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APPENDICES – I

Paper Presented in Conference / Seminar / Symposium

1. Selvi Dhanam and Dhandayuthapani, K. 2010. Study on the effect of different

light intensity on biomass production of Dunaliella salina National Level

Technical Symposium held at Vel Tech Engineering College, Chennai 600062,

Tamil Nadu on 8 July, 2010.

2. Selvi Dhanam and Dhandayuthapani, K. 2010. Media Optimization for biomass

production of Dunaliella salina, National Conference held at Meenakshi

College for Women, Chennai - 600 024 on 23 & 24 July, 2010.

3. Selvi Dhanam and Dhandayuthapani, K. 2011. Ecophyisological studies of ß-

Carotene Production by Marine Microalga - Dunaliella salina, International

Conference held at Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai on 27 & 28 January,

2011.

4. Selvi Dhanam and Dhandayuthapani, K. 2012. Media Optimization for biomass

and ß-Carotene by Dunaliella viridis, International conference held at

Vivekananda College of Engineering for Women, Namakal, Tamil Nadu-

637205 on 9 & 10 March, 2012.

5. Selvi Dhanam and Dhandayuthapani, K. 2013, Optimization of ß-Carotenoid

Production by Marine Microalga - Dunaliella salina, National Seminar held at

Kanchi Shri College of Arts and Science, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu- 631551

on 20 & 21 February, 2013.

Paper Published

1. Selvi Dhanam, D and K. Dhandayuthapani, K. 2013. Optimization of

- Carotene production by Marine Microalga - Dunaliella salina, Int. J. Curr.

Microbiol. App. Sci., 2(3): 37-43.

2. Selvi Dhanam, D., Prabhavathi, S and Dhandayuthapani. K. 2012. Biomass

production of Dunaliella salaina using Dewarln’s media supplemented with

different initial concentration Iron, Selenium and Nickel, Intern. J. Biotechnol.

Biochem. 2:215-222.

Workshop attended

1. Participated in the National Workshop on "Experiments in Bioprocess

Technology" held between November 30th and December 2nd 2009 in the

Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Loyola College, Chennai -

600 034.

2. Participated in the National Workshop on "Design and Analysis of

Experiments" held on July 9, 2010 in the Department of Plant Biology and

Biotechnology, Loyola College, Chennai - 600 034.