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Tulika Prasad, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility (AIRF) Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067. Tel (Office): 91-11-26738836/ 26704600/ 26704560 Telefax: 91-11-26738836 E-mail: prasadtulika@hotmail.com, prasadtulika@mail.jnu.ac.in AIRF website: www.jnu.ac.in/AIRF PUBLICATIONS

1. #Kasturi Mukhopadhyay, #Tulika Prasad, Preeti Saini, Thomas J. Pucadyil, Amitabha Chattopadhyay and Rajendra Prasad. (#equal

first authors). Membrane sphingolipid-ergosterol interactions are important determinants of multi drug resistance in Candida albicans. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (2004), 48(5): 1778-1787. [Impact Factor – 4.841; Citations – 69].

2. Shankarling Krishnamurthy, Armel Plaine, Juliane Albert, Tulika Prasad, Rajendra Prasad and Joachim F. Ernst. Dosage-dependent functions of fatty acid desaturase Ole1p in growth and morphogenesis of Candida albicans. Microbiology (2004), 150(6): 1991-2003. [Impact Factor – 3.061; Citations – 25].

3. Tulika Prasad, Preeti Saini, Naseem Akhtar Gaur, Ram A. Vishwakarma, Luqman Ahmad Khan, Qazi Mohd Rizwanul Haq and Rajendra Prasad. Functional analysis of CaIPT1, a sphingolipid biosynthetic gene involved in multidrug resistance and morphogenesis of Candida albicans. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (2005), 49(8): 3442-3452. [Impact Factor – 4.841; Citations – 39].

4. Preeti Saini, Tulika Prasad, Naseem Akhtar Gaur, Suneet Shukla, Sudhakar Jha, Sneha Sudha Komath, Qazi Mohd Rizwanul Haq, Luqman Ahmad Khan and Rajendra Prasad. Alanine scanning of transmembrane helix 11 of Cdr1p ABC antifungal efflux pump of Candida albicans: identification of amino acid residues critical for drug efflux. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2005), 56: 77-86. [Impact Factor – 5.068; Citations – 26].

5. Ritu Pasrija, Shankarling Krishnamurthy, Tulika Prasad, Joachim F. Ernst and Rajendra Prasad. Squalene epoxidase encoded by ERG1 affects morphogenesis and drug susceptibilities of Candida albicans. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2005), 55: 905-913. [Impact Factor – 5.068; Citations – 26].

6. #Ritu Pasrija, #Tulika Prasad and Rajendra Prasad. (#equal first authors). Membrane rafts lipid constituents affect drug susceptibilities and morphogenesis of Candida albicans. Biochemical Society Transaction (2005), 33 (5): 1219-1223. [Impact Factor – 3.989; Citations – 23].

7. Naseem Akhtar Gaur, Raman Manoharlal, Preeti Saini, Tulika Prasad, Gauranga Mukhopadhyay, Milan Hoefer, Joachim Morschhauser and Rajendra Prasad. Expression of the CDR1 efflux pump in clinical Candida albicans isolates is controlled by a negative regulatory element. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (2005), 332(1): 206-14. [Impact Factor – 2.523; Citations – 18].

8. Tulika Prasad, Aparna Chandra, Rajendra Prasad and Chinmay K. Mukhopadhyay. Unexpected link between iron and drug resistance of Candida spp.: iron depletion enhances membrane fluidity and drug diffusion, leading to drug-susceptible cells. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (2006), 50(11): 3597-606. [Impact Factor – 4.841; Citations – 46].

9. Tulika Prasad and Rajendra Prasad. Antifungal resistance in fungal infections in Practise Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of common fungal infections, 4-5 March, 2006 NAMS Proceedings for the Drug resistance in fungal infections Symposia held at Chandigarh, India on 14th Feb, 2006.

10. Nagendra Nath Mishra, Tulika Prasad, Neeraj Sharma, Anurag Payasi and Randhir Singh. Pathogenicity and drug resistance in Candida albicans and other yeast species. Acta Microbiologica Imunologica Hungarica (2007), 54(3): 201-235. [Impact Factor – 0.787; Citations – 61].

11. Nagendra Nath Mishra, Tulika Prasad, Rajendra Prasad, Neeraj Sharma and D. K. Gupta. Membrane fluidity and lipid composition in clinical isolates of Candida albicans isolated from AIDS/ HIV patients. Acta Microbiologica Imunologica Hungarica (2007), 54(4): 367-377. [Impact Factor – 0.787; Citation – 6].

12. #Saif Hameed, #Tulika Prasad, Dibyendu Banerjee, Aparna Chandra, Chinmay K. Mukhopadhyay, Shyamal K. Goswami, Ali Abdullattif, Jyotsna Chandra, Pranab Mukherjee, Mahmoud Ghannoum and Rajendra Prasad. (#equal first authors). Iron deprivation induces EFG1 mediated hyphal development in Candida albicans without affecting biofilm formation. FEMS YEAST RESEARCH (2008), 8(5): 744-755. [Impact Factor – 2.403; Citations – 15].

13. Nagendra Nath Mishra, Tulika Prasad, Neeraj Sharma and D. K. Gupta. Membrane fluidity and lipid composition of fluconazole resistant and susceptible strains of Candida albicans isolated from diabetic patients. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology (2008), 39: 219-225 [Impact Factor – 0.9; Citation – 5].

14. Nagendra Nath Mishra, Tulika Prasad and Randhir Singh. ”Lipidomics: A novel approach for biological system” in Biotechnology- Tissue culture to proteomics, Ed. P. C. Trivedi, Pointer Publisher, Jaipur, Chapter 12, pp 254-261 (2008).

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15. Monika Sharma, Raman Manoharlal Chugh, Suneet Shukla, Sanjeevini Dhamgaye, Tulika Prasad, Suresh V. Ambudkar and Rajendra Prasad. Curcumin modulates efflux by yeast ABC multidrug transporters and is synergistic to antifungals. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (2009), 53(8): 3256-3265. [Impact Factor – 4.841; Citation – 19].

16. Sudhanshu Shukla, Tulika Prasad and Rajendra Prasad. Book Chapter-“Molecular mechanism of antifungal drug resistance” contributed in “Antimicrobial Resistance- The Modern Epidemic. Current Status and Research Issues”; Book on Proceedings for Microbial Resistance IXth Sir Dorabji Tata Symposium held at Bangalore on “Fungal infection in India: Molecular mechanism of emerging antifungal resistance”, Macmillan Publishers (2009), Chapter VI- Basic Research; pp 213-228.

17. Ashutosh Singh, Tulika Prasad, Khyati Kapoor, Ajeet Mandal, Mary Roth, Ruth Welti, Rajendra Prasad. Phospholipidome of Candida: Each species of Candida has distinctive phospholipids molecular species. OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology (2010), 14(6): 665-677. [Impact Factor – 2.441; Citations – 10].

18. Tulika Prasad, Saif Hameed, Raman Manoharlal Chugh, Sudipta Biswas, Chinmay Mukhopadhyay, Shyamal K. Goswami and Rajendra Prasad. Morphogenic Regulator EFG1 Affects Drug Susceptibilities of Pathogenic Candida albicans. FEMS YEAST RESEARCH (2010), 10(5): 587-96. [Impact Factor – 2.403; Citations – 8].

19. Tulika Prasad, Sunesh Sethumadhavan and Zeeshan Fatima. Research Article “Altered ergosterol biosynthetic pathway – an alternate multidrug resistance mechanism independent of drug efflux pump in human pathogenic fungi C. albicans” in “Science against microbial pathogens: communicating current research and technological advances.” Microbiology Series Vol. 2, Publisher Formatex Research Center (2011), Ed. Antonio Méndez-Vilas, pp 757-768.

Source from where citation data has been collected: Google Scholar and http://www.scopus.com/scopus/. FELLOWSHIP/ AWARDS

1. Selected for Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award for the year 2008 by DBT. 2. Selected by Ranbaxy Science Foundation as Ranbaxy Science Scholar, 2008. 3. NIH Visiting Fellowship at Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, Washington DC, USA for the year 2008-09. 4. Awarded Best Poster award for poster presentation titled “Morphogenic regulator Efg1p of Candida albicans affects drug susceptibilities

independent of drug efflux pumps” at 6th Annual Research Festival. Biosparks 08, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India between 14-15 March, 2008.

5. Awarded DBT travel award for Young Scientists participating in International Conference in FEB, 2008. 6. Awarded Research Associateship (RA-3) conducted by the CSIR, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India (2008)

from 1st April, 2008. 7. DBT (Department of Biotechnology) funded Research Associate and Extended Senior Research Fellow between 2005 - March, 2008. 8. Work among 8 selected for award for appreciation which was presented as a poster entitled “Unexpected link between iron and drug

resistance of Candida: iron depletion enhances membrane fluidity and drug diffusion leading to drug susceptible cells” at Joint Bilateral Seminar on “Antimicrobial Drug Resistance And The Development Of New Antibiotics” held at Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India organized by INSA and German Academy of Science, Leopoldina, between 22-25 November, 2007.

9. Won Best Speaker Award for Oral presentation titled “Functional analysis of CaIPT1, a sphingolipid biosynthetic gene involved in multidrug resistance and morphogenesis of Candida albicans” at 5th Annual Research Festival. Biosparks 07, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India between 23-24 February, 2007.

10. Won Best Poster Award for poster titled “Unexpected link between iron and drug resistance of Candida: iron depletion enhances membrane fluidity and drug diffusion leading to drug susceptible cells” at 5th Annual Research Festival. Biosparks 07, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India between 23-24 February, 2007.

11. Selected for Young Scientist Award Lecture presentation and also won Best Poster Award for poster titled “Unexpected link between iron and drug resistance of Candida: iron depletion enhances membrane fluidity and drug diffusion leading to drug susceptible cells” at International Conference on the Biology of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi held at National Chemical Laboratory and Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India between 15-17 February, 2007.

12. Won Best Poster Award for poster titled “Unexpected link between iron and drug resistance of Candida: iron depletion enhances membrane fluidity and drug diffusion leading to drug susceptible cells” at 75th Society of Biological Chemists (SBC) Meeting held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India between 8-11 December, 2006.

