Dr.A.K. Saxena Senior Scientist (Microbiology) saxena@nbaim.org saxena461@yahoo.com   Education: Institution Degree awarded Year Marks obtained Award/Prize/Cert IARI, New Delhi Ph.D 1988 GPA 4.00/4.00 IARI senior scholarship, gold medal Deptt. of Botany, University of Delhi M.Sc 1984 75.1% Research Experience in various institutions: SL.No. Institution Nature From To 1 National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms Senior scientist Sept.2005 onward 2 Indian Agricultural Research institute Senior Scientist June 1998 Aug 2005 3 Indian Agricultural Research Institute Scientist (Sr.Scale) June 1994 July 1998 4 Indian Agricultural Research Institute Scientist June 1989 June1994 5 All India Institute of Medical sciences Research Associate July 1988 Feb 1989 Important Publications: Saxena, A.K., Kingston, J.J., Mondal, S. and Shende, R. 2005. Biodiversity of cowpea rhizobia (Bradyrhizobium spp.) in Indian soils. In: Microbial diversity: Current Perspectives and potential Applications (Satyanarayana, T. and Johri, B.N eds). I.K. International Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India pp 427-456 Minakshi, Saxena, A.K. and Matta, N.K. 2005. Selection of culturable PGPR from diverse pool of bacteria inhabiting pigeonpea rhizosphere. Indian J. Microbiol. 45(1): 21-26. Saxena, A.K. 2005. Rhizobium Inoculants: Research and Development. In: Advances in Microbiology at I.A.R.I. 1961- 2004 (Kaushik, B.D.) IARI Tilak, K.V.B.R., Ranganayaki, N., Pal, K.K., De, R., Saxena, A.K., Nautiyal, C.S., Mittal, S., Tripathi, A. K. and Johri, B.N. 2005. Diversity of plant growth and soil health supporting bacteria. Curr. Sci. 89. Somvanshi, V.S., Lang, E., Straubler, B., Sproer, C., Schumann, P., Ganguly, S., Saxena, A.K. and Stackerbrandt, E. 2006. Providencia vermicola sp. nov., isolated from infected juveniles of the entamopathogenic nematode Steinernema thermophilum. Int. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol. 56: 629-633. Somvanshi, V.S., Lang, E., Ganguly, S., Swiderski, J., Saxena, A.K. and Stackerbrandt, E. 2006. A novel species of Xenorhabdus indica sp. nov., symbiotically associated with entamopathogenic nematode Steinernema thermophilum. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 29: 519-525. Prasanna, R., Saxena, A.K., Jaiswal, P. and Nayak, S. 2006. Development of alternative support system for viable count of cyanobacteria by most probabale number method. Folia Microbiol. 51: 455-458.