Teaches following Subjects/Exams
biotechnology (Others)
Language of Instruction:
English, Malayalam
biochemistry (Others)
Language of Instruction:
English, Malayalam
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor and Lab Director, Central Research Laboratories, Dept. of Botany & Microbiology,
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Oct 2005 - Oct 2008
Microbiology, biotechnology, biochemistry, immunology, plant genomics
Set up the Central Core Lab for proteomics & genomics. Performed bacterial isolation, identification, antibiotic sensitivity assessment, Managed personnel, inventory, equipments, clinical meetings, teaching/training graduate and undergraduate students Developed single tube multiplex PCR for respiratory viruses Studied the role of L-carnitine and Black seed as antiproliferative agent in EMCV infected WISH cell lines
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Mar 2003 - Oct 2005Research activities include the studies on mechanism of how fat-soluble (lipophilic) vitamins like Vitamin D and Vitamin A regulate the expression of enterocyte differentiation marker gene, Intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP).
Postdoctoral fellow
Blood Research Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, United States
Oct 2002 - Mar 2003Research activities included Cloning, expression and characterization of genes involved in Diabetes.
Education
PhD
Jamia Hamdard, India
Sep 1998 - Sep 2002
MSc Bio-Technology
Cochin University of Science and Technology, India
Feb 1995 - Sep 1997
Associations & Membership
The American Physiological Society
Maryland, United States
Oct 2009 - Oct 2010
Publications and Research
Protection by live Mycobacterium habana vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv challenge i
Prem Raj Pushpakaran, Srivastava S, Srivastava BS, Srivastava R.
Ind. J. Med Res. 2003, Apr;117:139-45. Impact Factor: 1.8