Rup Lal

Prof. Rup Lal is also the Dean (Examination) at the same university. His primary research interests include elucidating microbial diversity using culture dependent and culture independent (metagenomics) approaches from stressed environments. He has characterized nearly 40 bacterial species, 12 bacterial genomes and three metagenomes from stressed niches. Apart from this, his group has explored the genetics and biochemistry of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) degradation, especially using sphingomonads isolated from the HCH dump site.