Good day, Dr. Jayshree Annamalai. I'm Arjun. I've had a look through your background and your professional record. I'm interested in hearing more about your work and how you see yourself fitting in here with our faculty. Ready to start?

Please start by introducing your professional journey in academia.

Cortana.

You need to focus on your profession.

I'm here to focus on the.

Could you please start by introducing your?

Hi, this is Jay Shree.

Thank you for sharing that.

Hi this is Jay Shree. I did my PhD in Anna University and my post doctoral at SRM Institute of Science and Technology. In my my during this course of time my research work was on fabricating a biosensor. In my PhD I fabricated A biosensor to detect pallet esters which is commonly known as plasticizer plasticizer and it is an endocrine disrupting chemical. The biosensor which I fabricated was able to.

Thank

Uh detect talent, uh esters in wastewater at uh, the concentration of 0.1 molar and uh.

Fine uh regarding my post graduation, my post and in my PhD I did my I got 2 patterns, one was on biosensor and the other was on synthesis of copper nanoparticles in an eco friendly manner. Regarding my post graduation, my post-graduation work was on phytochemical analysis using algal extract and the another was was on degradation.

Work uh, degradation of polythene covers, uh, using uh, fungal strains My I did my post graduation at University of Madras and.

Regarding my schooling, my schooling since my father was in Army, my part of the schooling was in Army Public School and the remaining was at Vanityala Matriculation Higher Secondary School. My native is Velu. Now I further look forward to work further.

And further in biosensor and come out with sensing devices and diagnostic kits.

Which could benefit the society. Yes, thank you.

Thank you.

Let's begin with a few questions to assess your skills and expertise. Could you describe the challenges you encountered during the fabrication of the biosensor for detecting endocrine disruptors and how you addressed them?

Yes, for to detect endocrine disturbing chemical first I I wanted an stress enzyme so for that.

We need. I have.

I have isolated about 58 strains out of which one strain I selected that could degrade ballet test so.

For that I have to analyze the pathways and the enzymes involved in that and after finding out working on it, I isolated yesterdays and then purified it and and used that enzyme to fabricate the biosensor and to enhance the.

Activity of the enzyme. I also worked on the synthesis of nanoparticles and nanomaterials for enhancing the ability of the biosensor.

Interesting approach. How did you ensure the accuracy and sensitivity of the biosensor during its development?

I compared the.

The electrochemical signals are the. I compare the values with that of GCMS analysis. I did validation. I followed the validation procedure.

And I compared using the.

Using the day I, I I did several duplicate runs and and the standards everything right.

I compared with that.

1st to it.

Got it, thank you for explaining. Moving forward—could you detail your approach or framework for teaching both theoretical and laboratory courses effectively?

Laboratory courses In my PhD work, I, I took laboratory classes for uh, the uh, postgraduate students. So where I got chance to explain and uh, the about the explain about the uh.

Practical. In the practical session and for example, if we need to test the we need to do MPN assignments, I need to explain the principle what around what are the principle involved in this and what the purpose of this study. I would be explaining to the student next to the what we will be doing when they will be getting the result that enroll and be explaining and.

We'll be conducting the practical.

It seems you focus on both the conceptual and hands-on aspects while teaching. How do you ensure that students not only perform experiments correctly but also understand the underlying scientific principles and applications?

So when the students will, as I told in MPN technique, on the first day they will be preparing, they will be sterilizing the what? Sterilizing the medium and the samples and all, and the distilled water, water and all the required glass vessels and all. Next day when after inoculation, next day when they will be coming, I'll be checking whether they are able to interpret the result or whether. I'll be asking what they are expecting today. How?

Wow. What is the expected result? I'll be questioning them and I'll be interacting them so that I, I, I can understand whether they have understood what I told yesterday. So I'll be checking them in that manner.

Engaging students through questioning and interaction is a solid approach. How do you address students who struggle to understand either the theoretical or practical components during these sessions?

When the student is not able to understand, we'll we need to explain them again in a simple manner.

Until they understand, we have to explain them.

Thank you, Dr. Jayshree. Next, could you share an instance where you guided a student project or research, and how you ensured the student's research and development skills improved during the process?

Uh, in the research, uh, I helped uh, M tech students and uh, MSC students in doing their project. Uh, I'll be helping them, uh, when they approach me, asking any questions, asking, asking any doubt, uh, I'll be explaining them and uh, uh, I'll asking, I'll be giving some tasks, some homeworks. Get the information about this so that I can explain you further. I'll be asking them to do so.

And I'll be helping them to how to interpret the results. How If they are not getting the result, I'll be asking what they did, I'll be checking where the mistake was happened, then I'll be correcting them and I'll helping them to interpret the result and prepare the reports and all.

