Curriculum vitae personal Information

Successful Research Guidance:

Ph.D (Completed as Guide) : 08

Sl. No.	Name of student	Research Topic	Year of Award
01	Mrs. Liril Fernandez	Sequence and Genome Analysis of Banana Bunchy top virus DNA components	2007
02	Mrs. Shanthala. L	Biochemical and molecular characterization of blast disease resistance in finger millet [Eleusine coracana (Gaertn.)]	2007
03	Mr. Naveen Sharma	Candidate gene, SNPs, nucleotide Microarray markers for the controlling abiotic stress in Rice (Oriza sativa. L).	2008
04	Mrs. Vidya Niranjan	Comprehensive analysis and functional annotations of the Human X chromosome and detailed analysis of Xq-22.1.	2009
05	Mr. Sreedharmurthy	Phytochemical screening and evaluation of anti-oxidant and anti-tumor properties in Xanthium strumarium”.	2009
06	Mr. Jagadeesh Nanjundappa	Evaluation of Pharmacological and Anti-tumour Properties in Echinops echinatus Roxb”.	2009
07	Mr. Gouthamchandra. K	Phytochemical screening and evaluation of pharmacological and anti-tumour properties of Clerodendrum infortunatum. Linn.	2010
08	Mr. Nagaraj. K.	Phytochemical Screening and Pharmacological evaluation of Erythrina Mysorenesis Gamb.	2012
09	Mr. Sandeep Telkar	Comparative genomics and protein interaction studies of VGS, causative for serological infective CVD.	2014
10	Mr. Mir Haris	Phytochemical Characterization and Evaluation of cytotoxic Properties of Bioactive Compounds from Clerodendrum infortunatum L.”	2016
11	Mr. Haseebur Rahman	Systematic Study on the Phytochemical Screening and Evaluation of Cytotoxic Properties of Solanum pubescens.	2016

Ph.D (Completed as Co-Guide): 08

Sl. No.	Name of student	Research Topic	Year of Award
01	Ms. Suneetha C	Isolation, cloning and characterization of chitinase gene from entomogenous fungi.	2005
02	Ms. Rashmi. H. J.	Agrobacterium mediated transformation of tomato and chilli for fungal resistance”.	2009
03	Mr. Jagdeesh	Generation of transgenic tomato carrying single chain Antibody fragments (Sc Fv) against viral expressed genes of topovirus”.	2010
04	Ms. Deepali	Development of Bt transgenic brinjal cv. Arka keshav, resistant to the brinjal shoot and fruit borer, Leucinodes orbonalis.	2010
05	Mr. Suresh Mathivanan	Integration of Human genomic and proteomic data through distributed annotation.	2008
06	Mr. D. K. Samuel	Molecular Detection and analysis of Huanglongbing Bacterium (Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus) vectored by Diaphorina citri kuwayama (Hemiptera, Psyllidae) causing Coorg mandarin decline.	2009
07	Mr. M. K. Kashyap	Gene Expression Profiling of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Esophagus.	2010
08	Mr. Maruthi Ekbote	Phytochemical and Pharmacological studies in Azima tetracantha Lam. And Coculus hirsutus L.	2010
09	Mr. Mahadev Swamy	Cloning and characterisation of coleopteran and nematode active Cry genes from Bacillus thuringiensis.	2014
10	Ms. Geetha G. T	Molecular Systematics, Characterisation of Sex Pheromons and Toxicity of Bt to Myllocerus undecimoustulatus Marshall (Coleoptera)	2014
11	Ms. Sowmya H. D	Transformation and Gene Expression studies in Banana Cv. Rasthali for Fusarium wilt resistance.	2014
12	Mr. Vijay Avin B. R	Screening and Characterisation of Novel anti-angiogenic molecules from Lettsomia elliptica Wight., Ipomea fistulosa and Leea indiac Merr.	2014
13	Mr. Ellango R	Identification of target genes for RNAi mediated gene silencing and elucidation of molecular genetic differences of whitefly, Bemisia tabact (G) (Hemiptera) and Dianondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L) (Lepidoptera).	2014
14	Ms. Roopa H. K	Molecular Characterization of Besmisia tabaci (Gennadius) Biotypes and Transmission efficiency of Yellow Vein Mosaic Virus in Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)	2014

