Nachhilfe Etymology

(A) Teaches B.Sc. Biotechnology students in BIMS, Burdwan, WB
(B) Preferred: Graduate & Post Graduate in Zoology, Entomology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry
(C) Brief Resume
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND EXPERIENCE:
1. Defence Research Laboratory (DRDO)
Post Bag No. 2,
Tezpur–*, Assam, INDIA
Junior Research Fellow (JRF)
(PhD scholar), 2 years
Senior Research Fellow (SRF
(PhD scholar), 3 years
2. National Centre for Disease Control (Min. of Health & FW) Deputy Assistant Director (Entomology) Present
PUBLICATIONS:
International: 8rnConference: 7
EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITYrnAssociate Editor in Journal of Entomology & Nematology (ISSN:2006-9855) from August 2009
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPrnNational
I. National Academy of Vector Borne Diseases, India (Life member
II. Zoological Society of Assam, India (Life member
III. Indian Science Congress Association, India (Member
IV. Entomological Society of India (Member
International
I. International Society of Zoological Science, China (Member
II. International Society for Infectious Diseases (Corresponding Membership
III. The International Society of Integrative Biology (Online Member
IV. South-South Initiative for Tropical Disease Research (Online Member

SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS FOR TRAINING/COURSErnI supervised six B.Tech (Biotechnology) students for their training/course in 2008 & 2009.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EXPERIENCE / RESEARCH SKILLS
Basic Zoology/Entomology
•Identification of medically important insects, especially mosquitoesrn•Establishment & rearing of insecticide susceptible and resistant insectaries (mosquitoes & house fly)
•Insecticide Resistance Management & Integrated Vector Control Strategiesrn•Knowledge of insecticide testing techniquesrn•Working knowledge of pesticide application techniques & equipmentrn•Determination of Plasmodium sporozoite rates in Anopheles mosquitoes by dissection, CS-ELISA & molecular methodsrn•Mosquito blood meal analysis through ELISA & PCR methodsrn•Entomological measures of risk of malariarnBio–Toxicity / Susceptibility Assay:
•Insecticide susceptibility assay, status monitoring, & management
•Bioassay of insect both larvae & adult against chemical insecticides
•Evaluation of herbal and bacterial larvicidesrnMolecular Biological Techniques
•Genomic DNA preparation from insects, fungus and malaria parasite by different methodsrn•Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR): standard PCR, allele-specific multiplex PCR, nested PCR etc.; agarose gel electrophoresis, automated DNA sequencingrn•Real-Time PCR; TaqMan, SimpleProbe, HybProbe probe chemistry; Melting Curve Analysis, FRET/MCA; quantitative real time PCRrn•Restriction Enzyme digestion of DNArn•RNA isolation, Reverse Transcriptase PCR & cDNA synthesisrn•Cloning & gene expression
•Different types of sequence analysis, Primer designing (standard, allele-specific, degenerate, species-specific primers), Probe designing for SNP genotyping (TaqMan, SimpleProbe, HybProbe
Biochemical Techniques
•Spectrophotometric analysis of DNA, enzymes, proteins and other bio-moleculesrn•Estimation & quantification detoxifying enzymes & protein profiling: glutathione S-transferase, Cytochrome P450/Monooxigenase, Carboxylesterase, Acetylcholinesterase.
•Circum Sporozoite ELISA methodrn•Mosquito blood meal ELISA methodrnStatistics & Bioinformatics
•Different biostatistical analysis involving wide range of data from epidemiological, entomological, molecular, and other biological studiesrn•Expert in handling Statistical software packages like STATPACK, SPSS, and STATISTICArn•In Silico and mathematical modeling of proteins: comparative protein modeling, structure validation, functional residue prediction and docking (protein-protein, protein-ligand)
•Sequence analysis & annotation including similarity search, alignment, gene finding (ORF), database mining etc
•Phylogenetic analysis, Tree construction algorithms (NJ, parsimony, maximum likelihood methods
•Analysis of population genetics parameters
•Analysis of molecular evolutionary data: DNA polymorphisms, divergence, gene flow, genetic difference, linkage disequilibrium, recombination, different tests of neutrality (Tajima’s D, Fu & Li’s D, F test etc.), coalescent simulation etc
•Expert in handling software packages for molecular biological & evolutionary studies (e.g., BioEdit, Arlaquin, DnaSP, MEGA, DAMBE, and Mesquite etc.)

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