13. Won 1st Runners up for Dr C. R. Krishna Murti Young Scientist Award Presentation, 2006, presentation titled “Membrane lipids affect drug resistance and morphogenesis in Candida albicans” at Biochemistry Division, Central Drug Research Institute of India (CDRI), Lucknow, India held on 7th March, 2006.

14. Poster was among the 16 posters selected at International level for $1000 Student Award for Poster Presentation at ISHAM, 2003 Meeting held at San Antonio, Texas, USA between 25-29 May, 2003.

15. Poster was selected for $500 student award at the 6th American Society for Microbiology Meeting on Candida and Candidiasis held between 13-17 Jan, 2002 at Tampa, Florida, USA.

16. Qualified for Research Fellowship conducted by the CSIR, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India (2001). 17. Selected at International level among 16 candidates for the Workshop on “High level expression of heterologous proteins in yeast”

conducted by ICGEB (International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology), New Delhi (29 Oct-9 Nov, 2001). 18. Won the Best Poster Award at the NCBS International Symposium on Cell and Developmental Biology, held at National Center for

Biological Sciences, TATA Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India for the poster titled “Altered membrane fluidity of Candida albicans in glycosylation mutants” (9-12 Jan, 2001).

19. Qualified GATE ’98 conducted by IIT, India. 20. Received the Presidency College Student Scholarship for two years during M.Sc. and for three years during B.Sc.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nanoparticles & their antimicrobial properties. Lipid biology with respect to drug resistance in Candida albicans and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

EXPERTISE OF TECHNIQUES: 1. Biochemistry

a) Chromatographic techniques including TLC, GLC, HPLC. b) Membrane Lipid isolation and characterization (membrane lipid asymmetry, sterol, membrane fluidity etc.) c) Absorbance spectroscopy d) Fluorescence spectroscopy e) Microscopy (fluorescence, confocal and compound) f) Flow Cytometry g) High cell density fermentation (shake flask and fermenter/ bioreactor) h) Mass spectrometry (GCMS & LCMS) related to lipid biology

2. Molecular biology

a) Bacterial and yeast cloning b) Northern, Southern and Western analysis c) SDS PAGE d) Transformation techniques in bacteria and yeasts (Candida, Pichia) e) Preparation of competent cells by electroporation, lithium acetate method, calcium chloride method f) Use of Pichia pastoris as a model eukaryotic system for high level expression of heterologous protein g) Construction of expression plasmids, yeast gene disruption and reintegration cassettes h) Generation of multicopy recombinant strains i) Use of inducible and constitutive expression system j) Optimization of protein expression levels k) PCR techniques l) ELISA based determination of protein expression levels m) Purification of His-tagged protein by Ni-NTA affinity chromatography

3. Other techniques & Computers and computational biology

a) Microbiological culture techniques and Drug testing including determination of Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (MIC), Agar Cup Assay, Spot testing for drugs, Filter Disc Assay, Drug binding assays, Drug transport assays, Yeast morphogenesis assays

b) Chemical synthesis and characterization of silver Nanoparticles c) Transmission and Scanning Electron Microscopy d) Knowledge about Word processors and graphics. Working knowledge about all major computational biology programmes.

CURRENT DUTIES: I) Academic Activities: i) Supervision of research students for Ph. D. ii) Carrying out research work with intramural and extramural research grants. iii) Theoretical and practical teaching on AIRF related topics to Masters/ M. Phil. and Ph.D. students of other Science schools of JNU and researchers outside JNU. iv) Guiding students from outside JNU for their dissertation (B.Sc./ B. Tech./ B. Pharm./ M.Sc./ M. Tech.) on (A) techniques and applications of existing AIRF instruments and (B) lipid based drug resistance mechanisms in Candida albicans and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. v) Resource person for UGC Academic Staff College at JNU for AIRF related topics and latest techniques and applications of Analytical Instruments in Interdisciplinary Area/ Allied Sciences for Orientation and Refresher Courses conducted for the Assistant Professors from Academic Institutions all over India. II) Intellectual support: i) Providing intellectual inputs for analysis of the data, produced as a result of usage of AIRF and inputs for designing future experiments or troubleshooting the related problems for the users in my area of expertise or helping in coordination of the users with the respective Faculty in charges. ii) Inputs for AIRF in conducting/ organizing trainings/ workshops for researchers and faculty members.

MEMBERSHIP Member of American Society for Microbiology. Life Member of The Cytometry Society, India.

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Project Mentor/ Advisor for Innovation Research Project of Ramjas College, University of Delhi, New Delhi for 2012-13; Project Title: In vitro effect of medicinal plant extracts against human fungal pathogen Candida albicans, Project Co-ordinators: Dr. R. R. Goyal (Associate Prof., Dept. of Chemistry, Ramjas College), Dr. Hardeep Kaur (Assistant Prof., Dept. of Zoology, Ramjas College) and Dr. Amit Bhattacharya (Assistant Prof., Dept. of Zoology, Ramjas College).

External Guide for two Ph.D. students at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, UP. External Expert for Student Review Committee (SRC) for 2 Ph.D. students of Department of Biotechnology, Delhi Technological University,

New Delhi.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS DEGREE INSTITUTION FIELD(S) YEAR

Post-Doctoral Experience 1) Research Associate funded by

CSIR (2008 April-2008 August) 2) Research Associate funded by

DBT (2006 June-2008 March) 3) Extended SRF funded by DBT

(2005 September-2006 May)

School of Life Sciences & Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, JNU. Joint Indo-German project between Prof.

Rajendra Prasad, SLS, JNU, New Delhi, India and Prof. Joachim Ernst, Heinrich-Heine-Universitatsstr., Dusseldorf, Germany.

Collaborative project between Prof.

Rajendra Prasad, SLS and Prof. Chinmay Mukhopadhyay, then Chairperson, SCMM.

Yeast Membrane and Molecular Biology & Drug resistance Finding the novel link between morphogenesis and drug resistance in Candida albicans. Finding the novel link between morphogenesis, iron and drug resistance in Candida albicans.

2005-2008 2005-2008

Ph.D. Title of Ph. D. thesis, “Functional relevance of membrane lipid asymmetry and fluidity in C. albicans, a pathogenic yeast.

Supervision of Prof. Rajendra Prasad at School of Life Sciences (SLS), Jawaharlal Nehru University and Dr. Luqman Ahmad Khan, Dept. of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Membrane Biology and Yeast Molecular Biology and Multi Drug Resistance

Ph.D. (thesis submitted in 2005 and degree awarded in 2006).

M.Sc. Presidency College, Calcutta University, Calcutta.

Botany; Special: Plant Molecular Biology & Biochemistry

1998-99

B.Sc. Presidency College, Calcutta University, Calcutta.

Botany, Zoology and Chemistry. 1996

RESEARCH/ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE YEAR UNIVERSITY/ PLACE OF

WORK DEGREE/ TYPE OF WORK

1998-99 Calcutta University, Calcutta. M.Sc. – Project/ Review Work. 2000-2005 Jawaharlal Nehru University and

Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Ph.D. (thesis submitted in 2005 and degree awarded in 2006).

2001 International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi.

Practical course on Heterologous protein expression in yeast.

2000-2003 School of Life Sciences (SLS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Worked for collaborative project between Prof. Rajendra Prasad and Dr. Arnold S. Bayer, LA Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA on characterization of physical state of membrane and membrane lipids and their importance for drug transporters in Staphylococcus aureus.

2001-2005 School of Life Sciences (SLS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Worked for the collaborative CSIR research project “Functional roles of ABC………….gene(s).

2002 Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad.

Worked for one month for collaborative project in Prof. Amitabha Chattopadhyay’s laboratory and also worked for his Project on lipid characterization of bovine hippocampal membranes at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

2005 National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi.

Worked for two months in Dr. R. A. Vishwakarma’s laboratory for collaborative projecty and worked as Consultant in his laboratory for a month after Ph. D. submission.

2004-2008 School of Life Sciences (SLS) and Worked in collaboration between Prof. Rajendra Prasad, SLS and Prof.

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Special Centre for Molecular Medicine (SCMM), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Chinmay Mukhopadhyay, SCMM.

2006 Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biochemistry, Technical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.

Worked for a month for collaborative project between Prof. Rajendra Prasad, SLS and Prof. Slawomir Milewski,. University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.

2001-2008 School of Life Sciences (SLS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Worked on joint Indo-German project between Prof. Rajendra Prasad, SLS, JNU, New Delhi, India and Prof. Joachim Ernst, Heinrich-Heine-Universitatsstr., Dusseldorf, Germany.

2000-2008 School of Life Sciences (SLS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Teaching and assistance for M.Sc. Biochemistry and Membrane Biology Practical classes.

Since 2008 August-till date Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Teaching and Research as Assistant Professor in the newly developed Special Laboratory Facility for Advanced Analytical Research.

POSTERS/ ORAL PRESENTATIONS

1. Presentation titled “Characterization of novel mechanism of drug resistance Mediated by EFG1, a morphogenic regulator in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” at ICGEB, New Delhi organized by Department of Biotechnology for DBT IYBA on 19 June, 2013.

2. Poster presentation by my Ph.D. student titled “Characterization of molecular mechanism of silver nanoparticles in pathogenic yeast, Candida albicans” at Science Festival, 2013 held at Jawaharlal Nehru University Convention Centre on 28 February, 2013.

3. Presentations by collaborative research undergraduate students of Innovative Project of Ramjas College, University of Delhi on “In vitro effect of medicinal plant extracts against human fungal pathogen Candida albicans” at International Conference on Interface between Chemistry and Environment (ICICE) 13-14 December, 2012 at Ramjas College, University of Delhi, New Delhi; National Seminar on Current Environmental Challenges and Possible Solutions 15-16 February, 2013 at Ramjas College, University of Delhi, New Delhi; National Symposium On Recent Trends In Innovative Research At Under-Graduation between 28 Feb-2 March, 2013 at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, New Delhi and National Conference On Redefining Science Teaching: Future of Education 7-9 March, 2013 at Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, New Delhi.