Ph.D (Ongoing as Guide) : 05

Sl. No.	Name of the student	Research Topic	Category
01	Ms. Rizwana Abid	Phytochemical Characterization and Evaluation of Cardioprotective Properties of Cassia fistula Linn.	GM
02	Ms. Nazneen	A systematic Analysis of the Phytochemicals and Evaluation of Pharmacological Properties of Thevetia peruviana S.	GM
03	Mr. Sharath Kumar P	In Silico Structural and Functional Analysis of Enzymes with special reference to Insecticide Resistance	GM
04	Mr. Bheemanagoud Kumbar	Cloning and Characterization of Anti-fungal gene from Bacillus subtilis isolate	GM
05	Mr. Avinash Gaekwad		GM

Ph.D (Ongoing as Co-Guide) : 08

Sl. No.	Name of the student	Research Topic
01	Ms. Jyothi Lakshmi M	Characterisation of phytopathogenic Alternaria species based on secondary metabolic protein and isozyme profiling
03	Mrs. Reena Rosy Thomas	Bioinformatic applications in characterisation and identification of EST derived microsatellites in Brinjal (S. Melongena) and Chilli (C. Annuum) for stress tolerance.
04	Ms. Manasa M	Molecular characterisation of Ralstonia solanacearum and development of diagnostics for detection.
05	Ms. Latha K.R	Molecular Systematic and Vector Potential of Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood (Thripidae: Terebrantia), a Putitive vector of Ground nut Bud Necrosis Virus/Watermelon Bud Necrosis Virus.
06	Ms. Meenakshi S	Cloning of Antimicrobial Peptide Gene and their Expression in Tomato plant

M.Phil (Completed) : 04

Sl. No.	Name of student	Research Topic	Year of Award
01	Ms. Chaitra	Phytochemical Analysis, Antioxidant and Anti-mutagenic properties of Bombixia moria	2009
02	Ms. Shilpa. M	Evaluation of in vitro antioxidant and anti-mutagenic properties od crude extracts of stem bark of Ficus glomerata. Roxb	2009
02	Ms. Kavitha. G. C	Evaluation of antioxidant and antimutagenic properties of Chrozophora rottleri	2009
04	Mr. Pradeep. S. M	Isolation and Characterisation of entophytes from Tulsi.	2011

Students’ Project Guidance: 26

Research Projects (/ Co-ordinator)

Title of the Project	Project Details (Position, Funding agency etc.)	Amount (in Lakhs)	Duration & Status
Evaluation of Anti-cancer properties of Clerodendrum Infortunatum. L and Xanthium strumarium	Principal Investigator University Grants Commission, New Delhi	8.37	03 years, Completed
Bioprospecting Medicinal Plants	Programme Coordinator DST-FIST	40.00	05 years Ongoing
Bioprospecting Medicinal Plants of Western Ghats	Co-Investigator Inter-Departmental Builder Programme, DBT-New Delhi	450.00	05 years

8. 
   Conferences, Seminars, Workshops organised: (As Co-convenor)
   

Name of the Conferences/ Symposia/Seminar/Workshops	Level	Date
Biotechnology – Current trends and future scenario.	National	10^th – 11^th March,2008
Biotechnology – Future Prospects	National	31^st march 2016

