Miss. Gowthami Mahendran

Temporary Demonstrator (2018-2019).

Department of Chemistry
University of Colombo
Colombo 00300
Sri Lanka

Email: gowthami93.gm@gmail.com

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • BSc

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

    Faculty of science, University of Colombo

    Research Interest

    • Cancer biology, Enzymology, Parasitology, Immunology, Drug discovery, Molecular medicine and gene therapy, Genomics and proteomics, Signal transduction, Developmental Biology.

    Research

    • Final Year Research project: Detection of phosphorylation state of Setaria digitata novel protein SdNP; This is an individual research project carried out with the aim of analyzing the structural and functional properties of SdNP under the supervision of Dr. Gayathri. N. Silva and Prof. R. S. Dassanayake, Senior Lecturer and Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo. This research is mainly focused on characterization of a bovine filarial parasite Setaria digitata, in order to identify and design effective clade specific drugs against a deadly disease called ‘Elephantiasis’. Phosphorylation ability of SdNP and the oligomerization states were analyzed through this research. This is extremely important as currently no drugs are available against elephantiasis due to evolving drug resistance.Supervisors: Dr. Gayathri Silva, Prof. R. S. Dassanayakke

    Publications

    • Functional and structural characterization of Setaria digitata novel protein SdNP, abstract published at 3rd International Conference on Bioscience and Biotechnology-2018.
    • A novel parasitic nematode specific protein as potential therapeutic against lymphotic filariasis, an abstract to be published at the International Conference for infectious diseases(ICID 2019)
    • pending: Epigenetics- an attractive target of cancer therapeutics