4. Presentation titled “Characterization of novel mechanism of drug resistance Mediated by EFG1, a morphogenic regulator in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” at Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi organized by Department of Biotechnology for DBT IYBA on 3 July, 2012.

5. Poster presentation titled “Altered ergosterol biosynthesis is an alternate multidrug resistance mechanism independent of drug efflux pumps in C. albicans” at 11th ASM Conference on Candida and Candidiasis held at San Francisco, California USA between March 29 to April 2, 2012.

6. Poster presentation titled “Altered ergosterol biosynthetic pathway – an alternate multidrug resistance mechanism independent of drug efflux pump in human pathogenic fungi, Candida albicans” at National Workshop on Spectroscopy and Microscopy in Biology and Chemistry held at ICGEB, JNU and IIT, Delhi between November 14 - 18, 2011, co organized by JNU (School of Physical Sciences), ICGEB, IIT Delhi and TIFR.

7. Presentation titled “Characterization of novel mechanism of drug resistance Mediated by EFG1, a morphogenic regulator in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” at ICGEB, New Delhi organized by Department of Biotechnology for DBT IYBA on 19 May, 2011.

8. Poster presentation titled “Lipidome analysis of Candida using high throughput mass spectrometry-based shotgun approach” at The Indian Proteomic Society (Annual Meeting of the Proteomics Society, India) held at New Delhi between 3-5 April, 2011 by one of my collaborative students.

9. Oral presentation titled “Interspecies Lipidomic Comparison of Candida” at “IMC9: The Biology of Fungi” held in Edinburgh, Scotland between 1 - 6 August, 2010 by one of my collaborative Ph.D. students.

10. Presentation titled “Characterization of novel mechanism of drug resistance Mediated by EFG1, a morphogenic regulator in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” at IIT Guwahati, organized by Department of Biotechnology for DBT IYBA on 20 May, 2010.

11. Poster presentation titled “Interspecies Comparison of Candida Lipidomes” at FEBS Workshop on "Microbial Lipids: From Genomics to Lipidomics" held in Vienna, Austria, 13-15 May, 2010 by one of my collaborative Ph.D. students.

12. Poster presentation titled “Morphogenic regulator Efg1p affects drug susceptibilities” in Candida albicans” at 10th American Society for Microbiology (ASM) conference on Candida and Candidiasis held at Miami, Florida, USA between 22-26 March, 2010.

13. Presented Poster titled “Lipidome of Candida species” at SBC meeting held in NCCS, Pune between 30 October - 1 November, 2009 by one of my collaborative Ph.D. students.

14. Poster presentation titled “Fattyome analysis of isogenic azole resistant and sensitive clinical isolates of pathogenic Candida albicans” at 9th Yeast Lipid Conference held in Berlin, Germany, 21-23 May, 2009 by one of my collaborative Ph.D. students.

15. Poster presentation titled “Morphogenic regulator Efg1p of Candida albicans affects drug susceptibilities independent of drug efflux pumps” at Third FEBS Advanced Lecture Course on Molecular Mechanisms of Host-Pathogen Interactions and Virulence held in La Colle sur Loup, France between 2-9 May, 2009.

16. Presentation titled “Characterization of novel mechanism of drug resistance Mediated by EFG1, a morphogenic regulator in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” at Department of Biotechnology, CGO Complex, New Delhi on 28 January, 2009.

17. Oral presentation titled “Finding novel strategies to combat drug resistance in Candida” at Ranbaxy R & D Centre III, Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, Gurgaon, Haryana on 4 December, 2008.

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18. Poster presentation titled "Cellular iron levels affect drug resistance and morphogenesis of Candida albicans” at 9th American Society for Microbiology (ASM) conference on Candida and Candidiasis held at Jersey City, New Jersey, USA between 24-28 March, 2008.

19. Delivered talk at Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, Washington DC, USA in April, 2008. 20. Oral presentation titled "Cellular iron level is a novel determinant of drug resistance and morphogenesis in Candida albicans” at

6th Annual Research Festival. Biosparks 08, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India between 14-15 March, 2008.

21. Poster presentation titled "Morphogenic regulator Efg1p of Candida albicans affects drug susceptibilities independent of drug efflux pumps” at 6th Annual Research Festival. Biosparks 08, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India between 14-15 March, 2008.

22. Poster presentation titled "Unveiling the role of curcumin in multidrug resistance of Candida albicans” at 6th Annual Research Festival. Biosparks 08, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India between 14-15 March, 2008.

23. Poster presentation entitled “Unexpected link between iron and drug resistance of Candida: iron depletion enhances membrane fluidity and drug diffusion leading to drug susceptible cells” at Joint Bilateral Seminar on “Antimicrobial Drug Resistance And The Development Of New Antibiotics” held at Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India between 22-25 November, 2007.

24. Oral presentation titled “Functional analysis of CaIPT1, a sphingolipid biosynthetic gene involved in multidrug resistance and morphogenesis of Candida albicans” at 5th Annual Research Festival. Biosparks 07, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India between 23-24 February, 2007.

25. Poster presentation titled “Membrane raft lipid constituents affect drug susceptibilities of Candida albicans” at 5th Annual Research Festival. Biosparks 07, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India between 23-24 February, 2007.

26. Poster presentation titled “Unexpected link between iron and drug resistance of Candida: iron depletion enhances membrane fluidity and drug diffusion leading to drug susceptible cells” at 5th Annual Research Festival. Biosparks 07, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India between 23-24 February, 2007.

27. Poster presentation titled “Membrane raft lipid constituents affect drug susceptibilities of Candida albicans” at International Conference on the Biology of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi held at National Chemical Laboratory and Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India between 15-17 February, 2007.

28. Poster presentation titled “Unexpected link between iron and drug resistance of Candida: iron depletion enhances membrane fluidity and drug diffusion leading to drug susceptible cells” at International Conference on the Biology of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi held at National Chemical Laboratory and Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India between 15-17 February, 2007.

29. Poster presentation titled “Unexpected link between iron and drug resistance of Candida: iron depletion enhances membrane fluidity and drug diffusion leading to drug susceptible cells” at 75th Society of Biological Chemists (SBC) Meeting held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India between 8-11 December, 2006.

30. Oral presentation as an invited speaker titled “Iron – A Novel Modulator of Multidrug Resistance in Candida” at Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biochemistry, Technical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland on 23rd June, 2006.

31. Oral presentation titled “Iron – A Novel Modulator of Multidrug Resistance in Candida” at 7th American Society for Microbiology (ASM) conference on Candida and Candidiasis held at Denver, Colorado, USA between 13-17 March, 2006.

32. Oral presentation for Dr C. R. Krishna Murti Young Scientist Award 2006 titled “Membrane lipids affect drug resistance and morphogenesis in Candida albicans” at Biochemistry Division, Central Drug Research Institute of India (CDRI), Lucknow, India held on 7th March, 2006.

33. Poster titled “Status of membrane lipids in clinical isolates of Candida albicans: its implications in multidrug resistance” at 1ST Singapore Lipid Symposium held at National University of Singapore, Singapore between 17-19 February, 2006.

34. Oral presentation as an invited speaker titled “Functional analysis of CaIPT1, a sphingolipid biosynthetic gene involved in multidrug resistance and morphogenesis of Candida albicans” at International Conference on Biology of Yeasts held at IISc, Bangalore, India between 27-29 September, 2005.

35. Oral presentation as an invited speaker titled “Membrane lipids affect drug transporters in Candida albicans” at 23rd SMYTE (Small Meeting on Yeast Transport and Energetics) held at Manesar, Haryana, India between 23-26 September, 2005.

36. Oral presentation titled “Hypoxia- regulated gene expression and filamentation in Candida albicans” at FEBS Advanced Lecture Course –Human Fungal Pathogens: Molecular mechanisms of Host-Pathogen Interactions and Virulence held at La Colle-sur-Loup, France between 21-28 May, 2005.

37. Oral presentation titled “Fluctuations in membrane rafts lipid constituents affect drug susceptibilities and morphogenesis of Candida albicans” at 7th Yeast Lipid Conference held at Swansea Clinical School, UK between 12-14 May, 2005.

38. Poster titled "Membrane sphingolipid-ergosterol interactions are important determinants of multidrug resistance in Candida albicans" at 7th American Society for Microbiology (ASM) conference on Candida and Candidiasis held at Austin, Texas, USA between 18-22 March, 2004.

39. Poster titled "Dosage -dependent functions of fatty acid desaturase Ole1p in growth and morphogenesis of Candida albicans” at 7th American Society for Microbiology (ASM) conference on Candida and Candidiasis held at Austin, Texas, USA between 18-22 March, 2004.

40. Oral presentation titled “Membrane sphingolipid- ergosterol interactions are important determinants of multidrug resistance in Candida albicans” at Biosparks, 2004, 2nd Annual Research Festival held at School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, India between 14-15 February, 2004.

41. Poster presentation titled “Altered membrane lipid environment affects drug resistance in C. albicans” at the 15th Congress of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM), held at San Antonio, Texas, USA between 25-29 May, 2003.

42. Poster titled “Disruption of the mnhA-G Na+/H+ antiporter operon is associated with resistance to the microbicidal activity of thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein-I in Staphylococcus aureus” at the 103rd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology held at Washington DC, USA between 18-22 May, 2003.

43. Poster titled “Altered membrane lipid environment affects drug resistance in yeast cells” in the “Yeast 2003, an International Meeting” on Yeast Biology held at the Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India between 20-22 February, 2003.

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44. Poster titled “Phosphatidylserine externalization in aged Candida albicans cells – a possible mechanism for apoptosis” in the 6th American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Meeting on Candida and Candidiasis held at Tampa, Florida, USA between 13-17 January, 2002.

45. Poster titled “Cdr1p, a multidrug ABC transporter of Candida albicans is sensitive to membrane lipid environment” in the 6th American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Meeting on Candida and Candidiasis held at Tampa, Florida, USA between 13-17 January, 2002.

46. Poster titled “Altered membrane fluidity of C. albicans in O-glycosylation mutants” at NCBS Symposium on Cell Developmental Biology held at National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bangalore, India between 9-12 January, 2001.

