Professor Jayaraj Jayaraman (Jaya) | The Department of Life Sciences

Teaching and Learning Centre, 3rd Floor

Department of Life Sciences

The University of The West Indies

St. Augustine

Trinidad and Tobago

Telephone: 868-662-2002 ext 85244

Fax: 868-663-5241

• DST-BOYSCAST-Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA (1999-2000).

• Plant-Microbe interactions, Induced resistance, elicitor-biomolecules, bioremediation, biological control, molecular based disease diagnostics.
• Genetic engineering of plants for disease resistance and stress tolerance.
• Metabolic engineering, biopharming of therapeutic proteins and industrially valuable compounds.
• Phyto-nutraceuticals.
• Marine Seaweed products for agriculture and human health.
• Antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens

• Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Life Sciences, FST, UWI-St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago (2011-2014).
• Lecturer, Dept. of Life Sciences, FST, UWI-St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago (2009-2011).
• Sr. Scientist, Dept. of Biosciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada (2003-2009).
• Associate Scientist, Dept. of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA (2000-2003)
• Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, India (1996-2000).
• Lecturer, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, India (1990-1996).

• Advisor, United Nations University Biotechnology Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNU-BIOLAC).
• The UWI- Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Award for Outstanding Research Accomplishments, 2016.
• ACTT Award, Govt. Trinidad and Tobago, for Outstanding Achievements in Applied and Academic Research, 2016
• UNDP-CARUTA Award (2011), United Nations Development Organization, Caribbean Region, Barbados.
• BOYSCAST Fellow, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India.
• Best Research Project Award (2000), Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, India.
• Chinese Govt. Research Scholarship Award (1999-2000), China Scholarship Council, Beijing, China.
• Graduate Senior Research Fellowship Award (1990-91), Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India.
• Graduate Research Merit Fellowship Award (1988-89), the Potash Research Institute of India, Gurgaon, India.

• BIOL 3366 Plant Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (3 credits) (UG) (Lecturer and Coordinator)
• BIOL 3770 Plant Pathogens (3) (UG) (Lecturer and Coordinator)
• BIOL 3162 Principles of Microbial Biotechnology (3) (UG) (Lecturer)
• BIOL 3263 Introduction to Bioinformatics (UG) (Lecturer)
• BIOT 6002 Advances in Plant Genetic Engineering & Plant Biotechnology (PG) (Lecturer and Coordinator)
• BIOT 6000 Molecular Biology & R-DNA Technology (PG) (Lecturer and Coordinator)
• M.Sc.- Biotechnology – Programme Coordinator
• B.Sc. Biotechnology Specialization – Subject leader

1) Efficacy of seaweed products for the management of diseases in tropical vegetables (Acadian SeaPlants, Dartmouth, NS, Canada)
2) Identification of elicitor compounds from seaweeds of Trinidad and their evaluation for disease control in tropical vegetable crops (Conservation, Food and Health Foundation, Boston, MA, USA)
3) Use of seaweed products for environmental friendly crop protection (United Nations Development Programme)
4) Developing sustainable disease management strategies to improve vegetable production towards self-sufficiency and food security in the Caribbean region (ACP Caribbean & Pacific Research Program for Sustainable Development)
5) Etiology of sudden decline and dieback of Columbian Red Cedar trees in Trinidad (Ministry of Environment and Forestry & FAO)
6) Surveillance and characterization of antibiotic resistance in common bacterial pathogens in Trinidad and Tobago (RDI Fund)