Dr. K. Kaleshkumar

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS LIST

• Janani Balachandran , Kopperundevi Loganathan , Mitthra Suresh , Pachaiyappan Elangovan Mukundan , Divya Vinayachandran , Kaleshkumar Karunanidhi (2025). The Interplay of Hormones on Pain and Anxiety in Pregnant Women Undergoing Endodontic Treatment: A Review. Ain Shams Dental Journal – accepted for publication. (I.F. – 0.15)
• Kaleshkumar, K., Rajaram, R., Paray, B. A., & Ali, S. (2022). Are pufferfishes a viable source of nutritional value for human consumption—an investigation on recently commercialized marine pufferfishes (Tetraodontidae: Tetraodontiformes). Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29(31), 47350-47362. (I.F. – 5.4)
• Kaleshkumar, K., Rajaram, R., Vinothkumar, S., & Vinothkannan, A. (2021). Distribution of Marine Puffer and Porcupinefishes (Order: Tetraodontiformes) from Tamil Nadu Coast, Southern India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 91, 153-162.
• Arun G, Rajaram R, Kaleshkumar K, Gayathri N, Sivasudha T and Kandasamy S (2020). Synergistic effect of novel chitosan combined metformin drug on streptozotocin-induced diabetes mellitus rat. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 153, 1335-1349 (I.F. – 8.5)
• Kaleshkumar, K., & Rajaram, R. (2020). Analysis of mtCOI and 18S rRNA sequence-based characterization of recently commercialized marine edible pufferfishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, 90, 391-403.
• Arun, G., Rajaram, R., & Kaleshkumar, K. (2020). Additional description of the Algae Hydroid Thyroscyphus ramosus (Hydrozoa: Leptothecata: Thyroscyphidae) from Palk Bay, India with insights into its ecology and genetic structure. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 12(8), 15852-15863.
• Kaleshkumar, K., Rajaram, R., Gayathri, N., Sivasudha, T., Arun, G., Archunan, G., Gulyás, B. and Padmanabhan, P (2019). Muscle extract of Arothron immaculatus regulates the blood glucose level and the antioxidant system in high-fat diet and streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. Bioorganic Chemistry, 103072. (I.F. – 4.7)
• Gayathri, N., Kaleshkumar, K., Arun, G., Rajaram, R., Ruckmani, K., Abbirami, E. & Sivasudha, T. (2018). Evaluation of antidiabetic activity of bud and flower of Avaram Senna (Cassia auriculata L.) In high fat diet and streptozotocin induced diabetic rats. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 108, 1495-1506. (I.F. – 7.5)
• Kaleshkumar, K., Rajaram, R., Purushothaman, P. and Arun, G. (2018). Morphological variations in marine pufferfish and porcupinefish (Teleostei: Tetraodontiformes) from Tamil Nadu, southeastern coast of India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10(13), 12726-12737.
• Kaleshkumar, K., Rajaram, R., Dhinesh, P. & Ganeshkumar, A. (2017). First report on distribution of heavy metals and proximate analysis in marine edible puffer fishes collected from Gulf of Mannar Marine Biosphere Reserve, South India. Toxicology Reports, (4) 319-327.
• Dinesh Kumar, S., Ananth, S., Santhanam, P., Kaleshkumar, K and Rajaram, R. (2017). First record of marine phytoplankton, Picochlorum maculatum in the Southeastern coast of India. Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences, 46 (04); 791-796. (I.F. – 0.43)
• Kaleshkumar, K., Rajaram, R., Vinothkumar, S., Ramalingam, V. and Khangembam Brajamani Meetei (2015). DNA barcoding of selected species of pufferfshes (Order: Tetraodontiformes) of Puducherry coastal waters along south-east coast of India. Indian Journal Fisheries, 62(2): 98-103. (I.F. – 0.40)
• Ramalingam, V., Rajaram, R., PremKumar, C., Santhanam, P., Dhinesh, P., Vinothkumar, S. and Kaleshkumar, K. (2013). Biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles from deep sea bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa JQ989348 for antimicrobial, antibiofilm, and cytotoxic activity. Journal of Basic Microbiology, 53, 1–9. (I.F. – 3.5)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Rajaram, R. and Kaleshkumar, K. (2018). DNA Barcoding techniques – DNA isolation, quantification and amplification. Training manual on Taxonomic identification of coastal and oceanic copepods (TICOC 2018). Jami Publications, Trichy 23. ISBN: 978-93-87354-17-3.

