Dr. Miss. R. Mary Josephine

1.(a)	Name	..	Dr. Miss. R. Mary Josephine
(b)	Designation and official address of the applicant with phone /Fax No. & e-mail	..	Associate Professor in Botany & Head Nirimala College for Women, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India Phone. No.0422- 2223469 [e-mail]
(c)	Subject: Area of specialization	..	Botany : Seed physiology,Biochemistry, Plant pathology and sea weeds
2.( a)	Date and Place of Birth	..	18/04/1962 , Coimbatore
(b)	Nationality	..	India
(c)	Nativity	..	Tamilnadu
3.	Residential Address with telephone:	..	No.10 N.T.Colony, Olymbus, Ramanthapuram, Coimbatore 641 045 TAMILNADU Mobile no.9790321553
4.	Academic Qualification	..

S.No	Degree	University	Year of Passing	Subjects
1	B.Sc.	Nirimala College for Women, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India.Affliated to University of Madras	1983	Botany
2	M.Sc.	Krishnamal College for Women, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. Affliated to Bharathiar University	1985	Botany – Plant Pathology
3	M.Phil	Bharathiar University, Coimbatore Tamilnadu, India.	1987	Botany –Bio-energy Technology
4	Ph.D.	Bharathiar University, Coimbatore Tamilnadu, India.	1991	Seed Physiology (Biochemical studies)
5	PGDCA	Bharathiar University, Coimbatore Tamilnadu, India.	2001

Positions held

S.No	Designation	Period		Name of the Institution
		From	To
1	Academic Board member as Subject expert	2012	2014	PSG college of Arts and Science ,Botany Department , Coimbatore
2	Academic Board member as Subject expert	2012	2014	PSGR.Krishnammal college for Women ,Botany Department , Coimbatore
3.	Honorary research adviser	2013		Tamilnadu Scientific Research Organization, Pudukkottai,Tamilnadu organisation's Higher Research Advisory Committee (HRAC)
3.	IQAC ( Internal Quality Assurance Cell during the year Incharge for the criteria Research consultancy and extension activity	2010	2015	Nirmala college for women, Coimbatore
4.	College Finance committee member	2010	Till date	Nirmala college for women, Coimbatore
5	In charge for the UGC funds in the college( University Grants Commission)	2010	Till date	Nirmala college for women, Coimbatore
6.	OSA( Old students Association) Finance in charge during the period and executive member during the period	1997	1999	Nirmala college for women, Coimbatore
7.	OSA( Old students Association) Finance in charge during the period and executive member during the period	1999	2001	Nirmala college for women, Coimbatore
8.	IQAC member	2001-	2005	Nirmala college for women, Coimbatore

Contribution to the Society

1. 
   Introduced the Bio-village concept which aims at human centered development of rural families and imparting knowledge and skill information.
   
2. 
   To inculcate the values of growing trees and its importance in contributing to Environmental impact and hence, tree saplings of 200 valuable species were procured from the District forest officer Mr.Anwardin, IFS of State Forest Office, Coimbatore, and supplied to the students faculty and non- teaching staff and they were educated about planting them in front of their houses or any public place near their houses.
   
3. 
   In Medicinal garden various medicinal plants are raised and maintained. Medicinal plants were exhibited at Ashwini deluxe hotel on 19^th feburary 2006 for the public. More than 50 members including Ayurveda and Siddha doctors visited the exhibition.
   
