Miss. Darshika Rajalingham

Temporary Academic Staff

Department of Chemistry
University of Colombo
Colombo 00300
Sri Lanka

Email: rdharshika@yahoo.com

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • BSc

    B. Sc in and Biochemistry & Molecular biology (Special)

    Faculty of science, University of Colombo

    Research Interest

    • Genomics and Proteomics, Parasitology, Protein Expression, Drug discovery

    Research

    • Final year Research projectStructural and Functional characterization of Setaria digitata novel protein (SdNP). The main goal of the research is to overexpress and purify SdNP for the structural and functional characterization. The SdNP gene cloned into pET45b (+) vector was overexpressed in E.coli BL21 (DE3) and purified by Ni- NTA affinity chromatography based on the presence of 6xHis tag to produce protein with ~90% purity. The purified protein was confirmed by Western Blotting for characterization. This research is mainly focused on identification of specific drugs against deadly disease called “Lymphatic Filariasis”.Supervisors: Dr. Gayathri De Silva, Prof. R. S. Dassanayake