• Bacteriophage engineering targeting various diseases including celiac disease, dental caries, weight loss, and obesity• Serving as Co-investigator in a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) funded contract project (Development of Bacteriophage for Treatment of Mycobacterial Infections)• Experience working with contract research organizations (CROs) for pre-clinical mouse studies• Coordinate tasks across multiple projects, demonstrating prioritization and planning• Led a small team to deliver upstream constructs for further downstream testing• Designed, performed, and analyzed cell-based assays to check the functionality of therapeutic proteins• Effectively execute experiments as well as overlook tasks of associates to meet project timelines and goals• Critically analyze and interpret results and propose next steps for project advancement• Optimized and performed in vitro enzymatic assays• Developing ideas and writing SBIR grants• Manuscript Preparation• Developed SOP and modern techniques for manipulating prophages

-Delivered graduate level courses (ENG5151 Vector Strain Design Lab, and SCI5200 Molecular Biology & Biotechnology)-Delivered lecturers on Molecular Biology concepts relatable to the laboratory experiments to be conducted for the course-Provided guidance to prepare good quality scientific reports, present data and develop scientific communication

-Deciphering the molecular mechanism of ClpX/P proteolytic system-dependent specific substrate recognition and degradation in dental pathogen Streptococcus mutans-Developed and optimized protein degradation assays including fluorescence assay (in vitro and in vivo)-Developed easy protocols for confirming transformation in S. mutans-Created and implemented Standard Operation Protocols (SOPs) inside of research group-Expertise in protein purification (manual and AKTA purification system)-Analyzed and presented data to the scientific community at numerous scientific national, and international conferences-Identified novel ClpX/P substrates-Published first author research articles

-Member of the Interprofessional committee-Represented graduate students at the SGC-Active role in decision making regarding allocation of funds to THRIVE Food pantry, travel awards, etc

-Served as a liaison between the graduate students and faculty-Successfully increased the stipend of graduate students (Ph.D.) by 3% -Collected data to identify spots arounds the campus for installation of sanitizers to ensure the safety of all students in the campus-Advocated for International Students by collaborating with GSCs in the US to voice our opposition towards the proposal of OPT ban and sent letter of opposition to the President and Congressmen-Collaborated with the Office of International Programs and actively took part in the session to talk to other students about our strategy to oppose the proposal to eliminated the duration of status-Supported initiative by the Director of Diversity to make changes in the Police policy at KUMC campus-Successfully pushed for increasing the GSC's donation amount to the THRIVE food pantry to help all the KUMC students-Represented Graduate Students at the Student Governing Council as a senator-Interprofessional Committee member of the Student Governing Council

Modeling immune response to Salmonella infection during typhoid-Reviewed Literature to retrieve crucial data to calculate values for the variables in the mathematical model-Developed PBMC cell culture and secondary cell line culture technique-Mice Dissection-Developed GLP skill-Performed flow cytometry experiments-Data analysis-Report Writing

As a part of my M.Sc course curriculum, I carried out my Master's dissertation at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology.-Maintained mammalian cell lines -Maintained Lab equipments-Carried out flow cytometry based experiments for checking apoptosis, ROS measurement, Mitochondrial membrane potential analysis, Cell-cylce analysis and Ca2+ measurement under the guidance of a senior graduate student-Presented the data to the scientific community at the National Scientific conference held in CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata.

1st Semester Project - In vitro neuroprotective effect of ethanolic extracts of Cymbopogon citratus andTriticum aestivum against methyl mercury toxicity in rat brain mitochondrial enriched fractions, Dec20132nd Semester Project - Neuroprotective effect of herbal formulations against Methyl mercury inducedtoxicity – In vivo study, May 20143rd Semester Project - Alleviation of 4-nitroquinoline-1-oxide induced oxidative stress by Oroxylumindicum (L.) leaf extract in albino Wistar rats. Mohan S, Thiagarajan K, Sundaramoorthy B, Gurung V,Barpande M, Agarwal S, Chandrasekaran R. BMC Complement Altern Med. 2016 Jul 19;16:229. doi:10.1186/s12906-016-1186-x)Participated in 3 international conferences held at VIT University (1 poster presentation and 2 oral presentations)