47. Poster presentation titled "O-glycosylation mutants of Candida albicans have an altered membrane fluidity” at 24th All India Cell Biology Conference held at School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi between 24-26 November, 2000.

PLATFORM PRESENTATIONS/ INVITED TALKS

1. Invited lecture titled “Introduction to the State of Art Equipments at AIRF-JNU” for 15th Refresher Course in Biotechnology at Academic Staff College, JNU organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Biotechnology; J.N.U. on 30 July, 2013.

2. Invited lecture titled “Microscopy & Flow Cytometry as Complimentary tools in Current Biotech Research” for 15th Refresher Course in Biotechnology at Academic Staff College, JNU organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Biotechnology; J.N.U. on 29 July, 2013.

3. Presentation titled “Characterization of novel mechanism of drug resistance Mediated by EFG1, a morphogenic regulator in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” at ICGEB, New Delhi organized by Department of Biotechnology for DBT IYBA on 19 June, 2013.

4. Invited lecture titled “Advanced Research Tools of Science & Technology” for 85th Orientation Course organized by the Academic Staff College (J.N.U.) of the University Grants Commission on 15 April, 2013.

5. Classroom lecture for 18th Refresher Course in Life Sciences at AIRF organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Life Sciences; J.N.U. on 23-24 January, 2013.

6. Classroom Lecture on “Applications of Analytical Instruments in Research” for higher secondary students of DPS R. K. Puram at AIRF on 10 October, 2012.

7. Classroom lecture for 12th Refresher Course in Physics at AIRF organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Physical Sciences; J.N.U. on 4 October, 2012.

8. Lecture titled, “Lipid based characterization of the MTB resistant and sensitive strains” at OSDD 4th Annual Meet between 14-16 September, 2012 at CSIR, HQ, New Delhi and CSIR-HRDC, Ghaziabad.

9. Lecture and practical hands on training for JNU researchers on “Applications of Gas Chromatography- Mass Spectrometry” between 13-14 August, 2012

10. Presentation titled “Characterization of novel mechanism of drug resistance Mediated by EFG1, a morphogenic regulator in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” at Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi organized by Department of Biotechnology for DBT IYBA on 3 July, 2012.

11. Presentation titled “Lipid based characterization of the MTB resistant and sensitive strains” at OSDD-CSIR, Anusandhan Bhawan, New Delhi on 9 July, 2012.

12. Classroom lecture for participants of the Summer Research Programme 2011 at AIRF organized by School of Life Sciences, JNU on 22 June, 2012.

13. Invited classroom lecture for the selected students of Departments of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Zoology of Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi on 2 June, 2012.

14. Lecture for the students of Masters Programme in Plant Biotechnology of TERI University on Advanced Techniques on Analytical Instruments on 25 April, 2012.

15. Delivered talk at National Institute of Health/ NCI-Frederick, Washington DC, USA between 17-21 March, 2012 and at Division of Infectious Diseases, UCLA between 22-28 March, 2012.

16. Classroom lecture for 17th Refresher Course in Life Sciences at AIRF organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Life Sciences; J.N.U. on 21 January, 2011.

17. Classroom lecture for 13th Refresher Course in Biotechnology at AIRF organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Biotechnology; J.N.U. on 17 August, 2011.

18. Invited talk titled “Characterization of novel determinants of MDR to find strategies for its reversal” in the Indo-German Conference on pathogenic fungi involving selective scientists and clinicians of India and Germany held at JNCASR, Bangalore during Aug 01 - 03, 2011.

19. Classroom lecture for participants of the Summer Research Programme 2011 at AIRF organized by School of Life Sciences, JNU on 28 & 29 June, 2011.

20. Presentation titled “Characterization of novel mechanism of drug resistance Mediated by EFG1, a morphogenic regulator in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” at ICGEB, New Delhi organized by Department of Biotechnology for DBT IYBA on 19 May, 2011.

21. Classroom lecture for 10th Refresher Course in Physics at AIRF organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Physical Sciences; J.N.U. on 21 February, 2011.

22. Classroom lecture for 16th Refresher Course in Life Sciences at AIRF organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Life Sciences; J.N.U. on 21 January, 2011.

23. Classroom lecture for 71st Orientation Course at AIRF organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission, JNU Campus, New Delhi on 29 November, 2010.

24. Invited classroom lecture titled “Analytical Instruments: Tools for Modern Day Research” at UGC Academic Staff College, JNU Campus, New Delhi for 71st Orientation Course on 29 November, 2010.

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25. Classroom lecture for 12th Refresher Course in Biotechnology at AIRF organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Biotechnology; J.N.U. on 18 August, 2010.

26. Invited classroom lecture titled “Microscopy and Flow Cytometry as Complimentary Tools in Modern Research Applications of Biotechnology” at Academic Staff College for 12th Refresher Course in Biotechnology on 17 August, 2010.

27. Classroom lecture for participants of the Summer Research Programme 2010 at AIRF organized by School of Life Sciences, JNU on 22 & 23 June, 2010.

28. Presentation titled “Characterization of novel mechanism of drug resistance Mediated by EFG1, a morphogenic regulator in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” at IIT Guwahati, organized by Department of Biotechnology for DBT IYBA on 20 May, 2010.

29. Classroom lecture for 15th Refresher Course in Environmental Sciences at AIRF organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Environmental Sciences; J.N.U. on 20 April, 2010.

30. Classroom lecture for 9th Refresher Course in Physics at AIRF organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Physical Sciences; J.N.U. on 10 February, 2010.

31. Classroom lecture for 15th Refresher Course in Life Sciences at AIRF organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Life Sciences; J.N.U. on 12 January, 2010.

32. Invited talk titled "Reactive Oxygen species as modulator of drug resistance in yeasts” at 7th Annual Research Festival, Biosparks 2008, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India between 6-7 March, 2009.

33. Invited talk titled "New strategies to combat drug resistance in Candida” at JNU Science Festival 2009, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India between 27-28 February, 2009.

34. Oral presentation titled “Characterization of novel mechanism of drug resistance Mediated by EFG1, a morphogenic regulator in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” at Department of Biotechnology, CGO Complex, New Delhi on 28 January, 2009.

35. Oral presentation titled “Finding novel strategies to combat drug resistance in Candida” at Ranbaxy R & D Centre III, Ranbaxy research laboratories, Gurgaon, Haryana on 4 December, 2008.

REVIEWER IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

1. Reviewer of Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials (published by BioMed Central); Microbiological Research (Elsevier journal).

RESEARCH GUIDANCE IMPARTED WITH DURATION: Supervision of students for Ph.D.- Ongoing: 1. V. S. Radhakrishnani- AIRF (Since 3 May, 2010 till date; Thesis Title: “Developing antifungal agents and characterizing their mechanism of action in opportunistic pathogenic yeast, Candida albicans”) 2. Richa Singh-AIRF (Feb 2013 till date; Thesis Title: “Characterization of cell envelope fluidity and lipid mediated drug resistance in human pathogen, Mycobacterium tuberculosis”) 3. Arvind Kumar (Since Sept 2013 till date; Thesis Title: “Method Development and validation for estimation of Drugs in Biological Fluids by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry”) Supervision of Junior/ Senior Research Fellows: 1. Sunesh Sethumadhavan- AIRF (26 April, 2010 to 30 September, 2012) 2. Roshni Lakra- AIRF (3 May to 31 October, 2010) 3. Nisha Tapryal- AIRF (8 Dec, 2009 to 25 April, 2010) Joint-supervision of student for Ph. D.- Ongoing: 1. Vikas Somani- School of Biotechnology (2010 till date) Guiding post doctoral fellow: 1. Dr. Zeeshan Fatima- Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility (Since 1 November, 2010 - Jan 2012) Co-guiding post doctoral fellow: 1. Dr. Absarul Haque- Special Centre for Molecular Medicine and School of Life Sciences (2008 Aug- 2009 July) B.Sc./ B. Tech./ B. Pharm./ M.Sc./ M. Tech. Dissertation training: 1. Dissertation titled “An overview of the Principles & Techniques in Advanced Analytical Instrumentation” for Ms. Priyanka Manoj Kumar, student of VI semester B. Tech./ M. Tech. (Dual Degree) Biotechnology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University, Noida, UP between 25 May to 10 July, 2009. 2. Dissertation titled “Handling of Various Analytical Instruments” for Ms. Purva Chopra, student of IV semester B. Tech./ M. Tech. (Dual Degree) Biotechnology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University, Noida, UP between 25 May to 10 July, 2009. 3. Dissertation titled “An overview of the Techniques in Advanced Analytical Instrumentation” for Mr. Mohit Chaudhary, student of II year B. Tech. Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, UP between 8 June to 8 July, 2009. 4. Dissertation titled “Advanced Analytical Instrumentation Research Techniques and their Applications” for Ms. N. Harika, student of IIIrd year B. Tech, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh between 4 May to 5 June, 2010. 5. Dissertation titled “Overview of the Applications of Techniques in Advanced Analytical Instrumentation” for Ms. Sonal Agarwal, student of 6th Semester, B. Tech. Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, UP between 25 May to 25 June, 2010.

