Academic and Courses Conducted neuromicrobiology

Academic and courses conducted

Courses conducted

The department currently offers Post-Doctoral fellowships in Neuroinfection and Hospital Infection Control and and PhD programs in Neuromicrobiology for postgraduates.

Students enrolled :

Post Doctoral Fellowship in Neuroinfection – 07 Nos.

Dr.Ashalatha Guduru

2011-12

Dr.Nivedita Patra

2012-13

Dr.Kirtilaxmi

2013-14

Dr.Shamanth

2014-15

Dr.Prachita Shah

2015-16

Dr.Kruthika

2016-17

Dr.Presteena

2017-18

Post Doctoral Fellowship in Hospital Infection Control – 01 No.

Dr.Indranath Roy

2017-18

 

Additionally, the faculty are Guides for several PhD candidates of Cinical Neurosciences and other departments.

Students enrolled:

 

Sl

No

Name of the Candidate

Title of the thesis

Guide

Status

1

Manjunath

 

Dr.Chandramukhi

Completed

2

Wasi Ullah Khan

 

Dr.Chandramukhi

Completed

3

Jyothi.E.K

 

Dr.R.Ravikumar

Completed

4

Prashanth Giribhattanavar

Characterizing Mycobacterial tuberculosis antigens for cytokine production, adoptotic ability and antibody production

Dr.Shripad A Patil

Completed

5

Kavitha.A.K

Characterization of drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolated from cerebrospinal fluid with emphasis on immune response and ultrastructural study

Dr.Shripad A Patil

Completed

6

Anupama R.Pai

Immunocharacterisation of cysticercal antigens with reference to cytokine production, apoptosis and antibody response

Dr.Shripad A Patil

Completed

7

Shayanki Lahiri Mukhopadhyay

Analytical study of clinical and environmental isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans complex

Dr.S.Nagarathna

Completed

8

Suresh

The comparative evaluation of anti-nAChR, anti-MuSK and anti-LRP4 antibodies and the possible cellular mechanisms involved in the immunoregulation of human Myasthenia gravis

Dr.Shripad A Patil

On going

9

Varun.C

Study of immune abnormalities in schizophrenia

Dr.R.Ravikumar

On going

10

Archana Agrawal

Molecular characterization of multidrug resistant pathogenic gram-negative bacteria

Dr.R.Ravikumar

On going

11

Priya Vijayan

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus – Molecular profiling and Immune response studies

Dr.H.B.Veenakumari

On going

12

Priyanka

 

Dr.S.Nagarathna

On going

13

Sayani

Microbiological and clinical evaluation of Neuroleptospirosis and differential gene expression study

Dr.S.Nagarathna

On going

14

Prathima Kumari

 

Dr.S.Nagarathna

On going

External trainees

The department provides training for MD Microbiology students of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Post graduate students pursuing M.Sc Microbiology, Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology, BE Biotechnology etc., from all over the country.

 

Conferences conducted:

 

  • IMMUNOCON 2009 (Annual conference of the Indian Immunology Society)
  • 27th NATIONAL CONGRESS OF PARASITOLOGY
  • MICROCON 2018 (42nd Annual conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologist)
  • Annual Hand Washing Day is being celebrated every year on October 15th from 2008 onwards.

 

Workshops