Ramamirtha Jayaraman (10 October 1937 – 14 April 2019) was an Indian geneticist, known for his studies on bacteria, especially on

Escherichia coli ''Escherichia coli'' (),Wells, J. C. (2000) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Harlow ngland Pearson Education Ltd. also known as ''E. coli'' (), is a Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, rod-shaped, coliform bacterium of the genus '' Esc ...

. His researches on the control of transcription of bacteria are known to have evidenced the ''participation of accessory factors in transcription'' and their ''interactions with

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''. He was a professor at the

Madurai Kamaraj University Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) is a public state university located in Madurai city, in southern Tamil Nadu, India, established in 1966. MKU is one of the 15 universities in India with the University with Potential for Excellence status, wh ...

(MKU) and a former scientist at

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the ...

. Post his retirement, he served as an emeritus scientist at MKU. He authored the reference manual, ''Jayaraman Laboratory Manual in Molecular Genetics'' and several pamphlets and articles;

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, an online repository of medical papers has listed 59 of them. The

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the l ...

, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, ...

, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1982, for his contributions to biological sciences. He died on 13 April 2019.M.Hussain Munavar and K.Dharmalingam. 2020. R. Jayaraman (1937–2019). Current Science, 118(3):488-489.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jayaraman, Ramamirtha Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science 1937 births 2019 deaths Scientists from Tamil Nadu Indian geneticists Indian scientific authors Madurai Kamaraj University Academic staff of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 20th-century Indian biologists

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