Dr Raman Vaidyanathan
Deputy Director - MSc programme in Biological and Bioprocess Engineering
Departmental Seminar Committee Co-ordinator
Co-ordinator of PGT research projects
Member of the Web Management Group
s.vaidyanathan@sheffield.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 7526
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 7501
Chemical and Biological Engineering
The University of Sheffield
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Research Interests
- Bioanalytical technologies
- Metabolomics
- Mass spectrometry imaging
- Bio-energy
- Microbial biotechnology
Biography
Raman joined the Department as a lecturer in 2007. A chemical graduate with a Masters degree in Biotechnology (both from India), he completed his PhD in 2001 from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he investigated the application of near infrared spectroscopy to monitor industrially relevant bioprocesses involving filamentous microorganisms. This was work done in collaboration with Eli Lilly.
Dr Vaidyanathan has over five years of pre-doctoral industrial experience applying biotechnological solutions to environmental engineering problems.
Before joining Sheffield Dr Vaidyanathan was a research associate at the University of Manchester, where he investigated a) the application of secondary ion mass spectrometry with buckminsterfullerene (C60) cluster ions as primary ion sources to characterize biological surfaces, and b) laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry for metabolomic applications. He also spent his post-doctoral years investigating the application of soft ionization mass spectrometry to characterize biological systems, at Aberystwyth in Wales.
Key Papers
Salim M, McArthur SL, Vaidyanathan S, and Wright PC. (2011) Towards proteomics-on-chip: The role of the surface. Molecular Biosystems 7:101-115.
Vaidyanathan S, Fletcher JS, Jarvis R, Henderson A, Lockyer NP, Goodacre R, Vickerman JC. (2009) Explanatory multivariate analysis of ToF-SIMS spectra for the discrimination of bacterial isolates. Analyst, 134, 2352–2360.
Vaidyanathan S, Fletcher J, Goodacre R, Lockyer N, Micklefield J, and Vickerman J. (2008) Subsurface Biomolecular Imaging of Streptomyces coelicolor Using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. Anal. Chem. 80, 1942-1951.
Vaidyanathan S, Gaskell S, Goodacre R. (2006) Matrix-suppressed laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry and its suitability to metebolome analyses. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 20, 1192-1198.
Vaidyanathan S, Harrigan G, and Goodacre R. (Eds.) (2005) Metabolome analyses: Strategies for systems biology. Springer, NY, USA.
Teaching
- CPE210 - Applied Chemical Engineering (Computing)
- CPE403/6030 - Environment: Gaseous Emissions
- CPE401 - Research Project (MEng)
- CPE6009 – Bio-energy
- CPE6011 – Research Project (MSc BBE)