DR. N. TEJO PRAKASH

Professor

PhD in Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, India

Professor, School of Energy and Environment, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Bhadson Road, Patiala-147004, Punjab

ntejoprakash@thapar.edu

Dr. N.Tejo Prakash is a Professor at School of Energy and Environment, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India. He received his MS from SV University, India and Doctorate from Pondicherry University, India. He worked as post-doctoral researcher at Blaustein Desert Research Institute, Israel and Defence Research and Development Organization, India before eventually joining as faculty at Thapar Institute as Assistant Professor in 2003. He was a Visiting Professor to University of Manchester, UK; Pennsylvania State University, USA; and Ritsumeikan University, Japan and is collaborating with research groups in Russia, USA, Japan, and China. He has published more than 75 articles in peer-reviewed journals with more than 1000 citations. He is presently working in the areas of selenium biotransformations, bioaccessibility as well as bioactivity of selenium from dietary sources. He loves teaching and interacting with students on concepts such as Ecology, Environment and Youth for a Sustainable Future.

Membership of Professional Societies:

• Mycologists Society of India (MSI)
• International Society of Selenium Researchers (ISSR)

Research Publications (SCI only)

• Dhanjal NI, Sharma S, Prabhu KS, Tinkov AA, Skalny A, Skalnaya M, Ajsuvokova O, Zhang F, Guo X, Tejo Prakash N, 2019, Selenium rich rice modulates the expression of prostaglandin genes in lipopolysaccharide stimulated RAW 264.7 macrophages, Food and Function,10: 2839-2846.
• Sharma A, Melo JS, Tejo Prakash N, Prakash R, 2018, Effect of feedstocks and chain lengths of alcohols on the whole-cell catalyzed generation of alkyl esters, Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 40: 2612-2619
• Jaiswal SK, Prakash R, Skalny AV, Skalnaya MG, Grabeklis AR, Skalnaya AA, Tinkov AA, Zhang F, Guo X, Tejo Prakash N, 2018, Synergistic effect of selenium and UV-B radiation in enhancing antioxidant level of wheatgrass grown from selenium rich wheat, Journal of Food Biochemistry, DoI: 10.1111/jfbc.12577
• Ning Y, Wang X, Zhang P, Skalny VA, Tejo Prakash N, Li, Zhou R, Lammi M, Zhang F and Guo X, 2018, Imbalance of dietary nutrients and the associated differentially expressed genes and pathways may play important roles in juvenile Kashin-Beck disease, Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 50: 441-460
• Skalnaya M, Jaiswal SK, Prakash R, Tejo Prakash N, Grabeklis AR, Zhegalova IV, Zhang F, Guo X, Tinkov AA, Skalny, AV, 2018, The level of toxic elements in edible crops from seleniferous area (Punjab, India), Biological Trace Element Research, 184: 523-528
• Solovyev N, Tejo Prakash N, Bhatia P, Prakash R, Drobyshev E, Michalke B, 2018, Selenium-rich mushrooms cultivation on a wheat substrate from seleniferous area in Punjab, India, Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology 50: 362-366.
• Verma A. Tejo Prakash N, Toor AP, Bansal P, Sangal VK, Kumar A, 2018, Concentrating and non-concentrating slurry and fixed bed solar reactors for degradation of herbicide Isoproturon, Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, 140:021006:1-9.
• Sharma A, Melo JS, Tejo Prakash N, Prakash R, 2018, Fuel properties of blend and biodiesel generated from acid oil using whole cell biocatalyst, Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, 40: 148-154.
• Jaiswal SK, Prakash R, Prabhu KS, Tejo Prakash N, 2018, Bioaccessible selenium sourced from Se-rich mustard cake facilitates protection from TBHP induced cytotoxicity in melanoma cells, Food and Function, 9: 1998-2004.
• He A, Wang W, Tejo Prakash N, Tinkov AA, Skalny AV, Wen Y, Hao J, Guo X, Zhang F 2017, Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study Summaries and Element-gene Interaction Datasets Identified Multiple Associations between Elements and Complex Diseases. Genetic Epidemiology, 42:168-173

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Books/ Book Chapters

• Vidhyalaxmi C, Garg MK, Tejo Prakash N, Khanna S, 2007, In situ Bioremediation of Chlorpyrifos-Contaminated Site. In: In Situ and On-Site Bioremediation (Eds Gavaskar AR and Silver CF), Battelle Press, Columbus, OH, Pp L02-L08
• Srivastava A, Tejo Prakash N, Prakash R, 2006, Study of selenium in soils and plants using NAA, In: Current Trends and Perspectives of Neutron Activation Analysis, BARC Publication, India, Pp.114-115
• Gupta S, Kaur H, Prakash R, Ganguli A, Tejo Prakash N, 2004, Bioreduction and crystallization of selenium oxyanions by aerobic bacterium, Bacillus cereus. In: Biotechnological Approaches in Sustainable Development (Eds. Reddy MSR, Khanna SK), Allied Publishers, New Delhi, Pp. 323-33
• Tejo Prakash N, Prakash R, Srivastava RB, 2002, A method for testing material susceptibility to biocorrosion in oil-water interface. In: Biodeterioration of Materials Vol. 2 (Eds. Srivastava RB, Mathur GN, Agarwal OP), INTACH-DMSRDE Publication, Lucknow, Pp. 42-45