Courses at Dept. of Biological Sciences, Pilani Campus
BIO F111 GENERAL BIOLOGY
BIO F211 BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
BIO F244 INSTRU METHODS OF ANALYSIS
BIO F315 APPLIED NUTRITION & NUTRACEUTICALS
BIOT F424 FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY
BIO F421 ENZYMOLOGY
BIOT F416 INTRODUCTION TO PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
Collaborative Programmes - Work-Integrated Learning Programmes Division:
2005 - 2018: Involved in teaching of following courses in the collaborative programmes, M.S. (Medical Laboratory Technology), B.S.(Physician Assistant), B.S. (Optometry) and M.Phil (Optometry) that includes classroom lectures and laboratory practicals.
| Course Title | Course No. | Units |
| Basic Biochemistry -1 | OPTO ZC141 | 3 |
| Basic Biochemistry - 2 | OPTO ZC162 | 3 |
| Biological Chemistry | PATFL ZC141 | 3 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | PATFL ZC152 | 5 |
| Scientific Measurements | PATFL ZC132 | 3 |
| Molecular Genetics | PATFL ZC282 | 3 |
| Food & Nutrition in Health | MLTSN ZG611 | 4 |
| Enzymology & Metabolism in Health | MLTSN ZG512 | 3 |
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| Few modules in the following courses: |
| Recent Advances in Optometry | OPTO ZG644 | 4 |
| Geriatric Optometry | OPTO ZC382 | 1 |
| Ocular Physiology | OPTO ZC152 | 3 |
| Technical Communication | MLTSN ZG659 | 4 |
| Technical Report Writing | PATFL ZC261 | 3 |
Practice School Division, BITS Pilani :
2005 - 2018: Involved in mentoring, and evaluation of performance, of Final year First Degree and Higher Degree students pursuing structured Internship (PS-II) course, in research labs/industries at Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore & Mumbai.
Practice School-II BITS C412 / BITS C413 / BITS G639 20 Units
2013 - 2018: Involved in mentoring, and evaluation of performance, of Second year First Degree (Integrated and Dual) students pursuing structured Summer-Term Internship (PS-I) course at Medical Research Foundation - Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai.
Practice School-I BITS C221 / BITS C231 / BITS C241 5 Units
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PhD Thesis Supervision:
Graduated : Three (June 2013, June 2015, June 2016)
On-going students : Four
Broad areas of doctoral dissertation research in our lab: Molecular mechanisms & Pharmacological/Clinical targets in Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), Cancer biology, Lipogenic targets in Cancers and other Chronic Diseases, Nutritional Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, and Protein Biochemistry, Natural Products and Drug-repurposing.
Sponsored Project Research Fellows supervised:
ICMR -SRF: 1 [2011-2014]; DBT-SRF: 1 [2012-2015]
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