Belle Damodara Shenoy Ph.D.
Principal Scientist
Principal Scientist
CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography
Regional Centre, Visakhapatnam
176, Lawson's Bay Colony, Visakhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh, India, PIN - 530017
Website: www.nio.org
Cofounder & Managing Editor
MycoAsia Journal of modern mycology
Website: www.mycoasia.org
Email: contact@mycoasia.org
Dr. Belle Damodara Shenoy is a fungal taxonomist by training. After completing his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from India, he pursued his Ph.D. in fungal taxonomy at the University of Hong Kong under the guidance of Prof. Kevin Hyde and Dr. Rajesh Jeewon. His Ph.D. thesis titled “Multigene phylogeny of selected anamorphic ascomycetes” dealt with the evolutionary relationships of asexual genera such as Sporidesmium complex and provided insights into the implications of their polyphyly in the fungal taxonomy.
Dr. Shenoy, for a brief period of time, worked as a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Keith Seifert at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa on DNA barcoding of Fusarium.
In 2008, Dr. Shenoy returned to India and joined the Microbial Type Culture Collection (MTCC), CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh (CSIR-IMTECH). He supervised two Ph.D. students at CSIR-IMTECH and published several high-impact papers on fungal taxonomy, phylogeny, DNA barcoding and comparative genomics.
In 2013, Dr. Shenoy moved to CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa and initiated research on diversity and taxonomy of microbes associated with tarballs (crude-oil derivatives). He is presently working at CSIR-NIO Regional Centre, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Dr. Shenoy has so far published 45 papers in reputed international journals. He is the founding member and presently the managing editor of a new mycology journal, MycoAsia - Journal of modern mycology (www.mycoasia.org).
Dr. Shenoy has been a member of the International Sub-commission on Colletotrichum taxonomy. Dr. Shenoy is on the Advisory Board of Amity Institute of Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences, India. His hobbies include travelling and exploring India and writing poems.
Publications
Chopra M, Behera S, Jagadeesan L, Rachuri V, Shenoy BD (2023) Unravelling fungal diversity and predicted ecological roles in Rama Krishna beach water, Visakhapatnam, India, based on amplicon sequence-data. MycoAsia Journal of modern mycology (under review).
Parab P, Khandeparker RDS, Shenoy BD, Sharma J (2020) Diversity of culturable marine bacteria from mangrove sediments of Goa, India: A potential source of Glycosyl Hydrolase Family 10 Xylanases. Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology 56:718–728. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0003683820060137
Wijayawardene et al. (2020) Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere Online: Journal of Fungal Biology 11:1060-1456.
Shinde VS, Suneel V, Rathore C, Shenoy BD (2020) Degradation of tarballs using associated bacterial consortia. 3 Biotech 10:109.
Fernandes GF, Shenoy BD, Damare SR (2020) Diversity of bacterial diversity in the oxygen minimum zones of Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal as deduced by Illumina sequencing. Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 3153.
Fernandes C, Khandeparker RDS, Shenoy BD (2020) High abundance of Vibrio in tarball-contaminated seawater from Vagator beach, Goa, India. Marine Pollution Bulletin 150:110773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110773
Fernandes GL, Shenoy BD, Menezes LD, Meena RM, Damare SR (2019) Prokaryotic diversity in oxygen depleted waters of the Bay of Bengal inferred using culture-dependent and-independent methods. Indian Journal of Microbiology 59:193–199.
The complete publication list is available at Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=rqrN_VwAAAAJ&hl=en
Great work Sir ji 🙏🏻💐 keep going strong
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