4. 
   Training on Mushroom cultivation given to Self Help Group Periyar Maniammai University on February 2011
   
5. 
   Training on Mushroom cultivation given to Self Help Group Visuvasapuram 2012
   

6. Mushroom cultivation utilizing refuse and to introduce zero waste management

7. Women empowerment, self employment/Entrepreneur –by giving training on mushroom

cultivation to SHG

8.Contribution to the society – Urban greening concept – To control pollution
9. Scholarships and fellowships for the students- Single girl child,Minority scholarship,and

for the poor and meritorious candidates in various funding agencies

AWARD /ACHIEVEMENTS
1	Received best teacher award from the GRAB educational Society on 1/11/2015
2	Received for Global best teacher role model on 5^th October,2015 organized by Global educational society ,Mumbai
3	Received “National Award for Teaching excellence in Botany and received award in the Indo- American Education summit & expo 2013, organized by Indus Foundation and received the award on 3^rd February,2013
4	Received “National Award for Best Paper Presentation in 2009” from National Science journal “Science Per second ”.
5	Received cash award & 1st prize for the Best paper presentation in the NAAC sponsored National conference on Quality in Teaching, learning and research in Higher Education in the year 2010 organized by Changanacheri, Kerala
6	Received “Bharat Shiksha Ratan Award” for the Academic excellence for the year 2012 from the Global society for health and educational growth
7	Received University Fellowship for doing Ph.D

Project completed

UGC Minor project titled "A study on wetland ecosystem for residents and migrant bird communities at Perur Lake, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, South India" vide UGC letter No.F.MRP-3529/10(MRP/UGC-SERO) dated July, 2010”
UGC Major – ongoing Received an amount of Rs.12,48,300 and the project titled “Cultivation of edible mushroom (Oyster and Milky) by utilizing various categories of refuse and its utilization for zero waste management and analysis of biochemical composition and nutritive values”
9. (a) List of papers published in Journals /Conferences

Papers presented in the International conference and presented paper titled on “Solid waste management through mushroom cultivation – An eco friendly approach” held in Barcelona, Spain from 27^th February to 28^th February,2014. Received travel grants from, Centre for International cooperation of Science (CICS) and Indian National Science Academy ( INSA)

Paper presented in the International congress titled” Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants in Uthiyur Hill, Tamilnadu,India” attended International Congress: Botanical research in Tropical Asia for paper presentation from 6^th to 11^th December 2015 at Lao Plaza Hotel, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Served as Chair person in the International Congress: Botanical research in Tropical Asia for paper presentation from 6^th to 11^th December 2015 at Lao Plaza Hotel, Vientiane, Lao PDR

