Teaching & Mentoring

Mentoring
Ph.D. Scholars

M.Sc. Biotechnology Thesis

Nehal (2022-23) Effects of nutritional perturbations on the metabolomic homeostasis of HepG2 cells.
Ruhi Walia (2021-22) Characterization of commercial probiotic bacteria for physio-chemical stress tolerance.
Sonia Gandhi (2021-22) Deciphering spice aromatic biosynthetic pathways using spice volatile metabolome.
Navneet Kaur (2020-21) A comprehensive overview of bacterial exopolysaccharides: from fundamentals to bioactivities.
Rajat Sharma (2020-21) Pharmacological effects of Oleander.

M. Tech. Biotechnology Thesis

Ms. Amiteshwar Kaur (2021-22) Isolation and characterization of lactobacillus species from human gut and study of its physio-chemical stress tolerance.
Ms. Upasana Gupta (2020-21) Intestinal etiologies of metabolic diseases.

Teaching

Laboratory in-charge, Medical Biotechnology (UBT609) and Animal and Stem Cell Technology (PBT306) at Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology.
Teacher, Medical Biotechnology (UBT609), Cell and Tissue Engineering (UBT622), Developmental Biology (UBT006), Animal and Stem Cell Technology (PBT306) and Cancer Biology and Infectious Disease (UBT836) at Department of Biotechnology, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology.
Laboratory Mentor (2-4 MS/PhD students annually), Human Nutrition Program, Department of Human Sciences, The Ohio State University (2016 - Present). Responsible for providing instruction and teaching laboratory techniques (experimental design, animal husbandry, LC-MS/HPLC, molecular and biochemical assays).
Laboratory Mentor (4-6 MS students annually), Department of Zoology, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India (2012-2016). Responsible for providing instruction and teaching laboratory techniques (experimental design, basic theory, animal husbandry, primary cell culture, in vivo immunization, plaque assay, antibody titre, basic biochemical techniques) and supervising individual projects and seminar presentations.
Teacher, Cellular Immunology (M.S. Course), Department of Zoology, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India (2011-2016). Responsible for teaching Cellular Immunology special paper to final year M.S. students.