8. 
   Conferences, Seminars, etc attended/papers presented:
   

Sl. No.	Seminar/Conference	Date		Title of the Paper
01	XIV Annual Conference. Environmental Mutagen Society of India (EMSI), Darbhanga, Bihar, (India)	June 1989		Effect of ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) on the meiotic chromosomes of grasshopper, Poecilocerus pictus: Dose-effect relationships,
02	International Symposium on Environmental impact on Biosystems, Madras (India).	Sept. 1989		Response of Drosophila melanogaster to a carbamate pesticide-Furadan.
03	XIII All India Cell Biology Conference and Cell Biology Symposia, Hyderabad(India)	Dec. 1989		Ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) induced clastogenic adaptation in the meiotic chromosomes of grasshopper Poecilocerus pictus
04	Annual conference of Environmental Mutagen Society of India, Bombay (India),	Feb. 1990		Adaptive response of grasshopper meiotic chromosomes to a low level of an alkylating agent: XV
05	National seminar on Genetic studies of mosquitoes and vectors of Tropical Diseases, Bangalore	Apr. 1990		Preliminary studies on the effects of methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) on the meiotic chromosomes of grasshopper, Poecilocerus pictus
06	X National symposium of Indian Society of Life Sciences, Mysore (India).	May 1991		Absence of adaptive response when meiotic cells of mouse are exposed to low dose of EMS and challenged after a short-time lag,
07	XV Annual Meeting of the Indian Society of Cell Biology, New Delhi (India).	Jan 1992		Adaptive response to low dose of ethyl ethanesulfonate(EMS) in mitotic cells of mouse.
08	National Seminar and XVII Annual Conference on Environmental Mutagens and Carcinogens, Pune (India) .	May 1992		Adaptive response of meiotic cells of grasshopper to a low dose of methyl methanesulfonate
09	V International Congress on Cell Biology, Madrid (Spain)	July 1992		Evidence of adaptive response in in vivo meiotic cells of grasshopper, Poecilocerus pictus,
10	National seminar on Radiation, Environment and Man, Mysore (India).	Sept. 1992		Comparative analysis of the cytogenetic effects of a few carbamate pesticides.
11	International Symposium on Environmental Mutagens and Human Health, Madras (India)	May 1994		Adaptive response in in vivo animal systems
12	National symposium on Genes and Human Environment, Hyderabad (India)	Sept. 1994		Ethylating agent – ethyl methanesulfonate is a poor inducer of adaptive response than methylating agent- methyl methanesulfonate in vivo mouse bone marrow cells
13	National Symposium on Genes and Human Environment, Hyderabad (India)	Dec. 1994		Absence of adaptive response when human lymphocytes are exposed to low dose of ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) at G0 phase.
14	Symposium on chromosomal and Molecular basis of Genetic Analysis, Varanasi (India)	Feb 1995		Cytogenetic adaptive response to low dose of alkylating agents in human peripheral blood lymphocytes.
15	XVIII All India Cell biology conference and Symposia, Lucknow (India)	July 1995		Clastogenic protection by caffeine in the bone marrow chromosomes of mice given ethyl methanesulfonate
16	Drosophila Meeting, Mysore (India)	Oct. 1995		“Adaptive response”-a novel type of genetic repair mechanism in animal systems
17	All India Congress of Zoology, Burdwan University, Burdwan (WB India)	Dec. 1995		Influence of pre- and post-treatments of caffeine on the adaptive response in mouse
18	National Conference on Environmental Health and Genetic risk, institute of Genetic and Hospital for genetic diseases. Osmania University, Hyderabad	Jan. 1996		Comparative analysis of error-free DNA repair (adaptive response) induced by EMS and MMS in Poecilocerus pictus and mouse.
19	National Symposium on Environmental Genotoxins, Low level exposure and Biological effects. Madras University, Madras	Feb. 1996		Protective processes triggered by low level of alkylating agents in animal systems.
20	National Symposium on Environmental Genotoxins, Low level exposure and Biological effects, Madras University, Madras	Feb. 1996		Clastogenic cross-adaptation induced by caffeine and EMS in mouse bone marrow cells.
21	EMSI Silver Jubilee Conference, Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai (India)	Mar. 2000		Potentiation of alkylation induced adaptive response by various treatment schedules in mouse bone marrow cells,
22	United Kingdom Environmental Mutagen Society, 25^th Annual Conference, Nottingham University, United Kingdom	July 2001		Short-term exposure to Carbendazim induces micronuclei in cultured human peripheral blood lymphocytes.
23	European Environmental Mutagen Society 31^st Annual Meeting, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.	Sept. 2001		Induction of micronuclei and chromosome non- disjunction after short-term exposure to Carbendazim in cultured human lymphocytes.
24	29^th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Human Genetics, NIMHANS, Bangalore,	Jan. 2004		Carbendazim short-term exposure induces micronuclei in Human peripheral blood lymphocytes.
25	International Symposium on Diet in Causation and Prevention of Cancer, Indian Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow,	Mar. 2005		Antimutagenic potential of Asparagus racemosus extracts in mice.
26	International conference on “Plant Genomics and Biotechnology; Challeges and Opportunities. Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur. India.	Oct. 2005		Suitability of lithium Chloride Method for High Quality RNA isolation from different fungal Species for Chitinase Gene Isolation.
27	International conference on “Plant Genomics and Biotechnology; Challenges and Opportunities. Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur. India.	Oct. 2005		Influence of Ethylene Inhibitors on In Vitro Regeneration in Chilli cv. Pusa jwala.
28	National Symposium on Recent trends in Biochemistry. Department of Biochemistry. Centre for Plant Molecular Biology. Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. Coimbatore.	Sep. 2005		Time Course of Chitinase Activity in some Fungal Species for Facilitating Chitinase Gene Isolation
29	National Symposium on Plant Biotechnology: New Frontiers.	Nov. 2005		Influence on Phenylacetic acid In vitro Regeneration in Chilli.
30	National symposium on transgenic crops in pest Management. Coimbatore, India	Dec. 2005		Preliminary bioassay studies on Bt transgenic brinjal cv. Manjarigota.
31	International Symposium on Human Genomics and Public Health Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	Feb-Mar 2006		Detailed Analysis of Protein Coding Regions of Human Xq22.1.
32	International conference on Free Radicals &Natural Products in Health’& Seventh Annual Meeting of The Society for Free Radical Research, Centre for advanced studies Dept. Of Zoology University of Rajasthan, –India.	Mar. 2008		Antioxidant and Hepatoprotective activities of Clerodendrum infortunatum.L
33	National Conference on Role of Biotechnology in Development of Herbal drug and Conservation of Biodiversity. Ujire. Karnataka,	Jan. 2009		Wound Healing activity of Clerodendrm infortunatum L root extracts.
34	International Symposium on Environmental Pollution, Ecology and Human Health Department of Zoology, S. V. University, Tirupati,	July 2009		Protective effect of C. Infortunatum. L root extracts on EMS induced chromosomal damage in mouse bone marrow cells.
35	Proceeding of National Conference on Recent Trends in Animal Physiology. Department of Zoology. University of Mysore. Mysore. Karnataka. India.	Oct 2009		Antitumor activity of Clerodendrum infortunatum. L roots extract and its isolated constituent against Ehrlich’s tumor cells in mice.
36	National Symposium on Antimicrobial Resistance and Drug Discovery. Department of Microbiology. Dr N.G.P arts and Science College Coimbatore. Tamil Nadu Karnataka.	Sept. 2009		Study on the Effects of Mutations on ligand Receptor Interaction with special reference to CYP2D6 and Debrisoquine.
37	International Symposium On “Mutagens and Genetic Diversity For Health and Agriculture “Punjab University Punjab, India.	March 2010		Anticancer and Antimutagenic activity of the ethyl - acetate fraction and its active constituent from Clerodendrum infortunatum.
Special lectures Delivered at abroad:
38	School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom	2000	“Adaptive Response in Animal Systems”
39	Dept. of Biology, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.	2001	Genotoxicity of Carbendazim – Threshold Doses.

