• Designed, developed and executed research projects with the help of coop/ graduate students• Trained Coop, graduate students and other trainees in Molecular, Microbiology and Cell culture techniques.• Generated transgenic mouse lines and used CRISPR technology to delete genes in cell lines• Prepared, maintained Primary and Immortalized Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast lines• Prepared primary neuron cultures from E17 Rat embryos.

•Designed course curriculum, delivered lectures and handled lab courses for introductory Biology, Genetics, Molecular Mechanism of Gene Expression for the ME Biotechnology students.•Prepared questions for tests, administered tests, marked papers and evaluated students•Experienced in the use of Open source course management software, Moodle.•Communicated with the students one on one during assigned office hours and by using the online Moodle tools.•Supervised undergraduate independent projects, guided students to present the work in international meetings•Experienced in presenting gist of recent Biology literature to students and motivating them to read primary literature•Survey primary literature using hard copy and web resources, assess knowledge gaps•Organized information/ data and generated research hypothesis•Mentored and counseled students who had problems in their academic performance and helped them attain their goals.•Met with parents of some students and discussed their concerns•Made decisions on final grades of students, research proposals to be submitted for funding•Multi tasked and met deadlines for submitting grades, teaching classes, meeting with students, faculty meetings and university building activities•Member of committees to decide hiring of research associates, PhD students and junior faculty•Prepared a brochure highlighting consultancy potential of the faculty and liaising with the local chapter of the Chambers of Commerce.•Documented specific job duties for faculty positions after having intense focus group discussions with representatives as a part of the taskforce on Human Resource Development

•Surveyed the literature for spindle positioning checkpoint and generated a research hypothesis•Designed research experiments to address specific research questions•Constructed yeast strains with GFP tagged tubulin and tracked the microtubule dynamics using Confocal imaging and Fluorescent microscopy techniques•Used routine Molecular Biology techniques like PCR, RT PCR, Site Directed mutagenesis, restriction digestion, gel electrophoresis•Performed Southern and Western blotting•Documented the design, purpose of experiment, the standard protocol followed and the results obtained in lab notebook•Analyzed obtained results and revisited the original research hypothesis•Developed strong communication skills by presenting research findings in lab and Dept meetings and by writing papers•Used SeqMan and Vector NTI software extensively along with freely available Bioinformatics software for sequence analysis