And when they come back, they will be explaining and they will be interested in knowing more and.

You provide support at.

Every stage of a student's learning program.

Exactly providing that.

Thank you for your insight.

Could you share how you approach evaluating students, both in theory and practical examinations, to ensure a fair and comprehensive assessment?

Actually I don't have experience teaching experience so.

Not about about this.

I'm fresher.

Understood, Dr. Jayshree. Thank you for clarifying. Could you elaborate on the communication strategies you employ to ensure clarity and engagement in your teaching or while guiding research?

While teaching, we have to be precise and we have to be clear. We have to explain the students how in a very simple manner.

After the if they get to know the mechanism or the principal, after knowing that if they will read once again that will be easy for them first while approaching them it it has to be the subject has to be simple and in understand in understandable manner.

Thank you for explaining.

Doctor Jeshui, let's not.

Doctor Jessery, you're.

Doctor Jeshri, your resume.

Doctor Jessry, your resin.

Doctor Jeshri, you're ready.

Dr. Jayshree, your resume highlights your significant achievements in research, including patents and publications in reputed journals. Could you walk me through one of your most impactful publications and its contributions to the field?

My my first review paper was was most satisfying to me that I wrote that I drafted in my PhD and it got published in Environmental International.

To write that review paper, I took so much effort. And I collected more, I browsed more information and I prepared. The graphical abstract was also most challenging.

For me at that time, and it was a very happy moment that when the review paper got published in Environment International.

It was shifting chemical.

Publishing Environment International.

Is indeed a significant.

Significant contribution to the feat.

The field did you elap?

Could you elaborate more on the?

On the key findings or.

While writing that.

Please go ahead and share your thoughts while writing that paper.

While writing that review paper, uh, I got to know how how many endocrine disrupting chemicals are around us and how the environment is getting affected and how the ecological system and the Organism surviving in that are getting affected even at nanomolar concentration. This endocrine disrupting chemicals are able to disrupt our system even at nanomolar concent. They they are causing more. They tend to be more toxic at a very low concentration they cause genotoxicity or.

Get, uh, accumulated in ours, in ourselves and they exhibit various disruptions that may be both genomic or non genomic, in particular to this endocrine disrupting chemical. This chemicals are able to bind to our uh, they they are able to mimic as of our hormones and are able to trigger false. Transcription transcriptional signals which may result in the say in the.

They, they, they.

The synthesis of.

False protein that that could affect our health in it is same with the other creatures other organisms also this endocrine disrupting chemicals are.

Able to disturb the normal function in our body.

Both, uh, in our humans and all other organisms.

That I understood and after that?

This After writing this paper, I chose Tally tester as an priority chemical for my research.

And like, uh, started with the fabricating, uh, biosensor and degradation work related to the.

Right here.

...addressing the impacts of endocrine-disrupting chemicals is commendable. Let’s now discuss your experience with industry projects or consultancy roles. Could you provide an example of any such engagements and how they contributed to your professional growth?

Endocrine disstructing chemicals. Sorry I didn't get you.

No problem, Dr. Jayshree. I was asking if you have any experience with industry projects or consultancy work and how those experiences contributed to your professional development.

No, I don't have experience.

Uh, I have experience in writing proposals and getting projects since uh, I got post doctor fellowship in the in this manner, only I wrote proposal and I got Doctor DSK Kothari fellowship I got.

But.

I was despondent. I have experience in writing proposals and getting things.

In this one.

That's valuable experience, Dr. Jayshree

Sorry.

No problem, Dr. Jayshree. Thank you for sharing that. How do you see your experience in writing proposals aligning with academic research and collaboration?

No, I have. I don't have experience in collaboration.

Understood, Dr. Jayshree. Thank you for clarifying. I believe we have covered key aspects of your experience and expertise.

I have expertise in sin in UH fabricating A biosensor. Both my post doctoral work and UH and UH PhD work was on sensing on designing the biosensor using the enzyme.

So I can for, uh, I can contribute more in fabricating biosensor and come up with this *NSYNC, uh, devices and, uh, uh.

Uh, diagnostic kits? I have planned on that.

Plan to work on that.

My expertise is on biosensor and degradation work. Also I did using the nanoparticles nano based degradation work I can do that. So I have experience on that.

Thank you, Dr. Jayshree, for thoroughly sharing your expertise and aspirations. Your focus on biosensor development and nanoparticle-based degradation is clear, and it demonstrates the potential contributions you can make in these areas.

Can you come up with the question again?

Of course. Could you share how your expertise in biosensor fabrication and nanoparticle-based degradation aligns with advancing research and addressing practical societal challenges?

Practical challenges.

This enzyme-based biosensor are sometimes sensible to the temperature, so we need to maintain the temperature and the shelf life of the enzyme has to be preserved.

