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