Rajesh Ramakrishnan Email & Phone Number

Educator and Manager with experience in teaching, academic research, lab management, and pharmaceutical industry sectors like manufacturing and quality assurance. Currently, as Manager of the Nursing Student Success Center, my remit is to coach, mentor and assist graduate Nursing students in completing their degrees and staying on track with their career goals. I teach Microbiology to students applying to ABSN as well as BSN at the University of St Thomas (UST). I also teach the following courses: Pathophysiology (ABSN & BSN), Advanced Pathophysiology (MSN), Behavioral Neuroscience (MSN). I have taught Microbiology at UST and Houston Community College. As an Assistant professor at the University of St. Thomas, I taught Microbiology, Anatomy & Physiology, and, General Biology. My Microbiology, Anatomy & Physiology classes are prerequisites for students applying for nursing or allied health programs. I proactively utilize my experience to meet goals that are in sync with the institutional policy. Specialties: Tissue culture techniques (primary cell culture and cell lines), isolation of rare cell types, transcriptional regulation of HIV-1, Mother to child transmission of HIV-1, molecular mechanisms of HIV-1 infection in cord and adult blood mononuclear cells, Biochemistry, Western blotting, Immunoprecipitation, reporter assays, RNAi techniques to study eukaryotic transcriptional elongation, quantitative real-time PCR, supervision of pharmaceutical capsule production process, quality assurance of parenteral production, gene regulation in cancer (lymphomas) by microRNAs (miRNAs). Isolation & identification of bacterial etiological agents from clinical samples. Obstetric complications (Placenta accreta).

Listed skills include Western Blotting, Cell Culture, Tissue Culture, Molecular Biology, and 45 others.