Regarding nano particle based degradation and this is a very effective in degrading the pollutants in even micro pollutants that is if the micro if the pollutants are present at nanogram level.

In the environment, nano based UH biodegradation method is more more effective than the UH enzyme based or microbial based degradation technique.

So we can come up with the micro based uh.

Uh, a nano based remediation techniques and then biosensor we can come up with the, uh, we can use more nano materials or, uh, nano particles, Uh, we can, uh, initiate the, we can include more as, as in my PhD work to support the enzyme-based sensor, I comma I uh, I, I prepared a nano composite material that was helpful in.

Improving the impact of the biosensor so we can cope up with that.

Doctor Jashri.

Doctor Joshua, your approach to integr.

Doctor Joshua, you're a pro.

Doctor Jessie, you're a pro.

Doctor Jashri, your approach.

Doctor Joshua, your approach.

Integrate.

Dr. Jayshree, your approach to integrating nano-based remediation techniques and enhancing biosensor capabilities is truly impactful.

Thank you. Next.

Thank you, Dr. Jayshree. Let me confirm: would you like to continue with any further discussions or conclude the interview here?

Yes, I would like to continue.

Anything is asked further.

Understood, Dr. Jayshree. Could you share your approach to maintaining effective communication when collaborating with multidisciplinary teams in research or teaching settings?

Sorry, can you come again?

Certainly. Could you share your approach to maintaining effective communication when working with multidisciplinary teams in research or teaching?

For multidisciplinary first we have to prepare for that as my PhD work is an example in my basic is microbiology but.

Out of interest, we have come up with the biosensor. So for that I have to work both on microbiology and in these in in the physics or in the chemistry side, in the synthesis of nanoparticles. I worked on it and in this in in learning the biosynthetic.

The signals have to work on it and I've learned that. So if interest, we have to approach without as in my PhD, I approach the various departments and I did discussion with them and I seek their their help and I did my work. So in the same manner, if I get an opportunity, I can approach with the other other faculty members and I can discuss.

With them and I can come up with the.

But.

Please continue.

For collaborating, we have to 1st come up with the ideas that we have to share with the other faculty members from the other departments and.

The multidisciplinary subject is, uh, is, uh, well, uh, efficient than a single, uh, in the going in a single subject is, uh, is not much feasible. But uh, when we collaborate with others, we can come up with the new ideas and we can come up with the more efficient product.

So it is better to be multidisciplinary.

Sharing your perspective, Doctor Joshua.

Thank you for sharing your perspective, Dr. Jayshree. Multidisciplinary

Thank you for sharing your perspective.

You're welcome, Doctor Jesh.

Doctor Joshua, let me ask.

Agar Jeshuri, let me add.

Doctor Jaishree.

Dr. Jayshree, how do you envision your future contributions to the field of food science and technology, particularly in advancing biosensor development or nano-based remediation techniques?

Regarding the food science and technology, I can come up with the uh, biosensor that could detect food collections or.

Or the contaminants that spoil the food, the biosensor can be taken in that way in food science. And other than that, I have interest to work on gut microbiome. So regarding that in in, in that perspective also I can work.

As a for example, if we get a, we get some intestinal inflammation.

Or, uh, some gastroenteritis problem, uh, uh, some type of chemicals like, uh, thiosulfate or tetradionate are released, uh, so we, we can genetically modify some, modify the bacterial strain that could detect this, this type of chemicals, which is produced in response to inflammation and.

We can, we can come up with the.

A non invasive biosensor that could detect this, uh, genetically modified microorganisms that that we have, uh, given to the patient.

So.

This will be the my goal to come up with the biosensor or the diagnostic kits to detect the.

To detect the inflammations in the inflammations or other unhealthy health issues.

OK, I'm Rajeshwari.

Thank you, Doctor.

You're welcome, Dr. Rajeshwari. Would you like to continue with the discussion, or are you ready to conclude the interview?

What further discussion could I support?

Further.

To discuss additional aspects such as.

Come on.

Is there a specific area you'd like to explore further, or shall we conclude the interview?

If I get a chance I could further work on biosensor and this is the area where I want to work and I could. I want to explore more on good microbiomes and I want to work.

On the biosensor that could uh.

That could able to.

Interruptions that happens in the gut microbiome.

Able to diagnose the.

Noted, Dr. Jayshree. It’s clear that your aspirations align with your expertise. Would you like to share anything else, or is now a good time to conclude the interview?

So thank you for the opportunity.

I would like to end this session.

Thank you for your time, Dr. Jayshree. Can you confirm that you'd like to officially conclude the interview?

Sorry, I would like to conclude.

Doctor Joshua.

Thank you for confirming. I’ll proceed to conclude the interview now. Best of luck with your future endeavors, Dr. Jayshree.