Dr. Saranya Kanukollu

(Senior scientist – Neuome Technologies (P) Ltd., Ph.D- University of
Oldenburg Germany, Post-Doctoral Researcher at
Zalf, Muncheberg, Germany)
 

brief about dr. saranya kanukollu

Linkedin Dr. Saranya Kanukollu (Senior scientist – Neuome Technologies (P) Ltd., Ph.D- University of Oldenburg Germany, Post-Doctoral Researcher at Zalf, Muncheberg, Germany) Microbial molecular biologist continuously looking for opportunities to integrate the gained research experiences in an innovative place. Coming from a background of microbial molecular ecology and biotechnology with cutting edge technologies in genomics […]
  • PhD in Institute for chemistry and biology of marine environment (ICBM) University of Oldenburg, Germany 
  • Focus on molecular microbiology, microbial ecology and physiology
  • M.Sc. Biotechnology, Focus on bioprocess engineering -Mannheim University of applied science, Germany
  • B.Sc in Industrial Biotechnology, Bharath University, Chennai, India.
  • 04/2019-09/2022: Post-doctoral research scientist: Leibniz competition 2019 funded “Volatilome of a Cereal Crop Microbiota System under Drought and Flooding (VolCorn)”
  • Scientific contributor: Admont project: long term nutrient deficiency experiment. Organizer: Prof. A. Richter, University of Vienna, ter:labs
  • 06/2016-03/2019: Post-doctoral scientist: “Microbial methanol consumption in grassland” Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V.
  • 02/2012-03/2012: Research assistant: “Molecular characterization of roseobacters from North Sea”, ICBM, Oldenburg
  • 08/2010-06/2011:Student assistant: Mannheim University of applied science, Germany



  • EGU General Assembly 2022 (May 23-24, Vienna): Rhizosphere of grassland plants: A hot spot of methanol consumption driven by unusual methylotrophs (Presentation) 
  • Microbiology society organized Microbial Cycling of Volatile Organic Compounds: Biogeochemistry to Biotechnology 2022 (May 25-27, Norwich): Rhizosphere of grassland plants: A hot spot of methanol consumption driven by unusual methylotrophs (Presentation)
  • Gordon Research Conference (GRC) 2019 (July 14-19, Boston): Rhizosphere - A sink of
  • methanol, driven by unusual methylotrophs as detected by MAGs & SIP (Poster)
  • miCROPe conference 2017 (December 04-07, Vienna): Unravelling the key players of
  • grassland plant microbiomes behind methanol consumption (Presentation and poster)
  • VAAM conference 2015 (March 01-04, Marburg): Distinctive distribution of free-living,
  • particle-associated and benthic Roseobacter Populations (Presentation)
  • Identification of metabolic active microbial communities in sediments by two independentRNA-based in vivo labeling techniques (Poster)
  • ISME conference 2014 (August 24-29, Seoul): Specific distribution of Roseobacter populationsfrom the water column down to the sediments of a coastal sea (Poster)
  • VAAM conference 2013 (March 10-13, Bremen): Spatial distribution and diversity of the
  • Roseobacter clade in temperate and permanently cold marine sediments (Poster)
  • Saranya Kanukollu, Sonja Wende and Steffen Kolb (2022) Deciphering Plant and Microbiome Volatilomes by Holo-Omics (Under revision in Trends in Microbiology) 
  • Saranya Kanukollu, Rainer Remus, Caroline B. Tschiskale, Mathias Hoffmann and Steffen Kolb (2021) “Microbial methanol sink of a grass and a forb species from a temperate grassland (Environmental Microbiome Journal) 
  • Eileen Kröber, Saranya Kanukollu, Sonja Wende, Françoise Bringel, and Steffen Kolb (2022) A Putatively New Family of Alphaproteobacterial Chloromethane Degraders from a Deciduous Forest Soil Revealed by Stable Isotope Probing and Metagenomics (Environmental Microbiome) 
  • Davide Francioli, Geeisy Cid, Saranya Kanukollu, Andreas Ulrich, Mohammad-Reza Hajirezaei and Steffen Kolb (2021) “Flooding Causes Dramatic Compositional Shifts and Depletion of Putative Beneficial Bacteria on the Spring Wheat Microbiota” (Frontiers in microbiology) 
  • Eileen Kröber, Sonja Wende, Saranya Kanukollu, Caroline B. Tschiskale, Ludovic Besaury, Frank Keppler, Stéphane Vuilleumier, Steffen Kolb, Françoise Bringel (2021) 13C-chloromethane incubations provide evidence for novel bacterial chloromethane degraders in a living tree fern (AEM) 
  • Saranya Kanukollu, Bernd Wemheuer, Janina Herber, Sara Billerbeck, Judith Lucas, Rolf Daniel, Meinhard Simon, Heribert Cypionka, Bert Engelen (2015). “Distinct compositions of free-living, particle-associated and benthic communities of the Roseobacter group in the North Sea” (FEMS Microbiology Ecology) 
  • Saranya Kanukollu, Sonja Voget, Marion Pohlner, Verona Vandieken, Jörn Petersen, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Tanja Woyke, Nicole Shapiro, Markus Göker, Hans-Peter Klenk, Heribert Cypionka, Bert Engelen (2015). “Genome sequence of Shimia sp. SK013, a representative of the Roseobacter group isolated from marine sediment” (Standards in Genomic Science, SIGS