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6. Dissertation titled “Principles & Applications of Advanced Analytical Instruments in Research” for Ms. Meenal Mathur, student of 4th Semester, B. Tech. Biotechnology/ Bioinformatics, Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Institute, Akurdi, Pune between 28 May to 28 June, 2010. 7. Dissertation titled “Principles & Research Applications of Advanced Analytical Instrumentation” for Ms. Pooja Chauhan, student of 4th Semester, B. Tech. Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, UP between 25 May to 1 July, 2010. 8. Collaborative guidance for summer project on “Basic Principles & Applications of High End Analytical Instruments” for students (10 B. Sc. Biomedical Sciences, Acharya Narendra Dev College, New Delhi and one B. Pharm, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi) between 8 June to 10 July, 2010. 9. M.Sc. dissertation project titled (A) “Study of Advanced Analytical Instruments and their applications in Life Science Research” & (B) “Study of antimicrobial property of silver nanoparticles in gram negative bacteria E. coli” for Ms. Dyuti Purkait, student of M.Sc., Biotechnology, Lovely Professional University, Punjab between January to May, 2011 at AIRF by Dr. Tulika Prasad, AIRF, JNU. 10. M.Sc. dissertation project titled (A) “Applications of Analytical Instruments in Modern Day” & (B) “Antimicrobial silver nanoparticles: A case study on Candida albicans” for Ms. Abhamayee Sahu, student of M.Sc., Microbiology, Lovely Professional University, Punjab between January to May, 2011 at AIRF by Dr. Tulika Prasad, AIRF, JNU. 11. Collaborative supervision for M.Sc. dissertation project titled “Comparing the difference in the metabolome of Escherichia coli after treatment with enzyme inhibitor” for Mr. Debojyoti Mazumdar, student of M.Sc., Biotechnology, KIIT School of Biotechnology, Campus- 11, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha between 2010-2011 at AIRF 12. Collaborative supervision for M.Sc. dissertation project titled “Experimental Measurement and Computer Simulation of the E. coli Metabolic Profile” for Ms. Neha Rohatgi, student of M.Sc., Biotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu between 2010-2011 at AIRF. 13. Part covering the Principles and Applications of Flow Cytometry of the Summer Training Project titled “Applications of Advanced Analytical Instrumentation” for Ms. Seep, B. Tech. Biotechnology, G.G.S.I.P. University, New Delhi, during June and July, 2010. 14. Dissertation titled “Effect of silver nanoparticles on drug resistance in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” for Mr. Abhishek Ankur, student of 4th Semester, M. Tech. Biotechnology, Integral University, Lucknow, UP between January to June, 2012. 15. Dissertation titled “Effect of natural antimicrobial extracts on sterol and fatty acid composition of Candida albicans, an opportunistic pathogenic yeast” for Ms. Anubhuti Jha, student of III semester M. Sc. Biotechnology, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, UP between 10 December, 2012 to 29 April, 2013. 16. Dissertation titled “Drug susceptibility pattern of morphogenic mutants of Candida albicans, an opportunistic pathogenic yeast” for Mr. Samir Kumar, student of M. Sc. Biochemistry, Dolphin Institute of Biomedical & Natural Sciences, H.N.B. Garhwal Central University, Uttarakhand between 1 April, 2013 to 30 June, 2013. CONFERENCES/ MEETINGS/ WORKSHOPS/ COURSES ATTENDED 1. National Seminar on “Natural Products: Application in Human Welfare on 27 June, 2013 at Ramjas College, University of Delhi-110007 under Innovation Project RC101 titled “In vitro Effect of Medicinal Plant Extract against human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans”. 2. JNU SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2013 held at JNU Convention Centre on 28 February, 2013. 3. 5th Annual Meeting of the Cytometry Society between 12-13 October, 2012 and 13th Indo-US Workshop on Applications of Flow Cytometry between 14-17 October, 2012 at Centre for Research in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology University of Calcutta, Kolkata and Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research, Govt. of West Bengal, Kolkata. 4. Seminar and Technical Interaction on Confocal Raman Technology held at School of Physical Sciences on 9 August, 2012. 5. Workshop on Flow Cytometry and Cell sorting organized at Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad on 11-12 May, 2012. 6. 11th ASM Conference on Candida and Candidiasis held at San Francisco, California USA between March 29 to April 2, 2012. 7. Scientific visit for collaborative exchange to National Institute of Health/ NCI-Frederick, Washington DC, USA between 17-21 March, 2012, Division of Infectious Diseases, UCLA between 22-28 March, 2012 and Kansas Lipidomics Research Centre, USA between 3-9 April, 2012. 8. 5th Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Medicine held at JNU, New Delhi between 17-18 February, 2012. 9. 1st Annual workshop on Flow Cytometry at Cancer Research Institute, Chennai between January 19 - 21, 2012. 10. Training on applications on Live Cell Imaging and Spinning Disc Confocal at Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata between 25 to 29 December, 2011. 11. National Workshop on Spectroscopy and Microscopy in Biology and Chemistry held at ICGEB, JNU and IIT, Delhi between November 14 - 18, 2011, co organized by JNU (School of Physical Sciences), ICGEB, IIT Delhi and TIFR. 12. National workshop on Super Resolution Microscopy at National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore held at NCBS Campus between Sept 25 - 27, 2011. 13. Indo-German Conference on pathogenic fungi involving selective scientists and clinicians of India and Germany held at JNCASR, Bangalore during Aug 01 - 03, 2011 14. 13th Refresher Course in Biotechnology at Academic Staff College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi between July 25 to August 19, 2011. 15. “The Indian Proteomics Conference (IPCON-2011)” - 2nd Annual Meeting of Proteomics Society (India) between 3 - 5 April, 2011 followed by workshop at AIRF between 6 - 8 April, 2011. 16. Training program at Perkin Elmer Centre for Excellence for Analytical Sciences Laboratory at Hyderabad between 26 February to 1 March, 2011. 17. Workshop with “hands on” training on “High Speed Multiphoton Confocal Microscopy and Imaging 2010” conducted at National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar, Haryana in collaboration with Nikon Corporation, Japan; Towa Optics, New Delhi and Coherent Scientific, Australia represented by Laser Science, Mumbai between 22 - 23 November, 2010. 18. International 28th Small Meeting on Yeast Transport & Energetics (SMYTE) held at Manesar, Haryana between 23rd -27th September, 2010. 19. Scientific visit for collaborative exchange to NEHU, Shillong and Department of Education for Science & Mathematics, NERIE, NCERT, Shillong between 21-23 May, 2010. 20. IYBA Review Meeting held at IIT, Guwahati for IYBA awarded Project on 20 May, 2010.

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21. Scientific visit for collaborative exchange to National Institutes of Health, NICHD, Bethesda, Maryland, USA between between 20-22 and 26-28 March, 2010 and Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey, USA between 31 March to 2 April, 2010. 22. 10th American Society for Microbiology (ASM) conference on Candida and Candidiasis held at Miami, Florida, USA between 22-26 March, 2010. 23. JNU SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2010 at JNU between 22-23 February, 2009. 24. “CCP4 Workshop on Computational Crystallography” at AIIMS & JNU, New Delhi between 15-19 February, 2010. 25. “International Symposium on Endocrinology and Reproduction: Molecular Mechanisms to Molecular Medicine & 28th Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Biology and Comparative Endocrinology (SBRCE-2010)” at JNU, New Delhi between 4 - 5 February, 2010. 26. Course on Advanced Confocal Microscopy and Imaging with hands on training, consisting of Z Optical Sectioning, Co-localization, Real Time Spectral Un mixing, FRET and Photo Bleaching conducted by ICGEB in collaboration with Nikon Corp, Japan and Towa Optics, New Delhi at International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi between 23 - 24 November, 2009. 27. Annual Symposium on “Emerging Frontiers in immunogenomics of Infectious Diseases” and Award Presentation Ceremony held at National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi on 4 November, 2009. 28. Scientific visit for collaborative exchange to Unit of Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland between 16- 18 May, 2009. 29. Live Imaging training at Curie Institute, France organized by Nikon Imaging Centre between 12-16 May, 2009. 30. Scientific visit for collaborative exchange to Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany & Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany between 8-12 May, 2009. 31. Third FEBS Advanced Lecture Course on Molecular Mechanisms of Host-Pathogen Interactions and Virulence held in La Colle sur Loup, France between 2-9 May, 2009. 32. Workshop on “A New Frontier in Flow Cytometry” at Sheraton New Delhi on 13 April, 2009 organized by Beckman Coulter. 33. 65th Orientation Course at Academic Staff College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi between April 6 to May 1, 2009. 34. Ranbaxy Science Foundation XV Annual Symposium on “Hormonal receptors and woman health” and Award Presentation Ceremony held at AIIMS, New Delhi on 19 March, 2009. 35. 7th Annual Research Festival, Biosparks 2009 held at School of Life Sciences between 6-7 March, 2009. 36. JNU SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2009 held at JNU between 27-28 February, 2009. 37. Workshop on “Protecting Inventions through Patents” at School of Life Sciences, JNU on 20 February, 2009. 38. International Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Medicine jointly organized by Centre for Molecular Medicine, JNU, New Delhi & Uppsala University, Sweden held at JNU between 13-14 February, 2009. 39. National Workshop on Advanced Analytical Instrumentation and Applications-2009 held at JNU between 5-7 January, 2009. 40. Academic exchange visit to Sikkim Central University between 22 Dec to 27 Dec, 2008. 41. International Symposium on novel strategies for targeted prevention and treatment of cancer at School of Life Sciences, JNU between 19-20 Dec, 2008. 42. Workshop On “In Vivo Molecular Imaging” at Crowne Plaza, New Delhi on 7 November, 2008 organized by DSS Imagetech 43. Seminar on “Awareness And Relevance Of Intellectual Property In University Research” at School Of Life Sciences, JNU on 12 September, 2008. 44. HZI-JNU Workshop on Infectious Agents, organized jointly by Helmholtz Zentrum fur Infektionsforschung and Indo German Science Centre for Infectious Diseases held at Manesar Heritage Village, Haryana, India between 23rd to 24th April, 2008. 45. 9th American Society for Microbiology (ASM) conference on Candida and Candidiasis held at Jersey City, New Jersey, USA between 24-28 March, 2008. 46. 6th Annual Research Festival. Biosparks 08, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India between 14-15 March, 2008. 47. International Seminar on Information Day on 7th Framework Programme of Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology held in Jawaharlal Nehru University in association with European Commission on 25th February, 2008. 48. Joint Bilateral Seminar on “Antimicrobial Drug Resistance And The Development Of New Antibiotics” organized by INSA and German Academy of Science, Leopoldina, held at Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India between 22-25 November, 2007. 49. 5th Annual Research Festival. Biosparks 07, held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India between 23-24 February, 2007. 50. International Conference on the Biology of Yeasts and Filamentous Fungi held at National Chemical Laboratory and Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India between 15-17 February, 2007. 51. 75th Society of Biological Chemists (SBC) Meeting held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India between 8-11 December, 2006. 52. Academic visit as exchange student in May-June, 2006 to Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biochemistry, Technical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland (laboratory of Prof. Slawomir Milewski). 53. International Conference on Biology of Yeasts held at IISc, Bangalore, India between 27-29 September, 2005. 54. 23rd SMYTE (Small Meeting on Yeast Transport and Energetics) held at Manesar, Haryana, India between 23-26 September, 2005. 55. Academic exchange student in May-July, 2005 to National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi (laboratory of Dr. R. A. Vishwakarma). 56. Biosparks, 2004, 2nd Annual Research Festival held at School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, India between 14-15 February, 2004 57. 15th Congress of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM) held at San Antonio, Texas, USA between 25-29 May, 2003. 58. Yeast 2003, An International Meeting” on Yeast Biology held at the Institute of Microbial Technology Chandigarh between February 20-22, 2003. 59. Academic visit as exchange student in March-April, 2002 to Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad (laboratory of Prof. Amitabha Chattopadhyay). 60. Workshop on “High level expression of heterologous proteins in yeast” conducted by ICGEB (International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology), New Delhi between 29 Oct –9 Nov, 2001. 61. 24th All India Cell Biology Conference held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi between 24-26 Nov, 2000.