. (a) List of papers published in Journals /Conferences

1.	Mary Josephine, R and K. Janardhanan, 1989. Studies on evaluation of agrobotanical characters and biochemical composition of the three germplasm seed materials of the tribal pulse, Mucuna pruriens. Proceedings of the seminar on Forest Tree Technology, Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding No.29 & 30, 1989 Coimbatore, India pp.361-371
2.	Mary Josephine, R and K. Janardhanan, 1990. A report on the occurrence of leaf galls on Acacia feruginea, DC (mimosaceae) caused by Lobotermyia sp. From Coimbatore district, J.Swamy Bot. cl. 7(1&2) : 15-16
3.	Mary Josephine, R and K. Janardhanan, 1990. Effect of vipul (triacontonol) on seed germination, seedling growth and yield in green gram (Vigra radiate) Geobias – 17:54-56.
4.	Mary Josephine, R and K. Janardhanan, 1992. Biochemical composition and antinutritional factors of three germplasm seed materials of the tribal pulse Mucuna pruriens Food Chemistry (London) 43:15-18.
5.	V.R. Mohan, N. Rajaram, R. Mary Josephine and K. Janardhanan, 1993. electrophonetics studies of seed proteins in certain Mucuna species. Ad. Plant. Sci. 6(2) 344-350.
6	Dr.R.Mary Josephine,2006.A herbal remedy for dandruff.Abstract published in International Conference, 16^th-18^th Mar.2006 Tamilnadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore
7	R.Mary Josephine,2009.Urban Trees as Shelter and Livelihood of Human being - An Overview.Biological science community April 14^th 2009
8.	R.Mary Josephine,2010 Utilization of by-products and the treatment of waste in the food industry for zero emissions and eco-efficiency. Science per second Vol.1,34-38
9.	Ramakrihnan,B and R.Mary Josephine,2011.Urban trees as shelter and lively hood of human being- an overview ,Indian Journal of Natural science. vol.1(4),248-253
10.	R.Mary Josephine and Ramakrihnan,B,2011. Species diversity of Avenue trees in the Coimbatore city, tamilnadu, South India ,Indian Journal of Natural science. vol.1I(8) 568-579
11.	R.Mary Josephine,2012  Molecular docking study of natural compounds against Chickungunya virus in International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences (IJRPBS) Vol. 3, Issue 2, April 2012
12	S.Steffi and R.Mary Josephine,2012. A model quantitative ANNOVA test using spss  software to find out the five morphological leaf traits of five different genera , International Journal of Advances in Pharmacy, Biology and Chemistry (IJAPBC) Vol. 2, Issue 1, Jan 2013. ISSN: 2277-4688 ( Accepted for publication )
13	S.Steffi and R.Mary Josephine,2012. ANALYSIS OF FARM SOIL MICROBIAL PROFILE has been accepted and it shall be published in International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences (IJRPBS) Vol. 4, Issue 1, Jan 2013. ( Accepted for publication )
14	S.Steffi and R.Mary Josephine,2012. A CASE STUDY ON TREND OF FOOD STYLE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS has been accepted and it shall be published in International Journal of Advances in Pharmacy, Biology and Chemistry (IJAPBC) Vol. 2, Issue 1, Jan 2013( Accepted for publication )
15	Arul Sheeba Rani and Mary Josephine 2013. A study on physic-chemical parameters of water analysis from different sources.Trichy, Tamilnadu,South India.Nirmala Annual research Congress.NARC25pp.97-100ISBN 978-0-9894254-3-8
16	Anitha,T and Mary Josephine, 2013. Bacterial analysis of waer samples of drinking water in tanks of various places of Tamilnadu. Nirmala Annual Research Congress NARC 29: pp.111-113. ISBN 978-0-9894254-3-8
17	Uma K and Mary Josephine, 2013. Microbial analysis of garden soil. Nirmala Annual Research Congress NARC 33: pp.127-131. ISBN 978-0-9894254-3-8
18	Amal Martin Antony,A and Mary Josephine, 2013. A Study on lesser known edible tuber. Nirmala Annual Research Congress NARC 36: pp.135-136. ISBN 978-0-9894254-3-8
19	Carolin.J.Annie.A and Mary Josephine, 2013. A Survey on Ethonomedicinal plants on Pechipparai hills. Souhern Western Ghats of Tamilnadu, India. Nirmala Annual Research Congress NARC 40: pp.147-149. ISBN 978-0-9894254-3-8
20	Steffi.S and Mary Josephine, 2013. Importance of ethnobotanical survey-A review. Nirmala Annual Research Congress NARC 67: pp.247-250. ISBN 978-0-9894254-3-8
21	Nandhini.B and Mary Josephine, 2013. Enumeration on Bacterial and Fungal diversity in potted soil. Nirmala Annual Research Congress NARC 68: pp.251-254. ISBN 978-0-9894254-3-8
22.	Mary Josephine, 2014.Solid Waste Management through Mushroom Cultivation – An Eco Friendly Approach. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology.International Journal of Biological, Veterinary, Agricultural and Food Engineering Vol:8 No:2,18-20
23	R.Mary Josephine*, D.Jayasudha and M.Sri Rashmy(2014) Cut Flowers Harvesting And Marketing Potential Of Nilgiris. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 3 Number 11 (2014) pp. 953-956
24	Antony1 and Mary Josephine2(2014) *A survey on Poisonous plants in Nilambur, Kerala, India Anju Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci 3(11) 957-963
25	R.Sruthy1 and R.Mary Josephine2*Power of Spirulina - A review. ISSN: 2347-3215 Volume-2 Number 2 (February-2014) pp.xx-xx
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