (2015) DOI 10.1007/s12602-015-9190-x IF 4.60

Bindiya ES, Roselin Alex, Cikesh P. C, Karthikeyan P, Sarita G Bhat and Chandrasekaran M, Antibacterial Potential of Luprops tristis- the Nuisance Rubber Plantation Pest from Western Ghats of India, International Journal of Advanced and Innovative Research (2014) Volume 3 Issue 6

P. C. Cikesh, P. Karthikeyan, E. S. Bindiya, S. Raghul Subin, K. J. Tina, M.Chandrasekaran and Sarita G. Bhat, Characterization of a Bioactive Protein with Antimicrobial Property from Loligo sp. , Fishery Technology 51 (2014) : 247 – 251

Tina K. J, Bindiya E. S, Raghul Subin S, Sarita G. Bhat, Appraisal of Extraction protocols for Metagenomic DNA from Fish Gut Microbiota, International Journal of Advanced and Innovative Research (2014) Volume 3 Issue 6

Manjula R, Karthikeyan P, Cikesh PC, Bindiya ES, Sarita G Bhat, Chandrasekaran M, Halophiles and Halozymes from Tannery effluent as well as food grade table salt crystals. Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 01/2014; 8(1) IF 0.48

E. S. Bindiya, P. Karthikeyan, P. C. Cikesh, S. Raghul Subin, K. J. Tina, M. Chandrasekaran and Sarita G. Bhat, Bioactive Potential of Proteins from Deep Sea Organisms, Fishery Technology 51 (2014) : 194 – 198