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GRANT SUPPORT AVAILED 1. “Developing Silver nanoparticles as novel inhibitors of drug efflux pump proteins in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” DBT Grant under Drug Development section of Medical Mycology (2012-2015). 2. “Characterization of Novel Mechanism of drug resistance mediated by EFG1, a morphogenic regulator in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” IYBA 2008 research grant awarded by DBT to carry out research for five years (2009-2014). 3. “Lipid based characterization of the MTB resistant and sensitive strains” Project funded by Open Source Drug Discovery - CSIR Team India Consortium with Global Partnership (2010-2012) for Rs. 21,57,500/-. 4. Ranbaxy Young Science Scholar Award 2008 to carry out research for one year (2008-2009). 5. Capacity Build up Grant (Intramural) from Jawaharlal Nehru University in the XI Plan period (2008-2012). 6. Academic Development Fund (Intramural) as Seed Money from Jawaharlal Nehru University. 7. Jawaharlal Nehru University Sanction from DST Grant (Intramural) for PURSE Programme. 8. Research Associate & Extended Senior Research Fellow award from DBT (2005-2008).and Research Associate Award from CSIR (2008). 9. Junior and Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR (2000-2005). PARTICIPATION IN ORGANIZING CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOPS A) FACULTY PARTICIPATION FOR ORGANIZING 1. Organized Hands on Training for the National Workshop on Spectroscopy and Microscopy in Biology and Chemistry held at ICGEB, JNU and IIT, Delhi between November 14 - 18, 2011, co organized by JNU (School of Physical Sciences), ICGEB, IIT Delhi and TIFR on Live Imaging, Confocal Microscopy and TRFS. 2. Swine Flu DBT Taskforce Meeting on 27 April, 2011 on behalf of Department of Biotechnology hosted at AIRF, JNU. 3. Treasurer and local Organizing Committee Member for “The Indian Proteomics Conference (IPCON-2011)” - 2nd Annual Meeting of Proteomics Society (India) between 3 - 5 April, 2011 followed by workshop at AIRF between 6 - 8 April, 2011; Organizing Secretary and Convener - Dr. Dipankar Ghosh (SCMM) in association with Prof. Rakesh Bhatnagar (AIRF/ School of Biotechnology-SBT), Dr. Shantanu Sengupta (Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology-IGIB) and Dr. Tulika Prasad (AIRF). 4. International 28th Small Meeting on Yeast Transport & Energetics (SMYTE) held at Manesar, Haryana between 23rd - 27th September, 2010. 5. Infectious Disease Biology (IDB) Taskforce Meeting between 22-23 April, 2010 on behalf of Department of Biotechnology hosted at AIRF, JNU. 6. NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ADVANCED ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTATION AND APPLICATIONS-2009 between 5 - 7 January, 2009 at JNU. B) POST DOCTORAL PARTICIPATION FOR ORGANIZING 7. HZI-JNU Workshop on Infectious Agents, organized jointly by Helmholtz Zentrum fur Infektionsforschung and Indo German Science Centre for Infectious Diseases held at Manesar Heritage Village, Haryana, India between 23rd to 24th April, 2008. 8. International Seminar on Information Day on 7th Framework Programme of Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology held in Jawaharlal Nehru University in association with European Commission on 25th February, 2008. 9. Joint Bilateral Seminar on “Antimicrobial Drug Resistance And The Development Of New Antibiotics” organized by INSA and German Academy of Science, Leopoldina, held at Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India between 22-25 November, 2007. 10. 75th Society of Biological Chemists (SBC) Meeting held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India between 8-11 December, 2006. C) PRE- Ph. D. PARTICIPATION FOR ORGANIZING 11. 23rd SMYTE (Small Meeting on Yeast Transport and Energetics) held at Manesar, Haryana, India between 23-26 September, 2005. 12. 24th All India Cell Biology Conference held at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi between 24-26 Nov, 2000.

SEMINARS/ TRAINING PROGRAMMES/ WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED FOR AIRF 2008: 1. “Energy Dispersive Spectrometery” on 9 September, 2008 at SLS Committee room, lecture delivered by Ms. Gabariele Maurer, Bruker AXS Microanalysis GmbH, Germany. 2. “Electron Back Scatter Diffraction” on 9 September, 2008 at SLS Committee room, lecture delivered by Dr. Gert Nolze, Bruker AXS Microanalysis GmbH, Germany. 3. “An introduction to CD using Chirascan” on 10 September, 2008 at SLS Committee room, lecture delivered by Dr. Mathew Pope, Applied PhotoPhysics, UK. 4. Training on Flow Cytometry organized by Dr. Tulika Prasad between 14 - 24 October, 2008 conducted by Beckman Coulter, India at AIRF. 5. Class room theoretical and practical training on the use of GCMS & introduction on other instruments housed at AIRF for M. Sc. students of School of Life Sciences on 12 November, 2008 at AIRF by Dr. Tulika Prasad & Mr. Ajai Kumar, AIRF, JNU. 6. Training on Transmission Electron Microscopy between 17 - 18 Nov, 2008 conducted by Jeol Asia Pvt Ltd., New Delhi, India at AIRF. 7. ‘Advanced Microscopy based fluorescence Imaging’ on 26 November, 2008 in Committee Room, SCMM, lecture delivered by Mr. Suresh Chauhan, DSS Imagetech, India. 2009: 8. NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ADVANCED ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTATION AND APPLICATIONS-2009 between 5 - 7 January, 2009 at JNU.

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9. “Application of EDXRF” on 20 March, 2009 at SLS auditorium, JNU, lecture delivered by Dr. Zhang Hua, XRF Application Specialist, PANalytical Shanghai Lab, China. 10. “Hands on” Training on “Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy” by Mr. Uwe Ortmann, M/s Picoquant Germany on 23 April, 2009 at Confocal Imaging Laboratory, AIRF, JNU. 11. Seminar and live demonstration on “Time Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy” by Dr. Dirk U. Nather, Edinburgh Instruments, UK on 1 May, 2009 at AIRF, JNU. 12. Class room theoretical and practical training on the use of TRFS housed at AIRF for summer trainees between 25 May to 10 July, 2009 at AIRF by Dr. Sobhan Sen, SPS, JNU. 13. Class room theoretical and practical training on the use of XRD Protein housed at AIRF for summer trainees between 25 May to 10 July, 2009 at AIRF by Dr. Samudrala Gowrinath, SLS, JNU. 14. Summer training project titled “An overview of the Principles & Techniques in Advanced Analytical Instrumentation” for Ms. Priyanka Manoj Kumar, student of VI semester B. Tech./ M. Tech. (Dual Degree) Biotechnology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University, Noida between 25 May to 10 July, 2009 at AIRF by Dr. Tulika Prasad, AIRF, JNU. 15. Summer training project titled “Handling of Various Analytical Instruments” for Ms. Purva Chopra, student of IV semester B. Tech./ M. Tech. (Dual Degree) Biotechnology, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University, Noida between 25 May to 10 July, 2009 at AIRF by Dr. Tulika Prasad, AIRF, JNU. 16. Summer training project titled “An overview of the Techniques in Advanced Analytical Instrumentation” for Mr. Mohit Chaudhary, student of II year B. Tech. Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida between 8 June to 8 July, 2009 at AIRF by Dr. Tulika Prasad, AIRF, JNU. 17. Seminar and Live demonstration of Olympus Bio Imaging Navigator - FSX100 by DSS Imagetech, India between 13 - 17 July, 2009 at AIRF, JNU. 18. Seminar & Live Demonstration of Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectrometer (Autolab) on 27 July, 2009 at AIRF, JNU by Mr. Santosh Kulkarni, Product Manager, Metrohm India Ltd. 19. Seminar and Live demonstration conducted by DSS Imagetech of Olympus Self Contained Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope - FV10i by Dr. K. N. Ganesh, Application Specialist, DSS Imagetech Pvt. Ltd., India between 5 - 7 August, 2009 at AIRF, JNU. 20. “NMR studies on the structure and function of Plasmodium falciparum acyl carrier protein and inclusions involving β-cyclodextrin” on 10 August, 2009 at AIRF Committee room, lecture delivered by Dr. Santosh Kumar Upadhyay, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India. 21. Interactive Workshop with Seminar, Group Discussion and Live demonstration of Olympus FV1000 at AIRF, JNU on the “Basic Fundamentals and Advanced Applications of Existing AIRF Confocal Microscope Facility” between 29 September - 1 October, 2009 conducted by DSS Imagetech, India. 22. Interactive workshop with seminar and applications demonstration on Neoscope JCM-5000 bench top Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) on 22 October 2009 by Mr. Norihide Nagashima and Mr. Edsel Goh, Applications Specialists, NIKON INSTRUMENTS INC., USA. 23. Class room theoretical and practical training on the use of GCMS & introduction on other instruments housed at AIRF for M. Sc. students of School of Life Sciences on 27 October, 2009 at AIRF between 2 pm to 5.30 pm by Dr. Tulika Prasad & Mr. Ajai Kumar, AIRF, JNU. 24. Training with demonstration on the use of GCMS Headspace Sampling at AIRF on 28 October, 2009 by Ms. Deepti Ranadive, Senior Application Chemist, Shimadzu Analytical (India) Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India. 25. Class room theoretical and practical training on the use of XRD Protein housed at AIRF for 11 member team from Sikkim University on 3 November, 2009 at AIRF by Dr. Samudrala Gowrinath, SLS, JNU. 26. Class room theoretical and practical training on the use of TRFS housed at AIRF for 11 member team from Sikkim University on 4 November, 2009 at AIRF by Dr. Sobhan Sen, SPS, JNU. 27. Interactive Workshop with Seminar, Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for 11 member team from Sikkim University between 1 - 8 November, 2009 given by all AIRF staff members. 28. Interactive Training with Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for M. Tech Nano Science and Technology, University School of Basic and Applied Sciences, GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi – 110403 on 17 November, 2009 by all AIRF staff members. 29. Training with demonstration and seminar on the use of FTIR - RAMAN at AIRF on 26 November, 2009. “Basic FTIR, Microscope & Raman Spectroscopy” lecture delivered by Mr. Prasenjit Kar, Spectroscopy Specialist, Varian India Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, India. 30. Interactive Training with Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for students of Department of Physics, GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi – 110403 on 26 November, 2009 given by all AIRF staff members. 31. “Confocal live imaging world: How to apply to the various biological researches” and “Advanced Fluorescence Technology: Basics and applications of FRET” on 27 November, 2009 at AIRF Committee room, lecture delivered by Dr. Hisashi Okugawa (Confocal expert and Manager, Bio-science section, Nikon Corporation, Japan. 32. “Nanomaterials for Renewable Energy; Electron Microscopy and Surface Spectroscopy Studies” on 3 December, 2009 at AIRF Committee room, lecture delivered by Dr. Biswapriya Deb, Research Scientist (Industrial), Institute for the Advanced Materials & Renewable Energy (IAMRE), University of Louisville, Louisville, KY-40292, USA. 2010: 33. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for teachers participating in the 15th Refresher Course in Life Sciences organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Life Sciences; J.N.U. on 12 January, 2010 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Manoj Pratap Singh, Mr. Ajai Kumar and Ms. Charu Tanwar, AIRF, JNU;. 34. Interactive Training with Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for students of second semester Microbial Technology from Amity Institute of Microbial technology, Amity University, Noida, UP on 14 January, 2010 given by all AIRF staff members. 35. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for teachers participating in the 9th Refresher Course in Physics organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Physical Sciences; J.N.U. on 10 February, 2010 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Manoj Pratap Singh, Dr. Gajender Saini and Mr. Ajai Kumar, AIRF, JNU. 36. Interactive Training with Group Discussion and class room theoretical and practical hands on training on “Basics of Confocal Microscopy” followed by brief objective and subjective examination at AIRF for Pre-Ph. D. students of School of Biotechnology on 15 and 16 March, 2010 by Ms. Charu Tanwar, AIRF.

