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Kasthuri Venkateswaran

Kasthuri Venkateswaran

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Microbiology

D-Index
64
Citations
13097
World Ranking
2634
National Ranking
1063

Overview

Kasthuri Venkateswaran is affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Lab in the United States, specializing in research connected to environmental science, medicine, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work intersects various subfields including ecology, physiology, molecular biology, astronomy and astrophysics, and plant science.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on topics related to spaceflight effects on biology, microbial community ecology and physiology, polar research and ecology, planetary science and exploration, genomics and phylogenetic studies, space exploration and technology, and plant pathogens and fungal diseases.

Recent publications by Kasthuri Venkateswaran include:

  • Fundamental Biological Features of Spaceflight: Advancing the Field to Enable Deep-Space Exploration, 2020, Cell
  • Crewmember microbiome may influence microbial composition of ISS habitable surfaces, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Advances in space microbiology, 2021, iScience
  • Methylobacterium ajmalii sp. nov., Isolated From the International Space Station, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Investigation of Spaceflight Induced Changes to Astronaut Microbiomes, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology

Kasthuri Venkateswaran frequently publishes in specific venues, highlighting a research focus and collaboration within these communities:

  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiome
  • Research Square (Research Square)

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, indicating ongoing collaborative research efforts. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Nitin K. Singh
  • Christopher E. Mason
  • Jason M. Wood
  • Ceth W. Parker
  • Camilla Urbaniak

Best Publications

  • Polyphasic taxonomy of the genus Shewanella and description of Shewanella oneidensis sp. nov

    Kasthuri Venkateswaran;Kasthuri Venkateswaran;Duane P. Moser;Michael E. Dollhopf;Douglas P. Lies

  • Fundamental Biological Features of Spaceflight: Advancing the Field to Enable Deep-Space Exploration.

    Ebrahim Afshinnekoo;Ryan T. Scott;Matthew J. MacKay;Eloise Pariset;Eloise Pariset

  • ATP as a biomarker of viable microorganisms in clean-room facilities

    Kasthuri Venkateswaran;Noriaki Hattori;Myron T La Duc;Roger Kern

  • Identification of Shewanella baltica as the most important H2S-producing species during iced storage of danish marine fish

    Birte Fonnesbech Vogel;Kasthuri Venkateswaran;Masataka Satomi;Masataka Satomi;Lone Gram

  • Survival of rock-colonizing organisms after 1.5 years in outer space.

    Silvano Onofri;Rosa de la Torre;Jean-Pierre de Vera;Sieglinde Ott

  • Characterization of the total and viable bacterial and fungal communities associated with the International Space Station surfaces

    Aleksandra Checinska Sielaff;Aleksandra Checinska Sielaff;Camilla Urbaniak;Ganesh Babu Malli Mohan;Victor G. Stepanov

  • Isolation and characterization of bacteria capable of tolerating the extreme conditions of clean room environments

    Myron T. La Duc;Anne Dekas;Shariff Osman;Christine Moissl

  • Bacillus safensis sp. nov., isolated from spacecraft and assembly-facility surfaces.

    Masataka Satomi;Masataka Satomi;Myron T. La Duc;Kasthuri Venkateswaran

  • Microbiomes of the dust particles collected from the International Space Station and Spacecraft Assembly Facilities

    Aleksandra Checinska;Alexander J. Probst;Parag Vaishampayan;James R. White

  • The ars Detoxification System Is Advantageous but Not Required for As(V) Respiration by the Genetically Tractable Shewanella Species Strain ANA-3

    Chad W. Saltikov;Ana Cifuentes;Kasthuri Venkateswaran;Dianne K. Newman

  • Cloning and nucleotide sequence analysis of gyrB of Bacillus cereus, B. thuringiensis, B. mycoides, and B. anthracis and their application to the detection of B. cereus in rice.

    Shoichi Yamada;Eiji Ohashi;Norio Agata;Kasthuri Venkateswaran

  • Cloning and Nucleotide Sequence of the gyrB Gene of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Its Application in Detection of This Pathogen in Shrimp

    Kasthuri Venkateswaran;Nobuhiko Dohmoto;Shigeaki Harayama

  • Microbial monitoring of spacecraft and associated environments

    M. T. La Duc;R. Kern;K. Venkateswaran

  • Microbial characterization of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft and its encapsulation facility.

    Myron T. La Duc;Wayne Nicholson;Roger Kern;Kasthuri Venkateswaran

  • gyrB as a phylogenetic discriminator for members of the Bacillus anthracis-cereus-thuringiensis group

    Myron T La Duc;Masataka Satomi;Norio Agata;Kasthuri Venkateswaran

  • Survival of Spacecraft-Associated Microorganisms under Simulated Martian UV Irradiation

    David A. Newcombe;Andrew C. Schuerger;James N. Benardini;Danielle Dickinson

  • New perspectives on viable microbial communities in low-biomass cleanroom environments

    Parag Vaishampayan;Alexander J Probst;Myron T La Duc;Emilee Bargoma

  • Molecular Microbial Diversity of a Spacecraft Assembly Facility

    Kasthuri Venkateswaran;Masataka Satomi;Shirley Chung;Roger Kern

  • Bacillus tequilensis sp. nov., isolated from a 2000-year-old Mexican shaft-tomb, is closely related to Bacillus subtilis.

    Joshua W. Gatson;Bruce F. Benz;Chitra Chandrasekaran;Masataka Satomi

  • Succession and persistence of microbial communities and antimicrobial resistance genes associated with International Space Station environmental surfaces.

    Nitin Kumar Singh;Jason M. Wood;Fathi Karouia;Fathi Karouia;Kasthuri Venkateswaran

  • Extreme spore UV resistance of Bacillus pumilus isolates obtained from an ultraclean Spacecraft Assembly Facility.

    L. Link;J. Sawyer;K. Venkateswaran;W. Nicholson

  • Paradoxical DNA repair and peroxide resistance gene conservation in Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032.

    Jason Gioia;Shailaja Yerrapragada;Xiang Qin;Huaiyang Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher E. Mason
Christopher E. Mason Cornell University
Clay C. C. Wang
Clay C. C. Wang University of Southern California
Gary L. Andersen
Gary L. Andersen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
George E. Fox
George E. Fox University of Houston
Wayne L. Nicholson
Wayne L. Nicholson University of Florida
Duane L. Pierson
Duane L. Pierson National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Gabriele Berg
Gabriele Berg University of Potsdam
Jason E. Stajich
Jason E. Stajich University of California, Riverside
Lone Gram
Lone Gram Technical University of Denmark
Rüdiger Pukall
Rüdiger Pukall Leibniz Association

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