Mahesh S. Dharne

Mahesh S. Dharne

Biochemical Science Division

About Me

We are engaged in isolation and characterization microbes from various niches like extreme environments, soil, and gut contents. Further we do catalog them at molecular level and then develop for Industrial level applications using bioprospecting.

Our long term goal is to tap India's rich microbial heritage and translate them further into Industrial microbiology.

I am also heading National Collection of Industrial Micro-organisms (NCIM). NCIM is a national facility dedicated to isolation, preservation, distribution of authentic cultures which are of industrial important. Established in 1951, it is a part of the division of Biochemical Sciences in the NCL. Starting with just 400 cultures, the NCIM holds 3700 cultures today.Only nonpathogenic cultures are maintained in the collection. NCIM is one of the oldest culture collections in India and is a member of World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC).

NCIM also provide microbial identification services and engaged in collaborations with academia and industries.

Professional Experience

Mar 2015 ahead- Head, NCIM Resource Centre, CSIR-NCL, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA

June 2012 ahead- Senior Scientist, NCIM Resource Centre,  CSIR-NCL, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA

June 2011- June 2012- Research Scientist, National Institute of Virology, Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA

Sep 2010-Jan 2011- Postdoctoral fellow, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

Dec 2007-Sep 2010- Visiting Scientist, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville Agriculture Research Center, Beltsville, MD, USA

Selected Publications

  • https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JyaZKBQAAAAJ&hl=en, Paste link in google for complete list of publications., , (2017).
  • Mehetre GT, Paranjpe AS, Dastager SG And Dharne M. , Investigation of microbial diversity in geothermal hot spring of Unkeshwar, India based on 16S rRNA amplicon metagenome sequencing, Genome Announcements., 4, e01766 - 15 (2016), DOI:doi:10.1128/genomeA.01766-15.
  • Mehetre GT, Paranjpe AS, Dastager SG And Dharne M, Complete metagenome sequencing based bacterial diversity and functional insights from basaltic hot spring of Unkeshwar, Maharashtra, India, Genomics Data., 7, 140 - 143 (2016), DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gdata.2015.12.031.
  • Dharne M, Kannan P, Murphy C And Smith AD and Bhagwat AA. , Swarm and swim motilities of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and role of osmoregulated periplasmic glucans, Microbiol Discov., 3, 3 - 6 (2015), DOI:DOI: 10.7243/2052-6180-3-3.
  • Philem DP, Sonalkar VV, Dharne M And Prabhune AA. , Purification and partial characterization of novel Penicillin V acylase from Acinetobacter sp. AP24 – isolated from Loktak Lake; an Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot, Preparative Biochemistry & Biotechnology., , (2015), DOI:In Press.
  • Navale GR, Dharne M And Shinde SS, Antibiofilm Activity of tert-BuOH Functionalized Ionic Liquids with Methylsulfonate counteranion, RSC Advances., , (2015), DOI:DOI: 10.1039/C5RA12854D.
  • Navale GR, Rout CS, Gohil KN, Dharne M, Late DJ And Shinde SS. , Oxidative and Membrane stress-mediated antibacterial activity of WS2 and rGO-WS2 Nanosheets, RSC Advances., , (2015), DOI:In Press.
  • Dhotre SV, Mehetre GT, Dharne MS, Suryawanshi NM And Nagoba BS, Isolation of Streptococcus tigurinus - a novel member of Streptococcus mitis group from a case of periodontitis, FEMS Microbiol Letters., , (2014), DOI:10.1111/1574-6968.12519.
  • Kulkarni G, Shetty S, Dharne M And Shouche Y. , Genome sequencing analysis reveals virulence related gene content of Ochrobactrum intermedium strain 229E, a urease positive strain isolated from human gastric niche, FEMS Microbiology Letters., 357, 131 - 135 (2014), DOI:doi:10.1111/1574-6968.12549.
  • Kulkarni G, Dhotre D, Dharne M, Shetty S, Chowdhury S, Misra V, Misra S, Patole M And Shouche Y, Draft genome of Ochrobactrum intermedium strain M86 isolated from non-ulcer dyspeptic individual from India, Gut Pathogens., , (2013), DOI:0.1186/1757-4749-5-7.
  • Gupta AK, Dharne MS, Rangrez AY, Verma P, Ghate HV, Rohde M, Patole MS And Shouche YS, Ignatzschineria indica sp. nov. and Ignatzschineria ureiclastica sp. nov., isolated from adult flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), Int J Syst Evol Microbiol., , (2011), DOI:0.1099/ijs.0.018622-0.
  • Bacterial synthesis of copper/copper oxide nanoparticles, J Nanosci Nanotechnol., , (2008).

Research Interest

  • Enzymology AND Microbiology

Contact Details

Dr. Mahesh S. Dharne
Scientist and Head,
National Collection of Industrial Micro-organisms (NCIM)
CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory (NCL)
Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan
Pune 411008 Maharashtra INDIA
 Tel +91-20-25902456, 2670
Fax +91-20-25902671
E-mail: ms.dharne@ncl.res.in;
msdharne@gmail.com