Shyam Krishnan

Acting as the voice of the postdoc community, representing the network at key events and meetings. Led communications, advocacy efforts, and outreach campaigns to promote researcher visibility and improve career development. Strengthened leadership, public speaking, and strategic communication skills through active engagement with institutional stakeholders.

Represent the interests of PhD candidates at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in university-wide and external academic forums Contribute to policy discussions and initiatives aimed at improving doctoral conditions and supervision quality

Spearheaded GMP–compliant facility; led cross-functional team of 16 across production, QC, and regulatory functions in a startup environment. Co-design, Process development, optimization and validation of facility & operations for cGMP manufacturing of stem cell products. Built and trained multidisciplinary teams in aseptic processing and GMP compliance. Established protocols for the isolation, expansion and cryopreservation of Human stem cells from various tissue sources for utilization in clinical and

Animal Handling, Organ Perfusion, Hematopoietic Stem Cell transplantation. Stem cell Isolation and Primary culture, shRNA-based Loss-of-function studies, Lentiviral gene transduction systems, Microarray analysis, qRT PCR. ELISA, complex multi-color Flow Cytometry, Immunocytochemistry, Western blot.

Human Gastric Cancer stem cell isolation and characterisation; NK cell and DC cell enrichment and research & development of replenishment Immunotherapy for cancers; Isolation, characterisation and transdifferentiation of Human Adipose derived Mesenchymal Stem cells for therapeutic applications. Comparative analysis of harvested cell number and pluripotency of MSCs isolated from various tissue sources.

Extraction, analysis and separation of the phytoconstituents of various medicinal plants; Training student interns at the organization in methods of Phytochemical analysis.

Student Trainer; Designing projects for B.Sc/M.Sc candidates. Extraction and analysis of phytoconstituents of various medicinal plants for therapeutic applications; Screening, optimization and production of Laccase enzyme from Pleurotus spp; Textile dye decolorization using mycoremediation technology;