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37. “Identification and validation of novel therapeutic targets in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: molecular genetics to chemical biology” on 17 March, 2010 at AIRF Committee room, lecture delivered by AIRF-JNU Guest Faculty, Dr. Sanjib Bhakta, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, ISMB/ Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. 38. “A) Mosquito Nano litre Robot for Hanging drop and sitting drop experiments; B) Hamilton ML STARLET Robot for the preparation of crystallization screen” on 19 March, 2010 at AIRF Committee room, lecture delivered by Dr. Arshad Javed, Product Manager, RFCL, India followed by Interactive Training with Group Discussion and Live demonstration with class room theoretical and practical hands on training on XRD Crystallization Unit installed at AIRF. 39. Interactive Programme with brief introduction of instruments housed at AIRF for 20 International participants of Management Development Programme on Operation, Maintenance and Repair of Analytical Equipments (under ITEC/ SCAAP Programme sponsored by Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi & Chandigarh) from 20 countries on 6 April, 2010 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Manoj Pratap Singh, Dr. Gajender Saini and Mr. Sandeep Sarpal, AIRF, JNU. 40. Visit-cum-interactive training with Live demonstration of instruments housed at AIRF for Dr. Jogen C. Kalita, Reader-cum In-Charge, Excursion Team for Animal Physiology & Biochemistry Group, Department of Zoology, Gauhati University, Assam and 4 M. Sc. students of Animal Physiology & Biochemistry Special Paper (4th Semester) on the use of instruments housed at AIRF on 12 April, 2010 by Dr. Tulika Prasad and Dr. Manoj Pratap Singh, AIRF, JNU. 41. Interactive Programme with brief introduction of instruments housed at AIRF for Dr. Deepti Gupta and 4 students of M. Sc. Plant Biotechnology of TERI University as part of their study tour on 16 April, 2010 by Dr. Tulika Prasad and Dr. Gajender Saini, AIRF, JNU. 42. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for teachers participating in the 15th Refresher Course in Environmental Sciences organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Environmental Sciences; J.N.U. on 20 April, 2010 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Kavita Arora, Mr. Ajai Kumar and Ms. Charu Tanwar, AIRF, JNU. 43. Summer training project titled “Advanced Analytical Instrumentation Research Techniques and their Applications” for Ms. N. Harika, student of IIIrd year B. Tech, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh between 4 May to 5 June, 2010 at AIRF by Dr. Tulika Prasad, AIRF, JNU. 44. Summer training project titled “Overview of the Applications of Techniques in Advanced Analytical Instrumentation” for Ms. Sonal Agarwal, student of 6th Semester, B. Tech. Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, UP between 25 May to 25 June, 2010 at AIRF by Dr. Tulika Prasad, AIRF, JNU. 45. Summer training project titled “Principles & Applications of Advanced Analytical Instruments in Research” for Ms. Meenal Mathur, student of 4th Semester, B. Tech. Biotechnology/ Bioinformatics, Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Institute, Akurdi, Pune between 28 May to 28 June, 2010 at AIRF by Dr. Tulika Prasad, AIRF, JNU. 46. Summer training project titled “Principles & Research Applications of Advanced Analytical Instrumentation” for Ms. Pooja Chauhan, student of 4th Semester, B. Tech. Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, UP between 25 May to 1 July, 2010 at AIRF by Dr. Tulika Prasad, AIRF, JNU. 47. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration of instruments housed at AIRF for students (B. Sc. Biomedical Sciences, Acharya Narendra Dev College, New Delhi and B. Pharm, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi) organized jointly by Dr. Tulika Prasad, AIRF & Dr. Andrew Lynn and Ms. Nisha Chandran, CIS JNU between 8 June to 10 July, 2010; lectures delivered by Prof. A. K. Attri (SES), Dr. Sobhan Sen (SPS), Dr. Pritam Mukhopadhyay (SPS), Dr. Tulika Prasad (AIRF), Dr. Gajender Saini (AIRF), Dr. Manoj Pratap Singh (AIRF), Dr. Manish Kumar (AIRF), Dr. Manju Malhotra (AIRF), Mr. Sandeep Sarpal (AIRF), Ms. Charu Tanwar (AIRF), Mr. Ajai Kumar (AIRF), Ms. Ruchita Pal (AIRF), Mr. S. C. P. Sharma (AIRF), Ms. Anu Singh (AIRF). 48. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for 28 students participating in the Summer Research Programme 2010 of School of Life Sciences, JNU as part of their study tour on 22 & 23 June, 2010 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Gajender Saini, Dr. Manish Kumar, Mr. Ajai Kumar and Ms. Charu Tanwar, AIRF, JNU. 49. Interactive Programme for demonstration of instruments housed at AIRF for 25 students and 4 officials of Jagdish Bose National Science Talent Search (JBNSTS) participating at the Talent Enrichment program in Delhi as part of their study tour on 22 June, 2010 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Gajender Saini, Dr. Manish Kumar, Mr. Ajai Kumar and Ms. Charu Tanwar, AIRF, JNU. 50. “New Era in Flow Cytometry” on 1 July, 2010 at AIRF Committee room, lecture delivered by Dr. Aparna Sapra, Accuri Cytometers, India followed by Interactive Training with Group Discussion and Wet demonstration session on samples of the AIRF users, with class room theoretical and practical hands on training on Accuri C6 Flow Cytometer. 51. Interactive Programme for visit cum brief introduction on instruments housed at AIRF for the 15 students of Class XI and XII of Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram, New Delhi on 16 August, 2010 as part of their study tour by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Manish Kumar and Ms. Charu Tanwar, AIRF, JNU. 52. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for teachers participating in the 12th Refresher Course in Biotechnology organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Biotechnology; J.N.U. on 18 August, 2010 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Gajender Saini, Mr. Ajai Kumar and Ms. Charu Tanwar, AIRF, JNU. 53. Interactive Workshop with Seminar, Wet Demo/ Live demonstration and Group Discussion on the applications of Flow Cytometer and Cell Sorter housed at AIRF for the Masters and Ph. D. students of School of Biotechnology, J.N.U. on 27 and 30 August, 2010 by Mr. Tribhuwan Bind, AIRF, JNU. 54. “Spectroscopic investigation of protein aggregation” on 11 October, 2010 at AIRF Committee room, lecture delivered by Dr. Rajesh Mishra, Lecturer, Center for Biotechnology, University of Allahabad. 55. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for 16 undergraduate students and two teachers of Handique Girls' College, Guwahati, Assam as part of their study tour on 21 October, 2010 by Mr. Ajai Kumar and Ms. Charu Tanwar, AIRF, JNU. 56. Interactive Programme with class room theoretical and practical introduction of instruments housed at AIRF for 45 M. Tech. (Biotechnology) students of Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, UP as part of their study tour on 24 November, 2010 by Dr. Manoj Pratap Singh, Dr. Manish Kumar and Mr. Ajai Kumar, AIRF, JNU. 57. “An overview of the various Techniques & Applications of Live Imaging - with reference to the upcoming Live Imaging Facility at AIRF (including applications of A1R, TIRF, Super Resolution Microscopy and Multiphoton Imaging)” on 24 November, 2010 at AIRF Committee room, lecture delivered by Mr. Yoichi Iki (Application Specialist, Nikon Corporation, Japan).

