LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 1. Peer Reviewed

Augustine, J., Louis, L., Varghese, S. M., Bhat, S. G., and Kishore, A. (2013): Isolation and partial characterization of ΦSP-1, a Salmonella specific lytic phage from intestinal contents of broiler chicken- candidate for biocontrol agent. Journal of Basic microbiology 53, 111-120.

Augustine, J., Varghese, S. M., and Bhat, S. G. (2013): ΦSP-3, a Salmonella-specific lytic phage capable of infecting its host under nutrient-deprived states. Annals of Microbiology 63, 381-386.

Raghul, S., Varghese, S. M., and Bhat, S. G. (2013): Isolation and characterization of polyhydroxyalkanoates accumulating Vibrio sp. strain BTTC26 from marine sediments and its production kinetics. Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research 72, 228-235.

Varghese, S. M., Augustine, J., and Bhat, S. G. (2012): Rapid and Sensitive detection of low number of Salmonella in water by Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification. Advanced Biotech 11, 28-30.

2. Full papers in proceedings

Jeena Augustine , Siju M. Varghese, Sartia G Bhat and Hatha A A M (2011) “Phenotyping, Genotyping and virulence gene profiling of two Salmonella strains isolated from Chicken Gut”. In Proceedings of National symposium on “Emerging trends in Biotechnology” organised by the Department of Biotechnology, CUSAT, Cochin, September 1-2, 2011. pp 128-135, ISBN- 978-93-80095-30-1

Raghul Subin S, Siju M. Varghese and Sarita G Bhat (2011).Genotypic approach in characterisation of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) accumulation in Vibrio sp. isolated from marine sediments. In Proceedings of the National Symposium Emerging Trends in biotechnology, 2011, organised by the Department of Biotechnology, CUSAT, Cochin, September 1-2, 2011. pp 25-36, ISBN-978-93-80095-30-1

3. Genbank submissions

GenBank Accession No. JQ794607. Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Weltevreden strain S37 class 1 integron dihydrofolate reductase (dfrA1)

gene, complete cds, and hypothetical protein (orfC) gene, partial cds. Siju,M.V., Jeena,A. and Sarita,G.B.

GenBank Accession No. HM635765. Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhi strain STY116S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence. Siju,M.V., Jeena,A., Raghul,S.S., Toby,A. and Sarita,G.B.

Genbank Accession Number - HQ268499 - Salmonella enterica subsp. Enterica. strain S 37 - 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence – Jeena Augustine , Siju M Varghese, Raghul Subin S, A A M Hatha , Sarita G Bhat

Genbank Accession Number - HQ268500 - Salmonella enterica subsp. Enterica. strain S 49 - 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence, Jeena Augustine , Siju M Varghese, Raghul Subin S, A A M Hatha , Sarita G Bhat

Genbank Accession Number - HQ260701 – Virulence gene , tetrathionate reductase complex, subunit C (ttrC) from S 49 , partial sequence, Jeena Augustine , Siju M Varghese, Raghul Subin S, A A M Hatha , Sarita G Bhat

Genbank Accession Number - HQ260702 – Virulence gene , surface presentation of antigens protein (spam) from S 49 , partial sequence, Jeena Augustine , Siju M Varghese, Raghul Subin S, A A M Hatha , Sarita G Bhat

Genbank Accession Number - HQ260703 – Virulence gene , Aggregative Fimbriae (agfA) from S 49 , partial sequence, Jeena Augustine , Siju M Varghese, Raghul Subin S, A A M Hatha , Sarita G Bhat

Genbank Accession Number - HQ260704 – Virulence gene , invasion protein (InvE) from S 37, partial sequence, Jeena Augustine , Siju M Varghese, Raghul Subin S, A A M Hatha , Sarita G Bhat

Genbank Accession Number - HQ260705 – Virulence gene , invasion protein (InvE) from S 49 , partial sequence, Jeena Augustine , Siju M Varghese, Raghul Subin S, A A M Hatha , Sarita G Bhat

Genbank Accession Number - HQ260706 – Virulence gene , Regulatory system (pho P/Q) from S 37 , partial sequence, Jeena Augustine , Siju M Varghese, Raghul Subin S, A A M Hatha , Sarita G Bhat

Genbank Accession Number - HQ260707 – Virulence gene , Regulatory system (pho P/Q) from S 49 , partial sequence, Jeena Augustine , Siju M Varghese, Raghul Subin S, A A M Hatha , Sarita G Bhat

Genbank Accession Number - HQ260708 – Virulence gene , Transcriptional regulator(slyA) from S 37 , partial sequence, Jeena Augustine , Siju M Varghese, Raghul Subin S, A A M Hatha , Sarita G Bhat

Genbank Accession Number - HQ260709 – Virulence gene, Transcriptional regulator (slyA) from S 49 , partial sequence, Jeena Augustine , Siju M Varghese, Raghul Subin S, A A M Hatha , Sarita G Bhat

Genbank Accession Number - GU904006 - Vibrio sp. BTTC27 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence, Raghul,S.S., Sarita,B.G., Smitha,S., Jeena,A., Siju,V.M., Vijaya,A.and Helvin,V.

Genbank Accession Number - GU904004 - Vibrio sp. BTTN18 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence, Raghul,S.S., Sarita,B.G., Smitha,S., Jeena,A., Siju,V.M., Vijaya,A. and Helvin,V.

GenBank Accession No. JQ868589. Uncultured bacterium clone MG1, Helvin Vincent, Sarita G. Bhat, Siju M. Varghese and Harisree P. Nair.

GenBank Accession No. JQ868594. Uncultured bacterium clone MG18, Helvin Vincent, Sarita G. Bhat, Siju M. Varghese and Harisree P. Nair.

GenBank Accession No. JQ868590. Uncultured bacterium clone MG3, Helvin Vincent, Sarita G. Bhat, Siju M. Varghese and Harisree P. Nair.

GenBank Accession No. JQ868591. Uncultured bacterium clone MG5, Helvin Vincent, Sarita G. Bhat, Siju M. Varghese and Harisree P. Nair.

GenBank Accession No. JQ868592. Uncultured bacterium clone MG7, Helvin Vincent, Sarita G. Bhat, Siju M. Varghese and Harisree P. Nair.

GenBank Accession No. JQ868593. Uncultured bacterium clone MG17, Helvin Vincent, Sarita G. Bhat, Siju M. Varghese and Harisree P. Nair.