CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME                               SANDHIYA. K

ADDRESS                            5 Selvi Flats 
                                   15th Avenue
                                   Ashoknagar
                                   CHENNAI 600 083

Phone: Res:                        4890895

E-mail :                           [email protected]

 
Age, Date of Birth                 23 Years; October 17, 1977            

Nationality                        Indian
           

ACADEMIC RECORD

• BSc.Bio-Chemistry/Bio-Technology - 1998
Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science & Higher Edn. for Women(DeemedUniversity), Coimbatore
GPA 8.85/10

•MSc.Life Sciences - 2000
Pondicherry University,Pondicherry
GPA 7.7/10

TRAINING

· Six weeks Summer Training at SPIC Science Foundation, Chennai during May-June 1996 under the guidance of Dr. Waheeda Hopper

Isolation of GUS+ve Transconjugants of Rhizobium

· Six weeks Summer Training at Dr. A.L. Mudaliar Institute of Post Graduate Medical Sciences and Research, Taramani, Chennai during May-June 1997 under the guidance of Dr. Gopinath

Basic Techniques in Genetics (for identification of Chromosomal disorders and anti-mutagenic studies using saffron on mice.

· Six weeks Summer Training at the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad during May-June 1999 under the guidance of Dr. J. Nagaraju:

Characterization and Sequencing of the Mariner Transposons in Wild Silkmoths

PROJECT WORK

The Project was done at Tamilnadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore under the guidance of Dr.RajaRajan for a period of three months during the fifth semester of Under Graduation

Incorporation of tritium labelled Thymidine in Oryza sativa under normal and infected (by Rhizoctonia solani) conditions

PRESENTATIONS

• Presented a review article titled "Apoptosis in Neurons" for the Seminar BIOTECHCELLENCE organized by Anna University,Chennai during February 1998.

• Presented a review article titled "Antichaos in Biological Systems" for the Seminar
BIOTECHCELLENCE organized by Anna University, Chennai during February 1999.

 

FELLOWSHIP

Selected for Fellowship under Summer Research Fellowship Programme for the year 1998 by the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur P.O. Bangalore 560064

Studied the Socio-Biological behaviour of Dictyostelium wild isolates at the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics at Indian Institute of Bangalore, under the Guidance of Prof. V. Nanjundiah

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Consciousness, Perception and neurodegenerative diseases

DNA structure and bending.