Archive · 7 Dec 2025
India's First Deep Sea Microbial Research Facility in Nellore
India is building its first special place to study tiny living things called microbes that live deep in the ocean.
These microbes live in very cold and high-pressure places without sunlight.
Scientists will use this new place in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, to learn more about these microbes and how they can be useful.
They will have special tools to keep and study these microbes.
The microbes can make special molecules that might help in medicine, industry, and protecting the environment.
Scientists have already found over 1,000 types of these microbes in the Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean.
Some of these microbes are already being used in different ways.
India's first Deep Sea Marine Microbial Repository is being established in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh.
The facility will study, isolate, and culture deep-sea microbes for industrial, biomedical, and environmental applications.
Deep-sea microbes produce novel molecules with potential medical, industrial, and environmental importance.
The repository will have cutting-edge equipment and cryo-freezers to study and store microbes.
NIOT researchers have catalogued over 1,000 promising strains of deep-sea microbes.
- Who
- National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT)
- What
- India's first Deep Sea Marine Microbial Repository
- When
- Not specified
- Where
- Nellore, Andhra Pradesh
- Why
- To study, isolate, and culture deep-sea microbes for industrial, biomedical, and environmental applications
- Location
- Nellore, Andhra Pradesh
- Institute
- National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT)
- Facility Type
- Deep Sea Marine Microbial Repository
- Applications
- Industrial, biomedical, and environmental
- Microbes Studied
- Over 1,000 promising strains
- Key Equipment
- Cutting-edge equipment and cryo-freezers
- Director
- Balaji Ramakrishnan