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CONFERENCE / SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING PROGRAM ATTENDED (Cont.,)

• Participated in the One day National Workshop on “Scientific Writing in Health Research” Organized by Organized by Division of Medical Research and Sage, SRMIST, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, held on 24th March, 2026.
• Participated in the One day National Workshop on “Statistical Data Analysis Using SPSS” Organized by SRM College of Agricultural Sciences, SRMIST, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, held on 23rd March, 2026.
• Participated in the One day National Workshop on “Research Smarter: Practical AI for Medical Researchers” Organized by Division of Medical Research and Wolters Kluwer, SRMIST, Kattankulathur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, held on 25th December, 2025.
• Served as an Executive Committee Member in the Hands on Training Programme on “Taxonomic Identification of Coastal and Oceanic Copepods (TICOC-2018)” held during 25-28th September 2018 at Marine Planktology & Aquaculture Laboratory, Department of Marine Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620 024.
• Participated in Industry-Academia Light Microscope Workshop “Form Basics to Optical Sectioning” organized by Carl Zeiss India (Bangalore) Pvt. Ltd. In association with NCAAE between 14-15th May, 2018.
• Participated in ICMR and SERB sponsored “IV National Workshop on Research Methodology” held from 22-24th March 2018, organized by Institutional Research Board (IRB) and Medical Education Unit (MEU), Trichy SRM Medical College Hospital and Reseach Centre, Irungalur, Tiruchirappalli-620 024, Tamilnadu.
• Participated in the National Seminar on “Emerging trends in cancer and stem cell biology (ETCSCB-2018)” organized by Department of Biomedical Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620 024, held on 20th March, 2018.
• Participated in “Recent Advances in Medical Research (RAMR-2018)” on 7th March 2018, organized by Department of Biomedical Science, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620 024.
• Participated and presented a paper (Oral) in the “International Conference on Aquatic Animal Health and Parasitic diseases (ICAAP-2017)” held on 6-7th March 2017 at CAS, Annamalai University, Parangipettai – 608 502.
• Participated in the Two day National Workshop on “Climate Change Impact on the Marine Environment (CCIME-2017)” held on 3-5th February, 2017, Organized by Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli – 620 024.
• Participated in the Training Programme on “Shrimp Culture Methodologies” held on 1st November 2016 at CAS, Annamalai University, Parangipettai – 608 502.
• Participated and presented a Poster in “International Conference on Environmental and Health in Changing Climate” held on 14–16th September 2016, Organized by Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620 024.
• Participated in the Training Programme on “Advances in Taxonomy of Marine Fishes” held on 17th March 2016 at CAS, Annamalai University, Parangipettai – 608 502.
• Participated and presented a Poster in “International Conference on Translational Medicine and Imaging (ICTMI–2016)” from 4-5th March 2016, jointly organized by Rajiv Gandhi centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram and Mar Ephraem Colleage of Engineering and Technology, Marthandam.
• Participated in the one day seminar on “Genome & Protein Engineering” held on 12th, February 2016, Organized by Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620 024.
• Associated in the conduct of National Workshop cum training n “Toxic Metals in environmental & Seafood samples using AAS (THEMES - 2016)” held on 3-5th February 2016, Organized by Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620 024.
• Participated in National Training Programme on “Molecular Markers for Genetic Analysis” from 14-19th December 2015, Conducted by the Peninsular and Marine fish Genetic Resources Centre, NBFGR at Kochi, (CMFRI campus).
• Participated in the Two day National Workshop on “Information and knowledge Analytic” held on 12-13th August 2015 at Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620 024.
• Associated in the conduct of National Training cum Workshop on “DNA Barcoding of Fish and Marine Life – Molecular Analysis and Bioinformatics Approaches (FISHCODE – 2012)” held on 12-14th September 2012, organized by Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620 024.
• Participated in National Conference on “Marine Environmental Challenges and Coastal Zone management Strategy (MARINA’12)” held on 13-14th February 2012 organized by Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620 024.
• Participated in “National Training cum Workshop on Analytical and Technical Advancement in AAS and GC (WATA-AG)” held on 24-25th January 2012, organized by Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tituchirappalli-620 024.
• Participated in National Conference on “Coastal Typology” held on 15-17th March 2011, organized by Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620 024.
• Participated in National Conference on “Explorations of the Natural Bioactive Compounds from the Marine resources” (Bioactiva’ 11) held on 10-11th February 2011, organized by Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620 024.
• Participated in National conference on “Marine Biodiversity Present Status and Prospectus (MABPSAP - 2010)” held on 16-18th September 2010, organized by Department of Marine Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620 024.
• Participated in “Mushroom Spawn Production and Cultivation Training Programme” held at MS Swaminathan Research foundation, Puducherry during 18-19th August 2009.