Presentations

Stewart, M., ‘Effect of Gamma Irradiation on the survival of Candida albicans’ at the Multi-Disciplinary International Conference on “Science, Sustainability And Society In The Current Scenario: Challenges And Opportunities” organized by Vikas College of Arts, Science & Commerce on 20 February 2016.

Stewart, M., Padilla, U., Rawat, K.P., Sarma K.S.S., ‘Study of the survival of Candida albicans exposed to Gamma irradiations’ at the National Conference on ‘Fungi from Diverse Habitats and their Biotechnological Applications’ organized by Satish Pradhan Dnyanasadhana College, Thane, College of Arts, Science & Commerce on 2 December and 3 December 2016 and won first prize for the presentation.

Poster presentation on Impact of point mutations on the structural stability of rpoB: A computational approach at Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce Ganeshkhind, Pune on 14 February and 15 February 2020 International Conference on Biotechnology: Perspective & Challenges 2020

Poster presentation at epiSTEME 8: Eighth International Conference to Review Research on Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, HBCSE-TIFR titled “A student-centric approach for developing scientific communication skills in undergraduate microbiology students” in January 2020

Poster presentation at the University of Mumbai for Minor research grant (project no 361) titled “Repurposing of over-the-counter drugs and testing the antibacterial activity of an iron-chelator” in 2019.

Dr Karuna Gokarn was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Clinical and Pharmaceutical Microbiology to be held on October 18-20, 2017, at Rome, Italy. She presented a paper on “Preliminary evaluation of anti-tuberculosis potential of siderophores against drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis by mycobacteria growth indicator tube-drug sensitivity test”.

2020. Poster presentation at epiSTEME 8: Eighth International Conference to Review Research on Science, Technology and Mathematics Education, HBCSE-TIFR titled “A student-centric approach for developing scientific communication skills in undergraduate microbiology students.”

2019. Poster presentation at the University of Mumbai for Minor research grant (project no 369) titled “Bacterial degradation of a wide spectrum of azo dyes from industrial effluents into non-toxic products.”

2011. Northeast Biodefense Center Meeting, New York, NY. Poster presentation.

2010. Northeast Biodefense Center Meeting, New York, NY. Poster presentation.

2009. Northeast Biodefense Center Meeting, New York, NY. Poster presentation.

2019. Oral presentation at a conference on water resources, climate change and sustainability organised by IPE and SAIRAD at Hyderabad on 27 September 2019 titled “Degradation of Azo dyes using bacteria isolated from industrial effluents.”

2012. The American Society for Virology. 31st Annual Meeting. Madison. The USA. An oral presentation titled “Fusion activation and infection by Paramyxoviruses requires flexibility between globular head and stalk of receptor engaged binding protein.”

2011. The American Society for Virology. 30th Annual Meeting. Minneapolis. The USA. An oral presentation titled “Common features of fusion protein activation among Paramyxoviruses.”

2010. The American Society for Virology. 29th Annual Meeting. Montana. The USA. An oral presentation titled “Henipavirus (NiV) infection of primary neuronal cells to identify antiviral compounds in the natural host.”

2019. Poster presentation at the University of Mumbai for Minor research grant (project no 362) titled “Study of anticancer activity of wine prepared from banana’’.

2011. P. Chakraborty, S. P. Kulkarni, M.G.R. Rajan, K. B. Sainis. Study of immune responses in THP-1 cells infected with strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from different lineages prevalent in India. Keystone symposium Tuberculosis: Immunology, Cell Biology and Novel Vaccination Strategies. Vancouver, Canada.

2011. Pampi Chakraborty, Savita Kulkarni, M. G. R. Rajan, K. B. Sainis. Differential immune response to different genotypes of M.tuberculosis is a strain-dependent phenomenon’. 37th annual conference of Indian Immunology Society, Jammu, 7 to 9 February.

2011. Savita Kulkarni Sriparna Das, Pampi Chakraborty, M. G. R. Rajan. Over-expression, purification and immunological characterization of recombinant 38kda antigen of M.tuberculosis. 37th annual conference of Indian Immunology Society, Jammu.

2010. S. Kulkarni, M. Makwana, P. Gupta, P. Chakraborty, M.G.R. Rajan. Study of polymorphisms in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using TbD1 deletion analysis and spoligotyping. DAE-BRNS Life Science Symposium on Current Trends in Biology and Medicine, Mumbai.

2009. S. P. Kulkarni, P. Chakraborty, K. B. Sainis, The immune subversion of XDR strains of M.tuberculosis isolated from Mumbai. 36th Annual conference of Indian Immunology Society, Bangalore.

2008. P. Chakraborty, S. Kulkarni, M.G.R. Rajan, K.B. Saints, To study host-parasite interactions by standardising infection model using THP-1 cell line and different strains of M.tuberculosis. DAE-BRNS 4th Life Sciences Symposium on Recent Advances in immunomodulation, stress and cancer, Mumbai.

2016. Oral presentation and publication in proceedings- ‘A microbial bioremediation solution to azo dye pollution. Pampi Chakraborty, Abey Mathew, Aparna Talekar, Vivien Amonkar’ at ‘New frontiers in Microbiology and Applied Biology’ held in Mapusa, Goa by St. Xavier’s College (Goa), 7 January and 8 January 2016.