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Dr. Mukund S. Ambawade

M. Sc., M. Phil., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Academic Qualification: M. Sc., M. Phil., Ph. D. Microbiology

Responsibilities/College Committees: Team member of Placement Committee and Team member of Criteria III for NAAC

Awards/Achievements/Associations:

  • Best paper presentation (oral) award in 5th International conference on environment and ecology at Christ College, Pune in association with Foundation of Environment and ecology, Kolkata and in collaboration with confederation of Indian Universities, New Delhi on 18th to 20th February 2019.
  • Certificate of Appreciation received from Microbiologist Society India for presenting research work in 'Ph.D. Webinar Series ' organized by MBSI during academic year 2022-23.

Institutional E-mail id: mukund.ambawade@hvdesaicollege.edu.in

Ph.D. Topic "Development of liquid bioinoculant of endophytic nitrogen fixing bacteria from banana (musa spp.) and its evaluation against Mycosphaerella musicola"
Research Area Agriculture and Environmental Microbiology
No. of Research projects handled 09

  1. Ambawade Mukund S., Patil Dipak D., Pathade Girish R. and Mali Gajanan V. (2023). Indole acetic acid (IAA) production by endophytic bacterial isolate Agrobacterium tumefaciens BE-1 from roots of Musa acuminate, Research Journal of Biotechnology, 19 (4): 32-39.
  2. M. S. Ambawade, N. V. Manghwani, P. R. Madhyani, A. M. Shaikh, D. D. Patil and G. R. Pathade. (2023) Influence of Yeast Bioinoculant Isolated from Indian Date Palm Tree (Phoenix sylvestris) Sap on the Health of Wheat Crop and Soil. Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 22 (4):2093-2101.
  3. Manish Dattatraya Karekar, Sumit Chavan, Rajal Dave, Abhishek Chatla, Mansi Kamble, Richa Raut and Mukund Ambawade (2022). Screening of Phytochemicals against Multiple Drug Resistant Bacteria from Clinical Isolates. Int. J. Curr. Microbiol. App. Sci. 11(08): 52-64.
  4. Mukund S. Ambawade, Gulab S. Gugale, Komal R. Bankhele, Radhika S. Nirgude, Bhushan P. Bhusare, Girish R. Pathade, and Pranay D. Abhang. (2021). In-Vitro Study on Improving Antiseptic Efficiency of Cosmetics using Bacteriophage - Cosmetic Formulation. International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences. 12.3.B75-B85.
  5. Gulab S. Gugale, Bhushan P. Bhusare, Mukund S. Ambawade, Nitin S. Kadam and Akshay B. Shinde (2021). Biosynthesis of Silver Nanoparticles using various botanicals and evaluation of its antimicrobial property. Journal of Plant Science and Research. 37 (2) : 507-515.
  6. Bhushan P Bhusare, Ambawade MS, Deokar SB, Damale MV, Inamdar SB. (2021). Isolation and Characterisation of UTI Pathogens and Their Antibiotic Susceptibility. Journal of Science and Technology, 6(3):01-06.
  7. GS Gugale, BP Bhusare, MS Ambawade, MS Kshatriya, MM Barwant (2021). Effect of Cadmium Chloride on Seed germination, Seedling growth parameters, and proline content in Maize (Zea mays), International Journal of All Research Education and Scientific Methods, 9(2):1818-1822.
  8. Pranay Abhang, Shital Walvekar, Vikram Mahadadalkar and Mukund Ambawade (2020). “Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Properties of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized from Escherichia coli”, Science, Technology and Development, 9. 7: 55-61.
  9. Mukund S. Ambawade and Girish R. Pathade. (2018). “Indole Acetic Acid (IAA) Production by Bacillus siamensis BE 76 Isolated from Musa balbisiana (Banana)”. Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 10(2):6-10.
Books Edited:
  1. ‘Practical Handbook of Microbiology Lab Course IV’ (2021). My Rays Book Publication Center, Pune
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