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Dr. Pendru Raghunath

Associate Professor
Microbiology, School of Medicine, Texila American University
 

Brief Biography:


I am Dr. Pendru Raghunath working as a Associate Professor of Microbiology, Chair, Paraclinical Sciences in School of Medicine, Texila American University, Guyana. I was awarded Ph.D degree in 2008 from Manipal university and pursued Postdoctoral Fellowship in the project titled “Research for molecular pathogenesis of Vibrio vulnificus infection and vaccine development” at Clinical Vaccine R&D center, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Chonnam National University, Hwasun, Republic of Korea. I have 7 years of teaching experience and 6 years of research experience. I published 17 articles in various International journals. I was awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi for doctoral research work based on all India level competitive examination. Awarded Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI) Young Scientist Award for the year 2008 in Dairy and Food Microbiology. At present I am serving as a reviewer for several International Scientific Journals, executive editor for International Journal of Microbiology and guest associate editor for Frontiers in Microbiology.
 

Academic positions:


August 2015 to till date: Working as an Associate Professor of Microbiology, Chair, Dept of Paraclinical Sciences in School of Medicine, Texila American University, Georgetown, Guyana, South America. Responsibilities included teaching Medical Microbiology and Immunology for undergraduate medical students of the college. As a head of the department, I will look after other administrative duties such as coordination of departmental faculty, organisation of teaching, research and associated activities June 2012 to August 2015: Worked as an Assistant Professor of Microbiology in the Dr. VRK Women’s Medical College, Hyderabad, India. June 2010 to February 2012: Worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the project titled “Research for molecular pathogenesis of Vibrio vulnificus infection and vaccine development” at Clinical Vaccine R&D center, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Chonnam National University, Hwasun, Republic of Korea.
 

Research interests:


Research experience I have been working on food-borne pathogens such as Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio vulnificus which are of significance both to the food processing industries and general public health since 8 years. During my Ph.D, I worked on development of molecular methods such as PCR, oligonucleotide probe based hybridization for rapid detection of these pathogens. I also developed monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies based ELISA method forrapid detection of these pathogens.During my postdoctoral research, I worked in the project titled “Research for molecular pathogenesis of Vibrio vulnificus infection and vaccine development”. During this project, we have analyzed the transcriptome of V. vulnificus infecting rat peritoneal cavity using an optimized high-density oligonucleotide DNA chip of the genome project strain V. vulnificus CMCP6. We found that many of the redox- or anaerobiosis-related genes were up-regulated in vivo. In this context, I have studied the role of two representative redox regulators, FexA, a homologue of Escherichia coli ArcA, and Fnr in the pathogenesis of V. vulniicusinfections. I also studied different iron transport systems in V. vulnificus.During my postdoctoral research, I expertised in functional genomics and molecular pathogenesis of V. vulnificus (gene knockout, gene complementation, in vivo and in vitro virulence studies,Transcriptome profiling and data analysis, Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) and reportering etc..). I also developed dynabeads enrichment method for the selective isolation of bacteria of interest. Research interests and future research plans My research interest is in the field of microbial pathogenesis and molecular genetics of bacterial pathogens especially enteric pathogens.
 

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