{"id":64,"date":"2016-11-21T07:13:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T07:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/clinmed\/senaka.rajapakse\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2023-12-12T19:39:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T19:39:23","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/sharmila-jayasena\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;fom-header-row-home&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;706&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;zoomIn&#8221; width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;]<h1 class=\"fac-title text-left\" style=\"color:#4b4b4b\">Professor Sharmila Jayasena<\/h1>\n[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4>BSc. Microbiology (Lond.), PhD. (Colombo)<\/h4>\n<h4>Professor<\/h4>\n<h4>Department of Biochemistry &amp; Molecular Biology<\/h4>\n<h4>Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.<\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;]<ul class=\"list-unstyled fom-research-links\">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong><i class=\"fa fa-graduation-cap\"><\/i>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Sharmila_Jayasena2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Researchgate<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<strong><i class=\"fa fa-graduation-cap\"><\/i>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=xFlJxcwAAAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]Sharmila Jayasena is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry &amp; Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. She graduated from University College London with BSc. Microbiology (Hons) and holds a PhD. in Molecular Biology from University of Colombo. She is a SEDA (UK) qualified teacher in higher education.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently the convenor of the Postgraduate Programs Committee and, chairperson of the Research Communication and Dissemination Committee of the Center for Research Development and Innovation at UCFM.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Her research on bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons led to the isolation of a natural biofilm- forming <em>Aspergillus &#8211; Bacillus<\/em> community that demonstrated highly efficient degradation of alkanes and <em>in silico<\/em> identification of novel alkane monooxygenases in <em>A. flavus<\/em> involved in alkane degradation.\u00a0 Isolation of the genes are currently underway with the aim of developing a biocatalytic formulation for bioremediation of terrestrial environments.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]She has recently initiated a project to investigate bioactive natural products of microbial origin having antimicrobial and antibiofilm properties.\u00a0 This study additionally provides opportunities for pre and post A&#8217; level students as well as undergraduates to obtain research experience in microbiology &amp; molecular biology areas.<\/p>\n<p>She is also collaborating on a project to investigate the effects of medicinal plant extracts on multiple myeloma cells which was funded by the world bank.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently supervising one PhD\u00a0 student, Two MSc students and one BSc student.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;fom-header-row-home&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;706&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;zoomIn&#8221; width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text] BSc. Microbiology (Lond.), PhD. (Colombo) Professor Department of Biochemistry &amp; Molecular Biology Faculty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-pagebuilder.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/sharmila-jayasena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/sharmila-jayasena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/sharmila-jayasena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/sharmila-jayasena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/sharmila-jayasena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/sharmila-jayasena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/sharmila-jayasena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/medicine\/sharmila-jayasena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}