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58. “Applications of Integrated Live Imaging setup - Biostation IM-Q on 24 November, 2010 at AIRF Committee room, lecture delivered by Mr. M. S. Tanwar (Bioscience Division, TOWA OPTICS, India). 59. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for teachers participating in the 72ND Orientation Course organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with J.N.U. on 29 November, 2010 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Gajender Saini, Dr. Manish Kumar and Mr. Ajai Kumar, AIRF, JNU. 2011: 60. M.Sc. dissertation project titled (A) “Study of Advanced Analytical Instruments and their applications in Life Science Research” & (B) “Study of antimicrobial property of silver nanoparticles in gram negative bacteria E. coli” for Ms. Dyuti Purkait, student of M.Sc., Biotechnology, Lovely Professional University, Punjab between January to May, 2011 at AIRF by Dr. Tulika Prasad, AIRF, JNU. 61. M.Sc. dissertation project titled (A) “Applications of Analytical Instruments in Modern Day” & (B) “Antimicrobial silver nanoparticles: A case study on Candida albicans” for Ms. Abhamayee Sahu, student of M.Sc., Microbiology, Lovely Professional University, Punjab between January to May, 2011 at AIRF by Dr. Tulika Prasad, AIRF, JNU. 62. Collaborative supervision for M.Sc. dissertation project titled “Comparing the difference in the metabolome of Escherichia coli after treatment with enzyme inhibitor” for Mr. Debojyoti Mazumdar, student of M.Sc., Biotechnology, KIIT School of Biotechnology, Campus- 11, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha between 2010-2011 at AIRF 63. Collaborative supervision for M.Sc. dissertation project titled “Experimental Measurement and Computer Simulation of the E. coli Metabolic Profile” for Ms. Neha Rohatgi, student of M.Sc., Biotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu between 2010-2011 at AIRF. 64. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for teachers participating in the 16th Refresher Course in Life Sciences organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Life Sciences; J.N.U. on 21 January, 2011 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Manish Kumar and Mr. Ajai Kumar, AIRF, JNU. 65. Interactive educational visit to the Live Imaging and Proteomics Laboratories and also other AIRF Laboratories as part of the training program for the participating members of the U.S.-India Joint Research Training Program organized by the School of Life Sciences; J.N.U. on 4 February, 2011 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Manish Kumar and Ms. Charu Tanwar, AIRF, JNU. 66. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration on instruments housed at AIRF for teachers participating in the 10th Refresher Course in Physics organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Physical Sciences; J.N.U. on 21 February, 2011 by Dr. Sobhan Sen, Dr. Tulika Prasad, Mr. Ajai Kumar and Ms. Charu Tanwar, AIRF, JNU. 67. Interactive Programme with brief introduction of instruments housed at AIRF for 12 International participants of Management Development Programme on Operation, Maintenance and Repair of Analytical Equipments (under ITEC/ SCAAP Programme sponsored by Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi) from 12 countries on 1 April, 2011 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Manish Kumar and Mr. Ajai Kumar, AIRF, JNU. 68. Advanced Instrumentation and Research Facility (AIRF) organized “The Indian Proteomics Conference (IPCON-2011)” - 2nd Annual Meeting of Proteomics Society (India) between 3 - 5 April, 2011 followed by workshop at AIRF between 6 - 8 April, 2011; Organizing Secretary and Convener - Dr. Dipankar Ghosh (SCMM) in association with Prof. Rakesh Bhatnagar (AIRF/ School of Biotechnology-SBT), Dr. Shantanu Sengupta (Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology-IGIB) and Dr. Tulika Prasad (AIRF). 69. Interactive Programme with brief introduction of instruments housed at AIRF for one Faculty member and 13 students of IInd semester M. Sc. Plant Biotechnology of TERI University as part of their study tour on 13 April, 2011 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Manish Kumar and Mr. Ajai Kumar, AIRF, JNU. 70. Class room theoretical and practical training on the use of CD, TRFS & NMR housed at AIRF for M. Sc. - IV semester students (for optional Biophysical Chemistry- Methods & Applications) of School of Life Sciences on 25 April, 2011 at AIRF between 2 pm to 5.30 pm by Dr. Manish Kumar & Mr. Ajai Kumar, AIRF, JNU. 71. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration with class room theoretical and practical introduction of instruments housed at AIRF for 30 students who are participating in the Summer Research Programme 2011 of School of Life Sciences, JNU as part of their study tour on 28 & 29 June, 2011 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Gajender Saini, Dr. Manish Kumar, Mr. Ajai Kumar and Ms. Charu Tanwar, AIRF, JNU. 72. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration with class room theoretical and practical training of instruments housed at AIRF for teachers participating in the 13th Refresher Course in Physics organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Biotechnology; J.N.U. on 17 August, 2011 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Gajender Saini, Dr. Manish Kumar and Mr. Ajai Kumar. 73. Workshop on “Evolution of EMCCD and its Application and Importance in Live Cell Imaging” on 28-29 September, 2011 at AIRF in association with Nikon-Towa Optics, lecture delivered by Dr. Orla Hanrahan, Application Specialist, Andor Technology plc, EMEA followed by Interactive Training with Group Discussion and Wet demonstration/ Hands on training sessions by Dr. Orla and Ms. Charu Tanwar on samples of the AIRF users. 74. Hands on Training for the National Workshop on Spectroscopy and Microscopy in Biology and Chemistry held at ICGEB, JNU and IIT, Delhi between November 14 - 18, 2011, co organized by JNU (School of Physical Sciences), ICGEB, IIT Delhi and TIFR on Live Imaging, Confocal Microscopy and TRFS; AIRF coordination by Dr. Tulika Prasad. 75. Workshop on “FlowJo- A Flow Cytometry Data Analysis Software and its Applications” on 30 November, 2011 at AIRF, lecture delivered by Dr. Hemant Agrawal, Application Scientist for FlowJo, A Flow Cytometry Data Analysis Software followed by Interactive Training with Group Discussion and demonstration session. 76. Training Programme on “Introduction to PGSTAT Software” on 6 December, 2011 at AIRF, lecture delivered by Mr. Luca Pini, Expert, M/s Autolab B.V., The Netherlands, covering the training on software for the use of Galvanostat-Potentiostat of Autolab 77. Workshop on “Revolution DSD (ANDOR) – Laser Free Confocal Microscopy” on 8-9 December, 2011 at AIRF in association with Nikon-Towa Optics, lecture delivered by Mr. Bruno Combettes, Expert for DSD followed by Interactive Training with Group Discussion and Wet demonstration/ Hands on training sessions on user samples by Mr. Bruno Combettes and Ms. Charu Tanwar on samples of the AIRF users. 2012: 78. Dissertation titled “Effect of silver nanoparticles on drug resistance in Candida albicans, a pathogenic yeast” for Mr. Abhishek Ankur, student of 4th Semester, M. Tech. Biotechnology, Integral University, Lucknow, UP between January to June, 2012.

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79. Demonstration & Lecture titled “Leveraging MiSeq Benchtop Next Generation Sequencing System For Basic Research and Clinical Applications” for Illumina, MiSeq Benchtop Next Generation Sequencing System by Dr. Naved Alam, Product Manager, Premas Biotech Pvt. Ltd., Manesar, Gurgaon, India on 13 January, 2012. 80. Interactive Programme with Group Discussion and Live demonstration with class room theoretical and practical training of instruments housed at AIRF for teachers participating in the 17th Refresher Course in Life Sciences organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Life Sciences; J.N.U. on 21 January, 2012 by Dr. Tulika Prasad, Dr. Manish Kumar and Mr. Ajai Kumar, AIRF, JNU. 81. Workshop with lecture/ tutorials and hands on training for JNU researchers on “Applications of Gas Chromatography- Mass Spectrometry” between 13-14 August, 2012. 82. Beckman Coulter MO FLO training for 3 AIRF staff members given by the Company Application Specialists between 10-12 September, 2012. 83. Interactive classroom teaching and visit for senior level students of DPS R. K. Puram, New Delhi on 10 October, 2012 by Dr. Tulika Prasad. 84. Workshop with lecture/ tutorials and hands on training for JNU researchers on “Flow Cytometry and its Advanced Applications in Research” between 30-31 October, 2012. 85. Beckman Coulter MO FLO training on Cell Sorting for 3 AIRF staff members given by the Company Application Specialists between 19-20 November, 2012. 86. Seminar on “Live cell study by Bioluminescence Analysis Tools” on 3 December, 2013 at AIRF Committee room, lecture delivered by Dr. Yoshihiro Ohmiya, Director of BioMedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. 2013: 87. Dissertation titled “Effect of natural antimicrobial extracts on sterol and fatty acid composition of Candida albicans, an opportunistic pathogenic yeast” for Ms. Anubhuti Jha, student of III semester M. Sc. Biotechnology, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, UP between 10 December, 2012 to 29 April, 2013. 88. Interactive Programme with class room theoretical and practical training of instruments housed at AIRF for teachers participating in the 12th Refresher Course in Physics organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Physical Sciences; J.N.U. on 4 January, 2013 by Dr. Tulika Prasad. 89. Interactive Programme with class room theoretical and practical training of instruments housed at AIRF for teachers participating in the 18th Refresher Course in Life Sciences organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Life Sciences; J.N.U. on 23-24 January, 2013 by Dr. Tulika Prasad. 90. Dissertation titled “Drug susceptibility pattern of morphogenic mutants of Candida albicans, an opportinistic pathogenic yeast” for Mr. Samir Kumar, student of M. Sc. Biochemistry, Dolphin Institute of Biomedical & Natural Sciences, H.N.B. Garhwal Central University, Uttarakhand between 1 April, 2013 to 30 June, 2013. 91. Interactive Programme with class room theoretical and practical training of instruments housed at AIRF for teachers participating in the 15th Refresher Course in Biotechnology organized by the Academic Staff College of the University Grants Commission in association with the School of Biotechnology; J.N.U. on 23-24 January, 2013 by Dr. Tulika Prasad.