Dr. Luni
Assistant Professor
Zoology Department
Maitreyi College, University of Delhi
E mail-luni@maitreyi.du.ac.in
Assistant Professor
Zoology Department
Maitreyi College, University of Delhi
E mail-luni@maitreyi.du.ac.in
M.Sc (Zoology Department, University of Delhi).
P.hd (Zoology Department, University of Delhi).
Qualified CSIR-UGC/NET in 2004.
Qualified GATE, 2004 (98.7 PERCENTILE ) in Life Sciences.
Member of College Purchase Committee.
Member of College Garden Committee.
Member of College NAAC Committee.
College IQAC COORDINATOR 2020-2021.
Teacher-In-Charge of the Deptt. Of Zoology for the year 2019-20 - Organized various workshops and events.
Member of Screening committee for the Appointment to the Post of Assistant Professor.
Coordinator for the revision of Paper Aquarium Fish Keeping -Under-Graduate Curriculum Revision Committee-2019 University of Delhi .
Working group Member for the revision of Paper Aquaculture -Under-Graduate Curriculum Revision Committee-2019 University of Delhi .
Assistant Professor (Permanent) in Maitreyi College, University of Delhi; March, 2015-Present.
Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) in Maitreyi College, University of Delhi; Jan, 2012- March, 2015.
Guest Lecturer in Zoology, Maitreyi College, July, 2011- October, 2011.
Ad-hoc lecturer in Zoology, Zakir Husain, University of Delhi; College ,April 7- April 31, 2011.
Awarded meritorious science student UGC- JRF in March, 2010.
Qualified GATE examination with 98.7% percentile in 2004.
Recipient of Centre for Advanced Study Scheme Scholarship (out of two) for the years 2001-2003 (during M.Sc.)
Attended One Week Faculty Development Program on Development of Teacher's e-kit and MOOCs in Four Quadrant Format of e-Content from 12-20 September 2020.
Attended Two Weeks Faculty Development Program on "ADVANCED CONCEPTS FOR DEVELOPING MOOCS" from July 02 - July 17, 2020.
Attended One Week Online Faculty Development Program on “RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: TOOLS & TECHNIQUES” from TEACHING LEARNING CENTER, RAMANUJAN COLLEGE from 5th-11th June, 2020 .
Four weeks Faculty Training Program on Google applications from 16th July to 14th August 2020, conducted by Department of Computer Science, Maitreyi College.
National Workshop for Beginners, “Web Search, Data Analysis & Presentation Tools” organized by the Zoology Department, under the aegis of IQAC, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi from 22-28 July, 2020.
Participated in Refresher Course on E-learning and E-governance from HRDC-JNU, New Delhi,19th Aug- 30th Aug, 2019.
Participated in 4 weeks Orientation Course from HRDC-CPDHE, University of Delhi.
E-lesson on “Neuroendocrine physiology: Reproductive hormone” for NME-ICT (National Mission on Education Information Communication Technology) in Zoology under MHRD Project.
E-lesson on “Neuroendocrine physiology: Gastrointestinal hormone” for NME-ICT (National Mission on Education Information Communication Technology) in Zoology under MHRD Project.
Sharma L., Kaushik P., Singh I., N. Sehgal, V. S. Rawat (2024) An Analysis of Aquaporin in the Oocyte Maturation of Teleosts, Clarias gariepinus and Channa punctatus. Asian Fishries Sciences 37:37–51 https://doi.org/10.33997/j.afs.2024.37.1.003
Sharma L., S. Pipil , V. S. Rawat N. Sehgal (2022). Role of cathepsins B and D in proteolysis of yolk
in the catfish Clarias gariepinus, Fish Physiol Biochem (2022) 48:749–765. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10695-022-01062-8.
Vijay P., Sharma L., and Sehgal N., (2019). Protein Profiling and Precursor-product Relationship between Vitellogenin and Lipovitellin in the African catfish, Clarias gariepinus. Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences, Vol.38A 2019, 66-80.
S. Pipil • V. S. Rawat • L. Sharma • N. Sehgal (2015). Characterization of incomplete vitellogenin (VgC) in the Indian freshwater murrel, Channa punctatus (Bloch). Fish Physiol Biochem. DOI 10.1007/s10695-014-0009-6 ISSN: 0920-1742.
S. Pipil • V. Kumar • V. S. Rawat • L. Sharma •N. Sehgal (2015). In silico and in vivo analysis of binding affinity of estrogens with estrogen receptor alpha in Channa punctatus (Bloch). Fish Physiol Biochem. DOI 10.1007/s10695-014-0003-z ISSN: 0920-1742.
Rawat. V.S., Pipil. S., Sharma L., and Sehgal.N (2013) Purification, Chracterization and expression of two Vitellogenin in the Indian fresh water murrel Channa punctatus. General and Comparative Endocrinology 189 (2013) 119–126.
Luni S., Sehgal. N (2011). A study on yolk proteolysis and oocyte hydration in Indian fresh water fish Clarias gariepinus. Indian J.Sci.Technol 01/2011; 4 (S8) ; ISSN: 0974-5645.
Nucleotides Sequences Submitted to NCBI
Clarias gariepinus aquaporin 1b mRNA, partial cds, GenBank: JX282188.1 Sharma,L.,Rawat,V.S., Pipil,S. and Sehgal,N.
Clarias gariepinus aquaporin 3 mRNA, partial cds; GenBank: JX282189.1 Sharma,L., Rawat,V.S., Pipil,S. and Sehgal,N
Clarias gariepinus cathepsin D (CatD) mRNA, partial cds; GenBank: KF014001.1 Sharma,L. and Sehgal,N.
Clarias gariepinus cathepsin B (CatB) mRNA, partial cds; GenBank: KF014002.1 Sharma,L. and Sehgal,N.
Clarias gariepinus cathepsin L (Cat L) mRNA, partial cds; GenBank: KF014003.1 Sharma,L. and Sehgal,N.