Alumni

Ayodya De Alwis

2020-2021

Indeewari Liyanage

2020-2021

Hashadi Nadeesha

Undergraduate Research Student, IIMB program 2019-2020

Hashadi worked on the probable binding sites for RV 3095 in the M. tuberculosis genome and described five other critical regulatory regions that it can bind to. Her work leads to finding the role of RV 3095 in virulence regulation of tuberculosis.

She graduated with a first-class honors degree and currently working as a teaching assistant in the department.

Communications

W. G. H. Nadeesha, S. Mauran, I. C. Perera (2020) Rv3095; A probable virulence regulator in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Proceedings of the Institute of Biology, Sri Lanka

Sumudu Upatissa

Undergraduate Research Student, IIMB program 2019-2020

Sumudu worked on isolating bacteria with a probiotic potential from traditional preparations of curd from different climatic zones in Sri Lanka. This project was co-supervised by Prof. Chandrika Nanayakkara.

After graduation she joined ulsan national institute of science and technology (UNIST), South Korea to persue her graduate studies.

Communications

H.D.S.N. Upatissa1, C.M. Nanayakkara2, I.C Perera1 (2020) Probiotic activity of microorganisms used in traditional curd production in Gangabada, Gonnoruwa and Agbopura, Proceedings of the Annual Sessions of the Institute of Biology, Sri Lanka

Prabashi Wickramasinghe

Undergraduate Research Student, IIMB program 2019-2020

Prabashi’s work focused on generating a bioengineered model organism for alkane degradation using alkB2 system from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

She graduated with a first-class honors degree.

Communications

Prabashi M. Wickramasinghe, W. P. E. H. Hemamali, Inoka C. Perera (2020) An in silico Study on Elucidating the Mechanism of Alkane 1-monooxygenase 2 (AlkB2) Enzyme Catalysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Proceedings of the institute of Biology Sri Lanka.

Dinithi Hemachandra

2019-2020

Vidyani Kulatunga

2019-2020

Yasuri Amarasekara

Graduate student
(MSc in Nano and Advanced Technology from SLINTEC) 2018-2020

Yasuri worked on investigating the anticancer efficacy of peptides and improving the bioavailability of antibacterial drugs.

Supervised by Dr. Laksiri Weerasinghe PI (SLINTEC), Dr. Ranga S. Jayakody (USJP), and Dr. K.A.N.P. Katuwawila (SLINTEC)

Asma Rahman

Undergraduate research student 2018-2019

Asma characterized alkB2 alkane monooxygenase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa using in silico methods.

Currently, she is an MPhil student at the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Colombo working on tumor immunology.

Pavithra Manhari Hawarihewa

Undergraduate research student 2018-2019

Pavithra was a Nuclear Sciences Honors student who caried out her honors thesis under the topic “Determination of the radioprotective effect of formulated Metformin loaded Chitosan nanoparticles on human lymphocytes”. Her project was co-supervised by Dr. Laksiri Weerasinghe (USJP)

Rasuni Thilakshika

Undergraduate Research Student 2018-2019

Rasuni was a Nuclear Sciences honors student and she studied the effect of I-131 treatment on radio-sensitivities of Thyroid cancer patients. Her project was co-supervised by Dr. Sujeewa Weerasinghe