8. 
   Workshops/Refresher Courses attended:
   

Sl. No	Workshop/Refresher Course	Date	Organised by
01	Indo-U.S Workshop on Molecular Mutagenesis	Nov. 6-9 1996	Institute of Genetics & Hospital for Genetic Diseases. Hyderabad
02	UGC Sponsored Refresher Course in Biosciences.	Oct. 24 to Nov.11, 1996	Dept. Of Biosceinces, Mangalore University
03	Workshop on Instructional Standards	Jan 2-3, 1998	Staff Development College, Mangalore University
04	National Workshop on Applications of PCR in diagnosis of bacterial diseases.	May 20-25 2002	Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore
05	National Workshop on “Clinical applications of FISH”,	Aug 16-18, 2004	Institute of Bioinformatics & Applied Biotechnology, ITPL. Bangalore.
06	Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights	Jan 29-30, 2005	Kuvempu University & National Law School of India University, Bangalore
07	Two Days workshop on SIM (Self Instructional Manual)	Nov 2006	Directorate of Distance Education, Kuvempu University.
08	One Day Workshop on “Time Management”.	Sept. 2010	Kuvempu University

8. 
   Administrative Experience:
   

Sl. No.	Position	Organisation	Duration
01	Chairman	P.G. Dept. Of Studies and Research in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. Kuvempu University	20.11.2009 25.01.2012
02	Director	International Students’ Cell, Kuvempu University,	Since Nov. 2011 till date
03	Subject Co-ordinator	Directorate of Distance Education, Kuvempu University	Since 2008 till date

8. 
   Service rendered to other Govt. Depts.:
   

Sl. No.	Position	Organisation / Service	Period
01	Election Officer	Karnataka State Board of Wakfs, Govt. of Karnataka, Bangalore. Successfully conducted election to a local body at Tarikere Town. Chikmaglore Dist. Karnataka	2004

8. 
   A. Membership of University Bodies / Other Institutions: